Overview

This applet for the Archos PMA was written to allow the user to force the PMA to enter the sleep mode in a given delay. For example, if you whish to listen music in bed, and you don't want the PMA to play music all the night.

Setup

This package, as any applet needs a Qtopia restart before the first use.

Description

The sleep timer applet is located in the applet bar. When you click on it, a popup appears asking you to choose a delay (from 5 to 120 mins). When your choice is made, click on the start button and that's it.
Don't worry if you choose the wrong delay, you only have to choose again a new delay, and it will replace the first one.
If you choose after all, that you want to cancel everything, you just have to choose "0 mins" and to click on start to cancel the timer.

Caution

This applet is intended to be universal, whatever the programs you are running, and you want to stop. For now, the only way I found to do this is to program a restart of Qtopia. It is powerful but it shall be used carefully, so don't use this on risky conditions, for example:
- Don't connect the PMA to a PC with usb if there is a risk that it enters the sleep mode before the disconnection. (risk of disk corruption)
- Don't program the sleep mode if you want to program a recording (audio or video), and there is a risk that it enters the sleep mode during the recording. (risk of locking the recording device. A complete reboot of the PMA is needed to unlock it)

Credits

Written by: Florent Giraudbit
Beta testers: Bysus and Tatum from the JBMM forum
This program is distributed under the terms of the GPL v2