Comments on: Aurora on Leopard

By: Carlos Fonseca

Carlos Fonseca — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:24:07 +0000

Found a simple and (seems to be) working well solution for my problem (Aurora on Leopard crashing everytime before waking me up)
I’ve made an AppleScript that plays the playlist you want, and then set Aurora to run it when waking up. The playlist and the volume are harcoded, so you need to change that manually.

tell application “iTunes”
reveal (some playlist where name begins with “Wake”) –Set the playlist
set sound volume to 100 –iTunes Volume
set volume 5 –System Volume
play
end tell

Save as App

By: Carlos Fonseca

Carlos Fonseca — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:31:16 +0000

This version of Aurora is very unreliable unfortunatly…
Sometime when I test it for waking up in the next minutes it kinda works but when it needs to wake in the morning NEVER works. It can wake the Mac, it starts playing music but it crashes before fading in the sound, so it’s playing… in mute!
Last night I’ve tried to leave the Mac awake, with a nice sound level and didn’t activate the fade in option. Result: it crashed and iTunes didn’t even started playing
Fortunately i don’t need to wake early so often, so I’m hoping on a working Aurora version

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:37:31 +0000

Hey awesome that you made a build for leopard that quick! but….theres always a but right?…. when i try and use aurora for falling asleep it would always crash the entire program. i did get it to work a few nights ago, but it did not actually put the comp to sleep.

By: dafourz

dafourz — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:49:21 +0000

Thanks ! 2 days i have install leopard and 2 day i can’t wake up the morning cause Aurora doesn’t works on :p

:jap:

By: Ole

Ole — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:06:23 +0000

Hello,
Aurora is great, thank you!
Just one problem to report: If I want to be waked by radio, there is no alarm. When I try it for a test in 3 minutes, all works proper, but when I set it for waking in the morning, nothing (also the safety alarm) works, just the iMac wakes up!? Any suggests?
Apart from that it’s a great tool
Thanks, Ole

By: Andrew Royal

Andrew Royal — Tue, 08 May 2007 03:33:49 +0000

Seems like this version broke the use of snooze with the Apple remote. It worked perfectly a few weeks ago, but this last update totally messed it up. When I hit the pause button on the remote to snooze aurora,the song stops for a moment then starts playing again. If I keep this up, eventually it just never comes back on again.

By: Jonas Witt

Jonas Witt — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:35:55 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. If your problems persist with Aurora 3.3, I’d he glad to help you with your problems if you can provide more details on how you use Aurora / set up your alarms / if you close your notebook’s lid / unplug the power etc. Just email me at jonas at metaquark dot de.

By: Macaholic

Macaholic — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:12:03 +0000

Hi. I really hope this version works properly for me. It might be a problem on my end but I have had very inconsistant luck with Aurora.

By: Raf

Raf — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:21:44 +0000

Ahh, makes sense

Just had a read in the documentation to see if this was mentioned and have now seen you can even turn the Mac *OFF* and it will boot up at the required time. That’s awesome

By: Jonas Witt

Jonas Witt — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:51:28 +0000

It’s a firmware limitation. If you set the Mac up to wake in less than 60 seconds, it just won’t do that. Aurora knows this and therefore behaves this way.