Press & News
✨ Ready for open source emergency alerting?
April 15, 2025
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Tech Advisory
UNESCO – Digitization and AI for Archives and collections. Results of a survey exploring how AI is impacting digitization of Archives and Documentary Heritage Material. See Report Sunset Advisory for first generation AlertPlayer 5.0 Systems These devices are over 10 years old, with limited storage capabilities and incompatible with current operating systems. Due to these […]
Read more📻 Climate Emergency Alerting with Open Source Software 📻
February 21, 2025
Emergency Alerting, indigenous, Open Source, Radio
Hello Radio Friends, I am presently working remotely this winter in Thailand and reside in the Yukon Territory up in northern Canada, beside Alaska. Historically 2 major events happened here; the Klondike gold rush of 1898 and the building of the Alaska highway in 1942 to connect the continental US to Alaska in preparation of […]
Read more📢 Indigenous Community Media Fund: Apply Now 📢
December 20, 2024
Emergency Alerting, indigenous, Open Source
Indigenous Community Media Fund The ICMF provides financial support to strengthen Indigenous community media infrastructure. It aims to ensure the sustainability of Indigenous-managed media, with a focus on initiatives related to environmental justice and climate change. Eligible regions include Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, North America, and specific countries in Asia. Grants offered are up […]
Read more🚨 Open Source CAP Broadcaster – Development Guide 🚨
October 22, 2024
Emergency Alerting, Open Source
Open Source CAP Broadcaster Development Guide 2024 CAP Implementation Workshop Prepared by: Vincent Maggard Executive Summary This white paper is aimed at software developers interested in integrating additional alerting system support into OBPlayer and potentially other broadcast automation systems using Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) covering the following elements: Understanding the Common Alerting Protocol […]
Read more🔥Wildfire Season Are You Ready for Emergency Communication? 🔥
March 26, 2024
Emergency Alerting, indigenous, Open Source, Radio
Wildfire Season Radio Station in a Box When cell phone towers go down due to fiber cuts or power outages, how do you ensure your community stays informed and safe? Traditional communication methods may falter, but with our mobile Radio Station in a Box, you have a reliable lifeline. Are you part of an indigenous […]
Read more✨ Open Source Broadcast Automation
December 21, 2023
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source
Holiday Visitors Techsoup Canada Grants and Free Services Are you a non profit needing; web hosting, grants, subsidized rates for commercial hardware and software. CJUC Radio (Whitehorse) recently utilized this easy to access service for a 3,500.00 USD grant for the Azure web hosting offer. There is an entire catalogue of services, products and hardware […]
Read more📢 Emergency Communications 101
April 13, 2023
Emergency Alerting
CAP Alert Player for Radio and Television April 27 2023 at 10:00 AM – Noon Pacific Time Learn how to manage and configure open source systems to provide community emergency alerts and prepare for the National Public Alerting tests May 10 Skill: Beginner or user of Alert Player. […]
Read more📻 Indigenous Community Media Fund
December 21, 2022
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio, Television
Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere -40 Celsius here in Tagish Yukon. For our neighbours to the south, -40C is the same as -40F 2023 Call for Proposals for the Indigenous Community Media Fund The Indigenous Community Media Fund at Cultural Survival provides opportunities for Indigenous community radio stations and media outlets to strengthen their broadcast […]
Read more🛠 Build a better broadcast application with open source tools
November 11, 2022
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio, Television
OBServer Restful API Code Update We’ve been picking away at code refactoring and API stabilization over the last 6 months. * selected the PSR-12 standard and have updated code to be compliant * started defining and implementing our API v2 more in line with typical REST principles * started transitioning dependencies to be composer-managed PHP […]
Read more📻 Rob is Analog 📻 ALFF Audience Favorite Award
March 8, 2022
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio, Television
Available Light Film Festival 2022 Audience Choice Winners The winner of the ALFF Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Documentary, Rob Is Analog, was also the audience favorite overall. Yukon filmmaker, Jessica Hall’s funny and charming documentary about “Radio Rob” Hopkins: a ramshackle communications pirate who pioneered community radio in Southern Yukon and fights for […]
Read more💡Supply chain delays? Open source solutions
December 21, 2021
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio
Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere Supply chain issues? DIY Recycle 6 – 8 week lead time sound familiar? Expensive shipping? Stuck on your broadcast project waiting for parts? Re-purpose your existing hardware using Open Source code that runs on surplus equipment. Raspberry PI computers are widely available and inexpensive https://openbroadcaster.com/education/diy-broadcast-projects Repurposed Hardware Our latest IMG […]
Read more⚡ Indigenous radio station emergency alerting tools
December 21, 2021
Emergency Alerting, indigenous, Radio
Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere Wishing you and yours all the best for The Holidays… This year more than ever!! CJUC Radio 92.5 FM 24 hour broadcast from Whitehorse Yukon Canada IT’S HAPPENING NOW! Listen LIVE at CJUC FM CJUC is SO EXCITED to be hosting our first 24 hour radio live stream fundraiser/pledge drive […]
Read moreTWiRT 568 – Common Alerting Protocol
October 29, 2021
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio
