Church bell app?

[JB]

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.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at 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.
> 
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