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German nation-wide emergency alert exercise message delivered via UnifiedPush as KDE Plasma desktop notification, within a minute of the cell broadcast :) #kde #unifiedpush
@VolkerKrause Where do these messages come from? Does the government expose some API endpoints there or just a proxy from e.g. GCM that they presumably do support?
@z3ntu The server part of this is polling ~100 different weather and emergency alert feeds from all over the world and allows you to subscribe to push notifications for areas of interest - early demo/prototype stage only though: https://invent.kde.org/vkrause/kpublicalerts/
@VolkerKrause that’s cool!
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It doesn't work in #portugal
Still relying on #SMS service
@laborim For most countries this indeed currently only has weather alerts, emergency alert data (if available at all) is often hard to find without knowing the local responsibilities/languages.
Also, all of this is early demo/prototype work, not something that will work on any existing installation out of the box.
@VolkerKrause That is so cool! I wonder if it would work in the Netherlands too, since it isn't delivered to devices via the normal SMS network.
Interestingly on my Android device (from the German #shiftphones) I did receive the last test emergency alert but my phone (Android) never notified me since I had it on "do not disturb". I would think that's about the only time it should just ignore any sound and disturb settings lol.
@bart For the Netherlands (just like most other countries) we only have weather alerts so far. Emergency alert feeds can be difficult to find without knowing local responsibilities and languages unfortunately (if they exist at all).
@VolkerKrause Ah too bad, ok. I can help with the language part if need be, anything I can do to help out?
@bart We are looking for any machine-readable source of alert messages, ideally in Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) format (which then are typically provided as RSS feeds), but conversion from other formats is also possible (for Germany we use a JSON API that largely follows the CAP data model, so relatively straightforward to convert). The best starting point is probably the government agency responsible for disaster/emergency preparedness/management.
@VolkerKrause Thanks for the info! I've send an email to my government with a request for info about this, I'll let you know what I hear.