Common Alerting Protocol Doesn’t sound exciting, but what it’s doing for people in many countries is sometimes life-saving. We might think of CAP as a new-ish way to receive emergency messages, such as Child Abduction Emergency notification. Or we may consider CAP as just another input source to our broadcast EAS systems. There’s a lot […]
Read moreOut In The Open – Spring 2021
April 2, 2021
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio, Television
Radio Station in a Box Complete RIAB (Radio Station in a Box) assembled in a hard shell mobile case. 100% solid state, no moving parts 1. Open covers of mobile case 2. Hook up antenna, AC power and internet 3. Begin broadcasting POLLY AI Voices Update for ML210 legacy customers We have created a new […]
Read moreEmergency Disaster Assistance – Resilience Through Innovation
November 18, 2020
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio
Pyrate 3.0 November 18, 2020 Tagish, Yukon, Canada As part of Canadian Innovation Week, OpenBroadcaster Inc is releasing Pyrate 3.0 free and open-source software (FOSS). An open source emergency response radio and TV broadcast toolkit for stations to remotely access their studios and distribute CAP emergency alert messages during COVID19. About Raspberry Pi Pyrate Broadcast […]
Read more🎉 Hindsight is 20/20…Foresight is 2020 🎉
January 21, 2020
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio
Happy New Year! Welcome to The New Decade! I’m presently located in and working out of Nan Thailand until April, 2020. Sawadee Cup! During the next 4 months, I’ll be travelling to neighbouring countries and hoping to meet some of you face to face. Complimentary Raspberry PI To celebrate this new decade, we are offering […]
Read more📢 Emergency Alerts for Indigenous Communities
April 16, 2019
Emergency Alerting, indigenous, Uncategorized
Swans in Tagish Yukon Record-high bird count at Yukon’s Swan Haven over weekend. 3,000 birds make an awful lot of noise. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-swan-haven-record-count Indigenous Alerts Within Canada, there are approximately 635 FNs and 50+ Inuit communities with numerous spoken languages and dialects. Canadian policy related to CAP alerting specifies support for Indigenous languages, but this has […]
Read more🍓 Open Source EAS Raspberry Pi 🍓
May 3, 2018
Emergency Alerting, Open Source
Open Source EAS with the Pyrate Raspberry Pi was mentioned in a letter to the FCC. Read the letter REC Network sent to FCC mentioning our work with open source EAS to Boost LPFM Participation in EAS. Coincidentally we are also mentioned in a recent CRTC hearing. https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/rec-to-fcc-changes-needed-to-boost-lpfm-participation-in-eas https://openbroadcaster.com/pyrate-radio-firmware Headless Video Loopback Emulators *** SOLVED […]
Read moreHow did I get here in radio land?
January 23, 2018
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio, Television
Rob Hopkins – Tagish, Yukon Back in 1989 – 1993 I was able to save up and take off with my bicycle and spend a few years traveling around the world, through China, India, South East Asia and Europe. I was able to subsidize my traveling and live the “Yukon dream” by spending 6 months […]
Read moreOpenBroadcaster Version 5
June 27, 2017
Emergency Alerting, Open Source
CLFG 1.2 Support Thanks everyone for your support to date. We wish to advise about updates for Alert Player to conform to the new CLFG 1.2 alerting specifications. Available to all customers and the DIY community, no charge. Customers that purchased Alert Player online have a rescue image ISO in User Account or register at […]
Read moreOpen Source CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) Broadcast Application Developed in Canada
September 5, 2016
Emergency Alerting, Radio, Television
For Immediate Release September 5, 2016 OpenBroadcaster occupies a unique space in the marketplace as the only company in North America that offers a full suite radio automation and media asset management software package equipped with its own emergency messaging system adhering to the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) CAP-CP History Aug 29, 2014 the Canadian […]
Read moreNews from OpenBroadcaster – Community Media Convergence
November 18, 2015
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio
Community Media Conference OpenBroadcaster is busy preparing to attend Commedia at Carlton University Ontario Nov 22 – 24 Stop by and say hello to Jake one of the original lead developers for OpenBroadcaster and my nephew Christopher Nash at Commediaconverge.ca They will have a table participating at the technology fair and presenting about our work […]
Read moreGAATES Emergency CAP Alert LED Signage Project
April 29, 2015
Accessibility, Emergency Alerting, Open Source
CFET CJHJ GAATES Signage Pelmorex Testing March 10, 2015 The pilot project test started out with a couple of bumps. My team worked through these problems enabling both radio stations in Tagish and Haines Junction to each receive and broadcast the emergency messages within the 2 hour testing window. The LCD screen in Tagish Recreation […]
Read moreEmergency Radio and TV Testing
March 11, 2015
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio, Television
Invitation for Emergency Radio and TV testing Tagish and Haines Junction Yukon On March 10, 2015 between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm Pacific daylight savings time Yukon Emergency Measures Organization will be conducting two live to air broadcast intrusive tests of the Yukon Emergency Public Alerting System in Tagish and Haines Junction, Yukon in conjunction […]
Read moreOn Thin Ice: Promoting Disability Inclusive Emergency Preparedness and Response, in Canada’s Arctic
February 10, 2015
Accessibility, Emergency Alerting, Radio, Television
Media Release 9 Feb 2015 In 2013, the Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES) launched the On Thin Ice (OTI) Project. Funded by the Government of Canada’s Social Development Partnerships Program, the project seeks to protect lives and improve the security, well-being, and inclusion of persons with disabilities (physical, cognitive and sensory) and […]
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