I’ve had issues with the amber alerts repeating or coming in from adjacent states because “reasons”. When they repeat for days/hours ugh.
I do agree most people have devices. If there is a reasonable API method to fetch them then great. Sent from my iCar > On Mar 8, 2019, at 7:51 PM, Clayton Zekelman <clay...@mnsi.net> wrote: > > > Absolutely, we need public emergency alerting. What we don't need is every > alert to go out mandatory highest level sound the klaxon, can't be blocked, > even when it's an "all clear" cancelling a previous alert, and is being sent > in the middle of the night. > > That's the system that has been foisted upon us here. I'm all for emergency > alerting, but please make sure it's a real emergency. > > At least in the US version, they target the region affected, and code it with > the appropriate alert level instead of sending alerts to people 1400 km away. > > https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/14/first-emergency-alert-sets-off-phones-ontario-wide-following-thunder-bay-amber-alert.html > > > > At 07:43 PM 08/03/2019, Sean Donelan wrote: >> Canada made a lot of improvements with its alert implementation. It got to >> see all the things the U.S. did wrong. Unfortuantely, Canada also copied >> some wrong lessons from the the U.S. version. >> >> South Korea probably has the most ludicrous emergency alerts in the world. >> >> While improvements are needed, the various alert systems have saved people's >> lives. >> >>> On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Clayton Zekelman wrote: >>> Just wait until your connected home speakers, smart smoke detector, smart >>> refrigerator, smart tv, cell phone, IP streaming box, satellite receiver, >>> cable box, home security panel and your Fitbit all go off warning you of the >>> cancellation of an Amber alert at 1:30am, because the good folks at >>> AlertReady.Ca and Pelmorex think that everything needs to go out at highest >>> precedence, because, well, think of the children! > > -- > > Clayton Zekelman > Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi) > 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E > Windsor, Ontario > N8W 1H4 > > tel. 519-985-8410 > fax. 519-985-8409
