Author: c2j2

The switch to the new AppCompat activities had caused collateral damage… a crash occurred when you told Google+ to “set the alarm clock to …” – needed a fast update! SAD! (*)

(*) Copyright POTUS Trump

1. the shortest day is past since a few days 😉
2. happy new year to you, my customers!

This would open Personal Sunrise to all kind of senseful and senseless usages:

• use all kind of dimmable devices
• open the stores at wakeup time
• control the heating that it starts to heat at start of the wakeup sequence

(These are the items I would use it for – I use FHEM here in my appartment 😉

Any ideas? Anybody interested?

in the version history (https://android.chk.digital/personal-sunrise/version-history/), and you’ll understand why I am angry with Google.

The operating system used to be clean and (relatively) easy to program apps for, but in the meatime it has become a mine field of problems showing up with each new version.

sorry, screenshots in German… This is what will come next:

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The multiple Hue configurations are delayed – the customer asking for them did choose not to use the app any more, so there’s no urgent need. It’s nearly finished though. The rest is finished. I guess I will release the 1.8.4 this weekend.

Well, finishing is just before starting… while I thought the Hue subject would be closed, customer requests and my own experiences causing me to make some additions:

• Hue will be WiFi location aware, meaning you can define different Hue constellations in different networks. This also suppresses the “bridge not found” warning when you’re in a different network and you start ‘Personal Sunrise’.
• You can choose to save some energy by suppressing the illumination on the device’s screen while the sequence is active in the Hue system. It will, however, light up at alarm time.
• And I will be working on the ability to have multiple Hue configurations assignable to different alarm templates. Then you can have different sunrise colors for different days, or for different rooms to wakeup (i.e. not to wake up the partner on very early days, sleeping in a differnt room).

Did I state I don’t like the Kindle, as Personal Sunrise must jump though hoops to allow the alarm screen also on Kindles with Advertisements? There was a problem with the brightness recently introduces – and nobody complained?! Nobody uses the app on a Kindle?

It just does not work with a free version, too little response from the users. Too few conversions for the work to maintain it.

I’m a bit astonished, but it seems to be that way.

As one of my sons complained about the old-fashioned UI (form follows function is not “in” any more), I thought about that and integrated new UI themes, switchable in “Settings > Main Screen” using the “material design” colors and some ideas from it. I hope you agree it’s more modern, while still offering the same convenience.

even if Google offers you the golden apple… there’s always a catch!

• on devices with Android up to 4.2 the app icon was gone. Chose to use the “mipmap” instead of “drawable” as suggested by Google, and did not check version compatibility. Duh!
• added intelligent Calendar supervision
• 1.7.3a: Clock and Sleep Helper menus did not work any more

New feature: Intelligent Calendar supervision

The calendars selected for the Calendar automatics (using the”@Sunrise:” commands invented last week) are searched for all-day-items with “vacation” in the item’s text.

If one is found, a notification offers to ignore that entry as irrelevant (by adding “@sunrise:ignore” command to its description) or to suppress alarms in that date range (not surprisingly using “@sunrise:-“).