Zoomerang looks through your Google Calendar for upcoming telecons that you want to record. Then it posts the recording to a private podcast that your device is subscribed to.
Why? Because sleep is important and Australia's time zone sucks.
The Scheduler (scheduler.py) looks through my Google Calendar for upcoming
meetings that I want to record (by setting 'Zoomerang <MEETING_ID>' as the
location), then schedules a cron job to record that meeting.
It's a good idea to run the Scheduler each half hour to catch last minute
meeting invitations. There's a script in scripts/zoomerangscheduler that
will do that:
cp scripts/zoomerangscheduler /etc/cron.d/
chmod 600 /etc/cron.d/zoomerangscheduler
chown root:root /etc/cron.d/zoomerangscheduler
touch /etc/cron.d/
sudo service cron restart
Zoomerang (zoomerang.py) actually does the work. It will record a specified
meeting (e.g., a Zoom or regular teleconference call), and then post the
recording to a private Podcast that my phone checks daily for updates.
Your meeting doesn't have to be run through Zoom. It could be a regular telecon with some meeting ID number. To specify a non-Zoom meeting, you can give the conference phone number in your Calendar location:
- Zoomerang
<MEETING_ID>--phone-number[PHONE_NUMBER]
Any international number is allowed as long as you specify it in a sensible format. You can also specify how long you expect the meeting to run (in minutes):
- Zoomerang
<MEETING_ID>--duration 30
The default is 60 minutes.