Table of Contents:

• CLI Alarm Clock
  • How works
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Command Line Tool Usage

CLI Alarm Clock

Alarm is command line alarm clock utility written in Python language.

How works

When the date and time coincides with the current the alarm starts playing the sound is selected for five consecutive times. You can pause the alarm by pressing 'p' or 'space' is an attempt to cancel the 'q' or 'ESC'. Change the volume of the alarm by pressing '*' or '/'.

You can create a list and use it as an alarm sound:

$ cat *.mp3 > playlist.m3u
$ alarm -s 17 07:05 ~/Music/playlist.m3u

You will find some sounds in folder alarm/sounds only GitHub tar archive alarm-2.1.tar.gz or zip archive alarm-2.1.zip. Some will make you laugh, have fun !!!

Requirements

- Python 2 or 3
- Mplayer

Installation

Using pip :

$ pip install alarm --upgrade

uninstall:

$ pip uninstall alarm

Get the source 'git clone https://github.com/dslackw/alarm.git'

$ python setup.py install

Command Line Tool Usage

usage: alarm [-h] [-v]
             [-s] <day> <alarm time> <song>

optional arguments
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  -v, --version    print version and exit
  -s, --set        set alarm day, time and sound

  --config         use config file

example: alarm -s 21 06:00 /path/to/song.mp3

Example:

$ alarm -s 18 22:05 ~/alarm/sounds/wake_up.mp3

+==============================================================================+
|                              CLI Alarm Clock                                 |
+==============================================================================+
| Alarm set at : Wednesday 22:05                                               |
| Sound file : ~/alarm/sounds/wake_up.mp3                                      |
| Time : 21:06:41                                                              |
+==============================================================================+
Press 'Ctrl + c' to cancel alarm ...


+==============================================================================+
|                              CLI Alarm Clock                                 |
+==============================================================================+
| Alarm set at : Wednesday 22:05                                               |
| Sound file :  ~/alarm/sounds/wake_up.mp3                                     |
| Time : 22:05 Wake Up !                                                       |
+==============================================================================+
Press 'Ctrl + c' to cancel alarm ...
__        __    _          _   _         _
\ \      / /_ _| | _____  | | | |_ __   | |
 \ \ /\ / / _` | |/ / _ \ | | | | '_ \  | |
  \ V  V / (_| |   <  __/ | |_| | |_) | |_|
   \_/\_/ \__,_|_|\_\___|  \___/| .__/  (_)
                                |_|

Press 'SPACE' to pause alarm ...

Attempt 1

Attempt 2

Use config file in $HOME/.ararm/config:

$ alarm --config

+==============================================================================+
|                              CLI Alarm Clock                                 |
+==============================================================================+
| Alarm set at : Wednesday 07:00                                               |
| Sound file : /home/user/alarm/sounds/funny.mp3                               |
| Time : 00:09:22                                                              |
+==============================================================================+
Press 'Ctrl + c' to cancel alarm ...