[arm-allstar] New Wx, minor enhancement

[Doug Crompton]

Chris,

The weather.sh script uses the Linux locate command to find the audio file
relating to the current conditions.  Thus if the condition was "sunny" it
would use the /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/sunny.gsm file. If the condition was
"mostly sunny" it would concatenate the mostly.gsm and sunny.gsm from the
same directory to form a single gsm file that says "mostly sunny"

Weather stuff is a moving target and what works now may not work tomorrow.
I wrote it in a way that it could be updated in the future if necessary.
Weatherunderground does have an API and I will look into it. I have two
stations myself. It would require registration but I think if you have a
station it is routine. Higher usages have costs involved but I doubt an
individual users would ever get to that point.

What Barry was eluding to was the fact that there is now showers.gsm file
so if the condition is "showers" it would not play. However there is a
rainy.gsm file so copying that file to showers.gsm solves the problem. If
the condition is "showers" it will say "rainy"

Tell me more about the sound files you assembled? Is it something you would
share? If so I would like to take a look at it. Having other word options
is always good.

IRLP is still at beta level and has not bee n distributed to even the beta
testers as yet.



*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 11:10 AM, "Chris Zenchenko via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> I also love the update to saytime.
> I've wanted to do this for quite some time.
> I actually created a vocabulary of about 3500 words, letters and digits in
> a
> good male tts voice called James.
> It does take some time to generate, edit and then convert but the sound is
> great.
> I wish the WX script used Weather Underground however since my personal
> weather station is feeding it.
> I can get conditions close but not mine since I live in the country.
>
> I'm way behind the times. What was Barry referencing with the locate and
> updatedb?
> I've not actually looked at the scripts so not sure how locate works or how
> using it improves how the scripts work.
>
> On a completely different topic I was wondering where things are at with
> the
> IRLP connections.
> I remember reading about 2 months ago that something was in the works but
> can't recall any additional info.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arm-allstar [mailto:arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org] On Behalf Of
> "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar"
> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 9:36 PM
> To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Cc: Doug Crompton <wa3dsp at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] New Wx, minor enhancement
>
> Barry,
>
>   Yes good idea. I think we should do that in an update. There may be
> others that get missed as Allison has limited words. The problem with
> creating new words is the voice would not match. I suppose you could create
> an entire new database using TTS but 1. it takes time and 2. we don't have
> a list of all the words they could use.
>
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 4:46 PM, "Barry Buelow via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > Doug, I like the new wx announcement in saytime.pl
> >
> > Today I was "lucky" to have rain, which was a condition of "Showers".
> > Unfortunately there is no showers.gsm file. So I copied rainy.gsm to
> > showers.gsm. Now I hear "rainy" when the condition is "showers".
> >
> > cd /var/lib/asterisk/sounds         ; where sound files reside
> > cp rainy.gsm showers.gsm           ; copy file that says "rainy",
> > permissions are ok
> > updatedb                                        ; weather.sh uses the
> cmd:
> > locate which requires the file db update to work now
> >                                                         ; rather than
> wait
> > for an overnight job.
> >
> > The weather service needs a rain scale of 0-255 rather than the
> ambiguous:
> > wet, showers, rainy, rain, whoa & Damn!
> >
> > Barry w0iy
> >
> >
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