Wakeup to streaming radio (almost)

[Guest Ozzie252]

Hi,

I thought I'd be the coolest person on the block when I used a combination of REAL Player, XBar, and the Wi-fi on my Orange SPV M5000 to wake me up to the streaming Chris Moyles show on Radio 1 at 7:00am on weekday mornings.

You see XBar 3 has a built in function to schedule when you want to run programs. So I downloaded the ram file that points to radio1 listen live:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram

And this file is associated with real player.

I've added the line to the scheduler that runs this file at the specified time.

So 7:03 am came around and no Moyles (some say that would be a good thing), the message on my phone when I opened it was "Cannot connect to server"!

When scheduling a file to tun in a couple of minutes when the phone is open - it all works fine, but when it has been closed overnight I get the error.

Before you ask, no my wifi is not set to disconnect after an idle time.

Please help, I want to be cool 8-B

Cheers,

Oz

[Guest fraser]

Are you giving the WiFi enough time to connect? If I were to set a scheduled wakeup to use the network, it would fail as the WiFi takes 30 secs to get an IP address.

Try running the same ram file by hand. If it works, the above is probably the problem. You'll need to schedule the RAM file for after the wake up, 60 to 90 secs ought to do it.

[Guest Ozzie252]

Hi again.

Just to let you all know that I managed to get this working using the wakeup macro that came with XBar3 sceduled to run 2 minutes before I try and run the streaming radio RAM file. Works a treat.

And now I'm cool (honest!) :shock: 8)

[Guest belfast-biker]

You can get a real player for pocket pc?!?!

[Guest Ozzie252]

Yes..... here: http://www.realnetworks.com/industries/ser.../ppc/index.html

[Guest fraser]

Neat. Shame they ask for your email address, though you don't need to enter a valid one to download. Yet another company sending mails that'll never read to [email protected]...

[Guest minty1978]

well done, you are cool

;)

[Guest thonge]

I'm personally not a fan of Chris Moyles, but http://www.radio4pda.com provides stations from all around the world for your Pocket PC. You could literally wake up to.... an evening show.

Now THAT'S cool! ;)