[arm-allstar] New playnews script

[Doug Crompton]

Bob,

  No mainly because it would break Allstar and most widely connected
systems due to timeouts. The ARRL news runs about 20 minutes and ARN about
30 minutes. There is generally a 3 minute timeout established in the
repeater community and this is also true in most Allstar systems. Timing
variables would need to be changed on the playing node and every connected
node. This is really not practical but if you wanted to do it it would be
easy. Once the file is downloaded just play it. It would eliminate most of
the script but without system timing changes you would hear the first 3-5
minutes and then things would timeout. It is also a courtesy to stop
transmissions periodically to allow for simplex stations to connect and
disconnect.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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


On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 4:31 AM, "Bob Roszkowski via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Doug, is there a script that will play the news with out breaks?
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> boB - W5EVH
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:35 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > I have changed the playnews script to isolate the URL's in a separate
> > playnews.ini file. The new tar archive can be found at:
> >
> >  http://hamvoip.org/downloads/playnews-0.11.tar.gz
> >
> > Or at the link on the hamvoip.org web page.
> >
> > Users can (carefully) edit URL's in the playnews.ini file for Amateur
> Radio
> > Newsline and ARRL News when necessary. What is there works as of
> 6/23/2017.
> > Yes they changed ARN back to .mp3 today! Maybe they were listening.
> >
> > I suggest you put these files in /etc/asterisk/local/playnews. If you
> > already have files there you can safely delete them all and untar the new
> > archive.
> >
> > cd /etc/asterisk/local
> > mkdir playnews
> > cd playnews
> > wget https://hamvoip.org/downloads/playnews-0.11.tar.gz
> > tar xvzf playnews-0.11.tar.gz
> >
> > Use 'playnews-0.11' in your script or if you desire rename it to just
> > 'playnews'
> >
> >
> > *73 Doug*
> >
> > *WA3DSP*
> >
> > *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
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