[arm-allstar] newsline

[David McAnally]

I suggest changing the "sleep 175" statement at about line 303 in
playnews-0.11 to a value 20 seconds longer than your INCREMENT value. In
your case, 585 + 20 = 605.
sleep 605

A more flexible solution would be to update the script to calculate the
sleep value. e.g.
let IDWAIT=${INCREMENT}+20
sleep $IDWAIT

Regards,
David M.
WD5M


On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 2:48 PM "Dave Petrie via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Hi Darrell, that's fine for your choice, we have 6 repeaters on a microwave
> linked system and I have set all the timers the way I need and want them.
> rpt.conf
> tx_timeout=1800000
> idtime=600000
> politeid=10000
> rx_timeout=600000
>
> playnews-0.11
> #echo $LENGTH
> START=0
> INCREMENT=585
>
> # Divide into 2.5 minute segments
> INCREMENT=585
>
> # send start announcment
> sleep 22
>
> # Start news
> sleep 599
>
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> I just need to be able to stop the play at the end of the increment, for
> 20-30 seconds and start the second play increment.
> Almost there.
> Hey I am retired and I will figure it out someday, maybe not this winter
> but I will get it.
> I was hoping one of you linux guys would have an easy solution.
> IT's the technical challenge, not the need to play newsline.
> I have accomplished so much in the last year or so and having so much fun
> with this hamvoip software, and I know there is so much more to learn. I
> don't want to fell like I am back at work, it's so nice to close the laptop
> and take a nap anytime I feel like it.
> Thanks for the reply, any others ?
> Dave
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> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 3:28 PM Darrell Black <gigahacker at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Dave, I played with this when I set up our news server.
> >
> > in file /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11
> > Around line ~210 >INCREMENT=150 <==== 150 seconds is 2.5 minutes.
> >
> > Warning if you increase the time, it like I did. The repeater timeout
> > timer and all the allstar hotspot linked timers need to be greater than
> > your slice time, or they will timeout. In the end I went back to 2.5
> > minutes.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 2:41 PM "Dave Petrie via ARM-allstar" <
> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I am trying to control the playtime for newsline, everything is working
> as
> >> I want it to except for when the first segment finishes, i can't get the
> >> broadcast to shutdown or unkey or be quiet long enough for the forced
> >> repeater ID time to play.
> >> I have edited the mp3 file so that the audio play timing fits.
> >> I want 9 minutes 30 seconds for the play times and the first section is
> >> perfect, INCREMENT=585.
> >> I can't get things to shut down for 20-30 seconds to allow for the ID
> >> timers to complete and can't seem to control the start of the second mp3
> >> play file. I am not a linux guru, but I don't give up easily.
> >> So to recap, I want to be able to choose my play windows timing and I
> want
> >> things to unkey at the end of the playtimes and restart up again, all
> that
> >> timing should be under my control.
> >> Thanks
> >> Dave
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