[arm-allstar] Time announcement at the top of the hour

[David McGough]

Jed,

Yes, it's easy to disable the time announcement.  This announcement is
generated from a cron job that runs at the top of the hour.  To disable,
edit the /var/spool/cron/root file and comment out the line calling the
"saytime.pl" program.  You can edit and save this file directly or using
the "crontab -e" command from a bash prompt.

Here is what the file should look like after completing the update:

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# Do not remove the following line
# required for lsnodes and allmon
15 03 * * * cd /usr/local/sbin; ./astdb.php cron
#00 0-23 * * * (source /usr/local/etc/allstar.env ; /usr/bin/nice -19 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/sbin/saytime.pl $NODE1 > /dev/null)

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Note the "#" comment on the last line...

73, David KB4FXC


On Sun, 21 Mar 2021, "Jed Barton via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> Hope everyone is doing well.  Question.  On my node, where I run a
> Shari, I don't need to hear the time announcement at the top of every
> hour.  Is there a way to shut that off easily?  I know that it's a
> default in hamvoip.  If anyone can help, that would be awesome.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jed
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