[arm-allstar] Hamvoip message scripting

[David McGough]

Hi Lou,

There isn't currently a well defined way to do this. It is a feature that 
has been requested several times and would be useful.

Some users have written scripts to simply replace or reorder a sequence of 
tail message files. For example, you could setup something like:

tailmessagelist=/tmp/sound/file1,/tmp/sound/file2,/tmp/sound/file3,/tmp/sound/fileN

The tailmessagelist commend (which is placed in the rpt.conf [node] 
stanza) runs the specified order, for example: 1,2,3,N.

For the individual sound files in /tmp/sound, these could be symbolic 
links to the actual files stored on the SD card.  Then, you could have a 
cron job that replaces these symlinks, randomizing the order, at various 
times....Kludgy, but functional.


73, David KB4FXC




On Sat, 8 Aug 2020, "Louis Corradi via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> Hello all. My question for the group is; does anyone have a script that 
will randomize several messages and play them at random on the repeater? 
I am running a Pi 3B with a URIxB, Hamvoip connected to a UHF repeater. I 
have several messages that I want the repeater to play randomly at 
specified intervals. Any help would be appreciated. 73'.
> 
> Lou / W2LPC
> Node # 51284