It's "A Simple Spoken Weather And News Clock" for your Raspberry Pi. Please feel free to take it, and do what you will with it. This project is the culmination of 3 separate projects, an overview can be seen here: https://youtu.be/-Or5jmBqsNE
this project hasn't been updated in a while but still worked as of Jan 2018
And see the details of each of the three parts.
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Alarm clock https://youtu.be/julETnOLkaU
required packages:
sudo apt-get install python-feedparser python-dnspython mpg123 festival
optional packages (not all commands will work in all environments):
For Ivona support:
sudo pip install pyvona
For pico2wave support (this does not work as of 2016/03/13, but may work in the future -- see below for alternate instructions)
sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils
YOU MUST USE RAMFS to avoid wear on your card and to enable Google Voice.
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/ram
echo "ramfs /mnt/ram ramfs nodev,nosuid,nodiratime,size=64M,mode=1777 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
sudo mount -aIf you wish to use Ivona voice from Amazon you must get a beta test account at:
https://www.ivona.com/us/account/speechcloud/creation/
- Open an account
- Generate credentials
- Put accesskey and secretkey in config file
and finally to set your alarm for 733AM Mon-Fri
crontab -e 33 7 * * 1-5 /home/pi/alarmpi/sound_the_alarm.py
Alternate install for pico2wave:
If you need to build it yourself don't worry, it's easy. I thieved most of these instructions from here. But that was written for wheezy and I found that it was a little trickier with jessie. Here we go:
First of all you need to open the file /etc/apt/sources.list and check it contains (the last line should be uncommented) the following lines:
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
deb-src http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpiThen as it says in the comment, do:
sudo apt-get update
Now, in the alarmpi project we are instructed to make a ramdrive and mount it on /mnt/ram -- I do a lot of my work here because it saves the SD card some wear and tear. This assumes that is already in place -- note that this should be mounted without the noexec option. Modify as you wish.
mkdir -p /mnt/ram/pico_build
cd /mnt/ram/pico_build
apt-get source libttspico-utils
cd svox-1.0+git*In your favorite editer, modify the file debian/control such that it no longer specifies the automake version. That is change the line that looks like this:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), automake1.11, autoconf, libtool, help2man, libpopt-dev, hardening-wrapper
So that it looks like this:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), automake, autoconf, libtool, help2man, libpopt-dev, hardening-wrapper
And save it. Then you can do this:
sudo dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i libttspico-data_*
sudo dpkg -i libttspico0_*
sudo dpkg -i libttspico-utils_*iThat should be it. Note that if you get a permission denied error, your /mnt/ram was mounted with the noexec option set in fstab. Build somewhere else.
You can test your install like this:
pico2wave -w test.wav "it works! "
aplay test.wavCheers!
- Thanks again to Michael Kidd for adding the config file and giving this project a real structure.
- Thanks also to Viktor Bjorklund for adding Ivona support.
- Thanks to Craig Pennington for adding pico2wave support and some housekeeping.
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