Due to some unfortunate events

  1. Loosing my phone
  2. K-alarm crashing

I faced a common problem for many people “No alarm to wake me up in the morning”. Like every single man, I love sleeping. So unless an alarm or person wakes me up, I will continue to enjoy sleeping - until the urge from my second passion (hunger) wakes me up.

Despite the fact that I love sleeping, my team mates at Ruby Kitchen, won’t be happy with me coming late to work. Challenged with such a problem, I did what every computer hacker would do.

Wrote a program to wake me up, at 6:00 AM 😁

Wrote a handy little Ruby program (Object Oriented, as I see the world as Objects), to wake me up at 6 AM. To play the music I used the system command of Ruby to run the vlc player with maximum volume (–volume [0..512]).

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class WakeMeUp
  def initialize(alarm_time,music = "/mount/data2/Songs/11.Mazhathullikal.mp3")
    @alarm_time = alarm_time
    @music = music
    @run = true
  end

  def its_time
     system("vlc #{@music} --volume 512")
  end

  def check_time
     while @run
        if Time.now >= @alarm_time
           its_time
          @run = false
        else
           sleep(@alarm_time-Time.now)
        end
    end
  end
end

@wake_me_up = WakeMeUp.new Time.new 2013,03,15,6
@wake_me_up.check_time

More that can be done

  • make it accept command line arguments
  • Maybe use libmplayer or ffmpeg so that there is no dependency on actual application

PS:- Just sharing to help those people who might find themselves in a similar problem as mine