[arm-allstar] Weather alert ideas/concepts to pass along

[stanley stanukinos]

Mike, I think this is doable today. You would hook the weather radio to the pie and take the activation output signal and connect it to one of the pie inputs. You would need to create a script that sensed the state change from no alert to alert and back to no alert. Once that was done scripts would need to be written to connect to the other nodes and then disconnect when the announcement ended. 
The only issue you have is what do you do with the connections that are in place on the other nodes when your wether alert goes out. To my knowledge there is no way to easily break the connections to a large group of nodes and then put it back into the state it was prior. 
If your plan is to have all the nodes connected all the time to one hub then it becomes easier. Have your wether alert node connect and disconnect from it. 
I will stay out of the rest of the discussion on legalities of this as well. 

Stan

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> On Mar 8, 2020, at 8:29 AM, Mike Sullivan via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> Had a wild idea in my insomnia-filled thoughts tonight.. while I am aware
> of Autosky, and I am also aware of the argument of the legalities of
> rebroadcasting NOAA Weather Radio over the air, we have a weather radio set
> up on our repeater to alert on Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado
> watches/warnings only. I'd rather have it and not need it, than for someone
> to need it and it not be there.. if that makes sense.
> 
> That being said, I'm curious of the possibilities of using Allstar to be
> able to send out weather alerts to one, or multiple repeaters.
> 
> Here's the situation: You have one or more repeaters covering a specific
> area/county on Allstar. You also have a NOAA Weather Radio or similar
> device constantly monitoring as a separate node on your Pi. NOAA sends out
> an alert, the software decodes the SAME transmission and matches the code
> to the county (or counties) and repeaters covered by that county. In doing
> so, it automatically connects to the repeater, keys up, and begins passing
> the traffic from the weather radio. Once finished, it will unkey and
> disconnect from that repeater.
> 
> I know, that sounds like a far fetched idea. Most operators already have
> another means of notification from the NWS (weather radio etc) you may
> never know. I'm sure someone would be up to the challenge.
> 
> On another, but related subject, we quit using Autosky because of the very
> limited scope of information that is passed along. Yes, it lets you know
> there is a watch/warning/etc but does not give any specifics (timeframe,
> area the alert is for, etc). It would be nice to have an Autosky 2.0 which
> reads the alert from the NWS and announces it over the repeater the same as
> the weather radio does.
> 
> I'm mainly posting this to generate discussion on the idea. I'm not saying
> it's a must-have for me, but both ideas would be nice to have.
> 
> Mike
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