[icon-discuss] Re: Your Braille+/iCon Can be a NOAA WeatherRadio
- From: "Teri and Randy" <teripierson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:19:53 -0500
thanks Michael, its really cool.
Randy.
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From: "MICHAEL MCCARTY" <mmccarty@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 1:10 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Your Braille+/iCon Can be a NOAA WeatherRadio
These weather stations can be rather spiratic in nature. They are often ran
by volunteer groups and are not at the best streaming rates. I wouldn't
worry about it, I don't think this is an issue with your unit, just a bad
connection between your internet provider and the streaming audio source.
Afternoons are often the worse time to try to stream audio or video. Try it
again later this afternoon or evening and I'll bet things will be better.
teripierson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 04/11/08 02:04PM >>>
Hi,
I first started the stream for my city and it played very well. I then
saved it as weather.m3u and dropped it in to a folder called weather. I
clicked on the file, the player loaded and the stream now is very
intermittent. My signal is at between 90 and 100%. Any ideas? Thanks in
advance.
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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:38 AM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Your Braille+/iCon Can be a NOAA Weather Radio
Hi. Here's another cool idea, and this works with the PAC Mate so if the
Icon can stream either Windows Media Audio or MP3 then you'll love this!
Check out and download ORB from http://www.orb.com onto your PC and set it
up. Now using your Icon you can access all your files and music, videos,
and even television on the Internet or even your home tv from anywhere in
the world for free! If anyone has more questions please let me know, but
Orb rocks!
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From: "MICHAEL MCCARTY" <mmccarty@xxxxxxx>
To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <icon-beta@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 5:23 AM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Your Braille+/iCon Can be a NOAA Weather Radio
Here's a cool idea. Load the browser of your Braille+/iCon and go to
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/streamaudio.htm and look for your city in the
list of online NOAA stations. When you find it, click on the link for
your city. If you are prompted to either 1, open the file or 2, save the
file, choose 1.
The Braille+/iCon will respont that "the file will be open after it has
been downloaded" and your audio player should load. After a second or two
the NOAA Weather Station for your area should start playing.
Now this is cool, but lets take this one step further.
Close your audio player and return to the browser.
Click on the same link you were just listening to, but this time choose 2.
Save the file on your hard drive in whatever folder you wish. Be sure to
change the filename to reflect something useful that you'll be able to
find. Many filenames from this site look something like this:
louisville.mp3.m3u
Leave the .m3u on the end of the file, but change the rest to whatever you
wish.
When you have that done, navigate to the file you saved and click on it.
With any luck, your audio player will load and you should hear the NOAA
Weather Station for your area. Now, anytime you want weather information,
its available. Just turn on the wireless and click on this file.
I have tested most of these links and have found that the Braille+/iCon
can play most of them. There are a few that play direct from a browser,
these will NOT play with the Braille+iCon. Many cities have an alternate
link, if the first one doesn't work, try this one.
Man this device rocks!
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