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[WeatherHost]

Two questions on your Severe Weather Alert script.


Could it be configured to play a .wav file when alerts are detected?  A different .wav file for each level of alert?

Can it be run locally on a PC or server rather than on a website?

[carterlake]

Oops... I wasn't logged in... so I wasn't seeing new posts...

You can program it to display any HTML you like... like HTML which plays a wav file. Yes.

The script is in PHP... so it behaves like PHP (server based, executed when the page loads).

I think what you're looking for is either a NOAA weather radio (mine works great!) or Interwarn.

Personally, I'd go with the radio.

[kray1000]

Could it be configured to play a .wav file when alerts are detected?  A different .wav file for each level of alert?

I do something similar.  If the output for the script is a warning, I play my Weather Underground NOAA weather stream.

Something like...

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if ($warning == '1') {
  $playradio = '1';
}

... you would then just need to add code to play the stream (like the embed tag in html)

[WeatherHost]

I think what you're looking for is either a NOAA weather radio (mine works great!)

Nope.  Got one of those also, but reception is flaky and warnings are sometimes delayed somewhat behind web based warnings.

Something like...

I don't know diddly 'bout no scriptin', so how would that look for a .wav file?  And do I need to run some local version of PHP?