[sbe-eas] UI is hard: Why did Floridians wake up to an early-morning emergency alert?

Dave Anderson dave at fab-corp.com
Thu Apr 20 17:13:00 EDT 2023


Tampa bay times is just now reporting that the state department of emergency management has severed its contract with everbridge, the firm that provided the software for origination.    

Sent from my iPhone.  Sorry for any typos!

Regards,
Dave Anderson

> On Apr 20, 2023, at 5:08 PM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
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> The WEA rules about RMT were changed in IPAWS v4 and FCC state/local test rules.  RMT and RWT are now valid for WEA, but I think need to be configured in your IPAWS profiles (FEMA IPAWS office would know).  FEMA wanted out of the code filtering business with IPAWS v4.  Almost any three-letters can be used (except EAN, NPT and maybe a few others).
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>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2023, Rob Dale wrote:
>> It was originally sent as a WEA CEM and canceled about two minutes later,
>> then sent as a EAS RMT.
>> Cellphones don’t get EAS RMTs under any circumstances.
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