Press & News
Open Source CAP Broadcaster – Development Guide 🚨
October 22, 2024
Developer Resources, Open Source
Open Source CAP Broadcaster Development Guide 2024 CAP Implementation Workshop Prepared by: Vincent Maggard Executive Summary This white paper is aimed at software developers interested in integrating additional alerting system support into OBPlayer and potentially other broadcast automation systems using Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) covering the following elements: Understanding the Common Alerting Protocol […]
Read moreNew OBServer and OBPlayer 5.3X releases ✨
April 15, 2024
Open Source, Releases & Downloads
OBServer Release v5.3.2 (April 1, 2024) Features 🔹 new language field now using ISO-639-3 languages and showing most used languages at the top 🔹 add support for module update files 🔹 improved OB CLI tool output and added functionality (list and run updates, run cron, change user password) 🔹 config file setting for custom media […]
Read moreWildfire Season Emergency Communication? 🔥
March 26, 2024
News & Updates, Radio Automation
Wildfire Season Radio Station in a Box When cell phone towers go down due to fiber cuts or power outages, how do you ensure your community stays informed and safe? Traditional communication methods may falter, but with our mobile Radio Station in a Box, you have a reliable lifeline. Are you part of an indigenous […]
Read moreEmergency Communications 101 Training 📢
April 13, 2023
Events & Webinars
Learn how to manage and configure open source systems to provide community emergency alerts and prepare for the National Public Alerting tests. CAP Alert Player for Radio and Television April 27 2023 at 10:00 AM – Noon Pacific Time Skill: Beginner or user of Alert Player. Description: Manage […]
Read moreBuild a better broadcast application with open source 🛠
November 11, 2022
Open Source, Radio Automation, User Guides, Video Automation
OBServer Restful API Code Update We’ve been picking away at code refactoring and API stabilization over the last 6 months selecting the PSR-12 standard updating code to be compliant. We started defining and implementing our API v2 more in line with typical REST principles, transitioning dependencies to be composer-managed. PHP CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and […]
Read moreIndigenous radio alerting tools ⚠️
December 21, 2021
News & Updates
Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere Wishing you and yours all the best for The Holidays… This year more than ever!! CJUC Radio 92.5 FM 24 hour broadcast from Whitehorse Yukon Canada IT’S HAPPENING NOW! Listen CJUC LIVE at CJUC CJUC is SO EXCITED to be hosting our first 24 hour radio live stream fundraiser/pledge drive […]
Read moreTWiRT 568 – Common Alerting Protocol ⚠️
October 29, 2021
Events & Webinars, Open Source
Common Alerting Protocol Doesn’t sound exciting, but what it’s doing for people in many countries is sometimes life-saving. We might think of CAP as a new-ish way to receive emergency messages, such as Child Abduction Emergency notification. Or we may consider CAP as just another input source to our broadcast EAS systems. There’s a lot […]
Read moreOpen Source EAS Raspberry Pi 🍓
May 3, 2018
Open Source
Open Source EAS with the Pyrate Raspberry Pi was mentioned in a letter to the FCC. Read the letter REC Network sent to FCC mentioning our work with open source EAS to Boost LPFM Participation in EAS. Coincidentally we are also mentioned in a recent CRTC hearing. Changes needed to boost LPFM participation in EAS […]
Read moreOBServer Version 5 ✨
June 27, 2017
Releases & Downloads
CLFG 1.2 Support Thanks everyone for your support to date. We wish to advise about updates for Alert Player to conform to the new CLFG 1.2 alerting specifications. Available to all customers and the DIY community, no charge. Customers that purchased Alert Player online have a rescue image ISO in User Account or register at […]
Read moreOpen Source CAP Developed in Canada ⚠️
September 5, 2016
News & Updates, Open Source
For Immediate Release September 5, 2016 OpenBroadcaster occupies a unique space in the marketplace as the only company in North America that offers a full suite radio automation and media asset management software package equipped with its own emergency messaging system adhering to the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) CAP-CP History Aug 29, 2014 the Canadian […]
Read moreGAATES Emergency CAP Signage ⚠️
April 29, 2015
News & Updates
CFET CJHJ GAATES Signage Pelmorex Testing March 10, 2015 The pilot project test started out with a couple of bumps. My team worked through these problems enabling both radio stations in Tagish and Haines Junction to each receive and broadcast the emergency messages within the 2 hour testing window. The LCD screen in Tagish Recreation […]
Read moreEmergency Radio and TV Testing 📻
March 11, 2015
News & Updates
Invitation for Emergency Radio and TV testing Tagish and Haines Junction Yukon On March 10, 2015 between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm Pacific daylight savings time Yukon Emergency Measures Organization will be conducting two live to air broadcast intrusive tests of the Yukon Emergency Public Alerting System in Tagish and Haines Junction, Yukon in conjunction […]
Read moreOn Thin Ice: Emergency Preparedness 📢
February 10, 2015
Events & Webinars, News & Updates
Media Release 9 Feb 2015 In 2013, the Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES) launched the On Thin Ice (OTI) Project. Funded by the Government of Canada’s Social Development Partnerships Program, the project seeks to protect lives and improve the security, well-being, and inclusion of persons with disabilities (physical, cognitive and sensory) and […]
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