A Car Alarm for your iBook
There has been alot of interest lately in an app called iAlertU, an alarm for your MacBook Pro, and a video showing it in action.
I had been working on a similar project for fun and for my own use, however, iAlertU doesn’t currently work with iBooks or PowerBooks, so I thought people might be interested in this.
In the stuffit file is a version for the iBook, a version for the Powerbook and also it’s source (an Xcode project). It may also work on the MacBook Pro, but I am not able to test that.
It differs from iAlertU in that there is obviously no remote activation, though this could be set up to work from a bluetooth phone using an app like the excellent Romeo. To activate the alarm simply double click the icon, to deactivate, quit the app.
Uses motion.c. Copyright Christian Klein.
Click here to download app and source (zipped)
Click here to download app and source (stuffed)
April 12th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
A good program and amused although… my screen enough does not blink when it sounds the alarm… is some improved version?
April 13th, 2006 at 3:09 am
Hey found a link of a forum, great to see a version for the ibook, works fabulous.
I hope you keep working on it and make it better then ialertu, but please keep it free, and open source
April 13th, 2006 at 7:53 am
Really cool app
But, like Fran, my iBook screen didn’t blink, too.
April 13th, 2006 at 9:24 am
Hi,
I should have mentioned in the post, but the screen blinking has to be set up in System Preferences – Universal Access – Hearing tab and check “Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs”.
I also turned down the alert volume in the System Preferences – Sound so that i just had the alarm and the flash.
I haven’t worked out how to do this any other way as yet.
Thanks for the comments.
April 13th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Well i think you have a gathering now, lots of people have ibooks and im looking at the code and i think theres lots that could easily be added on:
Customisable voice speech
Inbuilt screen flash
Password to disable alarm when sensors detect movement
Password to disable alarm
Remove the dock icon and move up into menu bar
Remote control API script so that there is scripts to enable and disable on the go
PS. please keep this open source and free so other people can assist in helping and maybe someone will make that wish list of mine happen
April 13th, 2006 at 10:37 am
mm dang cant edit comments, anywho ive removed some of the interface and changed the quit cmd keys so people cant just press apple+q, im also working on removing the dock icon atm.
If someone could build a way to control the alarm from another applescript that would be great
PS. orginal developer, if you want to talk to me just email me and we can try making this projetc better
April 13th, 2006 at 11:21 am
ok well this non editing thing on comments is annoying me now but i have uploaded my modified version, changes are in the changelog file
http://swat.gotdns.com/alarm.zip
April 13th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Thanks semaja, I like the idea of Growl notification for alarm activation.
I also think that there are a a few things that would make this project much better, such as the ones you mentioned, Inbuilt screen flash and turning it into a background app with a menu bar icon so that the alarm can be activated by key combination or other device.
Romeo is a great application, and an action can be set up to activate the alarm with a simple applescript – tell application “alarm” to activate.
April 13th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
yeh im working on the dock icon and asking around about it, my current aim atm is to make the alarm into somewhat of a service, so what happens is u add it to your login items and it is started then u activate the alarm with a script.
PS. if you have msn or gtalk u can msg me so we can work on this together semaja2 (@t) gmail.com
April 13th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
I see you have taken down the download links, if you want i can host your version as well.
ive also released a new version on my site, ive fixed some minor bugs such as the growl spam that happens
http://swat.gotdns.com/alarm.zip
April 13th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
[...] The orignal code was developed by yellowmonkey , it also uses motion.c. Copyright Christian Klein. [...]
April 14th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Ehh… Doesnt work for my powerbook.
April 14th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Michael im currently working on a new version which should work on all machines
April 14th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
I have uploaded a new version which now detects both machine type and if growl is running
http://swat.gotdns.com
PS. administrator i would really like to talk to you about this, and some ideas i have recieve which i think you might be able to do
April 15th, 2006 at 8:12 am
[...] Please remember that MultiAlarm woudlnt have been possible with out the orignal code being developed by yellowmonkey , it also uses motion.c. Copyright Christian Klein. [...]
April 17th, 2006 at 2:39 am
ok i take it it dosent work on the ibook g3, just tryed and dosent sound, is their anyway of making it work?
April 17th, 2006 at 9:49 am
the only iBooks supported are the iBook g4 mid 2005 model
April 22nd, 2006 at 4:59 pm
A great little program
. Made my own little script to activate and deactivate it through salling clicker too. I think the sound is a little bit too low though. It could’ve been louder. And I would love to have a password protection to be able to quit
April 25th, 2006 at 12:33 am
it doesn’t work for my powerbook.. got it august 2005; do i not have a motion sensor? how can i check?
April 25th, 2006 at 9:11 am
Hi Brandon,
You might want to check out
http://swat.gotdns.com
this guy has taken my original code and added support for some of the powerbooks that mine didn’t work with, plus other features,
April 30th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Thanks for refering people to the site, its actually http://semaja2.net now
Ive added a way of password protection for those that need it, all it does is activates the screensaver, so if you have password protection enabled on screensavers you can have passwords for MultiAlarm
I also added support for macbooks.
May 20th, 2006 at 10:28 am
I’m having trouble installing Mutlialarm for my Powerbook G4 1.5 GHz….I’m sure it has the SMS? How do I go about fixing the problem. Which app should I install? I have installed Multialarm 3 and it doesn’t work at all?