Schedule Alarm Clock to start Internet Radio

[Bart_Maguire]

Can I schedule an alarm to start an internet radio stream?
At the moment I have my Squeezebox wake me up with the news on the radio in the morning. Can I do the same with Roon so that I can turn off my Logitech Media Server and use my Squeezeboxes as Roon endpoints?

[BlackJack]

Roon Extension: Alarm Clock v0.9.1 (current)

Short description: Roon Extension to start or stop playback on a specific zone at a specific time. Description: This extension turns your Roon system into an alarm clock. You select a zone, an action, a time, and a volume and when the time is right playback starts or stops. The main features (in short) are: 5 independent alarms (number can change), all with their own zone, action, day, time and volume A Play or Stop action, allowing for a wake or sleep function A week timer, allowing for an…

[Bart_Maguire]

Thanks,
I have seen this and I have it installed.
It is missing one vital piece of functionality - it only plays what is in the queue, it does not play an Internet Radio station if that was not the last thing that was playing before stopping.
I need something that will play the radio in the morning so I can wake up to the news but I never listen to that stream except in the morning.
Jan_Koudijs was going to implement internet radio preselection - did this happen?

[BlackJack]

Are you sure you have it installed? Maybe you should try it out then. I have no problem to set the source for an Alarm. Just make sure you use the latest version.

I installed it in the recommended way by using the Roon Extension Manager, which has manual and automatic update mechanism for managed extensions.

[Bart_Maguire]

Oh, I had an old version installed.
Now I have the Roon Extension Manager and the latest version and it is working!
Thanks for the help.

[Ogie]

Thanks for the info. I will keep this in mind.

Although, are you sure you want to start the day out w news as the first thing? Maybe ease into the day w a little Bill Frisell for the first 20 minutes?

[Bart_Maguire]

Well, it hasn’t worked.
I set up an alarm but the next morning it doesn’t work.
Looking at the Extensions I see that the Extension Manager and the Alarm Clock are not there any more. They are running as containers on my QNAP, when I restart them they re-appear but then get lost some hours later.
I tried to follow the directions to add a restart command but obviously this has not worked.
One of the directions was to use the Starup.sh script from @Jan_Koudijs but this does not run on my QNAP. It gives an error “Please install systemctl”.
Can someone give me help to uninstall and clean up all the extensions and then to re-install the Extension Manager and the Alarm Clock and set them to restart if they stop?

[BlackJack]

Just stop and delete the container to uninstall. Use the instructions from following thread to install with auto restart on QNAP.

Extension manager dissapearing

Hello @goat, Did you follow the instructions given in … ? Additional informations can be found here. The --restart unless-stopped option should take care of restarting the docker container if needed. Unfortunately, the GUI of QNAP doesn’t offer the possibility to set this parameter in this way. You can use the shell (Shell App or SSH) to run the command docker run -d --network host --restart unless-stopped --name roon-extension-manager --hostname Docker -v roon-extensions:/root/.RoonExte…

[Jan_Koudijs]

Hi @Bart_Maguire,

Did you succeed in getting it up and running by following the instructions given by @BlackJack?

[Bart_Maguire]

Hi,
I stopped and deleted the containers and then I re-installed the Extension Manager using the command line given in that thread.
It seems to be working so far.
I will update you later in the week after I have had a few days to make sure.

[Bart_Maguire]

Seems to be working, has woken me up every morning on time so far.
Would be nice if the alarm function was built-in and had an easy to use interface from the main screen instead of being buried in the Settings menu. Thanks to the extension developers though, for filling in this gap.