Emergency broadcast
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Hello,
I been using the Volla phone with Ubuntu Touch as main device for over a half year. Loving it so far.
I have noticed that I don't recieve emergency broadcasts/messages. I also cant find a way to configure that.
Is this feature planned in the future? Or is it already there?
I do think this might be a important feature, incase of a big emergency like a super dangerous storm or a toxic fire nearby!
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Never heard of this feature so I had a look on Duck duck go. For the UK I found this explanation.
https://www.gov.uk/alerts/how-alerts-work
Which contains the following
Phone handsets and devices
Make sure your device has all the latest software updates.Emergency alerts work on:
iPhones running iOS 14.5 or later
Android phones and tablets running Android 11 or later
If you have an earlier version of Android, you may still be able to receive alerts. To check, search your settings for ‘emergency alerts’.Has this feature been coded in UT?
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It get tested every six months here in the Netherlands
It's called NL-Alert here and should work on even android 7.1.
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@quget What can I say other than the UK is a backward country! I live here so I should know.
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@ian
Well, only five countries in Europe (Lituania, Italia, Greece, Netherlands, and Romania) implemented this messaging alert system, and in France (where government tried to force their own app and failed badly), it'll be activated this summer ! -
@keneda Soon to be released in the UK (early 2022) so maybe we aren't as backward as I thought we were. We just need newer phones apparently.... and it will only work on 4G and 5G phones here.
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@ian said in Emergency broadcast:
@keneda Soon to be released in the UK (early 2022) so maybe we aren't as backward as I thought we were. We just need newer phones apparently.... and it will only work on 4G and 5G phones here.
That would be good news if we had widespread mobile coverage, which of course we don't, so in reality it is just another money wasting token gesture.
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@ian said in Emergency broadcast:
Has this feature been coded in UT?
Emergency Broadcast messages support has not been integrated into UT as of yet. Indeed, I know of no other non-Android Linux OSes or shells that have them yet either.
However, ofono does have some API for them, so it should be possible to do the work for them in UT. It just needs someone to spend the time to do all the work. I don't know if ModemManager has any support for them at all though, so implementing them for other shells may be even more work.
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