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Hourly Chime?
Hi folks,
[Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......] I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour. I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've been using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this function. Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc. Neil ¦¬D -- |
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Neil Turkenkopf wrote:
[Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......] I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour. I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've been using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this function. Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc. You could use the task scheduler. Set it to start on the hour, repeat every hour, and kill it after so many seconds. -- ....when the entire universe exploded into being out of soup... |
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On 05/13/2018 01:46 PM, Neil Turkenkopf wrote:
Hi folks, [Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......] I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour. I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've been using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this function. Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc. Neil ¦¬D I'm still using Rainlendar and don't have an issue with it. |
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"Auric__" wrote in message
15.223... Neil Turkenkopf wrote: [Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......] I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour. I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've been using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this function. Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc. =============================================== You could use the task scheduler. Set it to start on the hour, repeat every hour, and kill it after so many seconds. -- ....when the entire universe exploded into being out of soup... ================================================== === Thank you Auric! That sounds quite promising, but I have NO idea how to do that. Sorry! Neil ¦¬D -- |
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"Big Al" wrote in message news
On 05/13/2018 01:46 PM, Neil Turkenkopf wrote: Hi folks, [Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......] I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour. I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've been using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this function. Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc. Neil ¦¬D ================================================== ======= I'm still using Rainlendar and don't have an issue with it. ================================================ Hi Big Al! That's encouraging indeed, could you possibly explain how you did it? Thanks! Neil ¦¬D -- |
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"Neil Turkenkopf" wrote in
news Hi folks, [Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......] I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour. I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've been using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this function. Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc. Neil ¦¬D I use Clocksmith Lite. Unfortunately it does not allow one to provide their own wav file, but includes several different chimes to choose from. You might want to think about creating a small batch file to play the selected WAV/MP3, then uses task manager to schedule it to be executed every hour as desired. I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The only problem I can see would be finding an executable that will play the file without manifesting itself on screen. |
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Neil Turkenkopf wrote:
"Auric__" wrote in message 15.223... Neil Turkenkopf wrote: [Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......] I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour. I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've been using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this function. Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc. =============================================== You could use the task scheduler. Set it to start on the hour, repeat every hour, and kill it after so many seconds. Thank you Auric! That sounds quite promising, but I have NO idea how to do that. Sorry! Neil ¦¬D This shows a crude example. The Windows 10 Task Scheduler likely has some more options to make this easier. http://www.thewindowsclub.com/window...uler-play-song You can click the "enable all tasks history" for the duration of your experiments, so you can have some log information in there to look at. Later you can disable the status again, if you get bored of that information being collected. You can use the Action:Run in the example, to "test" the task execution and listen for the chime. That way, you won't have to wait an hour to hear a chime. Once the chime is heard and appears to work, then you can relax until the hour comes around and see if it chimes on its own. If it doesn't chime, you go back into Task Scheduler and check the history to see what error it threw during the run. The example doesn't show it, but you'll notice the program absolute path has double quotes on either end. The *argument* passed to wmplayer, may need double quotes around it to. The double quote rule applies to a lot of cases where the path has a space character in the name, and the double quote delineates where the string starts and ends. Some Windows utilities are smart enough to realize there is only one command line argument, and if the argument passed to them doesn't have a double quote, they assume all the input is intended for just one path variable. But adding double quotes can remove the ambiguity. "C:\a dumb program\some.exe" "C:\users\Pauls House\my chime.wav" The Task will likely run as SYSTEM account, giving the command lots of privileges. SYSTEM account is likely to be able to access your home directory and access the chime sound file when desired. You also have the option of using other account choices for running the command. Sometimes, this also involves the usage of a password (I haven't done that much Task Scheduler work, so maybe someone else can help with that part). Paul |
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