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Set sleep timer on as default

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racekites:
Hey guys

Please could we have an option where the sleep timer is on as default at startup.

I see a menu option where you can turn the sleep timer on and off to be active at startup and set the default time at which to turn off.

many people listen to audiobooks at night and set the sleep timer as current functionality. However may wake up in the middle of the night for a bathroom trip, drink etc... and may resume listening to rockbox...

It would be great to know we have the option to just turn it on (single button press, as we have resume on start active) without having to go through the system menu, sleep timer menu, set the timer, and back to now playing... when we're half asleep....

With the option to have the sleep timer on and counting down by default at startup, all we need to do is turn on and listen with the knowledge that it'll turn itself off.... rather than the current case of being half asleep, forgetting and have the rockbox playing for several hours while we're asleep, an un-nessecary drain on the battery...

Should be a simple update, however probably very useful to many users....

Thanks

GodEater:
I'd find this pretty annoying myself - I don't want my player switching itself off in the middle of the day when I'm using it.

Why not set up a discrete config file for this that you can run when you turn your DAP on ?

racekites:

Nah, this is additional functionality that you can turn on or off.

When turned off, rockbox behaves as it does now, the sleep timer works the same.

When turn the functionality on, it will auto power off after the specified time without user intervention.

Your player would only switch off if you have activated the auto off setting.

make sense ?

Chronon:
You could set the sleep timer state in a fixed.cfg.  Then you just need to remember to override it in the cases that you don't want it to turn off, such as during the day.  This way, each time you turn on your player it will automatically set the sleep timer (and resume playback if you like).  You can easily just load another .cfg to turn off the sleep timer.  This doesn't seem any less convenient than having to hunt through menus each time you want to change the behavior.

JdGordon:
the sleep time is not linked to the usual config settings at all... you cannot set it from a .cfg.

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