A good Heavy Duty 15 amp home timer. Intermatic-DT620-Indoor-Digital-Plug-In
Don’t use the manual switch with a heavy load. It seems to shorten the life. John Balgenorth On Aug 22, 2014, at 1:58 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It plays from a selection of pre-recorded music (and I think it can add >> more). >> >> The very simple solutions won't work; it needs to, for example, go off >> every day at 6. >> > Used early model MacMini via eBay - $50-$100 > > Used AKAI LPK25 Midi Controller Interface Keyboard via eBay = $30 > > Garageband - Free. > > Start it up, select a 'Keyboard' project, from there you can select > 'Mallets' which include both Aurora and Church Bells. > > Have some talented person play away to their hearts content - should > be able to record several thousand hours of continuous music on an > average old Mac HD. > > Save best renditions from Garageband to mp3 > > Start iCal (if your unlucky and have a new Mac it might have Calendar > installed in which case UPGRADE it by installing an earlier version of > OS X like Snow Leopard that comes with the much more useful iCal) and > create an Event 'Ring Church Bells' at 6:15 and have it repeat every > day*. Set it's alarm to 15** mins before and have it "Open file" > selecting the church bell mp3 file of your choice***. > > If possible plug the headphone jack straight into the amp Aux inputs - > need a 3.5mm to RCA adapter cable. A couple of dollars at RadioShack. > If this isn't possible, a 1st generation Airport Express with AirPlay > (eBay <$40) will allow you to wirelessly stream the music from the Mac > to the Amplifier. > > If power consumption is a problem a basic home timer could be set to > turn the amp on from 5:45 to 6:15. > > * Obviously you are not limited to a once a day event. You can create > alarms for every hour, 1/2 hour, or whatever. > > ** You will need to set the Mac to start and autostart iTunes each day > at 5:55 and make sure the Mac is not set to go to sleep inside 15min > of inactivity, otherwise, if iTunes isn't already running there will > be a noticeable delay waiting for iTunes to start or the computer to > wake up. > > *** You could create 7 different events, one for each day, repeated > weekly, and choose a different mp3 file for each day of the week. You > could create special alarms for specific holidays and seasons and play > specific files appropriate for those events. > > Discounting the time spent in bidding wars on eBay, it should take > about an hour to set up. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
