Music Alarm Script
A friend asked me to create a script that will play music for him in the morning when he wants to wake up. I used powershell and created something that works, for the most part. Testing it overnight had some bugs, looks like it didn’t want to wake up on its own. I need to work out the kinks…
$filepath = (get-location).Path
echo 'What time do you want to wake up? Example "00:00 AM". Enter Below:'
$userTime = Read-Host
clear
echo "Alarm Set for $userTime"
$song = Get-ChildItem -Path "$filepath\musicToPlay" -Include "*mp3" -Recurse
$timeWait = New-Timespan -End $userTime
Start-Sleep -s $timeWait.TotalSeconds
Add-Type -AssemblyName presentationCore
$song | foreach {
$wmplayer = New-Object System.Windows.Media.MediaPlayer
$timeNow = Get-Date -Format g
echo "The time is now $timeNow"
echo ("About to play: " + $_.Name)
$wmplayer.Open("$_")
Start-Sleep 2 # This allows the $wmplayer time to load the audio file
$duration = $wmplayer.NaturalDuration.TimeSpan.TotalSeconds
$wmplayer.Play()
echo ("Playing " + $_.Name + "......")
echo ("Duration == " + $duration)
Start-Sleep $duration
$wmplayer.Stop()
$wmplayer.Close()
}