A couple years ago I hacked up randy's scripts to get the weather to work with allstar. I am redoing them now that the NWS went with the CAP protocol and zapped the RSS feed. before I completely re-invent the wheel has anyone else done this. Right now I am in grep sed hell . I am rewriting the scripts to go grab the weather the new way the NWS wants you to. its a hell of a mess right now. go get a url, part out a url go get that parse out text it's mostly working for one alert, but if there are more than one it gets really complex parsing that out. It does still get the current conditions and forecast still. sends it to cepstral for TTS and save them as ulaw for asterisk to play. If no one has done it can anyone chime in a help with the parsing. there is a perl module to do this but my perl-fu is weak! -- Don Russell, CBRE CBNT W9DRR - ARRL OES, Technical Specialist http://www.socialengineer.us