[Asterisk-Users] festival text for weather report

[Ernie Ankele]

Dean, No problem, Its actually what I am already using. I just finally 
got around to answering the email.
Glad you got it all figured out.
Ernie

On Feb 17, 2005, at 4:07 PM, dean collins wrote:

> Hi Ernie,
> Man I hope you didn't write all of that for me, I feel really bad now, 
> someone posted to the list about 15 mins after I posted with the 
> solution lol- I've already been playing with it for hours working out 
> what other sites I can get it to read from as well.
>
> Thanks anyway - good practive I guess.
>
> I'm modifying the festival wikki page once I work out how.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dean
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ernie 
> Ankele
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:39 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] festival text for weather report
>
> Dean,
> Here is a rough starting point for you.
> Put this into your /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/  directory. I used the
> name getforecast. (Change the ZIP code info, line 29) and make it
> executable.
> <<< - FILE BEGIN ->>>
> #!/bin/bash
> # I grab the data from asterisk even though I don't use it
> while read -e ARG && [ "$ARG" ] ; do
>          array=(` echo $ARG | sed -e 's/://'`)
>          export ${array[0]}=${array[1]}
> done
>
> checkresults()
> {
>          while read line
>          do
>          case ${line:0:4} in
>          "200 " ) echo $line >&2
>                  return;;
>          "510 " ) echo $line >&2
>                  return;;
>          "520 " ) echo $line >&2
>                  return;;
>          *      ) echo $line >&2;;
>          esac
>          done
> }
> # answer the line and give some preliminary feedback
> echo "ANSWER "
> checkresults
> echo "STREAM FILE national-weather-service \"\" "
> checkresults
> # Grab the forecast info page -- 80003 is MY zipcode, CHANGE TO YOUR
> ZIPCODE!
> tempstr=` curl -s "http://weather.toolbot.com/?where=80003&RSS" `
> # Cleanup the results, get rid of html tags etc. (Could probably be
> condensed)
> tempstr=` echo $tempstr | sed 's:<?.*&lt;h3&gt;::g' | sed 's:=&lt.*$::'
> | sed 's:&lt;br /&gt;:~:g'|\
>          sed 's:&lt;[br /h3]*&gt;::g' | sed 's:nbsp;: :g' | sed
> 's:&amp;::g' | sed 's:mph:miles per hour:g' `
> # Create 'EOF' Mark in tempstr
> tempstr=`echo $tempstr "~XOX" `
> # Loop through string, echoing to file, convert to wave, speak them,
> etc.
> until [ "$tempstr" == "XOX" ]
> do
>          lineout=`echo $tempstr | cut -f1 -d"~" `
>          echo $lineout > /tmp/linetospeak.txt
>          text2wave -f 8000 -o /tmp/forecastline.wav 
> /tmp/linetospeak.txt
>          echo "STREAM FILE /tmp/forecastline \"1\""
>          checkresults
>          tempstr=` echo $tempstr | cut -f2- -d"~" `
> done
> echo "STREAM FILE goodbye \"\""
> checkresults
> rm /tmp/linetospeak.txt
> rm /tmp/forecastline.wav
> echo "HANGUP "
> checkresults
> <<<- FILE END ->>>
>
> I have the following in my extensions.conf:
> exten => 2996,1,Answer
> exten => 2996,2,wait(1)
> exten => 2996,3,agi,getforecast
> exten => 2996,4,Hangup
>
> I'm not sure how you enter the extension.conf in asterisk at home.
>
> NOTE: I am still LEARNING shell scripting & AGI, so the above may be
> kind of hack-ish. Helpful suggestions/advice very welcome!
> Ernie Ankele
>
> On Feb 16, 2005, at 9:24 PM, dean collins wrote:
>
>> http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/productviewnation.php?
>> pil=OKXZFPOKX&version=0
>>
>>  
>>
>> can anyone suggest how I could set up asterisk at home to read out
>> allowed the following text when I dial extension 850?
>>
>>  
>> 815 PM EST WED FEB 16 2005
>>  
>> .OVERNIGHT...MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS 30 TO 35. NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 20
>> MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH...DIMINISHING TO 10 TO 15 MPH LATE.
>> .THURSDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. COOLER WITH HIGHS AROUND 40. NORTHWEST
>> WINDS AROUND 15 MPH.
>> .THURSDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. WEST WINDS
>> AROUND 15 MPH.
>> .FRIDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY AND BRISK. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST
>> WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
>> .FRIDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY AND BRISK. LOWS AROUND 17. NORTHWEST
>> WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>> There's $20 via paypal to the first person to help me complete this
>> (I'll then post it on the the wiki so anyone can replicate it)
>>
>> (anyone wanting to add to that bounty email me)
>>
>>  
>>
>> Also if it is not too difficult I'd like it to skip to the next block
>> each time you press '1' (eg go from overnight to Thursday)
>>
>>  
>>
>> Also it doesn't need to be this particular web page that it connects
>> to but something with current weather etc.
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dean
>>
>>  
>> _______________________________________________
>> Asterisk-Users mailing list
>> Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
>> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>