Manually trigger emergency or announcement

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Chase Wells

• March 07, 2019 17:53

Is there a way to over-ride all of the content players with an emergency or announcement.  I would like to display a presentation quickly, over-riding all other content.  I know there are CAP providers for emergencies  but i'm looking for something other than that.  Not necessarily an emergency.  

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  Darius Aleksas

  • March 07, 2019 19:15

  You can have an empty placeholder sitting on the top of all the content. you can place you 'emergency' content there and schedule it or simply turn this layer on or off whenever needed.

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  Chase Wells

  • March 11, 2019 20:24

  Thanks Darius, sounds like it should work for me.  

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  Eric Ochoa

  • July 26, 2019 21:54

  Yes, we do it with a Discord bot created in Python.  I can send an alert to all projectors with a simple command =D

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  Jim Johnston

  • July 30, 2019 11:53

  Hey Eric, can you tell us a little more about your setup? I'm interested in how you get Python to communicate with an instance of RV.

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  Eric Ochoa

  • July 31, 2019 01:58

  One of the services guys at id Software wrote it from scratch using a discord python wrapper/api thing. I'll poke around and see if there's a way I can get you maybe a copy of it.

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  Jim Johnston

  • July 31, 2019 05:58

  Sweet!

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  Eric Ochoa

  • August 01, 2019 02:28

  So you just basically need a programmer to get you a bot in discord that can take a command with 3 variables, form XML, and shoot it back to your alert URL

   

  The bot formats this

  <alert xmlns = 'urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.2'><identifier>1</identifier><sender>quakecon.org</sender><sent></sent><status>Actual</status><msgType>Alert</msgType><scope>Public</scope><info><category>Safety</category><event>test event</event><urgency>Immediate</urgency><severity>Severe</severity><certainty>Observed</certainty><headline></headline><description></description><instruction></instruction></info></alert>

   

  And sends it to the alert url defined in rise

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  Eric Ochoa

  • August 01, 2019 02:30

  The 3 things you change are headline, description, and instruction.  leave everything else alone.

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  Jim Johnston

  • August 08, 2019 14:34

  Hey Eric only just saw this! Thanks for the info. Will give it a go over the weekend.

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