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Although SharpENDEC is meant to replicate an ENDEC, it is not meant to be a complete ENDEC replacement. Physical hardware is usually more capable physically, software-wise, external control, etc.
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SharpENDEC is a Canadian software CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) receiver for alerting. If you're a little confused, imagine something similar to a physical ENDEC, but based in software.
Well, it's simple! You don't need to. Simply put the executable into a directory of your choice, then run it. If you run into a problem, or you're on an older version of Windows, you'll most likely need to install .NET Framework 4.8.1, or fully update Windows. Once you've done that, there isn't anything else that you will need to install or change.
Well, you don't have to. But you should! There's a lot of stuff that could be of use. But... you should look over this PDF document from Pelmorex (2021/06) for some more knowledge on how Canada's public alerting system works, and its CAP-CP XML data. Once you have a little bit of a better understanding of the system, even just a little bit, come back here!
Here's something, configurations! You might want to change some default settings, especially if they don't fit for your scenario. If you want to change your settings, press C during startup. To reset them to factory defaults, press R instead. I'll let you explore them for yourself! Although... if you can't find any CAP-CP geocodes for use in filtering, you can use this Excel spreadsheet, which contains the most recent list of geocodes.
One last thing. If you want to grab the text produced for use in automation, you can use static-text.txt if you need the newest text. If you want the file to be empty when it is inactive, use active-text.txt. For the opposite, you can use inactive-text.txt instead.
Audio can be added and changed easily! Simply add in files and swap as you please.
in.wav This sound is used as the lead-in, and is played before all other sounds. It will simply be ignored if it does not exist.
attn.wav This sound is used as the attention tone for alerts marked as severe and above. The built-in copy will be extracted if it does not exist.
attn-minor.wav This sound is used as the attention tone for alerts marked as minor and below. It will fallback to attn.wav if it does not exist.
audio.wav This sound is reserved for the program's internal use. Modifying the file should not have any effect, and will be overwritten.
out.wav This sound is used as the lead-out, and is played after all other sounds. It will simply be ignored if it does not exist.
Nope! That's about it. There's nothing else to know here. Thanks ApatheticDELL for this application idea, it worked out really well, and you were also awesome for helping me figure out these things. SharpENDEC (C#) was originally ported from QuantumENDEC (Python), and that was uh, really hard, and annoying to figure out. I did not like translating Python, but once it got going well, everything fit into place, and overall, felt good enough, then later on, I kept on improving on it.