old wall clock simulation

My parents have an old wind-up wall clock with a gong that strikes every hour. Last year I had recorded the sound of that clock. Yesterday when we changed the time in the US I decided to simulate that on my dockstar. I thought I will share this simple shell script with the nice folks on this forum.

My Debian dockstar is connected via USB sound card to a nice set of computer speakers (built-in power save mode) that are on 24/7. I am running this script with crontab on the top of the hour.

#!/bin/bash
# d is current time in 0-12 format in my time zone to count strikes
# e is current time in 0-24 format to keep it quiet at night
# 1strike is edited sound of a short strike
# strikend is a strike with sustain and some gear sound at the end
# for the effect
# I do 1strike.mp3 (d -1) times in a loop and then strikeend.mp3 at the
# end 

d=`TZ='YOUR TIME ZONE' date +%I`
e=`TZ='YOUR TIME ZONE' date +%H`

# added following to remove leading zero from date output like 09
let d=$(expr $d + 0)
let e=$(expr $e + 0)


 if [ "$e" -lt 23 ] && [ "$e" -gt 7 ]
 then
        for (( c=1; c<d; c++ ))
                do
                mpg123 -q -f 120 /home/metric/clock/1strike.mp3
                done
        mpg123 -q -f 120 /home/metric/clock/strikeend.mp3
 fi

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/11/2015 11:50PM by metric.

That's awesome. Upload the mp3 files also please.

add a hacked dpf to that with a clock face graphic output and there we have another use for an old pogoplug an alarm clock

:)

nice to see a fun use for a plug!

@JohnW, the sound is not all that great, just my memories of that particular clock. You can find better samples on the web, just search for clock sound effects. I also saw the big ben somewhere. I used audacity to further shorten the duration.

@Gravelrash, I agree, thanks to a post on this forum this dockstar is also running mpd server for internet radio stations and dlna renderer that plays music from another dockstar dlna server.

BTW I do not want to add a display because
1. it is tucked away with the speakers above a closet
2. It is fun when people hear the gong and start looking around for a clock.

> 2. It is fun when people hear the gong and start
> looking around for a clock.

:)) cool! thanks.

-bodhi
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