[drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.9b1

[Dave Cooley]

The Amber Alert issue is not a problem. Those emails would be sent in
broadcast mode anyway.

Email pull wouldn't be needed if you could apply some logic and some
existing code from the file/form transfer piece. If an email is received for
a "Form" enabled recipient, do a simple ping to ensure they are online and
the transmit as normal form with checking and error correction. If the ping
fails don't send it and try latter. Not exactly the same but accomplishes
the same thing. This might be much easier than a pull switch.

We have talked about the Info access piece before and you said it would
require database access and tables to associate the overlays. I know it
sounds much but maybe a scaled down version might be easier. Just one field
with text?

I didn't think about the file size associated with these files and the
inherent limitations of Dstar low speed data. Forget that one

I know the audible warning is a probably a big one but would allow users to
let DRATS run minimized rather than tie up the pc .  Just a thought, you
don't know if you don't ask...

Change Requests have been posted.













-----Original Message-----
From: drats_users-bounces at lists.danplanet.com
[mailto:drats_users-bounces at lists.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Dan Smith
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:40 AM
To: Discussion of D-RATS
Subject: Re: [drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.9b1


> I will be testing the Amber alert email setup tomorrow and let you 
> know how it works. The ability to tailor actions by account should 
> provide enough flexibility to accomplish all of this.

Well, you likely won't be able to convince the amber alert system to 
format the address properly.  They usually just send it to a raw email 
address, thus D-RATS can create a form for it, but won't know what 
station to try to send it to.

>> Enable a "pull" trigger for emails received to a station set up for
> incoming forms so that a mobile station can send a ping type request 
> to the gateway and receive those messages that have been received for 
> them.  This would allow the mobile user to retrieve emails when in range
of a Dstar
> gateway system.   (Store and Forward)  This would be possible using call
> sign routing from the mobile station (assuming the gateway station has 
> call sign auto write turned on ).

Yes, I've had plans for this for a long time, but there is a lot 
involved in doing it right.

>>>>> 

>> Expand the levels for the Map Download utility to download to the 
>> street
> level (level 17)

Oh, whoops.  I guess I didn't update the downloader when I updated 
D-RATS to support the additional two zoom levels.  I need only change a 
single character in the source file to fix that :)

>> Enable a "right click" on a station and access the information field.
> Extremely important when accessing information about the capabilities 
> of an emergency facility.

Hmm, I'll have to think on this one for a bit.

>> Provide for multiple recipients in the mail form (outgoing)

Yeah, yeah. :)

>> Establish group send for incoming emails. ( sort of the inverse of 
>> above)
> distribution list in the windows world

Boy, this is quite a wish list.

>> Provide an audible action when a new message is received.

Yeah, unfortunately this is highly platform-specific and thus will 
likely be a pain in the rump.

>> Enable logic to automatically play received audio files. (send wav 
>> type
> files to the sound card) This would allow NWS, EBS, and Amber alerts 
> to be announced when received.

Hmm, sounds dangerous.  First off, you wouldn't be able to send any 
significant WAV file over D-STAR given the speed.  Second, in order to 
play anything highly compressed, we'd need to use something else (I'm 
not going to include or implement audio codecs in D-RATS).  That all 
becomes a problem that is amplified by the number of OS's, etc.  I'll 
keep it in the back of my mind, but it's definitely not low-hanging fruit.

Please put all of these items on the request page, except for the first 
two.  Otherwise I'll forget them by this afternoon :)

-- 
Dan Smith
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