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

[Jim Korenz]

Hi Chris,
    Here is how I got the local forecast.

Not all areas may have this feature, but for those who
have it, it looks like a 3 line script to get and say
the current conditions and forecast. 

Go to your local NOAA office, in my case, Cleveland.
www.weather.gov/cle
scroll down to the "NOAA Weather Radio" button, hit it.
It brings up a map of the weather stations in NE Ohio.
Mouse over on one of the stations, "Akron".
A pull down menu appears.
Click on "Local Forecast". A MP3 file plays,
your browser shows the URL.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/mp3/CLESAFNW4.mp3


I solved my initial problem with playing the WAV file, it was a spelling mistake.
I am trying to convert the MP3 file to a WAV on the BBB with SOX, but I get
the following:

[root at bbb-uniontown asterisk]# sox CLESAFNW4.mp3 -b 16 -c 1 wx.wav
sox FAIL formats: no handler for file extension `mp3'

Lame is installed, so the convert should work.
Thanks for your help so far.
  JimK   N8PXW

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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, 5:36 PM
 
 Hi
 Jim,
 The localplay does not
 support MP3 files.  The wx scripts converting the MP3 file
 to a ulaw file using lame and sox. I haven't looked into
 the MP3 files form the weather service. What do they provide
 and how do you determine the URL for your location?
 
 Chris,
 w0anm
 On Thu,
 Apr 23, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Jim Korenz <n8pxw at yahoo.com>
 wrote:
 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
 
 
 
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 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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