Beep frequency and duration for shutdown and starting please

[shafiqrahman]

Like to recreate the mikrotik shutdown single boot and starting dual beep through a script. If anyone know the frequency and duration, I will very much appreciate it.

[BartoszP]

Simple search with your favourite search engine gives: Scripting - RouterOS - MikroTik Documentation, however less and less devices have buzzers to emit sound.

[shafiqrahman]

search engines dont work anymore. Not looking for the script. Looking for the frequency and time duration.

[Amm0]

I have a script, $PIANO, that lets you play various tones using :beep. What you "play" using the onscreen keyboard will be output as a command that can be used in a script.

$PIANO - interactive "player piano" & studio-quality recorder using :beep

Another thread gave me an idea for a “interactive piano” using /terminal/inkey. It got more complex than I intended… But essentially everything that’s played is saved to an array & played. A status bar shows the current octave, note length, last note played — even a “tape counter” for recording length. The help should explain most things, so here is a screenshot: [image] To use it, you need to either cut-and-paste the following script, or add it to /system/script etc as desired. To invok…

[shafiqrahman]

I set my router to reboot at 0000hr. So, the shutdown and starting/booting sound kinda became nostalgic and household thing to me. Trying to recreate that. Need to reschedule the time. I can write the script though. But thanks for the piano script though.

[BartoszP]

@shafiqrahman

search engines dont work anymore.

You have just "killed" Google/Bing/Yahoo/Yandex/.... could you elaborate please?

[shafiqrahman]

search engine doesn’t yield that much, that it was used too. Before it was 10-12 pages of results, now in some cases its just 1-2 pages. I already did searched the starting beep frequency and duration.

[optio]

Scripting - RouterOS - MikroTik Documentation - 6th row in global commands table

[holvoetn]

I think OP is looking for exact frequency and length...

[optio]

Of which tone? It is easy to test by executing command from terminal with some frequency and duration like 1000/200ms, and set in script which one sounds best for need.

[CGGXANNX]

I just used this Android app FrequenSee - Spectrum Analyzer - Apps on Google Play and did some test on my old hEX RB750Gr3. The beep sound played at reboot appears to have a frequency of 5 kHz. I've then confirmed with:

for i from=1 to=100 do={ :beep; :delay 1; }

and

for i from=1 to=100 do={ :beep frequency=5000; :delay 1; }

that the default :beep frequency is 5 kHz too. The spectrum also looks exactly like the one at shutdown/reboot.

Also, after some tests with:

for i from=1 to=10 do={ :beep; :delay 1; :beep length=0.05; :delay 1; }
for i from=1 to=10 do={ :beep; :delay 1; :beep length=0.10; :delay 1; }
for i from=1 to=10 do={ :beep; :delay 1; :beep length=0.20; :delay 1; }

The duration of the standard :beep is most probably 100 ms.

This reproduces the "reboot" experience:

:beep frequency=5000 length=0.1; 
:delay 5; 
:beep frequency=5000 length=0.1; 
:delay 0.2; 
:beep frequency=5000 length=0.1; 

Please note that the :beep command returns immediately while the sound is still playing, so with :delay 0.2; the real silence between the two beeps is only 100 ms!

[patrikg]

Is this Defined in RouterBoot ? So we can't get it from the default config.
I think there some command to save the default config to a file, and then get it.

/system/default-configuration/print file=default

[jaclaz]

@carter_james

If nobody has the exact numbers handy, here are some practical starting values you can try and tweak:

• Shutdown (single beep): ~1000 Hz for 100–150 ms (one short tone).
• Startup (dual beep): two short tones, e.g. 1000 Hz for 120 ms, gap ~80 ms, then 1000 Hz for 120 ms.

It is interesting how you post an example with 1000 Hz only two posts below the one by CGGXANNX that actually measured it as being 5000 Hz, specifically on a RB750Gr3.

Even if we allow for some tolerance for the measuring tools, something measured as 5000 Hz may be something between 4500 and 5500, certainly not 1000.

[Amm0]

Taking a step back here...

1. AFAIK RouterOS (really RouterBOOT) still defaults to beeping on startup/shutdown, so IDK how someone gets into this situation. But not all devices have beepers, so :beep does nothing if there is no beeper. And the beep behavior, on device with beeper, by /system/routerboard/settings/set silent-boot=<yes|no>

2. In no case could config/scripting "mimic" the shutdown beep, since there is no "on-shutdown" event hook. Now a startup beep could be done in scheduler.

[jaclaz]

On non-beeper devices it reminds the sound of clapping with one hand ...

[holvoetn]

Can be done, though. Quiet but it does make sound.
Or snapping the fingers.
All one-handed.

[CGGXANNX]

If I understood it correctly, the OP used to have a router with beeper that was normally rebooted at midnight. And now he/she no longer has a router with beeper, misses that sound at midnight, and now wants to write a script (probably running on a PC or another non MikroTik device) that emits the sound at the exact time everyday.

[shafiqrahman]

@optio already checked and used that on a script. @holvoetn you are spot on. @CGGXANNX that a great effort. But @patrikg config doesnt contain anything regarding the beep. 1000 Hz , definitely not the frequency. Already tested 1 khz. Probably, in 5k range as @CGGXANNX mentioned, will test and report back. I still using a hap ac Mikrotiks are hard to get or expensive, there even replicas in my locality. For a home router I still haven’t still exploited it full features yet. Besides its the only device with 3X3 MUMIMO.

[optio]

There is also DIY “beeper” in topic serial-MP3-player Catalex YX6300 for RBM33G or other RB with serial port for devices without beeper

[shafiqrahman]

So, far 5KHz is the frequency tested . timing needs some fine tuning though.