so do we... it should work as is. Thanks for trying it and giving feedback Robert
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Peter Claes <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert, > > Tried it, works like a charm ! > Had to alter at bit, Because we works in centigrades :) negative values > > Many thanks ! > Peter > > Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone > > Op 10-apr.-2013 om 17:09 heeft Robert Orr <[email protected]> het > volgende geschreven: > > Hi Jamie, > I have 80 carts numbered from 3460 to 3540 that contain the temperatures > from minus 40 to plus 40. In actuality, each of those carts has a dj > reading "it's minus 40 in Saskatoon" or "it's minus 39 in Saskatoon" ... > etc. > All the audio for carts in Rivendell are stored in /var/snd ie. the audio > for cart number 3460 is /var/snd/003460_001.wav so here's what my script > does: > cd /var/snd #change directory to /var/snd > rm -f canada_e.html > wget -q http://text.weatheroffice.gc.ca/canada_e.html #grab the text > version of the temperature website > j=`cat canada_e.html |grep Saskatoon |sed -e :a -e > 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba; s/[a-zA-Z&;]//g'` #strip out everything > except the temperature in Saskatoon for example 15 > s=$((3500+$j)) #in our 15 degree example s would equal > 3515 > file=00${s}_001.wav #the audio file that corresponds to 15 > degrees is 003515_001.wav > cp $file 004000_001.wav #replace the 004000_001.wav audio with, in > our example, the 003515_001.wav audio so when cart 4000 is played it will > say "it's 15 degrees in Saskatoon". > > The script is called commandtoextracttemperature.sh and is stored in my > home directory and made executable. This line in the root crontab > 4,24,44 * * * * /home/robert/commandtoextracttemperature.sh > fires the script every 20 minutes and I insert cart 4000 any time in the > log that I want the current temperature recording to play. > Note, messing with the audio in /var/snd is not the approved method of > doing things in Rivendell. I should be doing an rdimport command. But it > works for me and I wrote that script many years ago before I knew you could > import without the gui. > > Hope that helps. > Robert > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Jamie Dominey <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Can you give more details? I'm not that familiar with scripts. Where >> are the 80 carts located and how are they named and numbered? >> >> Thanks >> >> >> On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 10:14 -0600, Robert Orr wrote: >> > Here's mine. I have 80 carts prerecorded with "It's 15 degrees in >> > Saskatoon", "It's 16 degrees in Saskatoon" etc. The script below just >> > runs every 20 minutes via crontab and I have cart 4000 inserted in my >> > log whenever I want to give the temperature: >> > cd /var/snd >> > rm -f canada_e.html >> > wget -q http://text.weatheroffice.gc.ca/canada_e.html >> > j=`cat canada_e.html |grep Saskatoon |sed -e :a -e >> > 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba; s/[a-zA-Z&;]//g'` >> > s=$((3500+$j)) >> > file=00${s}_001.wav >> > cp $file 004000_001.wav >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Bill Putney <[email protected]> wrote: >> > There is weather station software that runs on Linux >> > (Weather-Display >> > for one) and hobby class weather stations are not that >> > expensive. If >> > have all your own temperature, humidity, wind speed/direction >> > and rain >> > gauge from your own station it is likely to be better and more >> > current >> > than the online sources, unless you live next to a major >> > airport. All >> > the information would be available as local variables >> > refreshed minute >> > by minute to make decisions about what to play. >> > >> > Bill >> > >> > On 4/9/13 8:17 AM, Sébastien Leblanc wrote: >> > > Damn, just checked their terms of use (Forecast.io) and >> > they don't >> > > allow radios, newspapers, broadcast and cable television to >> > use their >> > > API... >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Rivendell-dev mailing list >> > > [email protected] >> > > >> > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Rivendell-dev mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Rivendell-dev mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > >
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