[arm-allstar] Playnews "Now" command

[Doug Crompton]

Robert,

 I wrote playnews so if you have any questions I think I can answer them.

The instructions are in the script but here is the answer to your question.
This assumes your node is 40000. Obviously sub your node.

/etc/asterisk/playnews ARN now 40000

when run at the Linux prompt would play the news immediately. It does take
a minute or two to download and sort to individual files so this would not
exactly immediate. A better way would be to set a time and do it ahead. So
lets say you wanted to play the news at 2000. So at say 1955 or before you
would at the Linux prompt do:

/etc/asterisk/playnews ARN 20:00 40000

The news would start at 20:00 or 8 PM.

I think that answers your question but if not let me know.



*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:26 AM, "Robert Conklin via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> I have set up weekly scheduled crontab tasks to play the ARN and ARRL news,
> which works great.
> It is unclear to me how to make the proper command line entry to start the
> playnews script for playing ARN or ARRL news immediately or at a specific
> time for one time. If someone can clarify how to do so I would be very
> appreciative.
>
> Thank you for any advice.
>
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> Robert Conklin
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