[arm-allstar] Fwd: ARRL news Problem

[Doug Crompton]

​Below is a mail conversation with the ARRL regarding the fact that the
playnews script is no longer working for ARRL news. It had been working up
until now. They apparently have made the month's preceding 0 digit for less
than 10 go away. This makes it incompatible with any simple built-in Linux
date formatting. This obviously can be fixed but before I do permanently I
need to find out if this is just a temporary problem or it will continue
this way. It makes me mad when they cannot stick to a standard way of doing
things! ​I am also in contact with blubrry technical support.

If and until this is resolved here is a fix you can add to the current
playnews to resolve the ARRL news problem -

# Set to ARRL URL
#Temporary fix - Maybe!
Year=`date --date="last friday" +%Y`
Month=`date --date="last friday" +%m`
Month=`echo $Month | sed 's/^0*//'`

Day=`date --date="last friday" +%d`

# comment out old way
#ARRL_URL="http://content.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/AAN-$(date --date="last
friday" +%Y-%m-%d).mp3"

ARRL_URL="http://content.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/AAN-$Year-$Month-$Day.mp3
"


Doug:



In your URL you added a zero before the 8 in the file date. It should be:
http://content.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/AAN-2017-8-04.mp3



73 . . . Steve Ford, WB8IMY

QST Editor







*From:* Doug Crompton [mailto:wa3dsp at gmail.com <wa3dsp at gmail.com>]
*Sent:* Monday, August 07, 2017 2:58 AM
*To:* ww1me at arrl.org
*Subject:* ARRL news Problem



It appears a link to ARRL news that has been working for months is broken
this week. Here is the preformed link based on the Friday release date.

http://content.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/AAN-2017-08-04.mp3

Which is returning an access denied message.

Many use this method to automatically download and play the ARRL new each
week and deliver it to our connected stations. I
​n​
my case many hundreds listen via the Philadelphia Allstar Hub.



Can you advise on this or pass this onto someone who can.

Thank you,

Doug, WA3DSP, ARRL Life Member