A wake up alarm app that uses light, color and sound
Hey everyone,
I have been looking for an app that does something similar to Philips Wake-Up LED, which is an alarm clock that slowly illuminates your room and plays the sound in varying degrees of intensity as well. I think a smartphone has everything needed for that, in fact I found a Free app called Fake Dawn but is not available anymore at F-Droid. I would like to know if someone can point me to some other app that does it (I am also interested in GNU/Linux programs, but this would be more helpful to achieve within the Android OS).
Here is a 2mins video that shows what the device is supposed to do.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=ms3t1Lc1gMI
Thanks.
Not sure about Android, but with GNU/Linux you could try to find or make a video that gradually fades from red to white with whatever sound you want, and then set that video to play at the desired time. For example, to set an alarm for 7 hours, run
$ sleep 7h && mpv /path/to/video
It would probably be preferable to be able to set the alarm for the desired time, instead of for a certain number of hours. I was hoping that
$ mpv /path/to/video | at 08:00
would work, but I only got audio, no video, with the error
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
If this approach (timing a video to start instead of using a dedicated app) is acceptable to you, I'll keep trying. Maybe cron would work for setting a daily alarm.
Thanks, I had already thought about that, though your examples were very useful and gave me better insight in how to manage it!
Unfortunately for now I will have to use and Android device since my GNU machine won't be available for this. Still, thank you for your help.
Alarmio has that feature: https://github.com/fennifith/Alarmio/releases
You can also use the at command and vlc's command line (cvlc) in a shell script to play a video from your computer: https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-use-my-computer-as-an-alarm-clock
hey thanks! I had seen Alarmio in F-Droid but it doesn't advertise its features properly so I didn't notice it.
It's not perfect but it is a start for experimentation at least. It lacks the ability to control color and brightness, though it can use a picture for the alarm, so maybe I can work on top of that.
I fear that in FOSS world this is the only option we have, all other apps I have seen are proprietary :(
Thanks.
Hey, how about using the video idea but in Android? I don't know if there is a way we can schedule a video to start at a certain time, but if so, maybe having that and the right video could solve the issue... Any ideas? I will look into it too :)
A video such as this one for example
https://invidio.us/watch?v=bjFHXbsODi8
As a reply to my first post, I didn't know that F-Droid had the available archive of old apps. I was able to install and test Fake Dawn. It's quite a nice app ;=) I will maybe try it out in the next few days. You can choose your own color and select WHEN then sound starts. Too bad it is not being developed anymore, and I didn't get a reply from the original developer, but it works as it is :)