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Raspberry Pi as a break "alarm"

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Hi.

 

We have a customer at work that has a broken system for the announcing the breaks for it's employees.

It is as simple as making a ringing sound at certain times a day.

 

I would have no problem getting this to work with a Windows PC, but that seems a bit excessive image

 

I know this would be possible with a RPI, but i don't know where to even begin.

The sound will be played on a system that is being fed with a simple mini-jack cable.

 

I would say i'm an advanced beginner with the Pi's.
I have used them as airplay devices, Kodi and some retropie.

 

I hope that someone can help me image

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  • Hi all.

     

    I created a thread on another forum as well and i got basically the same answer image

     

    I think I got it made now.

     

    I've installed raspian.

    Chosen correct timezone in raspi-config, and disabled the gui.

    Used crontab to play a sound at the times it's needed.

     

    Which command do i use to get the Pi to sync with the NTP server with crontab? i could that an daily event to make sure the time is right.

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  • Hi all.

     

    I created a thread on another forum as well and i got basically the same answer image

     

    I think I got it made now.

     

    I've installed raspian.

    Chosen correct timezone in raspi-config, and disabled the gui.

    Used crontab to play a sound at the times it's needed.

     

    Which command do i use to get the Pi to sync with the NTP server with crontab? i could that an daily event to make sure the time is right.

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