Anyone use BBC Radio listen again programmes in their automations?

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I’ve been wondering if it’s possible to somehow setup an automation to play a particular programme I always miss (PM) later on in the evening?

Anyone doing this? Looks like a bit of a minefield due to the way the BBC streams work!

Might be something obvious I’m missing.

Possibly relevant/useful hardware?

  • I have a Roberts Revival iSTREAM (podcasts no longer work, only listen again)
  • I have an Airport Express
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because you need to log in to access the content I think it will be a bit challenging. Unless you can find a url for the stream that does not require login…

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youtube-dl can extract BBC IPlayer URLs without logging it, IIRC you only need to sign in for TV iplayer

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That looks pretty cool! On my iPhone I need to sign in for radio but maybe the script can bypass that? So somehow I need to setup I guess cron jobs then automations to start the programme playing. It’s a beginning! Thanks!

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@ioangogo so cool! Installed youtube-dl on my mac and fed it the url for the PM webpage and it seems to be happily downloading the 151mb audio file as I type…massively impressed.

Any tips on a workflow? I’ve got a couple of Raspberry Pi zeros and obviously the Pi my RiP2B HASS is installed on…I’d quite like to download the file on a daily basis and somehow pipe the result to my speakers at a given point in the evening…I guess I’m wondering about

  1. What device should do the downloading (SD card wear and tear being a big fear!)
  2. How could I pipe the audio file to my speakers? They have an Airport Express connected but I’m wondering if this might be a use case for a Mac Mini I have sat doing nothing…just power usage I guess…

Anyway this is a cool beginning! Thanks for the tip. I’d never have considered Youtube-dl because of its name!

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Hmmm, looks like Snapcast might be one way to use my Airport Express…?