[arm-allstar] newsline

[David McAnally]

Perhaps replacing the sleep 175 line with these lines would be better.
Similar to the "else..." section below, this recalculates the delay based
on the actual length of each part of the audio playback plus 20 seconds.

         LENGTH=`soxi -D $TMPDIR/news.ul 2>/dev/null`
         let DELAY=${LENGTH/.*}+20
         sleep $DELAY

David M.
WD5M

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 3:55 PM Dave Petrie <wa2kjc at gmail.com> wrote:

> ok, I am not a linux guru, sorry but I do want to solve this and I do
> appreciate everyone who responds,
> where do i put the :
> IDWAIT=${INCREMENT}+20
> sleep $IDWAIT
>
> and how does 6 more seconds unkey the play so all nodes reset timers.
> my sleep time is 599
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:41 PM David McAnally <david.mcanally at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I suggest changing the "sleep 175" statement at about line 303 in
>> playnews-0.11 to a value 20 seconds longer than your INCREMENT value. In
>> your case, 585 + 20 = 605.
>> sleep 605
>>
>> A more flexible solution would be to update the script to calculate the
>> sleep value. e.g.
>> let IDWAIT=${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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > Darrell Black
>>> >
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>>> > GigaHacker at gmail.com
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>>> >
>>> >
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