Alerts for a group of callsigns used by several hams?

General
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Does this app support a way for a group of hams to be alerted when anyone in that group is on air meeting conditions ? I am thinking this would be good for a small local club . However, I don’t see a way to create a script that could then be used by club members. Is creating their own individual triggers the only way ?
Andy K3UK

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It depends on which channel you plan to use to send alerts to the members. If you want to use the HamAlert app, then each member should create their own HamAlert account and create a trigger with all the club member callsigns in a callsign condition.

If you have some other channel that you use to communicate with your members, and have someone with web scripting experience at hand, then you could create one HamAlert account for the club and have HamAlert send URL notifications (POST) to a script on your web server, which would then send alerts to the members via your own channel.

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To add on to the post above about if you have some other channel to communicate with members, I created a really simple piece of code to call a WebHook in Slack to post something in a channel when a member is on the air (as determined by a spot). I had to create a simple script to receive the data that HamAlert sends in the URL hook and do a subsequent call to the Slack webhook. But you could have that piece of glue receive the hook from HamAlert and call any other means you wanted that supported a webhook. I just have the script on my ISP’s web server to receive the hook. I’m happy to share and anyone can fill in the code to call their own hook (Slack, Discord, WordPress, etc).

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I could echo on this comment a bit it would be nice if you could have a way to import and export triggers. So if you have a club that wants to spot members one person could create a memeber spotting list and just send out and updated trigger “code” to all the memebers to update their hamalert.

another example would be if someone like the triggers someone else is using it could be export to others.

its a toss up of how many people would find this useful?