I bought an insignia infocast 3.5″ internet clock, a.k.a. chumby over the holidays. I love it, I can set alarms for it, have news and facebook updates pop up, etc. It’s great. It does a good job of protecting itself from lock ups as well. I have seen it lock up once or twice, and it must have some sort of watchdog timer, because it always just restarts itself. It automatically sets the time so no need to worry about that. really I have no complaints…Well except one.
My 2 year old, a.k.a. chubby! Chubby loves the Chumby. Whenever he gets into my room he goes silent. Anyone with kids knows that isn’t a good thing. He pokes his little chubby finger on the screen and, without fail, every time, he manages to either set alarms that I don’t want set, or delete alarms. He is unstoppable. This is a problem. He has set alarms for midnight! He has also turned the volume down on the alarm so that I can’t hear it in the morning. He has completely deleted my alarms. I did a search on how to prevent changes on the chumby, and I can’t find anything to help me. I need to figure out a way to stop this, because it takes me a long time to recover every time my chubby gets his hands on my chumby.
What a life! Sheesh.