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…<\/p>\n
$filepath = (get-location).Path\necho 'What time do you want to wake up? Example \"00:00 AM\". Enter Below:'\n$userTime = Read-Host\nclear\necho \"Alarm Set for $userTime\"\n$song = Get-ChildItem -Path \"$filepath\\musicToPlay\" -Include \"*mp3\" -Recurse\n$timeWait = New-Timespan -End $userTime\n\nStart-Sleep -s $timeWait.TotalSeconds\n\nAdd-Type -AssemblyName presentationCore\n $song | foreach {\n $wmplayer = New-Object System.Windows.Media.MediaPlayer\n $timeNow = Get-Date -Format g\n echo \"The time is now $timeNow\"\n\n echo (\"About to play: \" + $_.Name)\n $wmplayer.Open(\"$_\")\n Start-Sleep 2 # This allows the $wmplayer time to load the audio file\n $duration = $wmplayer.NaturalDuration.TimeSpan.TotalSeconds\n $wmplayer.Play()\n echo (\"Playing \" + $_.Name + \"......\")\n echo (\"Duration == \" + $duration)\n Start-Sleep $duration\n $wmplayer.Stop()\n $wmplayer.Close()\n }\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}