[arm-allstar] Weather Report Doesn't Play on BBB

[Doug Crompton]

Jim,

 There is a complete weather package in the v1.2 image and Chris sent you the info on that. If you want to do it yourself then pretty much you are on your own. What we installed works well.
73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:34:27 -0700
> From: n8pxw at yahoo.com
> To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Weather Report Doesn't Play on BBB
> 
> I'm using v1.2 of the BBB software. I get the MP3 file directly from the weather service web page using curl. I am using Total Recorder to convert MP3 to WAV. I thought localplay would play the MP3 or WAV file. That would be simpler than to a text to speech conversion.
>     JimK  N8PXW
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 4/23/15, Christopher Kovacs <w0anm73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Weather Report Doesn't Play on BBB
>  To: "BeagleBone Black ARM Allstar" <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
>  Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015, 1:55 PM
>  
>  I
>  have some additional questions for you.  What version of
>  the BBB software are you using?What utility is
>  generating the MP3 file?  What utility and options are you
>  using to convert the MP3 file to WAV?  If you are using the
>  weather scripts that are available on the BBB release?  You
>  not have to convert anything with the already installed
>  weather scripts as it's done for you.
>  
>  73,
>  Chris w0anm
>  On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at
>  11:35 AM, Jim Korenz <n8pxw at yahoo.com>
>  wrote:
>  Hi
>  All,
>  
>     I have a problem playing the MP3 audio from the local
>  weather station CLE. I am running a BBB as a link to the
>  local repeater. Everything is working, AllStar, EchoLink,
>  Allison speaks the time. But, when I try to play the weather
>  report MP3 file using localplay, the radio keys up but no
>  audio. I've converted the MP3 to a 16 bit, 8 Khz WAV
>  file, but the same thing. Any ideas?
>  
>     Thanks,  JimK  N8PXW
>  
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