Sleepless? Tired? No time for family?

[cypherdoc]

i'm using Chrome

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[Jessi]

Just another FYI: no data appearing on Alarm Tool again for me.

Will let you know when it comes back up.

Hmm, it´s a bit curious, because this time I had always displayed my data.
If you have the next time a blackout, please try this url directly to see, if the data is delivered to my server, or if it is only not delivered from my server to your browser:
www.bitcoin-tools.de/ticker.php

[Jessi]

Bug? 

last price 6.5802 with high set at 6.56 but no green or sound alert?

Ups?! Could be an error...
I have to check this out.

[Jessi]

i'm using Chrome

Normally the Tool should work in all browsers same way, because it´s depending on the used Flash-Plugin-Version.

[StewartJ]

Just another FYI: no data appearing on Alarm Tool again for me.

Will let you know when it comes back up.

Hmm, it´s a bit curious, because this time I had always displayed my data.
If you have the next time a blackout, please try this url directly to see, if the data is delivered to my server, or if it is only not delivered from my server to your browser:
www.bitcoin-tools.de/ticker.php

I restarted Firefox, and it came back. I do quite a lot with my browser, so it could be a bottleneck on my end.

Thanks for the server link, next time it happens I will test it.

[Jessi]

I restarted Firefox, and it came back. I do quite a lot with my browser, so it could be a bottleneck on my end.

Yes, that could be. Hmm... I may should bring an error-message on top, if data can not be received...
Also again I am thinking about receiving data from two different servers I got in two different data centers.
This would make the tool more independent if something in the routing is not working well.
I´ll keep this idea in mind after implementing that sound-thing.

Thanks for the server link, next time it happens I will test it.

Thank you for your patience.

[cypherdoc]

I restarted Firefox, and it came back. I do quite a lot with my browser, so it could be a bottleneck on my end.

Yes, that could be. Hmm... I may should bring an error-message on top, if data can not be received...
Also again I am thinking about receiving data from two different servers I got in two different data centers.
This would make the tool more independent if something in the routing is not working well.
I´ll keep this idea in mind after implementing that sound-thing.

Thanks for the server link, next time it happens I will test it.

Thank you for your patience.

thank you for a cool tool.

[Andrew Bitcoiner]

brilliant!

[adamstgBit]

Anyway, I made some little updates:
- Favicon is included now
- The "Bitcoin Alarm clock" is a bit more transparent (about 10%) to keep all more readable
- The first step of other alarms is included what means an optical alarm for each column

What still is missing:
- sound-chooser for different sound (and for turn of sound, keeping only optical alarm)
- email-alarm (if kept running this tool)
- email-alarm (even if tool is closed, but this maybe later)
- twitter-alarm (maybe later, if someone wants it)
- ticker for more data (which data?)
- maybe more alarms (on what?)

i think a nice setup would be "dynamically adding alarms"

3 inputs

 [value]  [condition]    [method]  
 [7.5$]   [<= 1 BTC]  [sound alarm]

something like that, just thinking out loud  

[StewartJ]

Going to sleep now, with the Alarm Tool at the ready!

Thanks Jessi for a great job on this.  I am sure others will donate to you as well...

Best,'SJ

[adamstgBit]

i love this little thing, so cool.
it seems to have stopped updating?

[freshzive]

Just tested this out, seems pretty rad. Thanks for the hard work

[Jessi]

i think a nice setup would be "dynamically adding alarms"

3 inputs

 [value]  [condition]    [method]  
 [7.5$]   [<= 1 BTC]  [sound alarm]

something like that, just thinking out loud  

Hmm, sorry I am a bit tired now (in Germany it is 6:16 at the morning) and it´s hard to follow for me.

If I understand you correctly, this does mean, you could place more than those alarms.
Like a "table" where you add a row with an alarm and a condition for it?
Very different to the behavior now, but a nice Idea which I would like to keep in mind and maybe realize in a "reloaded" Version.

[Jessi]

i love this little thing, so cool.
it seems to have stopped updating?

Yes, I found a little strange behavior depending on caching. It seem for me, if Mt.Gox does not deliver much data, it is beginning to slow down and sometimes it behaves like old men and "forgets" to receive new data. *joking*
I made a new version which seem to pull more accurate data. I bring it online with next update. ;-)

[Jessi]

Just tested this out, seems pretty rad. Thanks for the hard work

You´re welcome.  Nice to see, that some guys like this tool.

[Jessi]

Ok. I now made some updates again:

- First I found two little bugs:
  - The strange behavior with showing no alert even if it should is fixed
  - also the "caching"-behavior should be better. Now it should work more accurate like before
- Also updated: Sound on/off-Button
  You should know, that first the sound is turned off, because of the hint regarding those people who are using this at work. ;-)
  You can turn on the sound every time by a single click or you can turn it off again.

