06-29-2020, 06:02 AM
(06-28-2020, 01:40 PM)bcnaz Wrote:(06-28-2020, 12:36 PM)newton688 Wrote: Hi All,
Does anyone know if the Quectel EG25-G modem is able to receive the new WEA or older CMAS alerts for tornados, amber alert, etc.?
Thanks,
Chris
Great Question, I have wondered about that as well.!
I wonder if that is 'Firmware' or 'Software' Related ? or even private or open source ?
Since they seem to be area related to city, county, or state it may be by "Reported Location" ?
I found some high-level information about the latest WEA 3.0 here from ATIS. But, it doesn't give me enough details about how the message is sent to the mobile device to figure out what is needed to get the Pinephone working:
https://www.atis.org/01_news_events/webi...ebinar.pdf
In one of the slides it says that the it's 3GPP and the mobile phone stores and checks the message to see if its current location falls within the affected area. I just don't know if that means it's just a special type of SMS or something different that the modem needs to support. I suspect it's the latter because I did a low level check for an SMS yesterday when the amber alert came out and I didn't see anything at all.
For now, I suppose I'll just need to keep checking my local weather website for the alerts, but that's not the best way to discover these alerts with the PP.
