[arm-allstar] hour time check

[Stephen Cook]

Hi Glenn,

I remembered seeing how this was done in one of the documents on the Hamvoip.org website. I went back and found it is explained in the scripts info link. To turn off the hourly announcement of the time, see below;

saytime.pl - Perl script when configured says the time on the specified node. It was created primarily to allow the volume to be changed on the fly but it also allows customization of what Is being said.
This script is typically called by a cron job often to announce the time on the hour. An example of a cron entry to call this file is:
00 0-23 * * * (source /usr/local/etc/allstar.env ; /usr/local/sbin/saytime.pl $NODE1 > /dev/null)
This would announce the time each hour. This cron entry is installed in the stock BBB and RPi2 code. To turn it off comment the line with a # at the beginning using crontab -e

Hope this helps. 

Thank you and 73,

Stephen
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> On Oct 20, 2018, at 10:22, Glenn via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
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> dowdy  Doug.....how do you disable the hourly time transmit??
> thanks
> glenn k5cod
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