Activate shut down timer from the android application

[kelsos]

Hello Konstantinus,

I made a feature request ("FEATURE REQUEST: activate shut down timer from phone? This would be awesome") in the app store and you asked me how I thought it should work;

I think if it looks/works just like how the shutdown timer on the main app looks/works then that would be fine. A simple menu option in either of the hidden menus for it, which when selected allows you to choose a time - 5 mins, 10 mins etc. or enter a time (for the sake of simplicity, choosing a predefined time sounds better to me). Once the user does this and hits "activate" this app would submit the conditions to the desktop app and activate it's built in shutdown timer.

So as not to make it too finnicky on a mobile device, I would exclude the option to enter a time when the music should begin to fade. Instead, I would just make it submit a fade-out time of quarter of the selected time by default. For those users that hate songs not playing to the end, you can provide a toggle that allows the last song to play to the end once the timer has reached the selected time, then the target computer shuts down.

Granted, I don't know anything of mobile code so I don't really know if this is possible or how difficult it would be to get this app to effectively trigger that function in the desktop app. I tend to use the shutdown timer at nights when I want to leave my music playing when going to bed but don't want the computer to run all night.

Thanks for the interest in my request and the great app overall. :)

Cheers,

Theodore Henry

Photographer, Web Designer, Writer, Multimedia Lover