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I have written this little Python script to listen to the BBC RSS Top Stories feed on my Raspberry Pi

So first of all because I have problems with the 3.5 mm Jack (no sound), I went into

sudo raspi-config

then in Advanced Options > Audio I chose "Force 3.5 mm ('headphone') jack"

(This always works for me)

So the jack configuration out of the way, let's check out the script:

# morning.py

import feedparser # To scrape the BBC Feed
import talkey # The TTS service I'll be using

d = feedparser.parse("http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml")
tts = talkey.Talkey(
    engine_preference=['espeak'],
    espeak={
        'deafults': {
            'words_per_minute': 100,
            'variant': 'f4',
       }
   }
)
for entry in d.entries:
    tts.say(entry.title + ":" + entry.summary)

I wanted the script to run at a specific time (morning) so I used Cron. This is what I typed in

crontab -e
0 8 * * * sudo python morning.py >/dev/null 2>&1 # inside crontab

(The morning.py script is located in the 'pi' directory.)

However the script will not run at the specified time for some reason.

(It runs perfectly without Cron though.)

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  • Have you try to specify full path to the files: /bin/sudo /bin/python /path/to/morning.py Commented Jan 24, 2017 at 10:06

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I had a lot of trouble with crontab Every time I have to edit the "crontab -e" I should declare: export EDITOR=vim That's why I put this in my ~/.bashrc file vim ~/.bashrc this contains the shortcuts you can check with alias -p #(here in a-b-c sort) Now to into your home directory

cd ~/ #or
cd

let it edit vith the vim-editor

vim .bashrc

push "G" => you'll come at the end of this file than write this in as following:"i"(insert mode); than type this in

alias e='export EDITOR=vim' # activated at the next Terminal session

If you are done hit "ESC" than save with ":wq" Enter

In this case the next terminal session (Ctrl+Shift+N) will know this shortcut. Just "e" and hit Enter and write in the command line

whereis python

Result something this: /usr/bin/python2.6 go to the paht where your "script.py" is, and let it to be executable

chmod +x myscript.py; # do not need a sudo;

or 

chmod 755 myscript.py; # do not need a sudo; you are the user

after that edit your "crontab -e" (as I know "crontab -l" is for sudo)

Just hit the "e" (this will activate your EDITOR to vim)

crontab -e
0 8 * * * /usr/bin/python2.6 ~/myfolder/morning.py >/dev/null 2>&1 # inside crontab

hope this will solve your project

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  • 0 8 * * * /usr/bin/python2.6 ~/myfolder/morning.py >/dev/null 2>&1 # inside crontab Commented Jan 26, 2017 at 6:46
  • Welcome to Unix Stackexchange! The formatting on this mesage makes it somewhat hard to read. I tried to edit it, but I am afraid that I will get something wrong. Can you please edit your post and highlight the code by either starting the line with 4 spaces or surrounding a keyword with the backward quote. Commented Jan 26, 2017 at 6:53
  • You was right, and to tell the truth I had no experience with formating regularly a post like this. Thank you informing me! Commented Jan 26, 2017 at 7:25
  • Well Done, that looks much better. Once again, welcome.and thank you for your contribution. Commented Jan 26, 2017 at 14:37

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