[Jessi]

So what´s left:

What still is missing:
- sound-chooser for different sound (and for turn of sound, keeping only optical alarm)
- email-alarm (if kept running this tool)
- email-alarm (even if tool is closed, but this maybe later)
- twitter-alarm (maybe later, if someone wants it)
- ticker for more data (which data?)
- maybe more alarms (on what?)
- adding as many alarms with individual behaviors line, by line and maybe with reactions (this for V2).
- if there are still caching-problems, then catching data from different servers.

[StewartJ]

Jessi:

I really like this alarm and your programming skills are to be commended.

The sound of the Bear and Bulls for low/high alarms are great. The Red and Green Flashing and addition of mute button make it much more practical. I notice also that the Mini-window is much more readable, with the alarm clock graphic nicely faded in the background.

I hope that any other changes you do in the future do not impact the basic functionality for which I think this tool was intended: to simply give us an alarm when highs and lows are crossed.   I think email alarms or specific price alarm improvements might belong to another tool altogether, unless you really think it could be handled just as efficiently with this one?

At this point for me, the only minor improvement that I could see would be to have the default refresh show 10 seconds, instead of 1, with 10 being the optimal one which you had before.  Perhaps caching data from other servers, if that's possible, would be a good addition because of the importance of having the most Bitcoin Price updated data. Aside from that, I like the Bitcoin Alarm just the way it is.

Early in the morning now, I go back under the covers wondering if I will hear the sweet sound of a Bull or the scary sound of a man-eating Grizzly.

Another donation is on it's way.  And hoping that others will contribute to you for this invaluable BTC trading tool.

[Jessi]

Jessi:

I really like this alarm and your programming skills are to be commended.

The sound of the Bear and Bulls for low/high alarms are great. The Red and Green Flashing and addition of mute button make it much more practical. I notice also that the Mini-window is much more readable, with the alarm clock graphic nicely faded in the background.

I hope that any other changes you do in the future do not impact the basic functionality for which I think this tool was intended: to simply give us an alarm when highs and lows are crossed.   I think email alarms or specific price alarm improvements might belong to another tool altogether, unless you really think it could be handled just as efficiently with this one?

Thank you very much!
Also I can promise you, that if further updates are coming (depending on what other people here want), I can hold every time a "basic" version online for those who wants to keep it as simple as possible. ;-)
The basic intention on my side was the same than yours: a very simple and very quick to use alarm clock. Other features (like a complex alarm with "if-then-else"-Features and maybe reactions like a bot, maybe placed in an other tool (V2, "reloaded", whatever).

At this point for me, the only minor improvement that I could see would be to have the default refresh show 10 seconds, instead of 1, with 10 being the optimal one which you had before.  Aside from that, I like the Bitcoin Alarm just the way it is.

Yes, you are right, I left this over from testings regarding your data-stream-loss... I will change the default value back again in next version.

Early in the morning now, I go back under the covers wondering if I will hear the sweet sound of a Bull or the scary sound of a man-eating Grizzly.

Yeah, I guess much better than beeing sleepless and thinking to miss anything what has happened on Mt.Gox...

Another donation is on it's way.  And hoping that others will contribute to you for this invaluable BTC trading tool.

Thank you very much.



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[StewartJ]

Jessi:

I really like this alarm and your programming skills are to be commended.

The sound of the Bear and Bulls for low/high alarms are great. The Red and Green Flashing and addition of mute button make it much more practical. I notice also that the Mini-window is much more readable, with the alarm clock graphic nicely faded in the background.

I hope that any other changes you do in the future do not impact the basic functionality for which I think this tool was intended: to simply give us an alarm when highs and lows are crossed.   I think email alarms or specific price alarm improvements might belong to another tool altogether, unless you really think it could be handled just as efficiently with this one?

Thank you very much!
Also I can promise you, that if further updates are coming (depending on what other people here want), I can hold every time a "basic" version online for those who wants to keep it as simple as possible. ;-)
The basic intention on my side was the same than yours: a very simple and very quick to use alarm clock. Other features (like a complex alarm with "if-then-else"-Features and maybe reactions like a bot, maybe placed in an other tool (V2, "reloaded", whatever).

At this point for me, the only minor improvement that I could see would be to have the default refresh show 10 seconds, instead of 1, with 10 being the optimal one which you had before.  Aside from that, I like the Bitcoin Alarm just the way it is.

Yes, you are right, I left this over from testings regarding your data-stream-loss... I will change the default value back again in next version.

Early in the morning now, I go back under the covers wondering if I will hear the sweet sound of a Bull or the scary sound of a man-eating Grizzly.

Yeah, I guess much better than beeing sleepless and thinking to miss anything what has happened on Mt.Gox...

Another donation is on it's way.  And hoping that others will contribute to you for this invaluable BTC trading tool.

Thank you very much.

A basic version would be brilliant!  The way it works now would be perfect for the "Basic" version.

We are already talking about your alarm tool in the other threads, like the "Rally" thread.