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The attached pets are intended for use with EASY OS Kirkstone64 5.0, & 5.1, to 5.8.4 & the Scarthgap series.
They are similar to the pets that are available for WoofCE OSs but more sophisticated as in those
the spoken greeting is supplemented by a splash message which is always in English.

In this implementation the translated spoken welcome is supplemented by a splash
message containing the whole of the spoken translation. This is handy if audio
is muted for some reason. e.g. External amp and speakers not powered up or disconnected.
There is no Covid advice in this version.
All deps are satisfied in Easy OS

Installation:

1. Install the pet having first uninstalled any previous version.

2. Restart X twice. The welcome will trigger after the 2nd restart.

A one minute video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6uYMRj5EVg

EDIT: Additional Notes:
A: By default one is greeted by the name "Earthling" but you can change that to any moniker you desire.
To do so open up the main script [ /root/noob/startup_welcome_alarm ].
Line 13 reads as follows: cognomen="Earthling"
Change Earthling as you see fit. e.g. cognomen="Harry"

B: It is also possible to have the welcome spoken in a language other than whatever you have the OS running in.
To view a list of > 100 possibilities open up a terminal, go full screen and then type

trans -R

C: Yet another possibility is that the text to be spoken need not be written in English. So you for example, may be
running the OS in English with the text to be translated written in German but spoken & displayed in French.

Hi, @ETP.

Change Earthling as you see fit. e.g. cognomen="Harry"

Can we change the voice from a woman to a man?

@bugnaw333
Only with a large dose of hormones

Hi, @ETP.

This is the welcome note I'm getting after I upgraded to 5.1

Hi @bugnaw333

Thanks for your report. I note that in 5.1 Barry has changed the /etc/DISTRO_SPECS file
which means that my script needs changing. I will issue a pet for 5.1 on Monday,

To get things working properly again now, open up the file /root/noob/startup_welcome_alarm.sh
and modify line 10 to read as follows so that DISTRO_NAME becomes DISTRO_NAME_LONG

os=`grep DISTRO_NAME_LONG /etc/DISTRO_SPECS | cut -d "'" -f 2`

On another note, the version of IP TV Panel in 5.1 is 2023MK1 which is now out of date.
Just install the latest 2023MK3 version to get all 10 channels working.
The youtube-dl version included in 5.1 does not need to be changed.

Mon 20th March 2023

Please see original post in this thread for new pet suitable for EasyOS 5.0, & 5.1, to 5.6.7
It accommodates a change to the DISTRO_SPECS file within EasyOS.

UPDATE:

On 10th Sept 2024 Barry released EasyOS64 Scarthgap version 6.3 with expanded support for the Chinese language.

The 2023MK3.pet in the first post of this thread can handle that with a couple of minor changes to the script which
if installed is located at /root/noob/startup_welcome_alarm.sh

Change lines 33 and 34 to read as follows:

lang=zh-CN # Uncomment for testing only & comment out the following line.
#lang=`echo $LANG | cut -d_ -f1`

The result of so doing can be viewed in this 1 minute video: https://youtu.be/Nvi0XNgV-9s