[arm-allstar] voice beacon

[Robert Forest]

I need to learn more about Cron

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 9:29 AM "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Alan,
>
>  See the TTS howto on the hamvoip.org web page. It explains how to convert
> a WAV file to the format required by Asterisk/Allstar.
>
> You could use cron and the localplay command to do it timed to some period
> but I would not recommend it as this would transmit regardless of activity
> on the channel. A much better approach would be to use the tailmessage
> command. This transmits the message or messages only when someone actually
> keys up thus the tail of their transmission. You can set the time between
> transmission so it would not be on every tail.
>
> See - http://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Rpt.conf#tailmessagelist.3D
>
> for info on the tailmessage and tailtime commands.
>
> Also keep in mind that Autosky use the tailmessage command so if you are
> using that you would have to integrate in your message.
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 9:39 AM, "Alan Matthews via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone
> >
> > Is it possible to record a voice file for example "wav" format and then
> > configure allstar to transmit it once every 30 minutes. I would like to
> > create a voice beacon to announce locally the repeaters prescence.
> >
> > if its possible could someone point me in the direction as how to do it.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Alan
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