schedule and terminate activity
 

Hi,

I would like to listen to a radio stream broadcast from the UK. The problem is that this a simple stream. There is no catch up facility. You have to listen from the stream as it is broadcast.

I am interested in a show broadcast 5am-7am my time. This straddles my wake up and “go to work” times. I am looking for suggestions on how to grab the stream at 5am and terminate 2 hours later or at 7am.

My first thought was to set off a cron job for 5am – wget the stream. Not sure how I would tell this to stop though as the stream is continuous.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Make a script to start the wget download to a file then put a sleep statement in it. Once the time has expired the script will exit and you should have your stream.

Edit: You may need a kill wget or something similar to stop it once the time has expired, now I think more on it.

Another option is to use cron or at to launch your downloader.

If you need either to launch a graphical program, then use the DISPLAY environment variable.

Then use another job for pkill.

Or precede it all with timeout and a time limit when the script is launched.

Thanks turbocapitalist.
Is exactly what I was looking for. I ran a couple of tests and it looks good so I have set up the cron job for tomorrow morning.

I'll report back then.

The joys of linux and learning :)

Yup, all good. Show received and being listened to now.

Thanks