BavariaBeats News

These script are responsible for playing the news at BavariaBeats. To use this script you will need the file refresh_news.sh and the program rss-folder

refresh_news.sh

This script fetches the news from an Onlineservice called jingel-service.de . You have to call it periodically e.g. a cronjob so that the news get updated. The script does have two variables:

• SAVE_FILE_PATH: here you give the path where the downloaded mp3 files should be saved.
• DOWNLOAD_LINK: Here you enter the "direct download link" you got from jiingel-service.de On execution the script is fetching a news file from the service and saves it as "news($date).mp3" in the "audio" folder. Then the script calls the rss-folder program, the program binary must be placed in the workdir of the script.

Access the news with Libretime

The folder SAVE_FILE_PATH where the downloaded mp3s and the rss-folder's feed.rss are stored must be accessible through the internet. You may want to add some Http-Basic-Authentication.

Then you can add the url to the folder (depending on your domain and webserver-config) as a Podcast to LibreTime. Depending on your server you need to change the lines 11-13 in the refresh_news.sh script.

How to configure LibreTime to play the latest news-episode can be found in this Video LibreTime 101: How to schedule a podcast to play the newest episode on an automatic basis mirror

Exsample cron entry

Download a new news file every morning at 3:40

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  * user-name  command to be executed
  40 3  *  *  * root /usr/bin/bash /opt/libretime/radiobav-news/refresh_news.sh