The Program Uses multimon-ng to decode the inital Raw SAME header. The output of the program will be stored in a directory name, "output" Each new alert will create a directory.
The program uses qtpy to make it compatible with pyqt5, pyside2, pyqt6 and pyside6.
The program can be used on a raspberry PI with an lcd display or on a normal system.
There is also an webpage hosted when the program is running, to view it go to the terminal there should be something like:
Serving HTTP on 192.168.0.0 port 8080 (http://192.168.0.0:8080/)
copy and paste the link in a browser to view it, you can see all the alerts reccorded and listen to them.
Each recorded alert Directory will be named like this
EAS Originator-Date-Time-Event Type
Example
EAS-06-12-25-18-17-36-RWT
Inside of each alert directory there will be a audio recording in the wav format and a text document both named
output.txt
output.wav
The text document will contain the raw header and the header translated into a readable text, Like
EAS: ZCZC-WXR-SVR-013135-013157-013013-013297+0045-1640042-WJON/TV -
The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Barrow, GA; Gwinnett, GA; Jackson, GA; and Walton, GA; beginning at 07:42 pm and ending at 08:27 pm. Message from WJON/TV.
NNNN
first clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/VariousTurtle/EAS-Decoder/
cd EAS-Decoder
make a virtual environment
# for regular systems
python -m venv env
# for raspberry pi
python -m venv env --system-site-packages
Initalize virtual enviorment
source env/bin/activate
Install the python requrments
# for regular systems
pip install -r reqirments.txt
# for raspberry Pi
pip install -r raspi_req.txt
# only for raspberry pi
apt install python3-pyqt5
apt install python3-pyaudio
Then, install multimon-ng, Multimon-ng does the raw decodeing of the SAME Header
# for arch
pacman -S multimon-ng
# for debian or raspberry pi
apt install multimon-ng
If you are running this on a normal system without the raspbery pi hardware run the program with the --Lcd argumnet
python main.py -l
# or
python main.py -lcd
If you are running it with the raspberry pi hardware run it without the --lcd argument
run the program with the --help to see the available arguments
python main.py --help
usage: EAS-Decoder [-h] [-i IP] [-l] [-s SPEED]
EAS-Decoder: A program to Record Emergency Alerts (Decodes With Multimon-ng)
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i, --ip IP Explcitly define the ip address for the webserver
-l, --lcd Run Without LCD screen
-s, --speed SPEED Sets the text scroll speed of the LCD screen, Defalut is 0.1
You can set up a hardware UI with a raspberry pi to view incoming alerts and pereviously recorded alerts on an LCD Display.
- Three push buttons
- two leds
- An 20x4 I2C display
- A SPST Switch
Right Scroll Button = pin 12
Middle Button = pin 20
left Button = pin 23
switch = pin 21
alert recording led = pin 27
audio playing led = pin 17
Display VCC = Rpi 5V Power
Disply GND = Rpi ground
Display SDA = Rpi SDA
Display SCL = Rpi SCL