I know it's going to sound nuts, but I want to get my TS453Be to ring a bell at certain times of the day. I'm in Italy, and we are on lock-down, and the kids are being homeschooled. They want a bell to ring just like it does at school, so they know when to start and stop studying. I managed to do it on my PC, and they love it, but it's not a reliable system (sometimes I leave my headphones plugged in accidentally). I'm a fair basic-level NAS user, so I need a fair bit of help.
I have loaded a school bell wav file on the QNaP and managed to play it through the QNAP speaker - perfect. I just need a way to schedule this so it rings 6 times a day, Monday-Friday. Can someone please help me with some simple code I can add to the CRON file that will play a sound file through the QNAP speaker at certain time, repeated mon-fri? I think I can work out how to edit the cron file by reading on the forum, but I can't find anyone dumb enough to have already tried what I'm doing now.
An alternative route would be to send a command from my PC to the QNAP via Task Scheduler, but again, I need to know what to send and how...
Thanks!
Simon
The school bell!
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Re: The school bell!
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simonz21
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Re: The school bell!
Thanks Moogle, but that wasn't quite what I was after. However. Music STation has an alarm with lots of slots, and I've managed to get that working fine...just testing now! Works brilliantly!
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Re: The school bell!
Hi,
Can you please share how you can enable the alarm in music station? I have been trying to create morning alarm for myself to wake up with music but unable to do so yet. There is an app but it doesn't work reliably.
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simonz21
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Re: The school bell!
Sure, in Muiscstation 5 there is a little alarm clock icon top-right. clock on it and you can set any number of alarms that will play any music you like. hope this helps.