I am looking for some Automated Weather for my station. Does anyone know where I can find a program at?
-Travis
I use Zara to schedule it, and use the feed from www.pirateweather.com
The link you'd use would be:
http://audio.pirateweather.com/xxxxx.mp3
..but with your zipcode in place of the xxxxx.
It's voice synth, so it burbles a bit.. But it kinda grows on you after a while. Probably pretty amateur compared to what some use, but I've gotten used to it and have never had any listener reactions that weren't positive. I understand Zara can be set up to work with some weather application, but I haven't yet gotten to working into that myself.
I still haven't even gotten around to recording the times for zara. Any time I end up with acouple hours when the house is quiet and I'm in a recording mood, it always ends up being a song or story. LOL
But the weather from pirateweather is pretty good, even if the voice leaves a little to be desired.
Daniel
A program that works with ZaraRadio can be found HERE on my ZaraRadio links page.
When you get HERE click on the ZaraRadio 1.4 logo which takes you to My Yahoo Briefcase. When you get there, click on the ZaraRadio folder where you will find, amoung other things, the Weather Watcher installer.
ZaraRadio is updated with temperature and humidity from Weather Watcher. ZaraRadio can then be programmed to trigger voice files (also found on my links page) that announce the current stats.
If you have trouble opening My Briefcase, have patience. Sometimes you have to go back repeatedly and click on the link before it will open, something to do with their security setup.
There was a fellow who just posted up some nice time and temp files over at the Zara forums. Nice smooth English accent.
We switched to them and got some nice feedback.
I like the Pirateweather audio as well. We've used them for a while now.