Friends Online Audio Alerter

Friends Online Audio Alerter

How often has this happened to you. You have a friend you want to talk to. You constantly watch their online status yet get busy and miss it when they do finally come online. Or, you step away from the PC and miss both the pop up that alerts you that they have come online and you didn't hear the one and only ding when they sent you an IM? Have heart, those days are over!

The Friends Online Audio Alerter will monitor up to five of your friends and alert you when they come online by playing the sound file of your choice every fifteen seconds until you click their icon to stop the sound. Now you can get busy with other things and never miss a message. You can walk away from the PC and do other things around your house as you keep an ear toward the PC knowing you aren't missing that all important friend.

The Friends Online Audio Alerter will let you know the online status of anyone whether they are on your friends list or not, even if they are on your friends list and have unchecked the box that allows you to see their status. If you don't need to monitor but one avatar at a time, search my products for Avatar Online Avatar Alerter, it may fit your needs better.

How do I set it up?
Configuration is done with a note card. Inside the content folder for each alerter there is a notecard called "Avatar Key". There are two values you enter into the note card (the two seperated with a ","). The first value is the UUID for the sound file you wish to sound when the status of the assigned avatar is "online". The second value is the UUID (avatar key) of the avatar you wish to monitor.
Each alerter comes assigned with a sound file already. You can use that sound, or exchange it for any sound you have in your inventory by copying the UUID of the sound you want to use and pasting its value in the first position on the notecard.
To assign an FOAA alerter to the avatar of your choice, find their avatar key (there are several ways to find an avatars key, xstreet offers several utilities for doing this, some of the alternate viewers such as Cool SL Viewer list each avatar key in each profile, if you are having problems finding anyones key, try the Cool SL Viewer, not only will you have everyones key listed easily for you but you'll get a viewer that is more stable and packed with more "cool" features, it can be found here http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Alternate_viewers#Third-party_Viewers ). Copy and paste the avatar key over the second value in the notecard (after the comma). Once you save the notecard, the alerter will update itself with the new information and reset. Done

How does it work?
The FOAA comes as a HUD. Find it in your inventory, right click it and select wear (see note below on HUD locations). The HUD is now ready to be configured.
Once configured, the alerter has two states of being. State One is when the avatar is offline and the alerter is on. The text will be red with no sound being triggered. When an avatar is detected as being online. The text will turn green and the assigned sound file will begin to play, repeating every 15 seconds until you click the icon for that alerter. Once clicked, you are in State Two. The text will turn white and report the avatar as being online (if they still are) and the sound will be turned off. Once that avatars status is reported as offline, the text turns gray and the avatar is shown as being offline. Clicking the icon when in State Two will return the FOAA to State One.

Note: The Avatar Key notecards are inside the contents folder for each alerter. To get to those folders, hold down the control button and press the number 3. That will bring up the edit window. Click the check box for "edit linked parts", then click on the alerter you wish to configure. Go back to the edit panel and select the "content" tab. You will see the Avatar Key notecard there. Double click to open it. Configure and save. The FOAA will know that its notecard has been changed and will reset and launch the script with the new sound UUID and the new avatar key assigned.

Modify permissions are given so that you can scale or rearrange the FFOA to your particular needs. Each alerter is self contained (script wise). Please note, the scripts included are not modifyable.

The FOAA comes as a HUD but with the modify permissions given, it can and will funtion just fine if rezzed in world. Resize accordingly.