Alarmclock is a node daemon intended to get events from a special "wake up calendar". All of the events in this calendar will trigger a player to start playing a random video from youtube. Those videos should directly begin with music and not with a long prelude.
The idea behind this project was born from a post on lifehacker showing a similar setup but without youtube integration and the standup meeting music project using a browser to play youtube videos at a specific time. As a Raspberry Pi has some caveats against flash (there is simply no flash) and I didn't managed to get it playing music from youtube using a browser I built in a workaround using youtube-dl and ffmpeg.
- At first get a Raspberry Pi and some speakers connected to it using 3.5" audio jack
- Install Raspbian "wheezy" on it
git clonethis repository in the home directory of thepiuser- Set up external depencies
- Create a calendar in your Google account
- Make this calendar global readable
- Add some events for your alarms in the calendar
- Configure the script by cloning
settings.json.disttosettings.jsonand editing it- The
calendar_idis provided by the 'calendar settings' page of google calendar - To get the
api_keyyou have to create a project at Google APIs console and enable calendar-api-access for it
- The
- Execute the
raspbian-setup.shscript to install depencies and create cron jobs, init-scripts, etc.