[arm-allstar] Playing Newsline on Allstar Pi3

[Doug Crompton]

Steve,

 Case does not matter. Here is a run I did with your command line. It
obviously would not play anything with your node number but this is what
you should see. I aborted with CntrlC.

 /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARN now 27065
Starting Download of ARN Audio News @ 16:19:29
--2018-01-20 16:19:29--  https://www.arnewsline.org/s/news.mp3
Resolving www.arnewsline.org (www.arnewsline.org)... 198.49.23.145,
198.49.23.144, 198.185.159.145, ...
Connecting to www.arnewsline.org (www.arnewsline.org)|198.49.23.145|:443...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302
Location:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58b08985be65947bf171e05e/t/5a61dac4e4966b802cbba1c3/1516362443633/news.mp3
[following]
--2018-01-20 16:19:29--
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58b08985be65947bf171e05e/t/5a61dac4e4966b802cbba1c3/1516362443633/news.mp3
Resolving static1.squarespace.com (static1.squarespace.com)...
151.101.208.238
Connecting to static1.squarespace.com
(static1.squarespace.com)|151.101.208.238|:443...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4814678 (4.6M) [audio/mp3]
Saving to: '/tmp/news.mp3'

/tmp/news.mp3             100%[==================================>]
4.59M  3.53MB/s    in 1.3s

2018-01-20 16:19:31 (3.53 MB/s) - '/tmp/news.mp3' saved [4814678/4814678]

Download complete @ 16:19:31
Converting from MP3 to wav and normalizing
Creating /tmp/news.part1.wav
Creating /tmp/news.part2.wav
Creating /tmp/news.part3.wav
Creating /tmp/news.part4.wav
Creating /tmp/news.part5.wav
Creating /tmp/news.part6.wav
Creating /tmp/news.part7.wav
Creating /tmp/news.part8.wav
Creating /tmp/news.part9.wav
Converting to individual ulaw format files
Converting to /tmp/news.part1.ul
Converting to /tmp/news.part2.ul
Converting to /tmp/news.part3.ul
Converting to /tmp/news.part4.ul
Converting to /tmp/news.part5.ul
Converting to /tmp/news.part6.ul
Converting to /tmp/news.part7.ul
Converting to /tmp/news.part8.ul
Converting to /tmp/news.part9.ul
ARN news will start now and use playback (global) mode on node - 27065
Press any key to start news...^C



*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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


On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 3:30 PM, "Steve Agee via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Doug,
>
> I'll play with this later today when I have more time. I was invoking it
> from the command line, and there could be a syntax issue. For example, I
> was using "now" instead of "NOW" per the instructions given at
> http://www.qsl.net/w2ymm/news_script.html so not sure if that was it or
> not. From the command line, I was sending:
> /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARN now 27065 G
> and also
> /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARN now 27065
>
> N5ZUA
>
> On 1/20/2018 2:10 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:
>
> holdofftelem=0 ONLY needs to be in place on the node playing the news. The
> reason for this is that there is no blocking on playing audio files in
> Asterisk/Allstar. That is you play it and it goes into a buffer and you
> have no control over knowing when it ends or even canceling it. The
> playnews script gets around this by carefully timing the segments and using
> delay (sleep) statements to ensure that nothing gets out of sync, If
> telemetry (playing of the audio) was held off at any point due to a keyup
> from anywhere it would screw up the sync. Having holdofftelem=0 avoids this.
>
> Having holdofftelem=0 on a non-radio hub is not an issue as the only audio
> heard from the hub to remote nodes would be global playback.
>
>
> *73 Doug *
>
> *WA3DSP *
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio> *
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:46 AM, "Steve Agee via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Bill. I was wondering if this is one of those seldom used
>> features that nobody has actually tried yet, and I happened to be the one
>> that found out that it did not work? I tried it between the Pi and an ACID
>> node as well as between the Pi and a DIAL node with no luck. I made sure
>> the other node was connected before invoking the script, and that all nodes
>> had "holdofftelem=0"
>>
>> N5ZUA
>>
>> On 1/20/2018 4:45 AM, "Mr. Possum (Bill) via arm-allstar" wrote:
>>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> I always thought that was a "feature" that was to keep it from
>> propagating across a wide area network...  But maybe my impressions are
>> inaccurate...
>>
>> Maybe I will diddle with that a bit...  and see what difference it makes
>> between "localplay" and "playback"...
>>
>> I've been wrong before - my wife keeps reminding me...  (repeatedly...)
>>
>> Bill - N5MBM
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Steve Agee via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
>> <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
>> *To:* arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
>> *Cc:* Steve Agee <irlp8720 at yahoo.com> <irlp8720 at yahoo.com>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, January 20, 2018 2:36 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: [arm-allstar] Playing Newsline on Allstar Pi3
>>
>> OK well not working for me ... only plays on the originating Pi node for
>> some reason.
>>
>> N5ZUA
>>
>> On 1/20/2018 2:34 AM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:
>>
>> If set to global it will play to ANY connected node including Echolink.
>>
>>
>> *73 Doug *
>>
>> *WA3DSP *
>>
>> *http://www.crompton.com/ hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio> *
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 2:41 AM, "Steve Agee via arm-allstar" <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>
>> If I invoke Playnews with either ARRL or ARN with the flag set to global,
>> will it play on other connected ACID or DIAL nodes, or only on other
>> connected Hamvoip nodes?
>>
>> N5ZUA
>>
>> On 1/19/2018 9:28 AM, "Robert Prybyzerski via arm-allstar" wrote:
>>
>> Mike, I have a how to of installing a script for downloading and playing
>> newsline and Arrl audio news.  The script comes from the hamvoip website, I
>> just documented my steps.
>> http://www.qsl.net/w2ymm/news_ script.html
>> <http://www.qsl.net/w2ymm/news_script.html>
>>
>> Bob W2YMM
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> Bob W2YMM
>> 631-960-1051
>>
>> On Jan 19, 2018, at 7:48 AM, Mike Shelby via arm-allstar <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>
>> Since I am new to Allstar I figured I'd ask how hard is it to play
>> Newsline on my Allstar node for our nets? Any advice would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike Shelby - K9MLS
>> bcham.org
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