I use www.melissadata.com, weather.yahooapis.com and Cepstral to give a current forecast for any 3,6,7 or 10 digit number you enter. The "built-in" asterisk sounds offer most of the information you would say; I generate whatever is "missing" (city names mostly) with Cepstral.
For your application, the best (IMO) strategy would be to have an AGI that is cronned to run every X minutes and "launch" a call when needed using AMI. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Seann Clark Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:05 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] AGI and Severe Weather Alerts All, I am toying with an idea of using an AGI to be able to 'call' my phone, or phones, in case of severe weather warnings. I have been tinkering with a script that reads from weather underground for the forecast, based off a PHP version of a weather AGI I found on the net. It seems rather trivial to have the AGI as a script, that does nothing unless a condition is met, and then call out, with a TTS synthesized read out of the warning, or error seen. I would like to know if anyone has done this before and what they used to get the warning for their area's. I haven't a very clear idea of how to parse properly XML data in either python or perl, but I have templates of what did work (until formats changed, StormSiren being a python module I used for sms). Also if I ever get anything to work, and anyone is interested I can share my code. Regards, Seann Clark -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users