Bedside DAB radio with Sleep Button

mwddrwg

Recently bought one of these refurbished from ebay for £17.00. Has a massive sleep button on the top and excellent display and DAB reception. Can't fault it.

http://www.sandstromstyle.com/product/sandstrom-sdabxcr13-dab-clock-radio-black

Lakeuk

I've got a Revo K2 which has an accessible sleep button on the tower and on the remote, easy to use, just press to toggle in 15min increments upto an hour (wish it did more than an hour).

Being a tower I wouldn't say it's suitable as a bedside radio and it's one of revo's older models in it's current lineup which I'd expect them to replace in the next year or so.

Helen2014

Yes, I'd just bought REVO H2, internet radio, DAB, FM, £250, I thought this would be the answer. But persevered for a week and had to take it back, the so called Sleep Function meant countless clicks across 3 different buttons. That's why I'm holding out for a dedicated Sleep button. There's not a lot of choice for Talk radio, World Service is only accessible in UK on FM from 1-5 am on R4 channel and R4extra is not on FM. DAB is failing to deliver to radio, and BBC continues to turn away from radio listeners on SW, FM.

Helen2014

Yes thanks, I am disappointed with latest Siesta, I just can't understand why, as with Tempus, there is no simple dedicated Sleep Button, readily accessible, I can just press in the dark at 2 am. I'll happily pay for the privilege!

Helen2014

Yes, just posted that I'd bought (and returned) internet radio. I just dream of finding one with a now-seemingly old fashioned Sleep Button!

Helen2014

Actually I do take your point about some shops may not having the range I hope for. I'm starting to look at more specialist websites as I've just had to also replace my travel radio.

Helen2014

Yes it was Revo H2, £250, that I'd bought and returned. It's a fine sounding radio, and the internet stations were amazing, but I couldn't cope with it as a bedside radio, even with the remote. I couldn't read the small lines of output, and why do you have to press Select button again, and all those clicks. Hard to find on radio and also on the remote, the Select somewhere in middle for goodness sake! Seemed to be no common sense in the design for a fine sounding radio.

Norman_Castle

http://www.robertsradio.co.uk/assets/kb/user_guide/0/rr_ug_chronodab_issue_1_web.pdf

For 90 minutes you have to press the button 18 times!. Bonkers. Who needs 5 minute increments on a sleep timer?. It would make much more sense if the sleep time length could could be set once then stored. Try contacting Roberts and asking if any of their radios do what you want.

A.Penny.Saved

The Roberts CRD-26 clock radio with 4 alarms, which I have, has a sleep timer function. Press the sleep button, then select the sleep time, it begins at default programmed sleep length time and then press select to activate. On the Alarm menu you can select sleep and set the default sleep time up to 90 mins. Then when you select sleep the sleep time defaults to that time. Holding the up/down tuning buttons when selecting the sleep time quickly advances the sleep time. Very quick to do. The snooze function can be programmed to 5 to 20 mins.

I have had this for something like 9 years and I don't think that they make them any more. There were bugs with the time set which is meant to be automatic and adjust the time but it does not work. I asked them about the BST/GMT adjustment and they recommended switching it off to force a time update. So much for auto adjustment. It's only a mono speaker and reception can be poor. It does have a wire aerial so it could be hooked up to a proper aerial which works much better.

The years have taken their toll and the buttons no longer work very well. If you could find one, maybe on eBay, it might do all that you need.

http://www.robertsradio.co.uk/assets/User_guides/Legacy_DAB_Radio_PDFs/ug_CRD26.pdf

I cannot see any still available after a quick search. There was one last year on eBay for £30.
I find it hard to believe that they would of gone backwards when the sleep on the CRD-26 works very well. It is fairly quick to set using the fast up/down so it was probably deemed unnecessary.

ChronoDAB and Dreamtime do not have the default programmable sleep time but they do have the rapid time set using the tuning buttons like mine has. BlueTune 40 is much the same but with a dial to set.

bob_a_builder

It could be the Siesta manual writers never actually used the product themselves and just wrote the manual based on the spec

As I said earlier I have the original Siesta, on which you set the sleep timer by pressing Sleep button to increment the sleep time in 15 min intervals - which is what I do ! and why I couldn't see the problem you were commenting on

But checking the online manual for my model its says, in addition choosing the time period by multi press of sleep time you need to press the Select button to set the sleep timer BUT I don't - after a short delay after pressing the sleep button the reqd number of time to choose the actual sleep time, it just takes that last set value as the sleep time

No need to press Select at all

Just 4 presses ( of the same button ) to set a 1 hour sleep timer

Maybe the later Siestas do the same ?
despite what the manual says ?