Automated recording times possible with H320?

[cbr12]

I would like to use my H320 to record birds every morning for a week or two from 6-10 am. The Iriver would be plugged in of course so it doesn't run out of batteries. I know the H320 has an internal clock, can it be used to set pre-determined start and stop recording times? I read in another post that there is a plug-in for a countdown timer to begin recordings, but could this be used on a consistent basis to start and stop every morning? If this is possible please let me know how.

Thanks

[Didgeridoohan]

A quick look in the wiki gives this information:

Missing features

    * Set a start or stop time (delayed/timed recording)

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IriverRecording

If there is a count-down plugin for recording, there should be no problems using it... Just turn on your player before going to bed, set the count-down to reach zero at 6am and then let it run. You can probably set a sleep timer to turn of your player at the desired time. Since I don't know anything about this count-down plugin, I can't know for sure though.

Cheers

Edit: Typos...

[Llorean]

I think that what he wants is a way to plug in his player, and set it to record a scheduled recording (6-10 AM every day Mon-Fri) rather than just one recording at 6 AM.

[cbr12]

Llorean, you are right. I want something that will be able to record everyday at the same scheduled times, not just one morning. I suppose the sleep timer would work if there is some way for it to automatically wake up again when it is time to recrord again the next morning. If Iriver cant do this, are there any other jukeboxes like archos, ipod etc. that would allow this type of recording?

[Didgeridoohan]

Yes, I understood what he wanted... The problem was that I wasn't completely clear in my answer. With the way I suggested you would of course have to prepare your player every night you would like a recording the next morning... A bit of a problem if you don't have the opportunity to do that.

I don't think there is an option to have Rockbox start your player automatically at a certain time.

[Mmmm]

Cbr12, I have come bearing gifts...

I have been mucking about with my countdown timer and managed to implement what I think you're after... Quite a nifty little feature I think... The patch is here: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/6297

and here's a description of what it does....
All timer settings (including filesplit etc) are under a menu in the recording settings called Timer options.

Setting "Record repeat every.." you can set a time for a repeated recording eg. set it for 1 hour and a recording will start every hour from when you start the first recording. This needs to be used in conjunction with the "Split time" option.
"Split measure" and "What to do.." are automatically  set to 'time' and 'stop' respectively when "Record repeat every.." is set.
You need to set a "Split time" that is less than your "Record repeat every.." setting.

So eg.
First set "Record repeat every.." to 12 minutes
then "Split time" to 5 minutes.
Then go into the recording screen and press record

This will result in a 5 minute recording and then a 7 minute pause, then another 5 minute recording and 7 minute pause..etc etc until you stop the recording or pause the timer.

This can also be used in conjunction with the countdown timer to start the first recording at a specific time.

Hope that does the trick, I'll be interested to know if it works ok for you.

[cbr12]

Mmmm,

Thanks for info. I really hope this works. I do not have the patch installed yet, but I will start working on it. I have never done this before so it may take a while before I figure out how to get it working. Is there any way to install the patch using a Mac?

Will this patch work for both the H120 and H320? I have both models and would like to get this working for both of them if possible.

I'll be amazed and very excited if this works. Thanks again.

[petur]

To use this patch you'll need the build environment to make your own binaries. Nothing to get scared off
More info here: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DocsIndex#For_Developers

[Mmmm]

To make life temporarily easier for you (until you want to upgrade) here are the ready built binaries for both H1xx and H3xx.

All You need to do is install an up to date version of rockbox (make sure it works) and then replace the rockbox.iriver file with the version below. (remember to remove the .Hxxx extension first).

rockbox.iriver.H1xx
rockbox.iriver.H3xx

[cbr12]

Mmmm,

I cant open the links you attached on the last reply. This is what happens when I click on it:

The requested URL /homepage.ntlworld.com/martin.scarratt/Rockbox/rockbox.iriver.H1xx was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Is there anywhere else I can download them from? Maybe the URL is just missing somthing. Or more likely, maybe I'm missing something here.

[Llorean]

The URLs were input improperly. I've fixed them, they should work now.

[cbr12]

Llorean,
 
When I click on the links now they work, but I just get scrambled text. Something still doesn't seem right.

[Llorean]

Try right-clicking and choosing save-as. Your browser is trying to open them instead of recognizing them as binary files. That problem is at your end.

[cbr12]

I tried that too, but I just get a saved txt file of the same scrambled text. I am using a Mac, could that be the problem?

[jhMikeS]

Would love to see a VCR style program scheduler. Could be implemented as a TSR plugin perhaps?