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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">I put a new version of playnews up on hamvoip.org in the howto section. It includes a request for playing now in console mode. This is useful if you want to get everything ready to play and manually hit a key to start it.<br><br><a href="http://hamvoip.org/downloads/playnews-0.6.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://hamvoip.org/downloads/playnews-0.6.tar.gz</a><br><br>Changes from 0.5<br><br> - If you enter "now" for the time it will download and process the files, skip the pre-warnings, wait for any key to be pressed and play the news.<br><br> - The node number must be entered.<br><br> - An optional last parameter L|G for local or global play can be entered. If omitted playback is global.<br><br>I recommend making a directory "playnews" in /etc/asterisk/local cd to that directory and untar the files there.<br><br>Rename playnews-0.6 to playnews once extracted.<br><br>If the files are not placed in /etc/asterisk/local/playnews you must specify the location in the VOICEDIR variable in the script.<br><br> v0.6 updates<br><br> - Now requires that all parameters be entered except<br> mode which defaults to global if not entered<br> - More parameter checking added<br> - Time can be set to "NOW" for immediate start<br><br> Command line format - playnews ARRL|ARN 21:00|NOW 40000 L|G<br> <br> Options are ARRL or ARN news, specific 24 hour time or "NOW"<br> and local "L" or Global "G" play modes.<br><br> DO NOT use the the "NOW" time parameter in a cron !!!<br><br id="FontBreak"></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Read the complete README file in the archive and also in the beginning of the script.</font><br><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</font></b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font> </div></body>
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