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Saw this post and it got me thinking about getting Fire/EMS alerts via Home Assistant for lighting automation (ex: When a call gets paged over radio, flash my room lights red) Updated post here. How to get Home Assistant to know when I have to respond to a call? Many volunteer first responders...

For anyone using 128 bit encryption, I have a Python script that will generate a cryptographically strong key that involves 14 rounds of randomization, SHA-512, PBKDF2, HMAC, a 64 byte initial token, a 64 byte dynamic salt, and 1 million iterations. They come out strong, when I histogrammed over...

Has anyone come across code to scan and record radio signals through a laptop USB queryable by an audio index search engine? A recently bought a Baofeng with a USB connector and am seeking until 2021 to apply for a call sign to avoid the COVID-19.

Putting this question out there to see if anyone has had similar thoughts. I have OP25 successfully running on a dedicated xUbuntu machine and have explored it thoroughly. But I was wondering if implementing talkgroup priorities would be possible. I imagine this would be implemented in...

Quite a few people have been using a Raspberry Pi to feed audio to Icecast and RR using Darkice. I wanted to go one step further and make it so both the audio and scanner metadata (alpha tags) could both be fed from the Raspberry Pi. I wrote a Python script to get data from Uniden scanners via...