Computer Alarm Clock

**Ponomous** · November 20th, 2008

So I keep seeing this in movies and im sure its possible but im just wondering if anyone has run into a program that does this or a few that do similar things.

I want to make my computer an alarm clock, ok easy, seen some programs,but i also want it to have a wake up message with weather notifications. so when the alarm went off it would have the music i want playing and then say "Good morning, The current time is 6:30 it is 70 degrees out, you have 20 unread messages" or something like that.

I think it will come down to mostly just recording the different numbers for the morning message but before i start a project like this Has anyone seen anything like this?

**lukjad** · November 20th, 2008

Ohh! I want that. Subscribing to this thread.

**eternalnewbee** · November 20th, 2008

Ohh! I want that. Subscribing to this thread.

Count me in, too.
EDIT: There is KAlarm in KDE.

**rolando2424** · November 20th, 2008

I have a simple bash script that is ran by a crontab job every morning to wake me up.

It calls the "beep" command, mostly because if I leave my columns (? I don't know if that's the correct term, I mean the things where the sound comes out) turned on for the night, they make a low background noise and I can't sleep.

To make the voices, you can use festival (I believe there are a few tutorials on that in this forum). You can try this to get you started:

Code:

echo "Today is thursday" | festival --tts

I could probably do something like this, (it would be a fun side-project), but I have two tests next week, and I should probably study for them

**Ponomous** · November 20th, 2008

Cool idea on festival, ill check that out.

**rolando2424** · November 21st, 2008

By the way, you could tell me a page to see the weather and what is the email you use (gmail, hotmail, etc.)

edit:

Otherwise, the script will turn into a very tiny

Code:

echo "Today is $(date '+%A'). The time is $(date '+%-H') and $(date '+%-M')" | festival --tts;

This says something like "Today is Thursday. The time is 23 and 16."

**elmer_42** · November 21st, 2008

Sleep.FM offers a browser-based wake-up you can set for multiple alarms, including a feature to wake up to the current time, date, and weather.

**voteforpedro36** · November 21st, 2008

Write a script to do it, use cron to execute the script when you want to wake up (I have a cronjob set to play music at 6:30 Monday through Friday).

**barbedsaber** · November 21st, 2008

I want an alarm, that plays music really loudly for wakeing up, but when you acknowledge it, it reduces the volume to listening volume, so you can start the day with some tunes.
after the first song, it would give temperature, outside windspeed, and humidity (Take THAT barometric pressure, noone likes you) and if it is overcast or not, and then actually say, shorts + longsleeve shirt.

then, go onto the next song, until its time to leave for school.
I can't write scripts to save my life, but a kid can dream.