Not sure if I can post this here or not. Apologies in advance if it's not of interest to anyone. I wrote a few python programs that convert useful text data from the internet into speech for playback on ASL. Probably only useful if you're in Canada (except the last one). The first one is wx.py which retrieves weather forecasts and current conditions from environment Canada; https://github.com/va3dxv/wx.py The second one is ontario511.py which grabs current road conditions from ontario511. This will require a bit of minor tweaking to an "if statement" to get it to grab your preferred roads/highways; https://github.com/va3dxv/ontario511.py The last one, bands.py fetches the current solar and estimated band conditions from hamqsl.com. HF only at the moment but I'll be working on adding the 6M/VHF estimations soon; https://github.com/va3dxv/bands.py These will all require an API key to api.voicerss.org (free for up to 350 requests a day). They also require your system has LAME and SOX installed for the audio conversion, as well as a couple of python modules. Add the scripts to the system/root crontab to grab the data and generate the audio once an hour or so, that way the sound file is always relatively fresh and can be played immediately with a DTMF command. Alternatively you can schedule the playback on your repeater at specific times. I'm not a programmer by any means, and pretty new to python, so I'm sure this can be done in a more elegant way... but this is what I came up with and I thought I'd share. Any comments, bugs or questions, please let me know. :) Thanks and Happy New Year