Hello everyone,
I’ve been learning applescript by jumping right into the flames of it. I’m working on the whole “Project Jarvis” idea.
I’ve found scripts online and changing parts here and there to see how it works and performs. Its gone pretty well so far. It will wake me up, tell me the forecast, & play an itunes playlist. Here it what i have completed:
tell application "iTunes"
activate
set the sound volume to 60
play the playlist ("Good Morning")
end tell
property oldrandnum : missing value
set greetings to {"Good Morning, it's time to wake up", "Rise and Shine", "This is the day that the Lord has made", "Get up, it's going to be a great day!"}
set countgreetings to length of greetings
repeat
set randnum to random number from 1 to countgreetings
if oldrandnum is missing value or (randnum ≠oldrandnum) or (countgreetings = 1) then
set oldrandnum to randnum
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
set greeting to item randnum of greetings
say greeting using "Serena"
-- Tells me the date
set mydate to date string of (current date)
say "Today is " & mydate using "Serena"
set mydate to month of (current date)
set myday to day of (current date)
set mymonth to month of (current date)
set myhour to get the (hours of (current date)) as string
set myminutes to get the (minutes of (current date)) as string
set pre to "AM"
set myhour to hours of (current date)
set myminutes to minutes of (current date)
if (myhour > 12) then
set myhour to (myhour - 12)
set pre to "PM"
end if
say "it is now" & (myhour as string) using "Serena"
say (myminutes as string) using "Serena"
say pre
tell application "Safari"
activate
delay 2
tell application "Safari" to open location "http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Oklahoma+City+OK+73119:4:US"
--this is the city code. Search the code for your city on http://weather.yahoo.com/
set CityCode to 2464592
--temperature format
set t_format to "F"
--voiceover format
set v_format to "S"
--say present condition
set a_format to "Y"
set IURL to "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=" & CityCode
--downloading the file using curl
set file_content to (do shell script "curl " & IURL)
--looking for the line with actual condition
set theText to text ((offset of "yweather:condition" in file_content) + 1) thru -1 of file_content
set sub_1 to text ((offset of "\"" in theText) + 1) thru -1 of theText
--today conditions found
set actual_condition to text 1 thru ((offset of "\"" in sub_1) - 1) of sub_1
--looking for actual temperature temperature
set sub_1a to text ((offset of "temp=" in sub_1)) thru -1 of sub_1
set sub_1b to text ((offset of "\"" in sub_1a) + 1) thru -1 of sub_1a
set actual_temp to text 1 thru ((offset of "\"" in sub_1b) - 1) of sub_1b
if t_format is equal to "C" then
set actual_temp to (5 / 9) * (actual_temp - 32) as integer
end if
--looking for today forecast
set theText to text ((offset of "yweather:forecast" in file_content) + 1) thru -1 of file_content
set sub_2 to text ((offset of "\"" in theText) + 1) thru -1 of theText
--maximum and minimum temperatures found
set today_min_temp to word 9 of sub_2
set today_max_temp to word 12 of sub_2
if t_format is equal to "C" then
set today_min_temp to (5 / 9) * (today_min_temp - 32) as integer
set today_max_temp to (5 / 9) * (today_max_temp - 32) as integer
end if
--looking for today forecast condition (a bit tricky)
set sub_3 to text ((offset of "text" in sub_2) + 1) thru -1 of sub_2
set sub_4 to text ((offset of "\"" in sub_3) + 1) thru -1 of sub_3
set today_forecast to text 1 thru ((offset of "\"" in sub_4) - 1) of sub_4
--looking for tomorrow forecast
set sub_5 to text ((offset of "yweather:forecast" in sub_4) + 1) thru -1 of sub_4
set sub_6 to text ((offset of "\"" in sub_5) + 1) thru -1 of sub_5
--maximum and minimum temperatures found
set tomorrow_min_temp to word 9 of sub_6
set tomorrow_max_temp to word 12 of sub_6
if t_format is equal to "C" then
set tomorrow_min_temp to (5 / 9) * (tomorrow_min_temp - 32) as integer
set tomorrow_max_temp to (5 / 9) * (tomorrow_max_temp - 32) as integer
end if
--looking for tomorrow forecast condition (a bit tricky)
set sub_7 to text ((offset of "text" in sub_6) + 1) thru -1 of sub_6
set sub_8 to text ((offset of "\"" in sub_7) + 1) thru -1 of sub_7
set tomorrow_forecast to text 1 thru ((offset of "\"" in sub_8) - 1) of sub_8
say "Outside it is, " & actual_condition & ", and " & actual_temp & " degrees " using "Serena"
if v_format is equal to "L" then
say "Today: " & today_forecast & ". Temperature: between " & today_min_temp & " and " & today_max_temp & " degrees.
Tomorrow: " & tomorrow_forecast & ". Temperature: between " & today_min_temp & " and " & today_max_temp & " degrees" using "Serena"
else
say "The Weather today in Oklahoma City will be: " & today_forecast & ", between " & today_min_temp & " , and " & today_max_temp & " degrees.
Tomorrow: " & tomorrow_forecast & ", between " & tomorrow_min_temp & " ,and " & tomorrow_max_temp & " degrees" using "Serena"
end if
tell application "iTunes"
set the sound volume to 70
delay 1
set the sound volume to 80
delay 1
set the sound volume to 90
delay 1
set the sound volume to 100
end tell
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "f" using {control down, command down}
end tell
delay 2
end tell
All of this works well for me, but there are some things Im trying to add and Im hoping to get some help.
Im wanting to have it tell me how many new messages I have in my outlook inbox. I can get it to return the number, but when I add conditions to it (if unread count is greater than 0 then say “You have # of messages”) it returns with an error or ignores it completely.
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
get unread count of mail folder "inbox"
say "Bryon you have (unread count) new messages this morning" using "Serena"
end tell
I also would like to set something up to ping the static ip address of my iPhone so it will tell when my phone shows up on the network, or when I come home. I know how to get it to ping, but where my mind is going numb is on figuring out how to set it up to ping until it finds it, tells me Welcome home, you sexy beast (or something to that effect 
) and then ping until the phone leaves and then starts over. Obviously I need it to continue pinging the ip, but i dont want it to continue to tell me welcome home.
third issue is the saying the RSS feed. I know there has been a lot written on this, but I just cant seem to get anywhere with the parsing and reading of the text. The feed Im trying to get it to read is http://www.biblegateway.com/usage/votd/rss/votd.rdf
another issue is getting it to tell meif I have any Facebook notifications.
Finally, I’m wondering if there is anyway to send a text using applescript? Our home alarm system can be set or disarmed by using text messaging. i would like to add it to my script to set the alarm system to home at night and when running the Good morning Script, it will disarm it automatically.
I know I have thrown a lot out there and I’m going to continue to work through these issues on my own, but if some of you experts could jump in and give me some help, I would greatly appreciate it!!
Bryon <><