[arm-allstar] ARRL NewsLine - Allstar Automated Script

[Doug Crompton]

The automated download name is -   https://www.arnewsline.org/s/news.mp3

This name does not change.

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 10:59 PM, "Ken Collins via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Yes, they didn't copy the file over, it's out there but with the old style
> name:
>
> https://www.arnewsline.org/s/Report2063.mp3
>
> Ken - NUØB
>
> On 5/14/2017 9:51 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:
>
>> Both the ARRL and ARN playnews is played by date and forms a filename with
>> the date. So unless your clock is wrong (unlikely) they did not update the
>> file. Here is the date string. You can run this on your system at the
>> Linux
>> prompt to display the date of last Friday....
>>
>> date --date="last friday" +%Y-%m-%d
>>
>> 2017-05-12
>>
>> It looks for LAST Friday. So if you played it on Friday it would play the
>> file from the previous Friday. It is unclear when the file is actually
>> updated on Friday but it would be safe to play it on any day after Friday
>> up to the next Friday. In other words the first day you can play it is
>> Saturday and the last day is Friday.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 10:01 PM, "John Hoser-Smith via arm-allstar" <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>
>> Just checking with the Allstar group.
>>> Re:  Weekly - ARRL NewsLine news - Playing of it Automated by Doug
>>>
>>> Have been using Doug's ARRL NewsLine automated script.Worked 100% for
>>> last
>>> 4 weeks...
>>> This week (14MAY2017) the Script worked HOWEVER played the ARRL NewsLine
>>> from last week (Frdaiy May4th)...Anybody else experience that?Hard to
>>> tell
>>> if ARRL moved the (Internet) location of their Audio NewLine MP3 Audio
>>> File  - or some other technical issue.Happy Mothers Day...N0ECT
>>>
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