[asterisk-users] AGI and Severe Weather Alerts

[Frank Bulk]

Along these lines, are there any services that send an e-mail/SMS when there
is a tornado/thunderstorm warning or watch in one or more ZIP codes?

Frank

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Seann Clark
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:05 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [asterisk-users] AGI and Severe Weather Alerts

All,

         I am toying with an idea of using an AGI to be able to 'call' 
my phone, or phones, in case of severe weather warnings. I have been 
tinkering with a script that reads from weather underground for the 
forecast, based off a PHP version of a weather AGI I found on the net. 
It seems rather trivial to have the AGI as a script, that does nothing 
unless a condition is met, and then call out, with a TTS synthesized 
read out of the warning, or error seen. I would like to know if anyone 
has done this before and what they used to get the warning for their 
area's. I haven't a very clear idea of how to parse properly XML data in 
either python or perl, but I have templates of what did work (until 
formats changed, StormSiren being a python module I used for sms). Also 
if I ever get anything to work, and anyone is interested I can share my 
code.


Regards,
Seann Clark