Shortcut menu help, sleep timer

[joshritger]

How do I make a shortcut in the new shortcut menu to link to the sleep timer. I use the sleep timer alot and now it is harder to find in the settings menu.

I have tried making shortcuts to the sleep timer but they don't seem to work no matter what I type in.

Thanks,
Josh

[JdGordon]

Don't tihnk it can be done right now. If i remember I'll have a play tonight and see if that can be fixed

[JdGordon]

http://svn.rockbox.org/viewvc.cgi?view=rev;revision=31178

Use "type: time" and "data: talk" to have the time voiced when the shortcut is run.
use "type: time" and "data: sleep X" where X is the number of minutes to run the sleep timer for (0 means disable)
the name field is required

[joshritger]

I am stumped, I have tried what you suggested and it still doesn't work.

[JdGordon]

are you using the current build and not a release build?

[joshritger]

I downloaded the most recent current build two days ago. The version is r31173-111207. I will try updating to todays current build. I fill out the shortcut config per the manual and what you say and I get nothing under shortcuts.

This is my current config:

[shortcut]
type: time
data: sleep 45
name: Sleep


Oh and this is on a Sansa Fuze V.2 if that matters, the sleep timer does work from the settings menu

Thanks,
Josh

Post Merge: December 09, 2011, 07:29:50 PMI retract my previous post, I updated to todays current build and now the shortcuts work.

Thanks for your help.

[Burrhus]

Hello.

I am very interested in the new shortcut menu, for the same reason, on a Sansa Clip+, using the build 31469.

Here is what I am doing :
I create a file in :
.\rockbox\

I name that file
shortcuts.txt

In that file, I put the following lines :
[shortcut]
type: time
data: sleep 30
name: Sleep

When using the sansa clip+, the shortcuts menu remains empty.

When I'll get this shortcut working, I would like to complete it with another one, being something like
[shortcut]
type: time
data: sleep 0
name: NoSleep

Could someone be kind enough to correct me ?

Thanks in advance.

--

By the way, I use this thread to warmly thank all the clever and generous contributors who made and continue making Rockbox such a great software.

Burrhus.

[JdGordon]

that *looks* correct, i need to check when i have more time.. (i.e not NYE )

[nick_p]

I create a file in :
.\rockbox\

I name that file
shortcuts.txt

I'm sure it's a typo, but just in case, the file ought to be /.rockbox/shortcuts.txt (note the '.' at the start of rockbox)

[Burrhus]

Thank you for your first answers and clues.

Of course, I made a typo, the directory where I wrote the file is
\.rockbox\

Anyhow, as you pointed my usual finger clumsyness associated do my not-so-rare lack of attention, I checked every typo I could have made, either on the sansa clip plus, or here reporting.

It seems it was the only one.

Happy party to everyone.

[JdGordon]

hmm, no idea why that isnt working, I copied the text from your post and it works fine here

[Burrhus]

I come back on an old topic, I have worked out my non-working shortcuts.

I work on Windows. I edit the text file with Notepad++.

When I type the text file, it contains <CR><LF> at the end of the lines (for <Carriage Return> and <Line Feed>).

When I add a new shortcut using the rockbock menu and the Sansa Clip plus buttons, it append the shortcuts file, but the lines ends with <LF>. Those shortcuts (the appended part of the text file) works perfectly, and Rockbox is ignoring my previous lines.

After many acrobatics tries, I managed to make a text file without <CR>, with lines ending only with <LF>, and now my sleep shortcuts works perfectly.

Maybe this can help windows-users... Maybe ROCKbox could disregard the <CR> inserted by Windows text files.

Many thanks to the ROCKbox team.

Burrhus.