On Sun, 12 May 2019 09:52:49 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> On Sun, 12 May 2019 01:15:07 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:
>
>> Thanks for reading and any further ideas.
>>
> If your Pi can play sound files, you can record a suitable alarm noise
> and have your timer script trigger a lightweight (command line) player
> to play it through alsa.
>
A further thought: has Supercollider - https://supercollider.github.io/
been ported to the RaspberryPi? If so, it could be used in two ways:

- use it in place of a command-line audio player
  (which might be severe overkill)

OR

- use it to generate your alarm audio clip.

Either way it looks like a fun thing to play with.


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