The Cell Broadcast story

Ian

@lduboeuf It looks like the cell broadcast feature will be trialled in the UK next month.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64999417

kristatos

@lduboeuf Hi, I've checked the CB-settings with 20.04 OTA-1. I can activate notifications for the several alerts with their sliders, but the very first slider is off and greyed out and says "cell broadcast deactivated". Is this a bug? And do the alerts still work, if the first slider says "cell broadcast deactivated"?

lduboeuf

@kristatos said in The Cell Broadcast story:

@lduboeuf Hi, I've checked the CB-settings with 20.04 OTA-1. I can activate notifications for the several alerts with their sliders, but the very first slider is off and greyed out and says "cell broadcast deactivated". Is this a bug? And do the alerts still work, if the first slider says "cell broadcast deactivated"?

Yes, we can't toggle on CB for now
Are you sure it is deactivated and not only greyed like below ? If it is deactivated, then no alerts will happen

kristatos

@lduboeuf Yes, it says "Cell Broadcast disabled" and the slider is on the left side, not on the right like in your screenshot.
Is there an option to activate cell broadcast (maybe from the terminal) or will the feature (toggling CB) come in future releases?

lduboeuf

@kristatos said in The Cell Broadcast story:

@lduboeuf Yes, it says "Cell Broadcast disabled" and the slider is on the left side, not on the right like in your screenshot.
Is there an option to activate cell broadcast (maybe from the terminal) or will the feature (toggling CB) come in future releases?

Idk if this could be fixed easily or not, but it is broken currently.

lduboeuf

@kristatos Just to know, do you have a SIM activated ?
CB should be activated by default.

Lakotaubp

@lduboeuf Not really looked at this before but we are due a test of this in the UK on 23/04 Is the set up here the same for the UK do you you know.

kristatos

@lduboeuf Yes, if have two SIM-cards and both are activated. I can have CB-settings seperate for both of them, but both have this "Cell Broadcast disabled".

lduboeuf

@Lakotaubp said in The Cell Broadcast story:

@lduboeuf Not really looked at this before but we are due a test of this in the UK on 23/04 Is the set up here the same for the UK do you you know.

If you are on 20.04 there is nothing to setup. But that may or may not work.
Last test in Germany failed in Ofono part ( not related to my work )

lduboeuf

@kristatos said in The Cell Broadcast story:

@lduboeuf Yes, if have two SIM-cards and both are activated. I can have CB-settings seperate for both of them, but both have this "Cell Broadcast disabled".

Which device ?. It could be also a device config missing

Lakotaubp

@lduboeuf Thanks will have a look for it. Never botherd about it till now

kristatos

@lduboeuf Volla Phone (not Volla22)

lduboeuf

@kristatos said in The Cell Broadcast story:

@lduboeuf Volla Phone (not Volla22)

Maybe ask for support there ? If its device specific ?, or there anything that needs to be done with your provider ?

Ian

@lduboeuf After the anouncment of cell brodcast tests in the UK I decided to wait for OTA-25 to land before looking any further.

My Volla Phone X took the update today and everything appears to be OK..... apart from I can't find cell broadcast in System Settings. Where should it be?

lduboeuf

@Ian said in The Cell Broadcast story:

@lduboeuf After the anouncment of cell brodcast tests in the UK I decided to wait for OTA-25 to land before looking any further.

My Volla Phone X took the update today and everything appears to be OK..... apart from I can't find cell broadcast in System Settings. Where should it be?

Cell Broadcast is only available on 20.04...

Ian

@lduboeuf Thank goodness for that. I thought either I was going gaga or there was a fault with my phone.

I will try updating before the test.... but I was waiting for OTA-2 with a fix for hotspot. I will just have to manage without that feature until the update arrives.

Lakotaubp

@Ian System Settings, Notifications, Emergency Broadcast. Took me a bit of time too.

Ian

@Lakotaubp Thanks. I'll try to upgrade before the 23rd of April and have a look then.

lduboeuf

@Ian said in The Cell Broadcast story:

@Lakotaubp Thanks. I'll try to upgrade before the 23rd of April and have a look then.

I will post here again some instructions to have debugs logs. I will not be available around 23rd of April. Hope it will work that time.
We already had 2 tests failures and 1 success on 20.04. But we need to add more debug logs in case of failure.

lduboeuf

For the next tests, make sure you will be updated to the latest devel 20.04 before .
To make sure all channels are subscribed, toggle on all items in System Settings->Notifications->Emergency Broadcast

Depending of the Level of Cell Broadcast Message, the notification can be either a persistent popup with loud vibration in case of real emergency test or a simple notification with usual sound just like normal if the message is considered as a "Test" ( i know Android do it differently for that one, we should change it ).
Notifications can be seen in indicator and messaging app.

If nothing received there should be a log that can be caught with :
sudo journalctl | grep CBS

Please report here if any success ( screenshots) or failure ( logs )

I will not be available during the UK test . Finger cross for you ^ ^