#HomeAssistant #Emergency #EmergencyAlerts #CommonAlertingProtocol #Australia
@trib @warkolm Just finished the first part - which is working ingest, markdown cards to render if any and make usable for alerts (being able to calculate polygons from the feed, then work out if part of a polygon lands within or is within range of the designated location).
Currently thinking about how hard it would be to package this all up, likely to install via HACS - especially as it depends on:
- python scripts,
- a specific integration to get and parse the feeds
(2/2)
@trib @warkolm I hope the readme.md on this repo will answer that question :)
https://github.com/twcau/CAP-au-for-home-assistant
The big problem is that too many emergency response agencies aren't all using a standard feed method.
Whilst the CAP-au specification seems to be the gold and national standard, there's still a lot of plain RSS out there - some not even including a lat/long.
I may investigate the possibility of consuming geoJSON, which a wider range agencies also seem to be publishing in.