anyone having trouble with your iHome?

my iHome broke much like yours a few months back. if i pushed my ipod down on the dock, it would play and it was hit or miss if i didn't. i would just send it back to ihome, you pay to ship it there, they send you a new one. i bought mine from costco so i just switched it out there for free so see if you can return it where you bought it.

Just curiouse which model of iHome you have. I just got a 60gb Classic and ordered an "iHome to Go", which has an alarm. One of the reasons I chose that model was so I could go to sleep with music and wake up to music. I'm hoping it works correctly!

Thanks

I don't have an iHome, but I just bought a Timex alarm clock with iPod dock and I noticed the same thing with my Classic 80GB. Everything works fine except it won't play the iPod when the alarm is set to go off. Instead it just reverts to beeping.

Seems that maybe Apple changed a ton of things between the 5.5G iPod and the classic. I would conjecture that it's the classic, not the iHome (or in my case the Timex).

David

I have the same issue with my iHome and my new iPod classic. I guess I'll be keeping my old iPod instead of selling it on Craigslist!

Jeez, it seems the iPod classic's incompatible with quite a few dock accessories. One's going to have to be careful what they buy to go with their new iPods.

IMHO the problem seems to be with the ipod classics default "pause" setting. Other forums have mentioned the same alarm problem with Philips AJ300D ipod clock radio and the Xtreme Mac Luna clock radio. When the ipod is re-activated, it's set on "pause" rather than "play" even if it's in the middle of a song. So it doesn't play when the alarm goes off. Lets hope apple fix this bug in the next software update

Same problem here, I just tried it this morning and woke up to the beeping noise instead of my iPod. I love the storage on the 160GB but that's about it. No more games, no more iHome, it's slow and doesn't work with my old video out cables.

I have the same problem with my 80gig classic/Luna. Called XtremMac and they confirmed that it was a problem with the classic defaulting to "pause" and didn't have a fix.

1.0.2 firmware update resolves this issue. My iHome IH5's alarm now works with the iPod like my gen 5.5 used to work with it. Nice fix Apple!

I am truly happy for you, but don't assume that 1.0.2 works for everyone.

I have the Xtreme Mac Luna and firmware 1.0.2 and my iPod Classic never plays when the Luna's alarm goes off.

I'm about as PO'd with Apple as I can be right now.

Rumpelgeist

I've just taken delivery of an 80gb Classic and Xtrememac Luna and thought the alarm problem was just "operator" error.

This is my first experience of Apple and iPod and it has left a real bad taste in my mouth.

I even took heed of other forums to check capabilities of the Classic

Coverack

Agreed.

I have "lusted" for Apple products since I was a kid. I finally bought an iMac a year ago, now between my wife and I, we have that iMac, three iPods and two iPhones.

I am beginning to wonder why.

The fact that Apple hasn't already fixed this problem via a firmware update says a lot to me about the company.

Hey! Apple! This is YOUR discussion board! Are you listening? You are really ******* your customers off!

Rumpelgeist

The 1.0.2 firmware upgrade has NOT solved the alarm problem for the Philips AJ300D dock either.