GLaDOS@Home alarm clock

gladosalarm.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# READ FIRST
# This software poll HP2LY every 5 minutes and will play
# any ffmpeg supported file 20 times after 95%.
# To quit press Ctrl+C in Terminal.
# Closing ffplay would just respawn it.
#
# Dependency:
# Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
# Fedora: su -c 'yum install ffmpeg'
# Mac OS X: Install MacPorts and sudo ports install ffmpeg

song = r"~/stillalive.mp4"
percent = 95

import urllib, commands, os, sys, time
from json import loads

while True:
	p = urllib.urlopen("http://hasportal2launchedyet.com/data.json").read()
	json = loads(p)
	print "%s%% -- %s est. %s" % (
		json['overall'], 
		time.ctime(time.time() + json['glados']['endpoint']), 
		time.ctime(time.time() + json['estimate']['endpoint'])
	)
	if json['overall'] > percent:
		if sys.platform == "darwin":
			# Mac: set volume to max
			os.system("osascript -e 'set volume 7'")
		else:
			# Linux: set volume to max
			os.system("amixer sset 'Master' 36 31")
		for i in range(20):
			print commands.getoutput("ffplay '"+os.path.expanduser(song)+"'")
		break
	time.sleep(60*5)

Oops, forgot that json is not available in Python2.5 on Mac OS X.

Mac users: Please install Python 2.6 or later or run following commands
sudo ports install py25-setuptools
sudo easy_install simplejson
After that change line 17 to "from simplejson import loads" (without quotes)