[arm-allstar] Global timed messages

[Matt Holder]

So I am not having much luck with this. I can not get the playback function to work at all. Nor can I get the playnews script to work using the instructions provided with the script.
The only successful way that I have gotten the playnews scrip to work is by following M0FLF's youtube tutorial which uses the following cron tab:
25 21 * * 1 /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/disconnect.sh 51237 *7630 21 * * 1 /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARN NOW 51237 G55 21 * * 1 /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARRL NOW 51237 G15 22 * * 1 /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/connect.sh 51237 *7345830
the disconnect and connect .sh files are executable using chmod 750 and look like this:
disconnect:#!/bin/bash/usr/bin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun $1 *1$2" 

connect: #!/bin/bash/usr/bin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun $1 *3$2"

I have no idea what those files are actually doing but it seems without them the news wont play. I also don't want my node to disconnect and would be great if it actually announced the 10 min and 5 min announcements.
I am not sure what I am doing wrong though. I spent about an hour and a half the other day and was not able to get it working.
Anyone have any suggestions to play the news via a cron job globally and play the 5/10 min messages globally?
Thanks!!!
Matt - ke0ncp

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On Friday, December 31, 2021, 3:33 PM, Matt Holder <ke0ncp at yahoo.com> wrote:

It says it does but I must be running it wrong. 


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On Friday, December 31, 2021, 1:03 PM, Kevin Davis via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

Doesn't the playnews script already play a 10 and 5 minute warning?

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 9:09 PM "Matt Holder via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am trying to set up my node so that it does some global timed messages
> for the start of news line ARRL news across a node that I connect to. I
> have the news up and playing just fine but can’t seem to find out how to do
> the timed global messages. Any suggestions?
> Best,Matt - ke0ncp
>
>
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