daily-briefing

A personal morning briefing script that assembles weather, news, and media download summaries into a spoken TTS audio clip and pushes everything to ntfy.

What it does

Each run:

1. Weather — fetches current conditions and today's forecast from open-meteo, then generates a conversational report via Ollama
2. News — pulls yesterday's unread articles from FreshRSS (per category/label), summarises each category using a local Ollama model, and assembles a conversational spoken summary
3. Media — checks Sonarr and Radarr history for TV episodes and movies downloaded yesterday
4. Thought for the day — picks a quote from quotes.txt, rotating through the full list without repeating until all have been used
5. TTS — generates a WAV file using pocket-tts cloned from a Fern Brady voice sample
6. ntfy — sends a markdown text notification and a separate audio file attachment to the dailybriefing topic

Requirements

• Python 3.13
• curl, jq
• A running Ollama instance with a suitable model (default: qwen3.5:122b)
• A running FreshRSS instance with the Google Reader API enabled
• Running Sonarr and Radarr instances
• An ntfy server

Setup

./setup.sh

This creates a venv/, installs pocket-tts, and checks for required env files and the voice sample.

Voice sample

Place a WAV voice sample at:

voice_samples/fern_brady.wav

Environment file

Create a single briefing.env file in the project directory:

# ntfy
NTFY_BASE_URL=https://ntfy.example.com
NTFY_API_KEY=your-api-key

# Weather (open-meteo)
WEATHER_POSTCODE=SW1A1AA
WEATHER_LAT=51.5074
WEATHER_LON=-0.1278

# FreshRSS
FRESHRSS_URL=https://freshrss.example.com
FRESHRSS_USER=your-username
FRESHRSS_PASS=your-password

# Sonarr / Radarr
SONARR_URL=http://192.168.x.x:8989
SONARR_API_KEY=your-sonarr-api-key
RADARR_URL=http://192.168.x.x:7878
RADARR_API_KEY=your-radarr-api-key

# Ollama (optional overrides)
# OLLAMA_URL=http://192.168.x.x:11434
# OLLAMA_MODEL=qwen3.5:122b

Running

./daily-briefing.sh

Typically scheduled as a cron job or systemd timer each morning.

Files

File	Description
daily-briefing.py	Main script
daily-briefing.sh	Wrapper that runs the script inside the venv
setup.sh	One-time setup script
test-media.sh	Standalone test for Sonarr/Radarr fetching
quotes.txt	Pool of quotes for "thought of the day"
unused_quotes.txt	Remaining quotes not yet used (auto-managed)
quote_history.json	Log of which quote was used on which date (auto-managed)
voice_samples/	Voice WAV samples for pocket-tts