Monday 9 August 2010

Atmosphere Shutter Instructions

INSTRUCTIONS

Main Form




















Action Box :

You can change which actions to be performed. (6 actions supported. Shutdown, restart, log-off, standby, hibernate, lock)

Method Box :
Allows you to specify which method (trigger) to perform the action. (Countdown, on-time, network activity)

Status :
Show you information about the current process.

Set Button :
Allows you to run the application.

Refresh Button :
Allows you to clear all input.

Abort Button :
Allows you to abort the operation.


Confirmation Form



Before perform the action you have selected, this application will show you confirmation box with countdown time (default 10 seconds).
You can abort the operation by click the abort button.


Method



















Countdown :

This application will countdown time until time-up and perform the action.

On-time :
This application will perform the action according to the time you have set in the input box.
"On-time timer" using 24 hours format and using your computer time as the reference time.
If you want to shutdown your computer at 11pm, fill the input box 23:00:00
and for 12 midnight is 00:00:00.

Network activity :
This application will watch to your network activity either downloading or uploading speed, and perform the action according to your input (the speed lower or higher than the speed that you want). Please read next section for more information about this method.


How to use "network activity" method :




















Please look at the configuration box on the above picture,
It means the computer will shutdown when downloading speed on wireless network connection is under 10KB/s for 15 seconds.

"Interface" is which network you use for your internet connection, wireless or LAN. (Sometimes it appears bluetooth interface and unknown interfaces "isotop .... , loopback ... , or tunnel ....", please do not bother with those interfaces).

"Mode" is which package on the network you want this application to watch, downloading or uploading package.

"Speed", the trigger will start when your connection speed is lower or higher of your input speed. (Please take a note the different between "KB/s" kiloBytes per second and "Kb/s" kilobits per second, 1 KB/s = 8Kb/s ).

"Time", it is a countdown time for how long this application will waiting when your connection speed is lower/higher than your input speed.

*recommend to set the speed 20% from your maximum speed connection.

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