Church bell app?

[stephen barncard]

I think the extreme cheap-out solutions would be a disservice to the
client, especially with regard to reliability.

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*Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words*


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 3:46 AM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:

> 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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