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Alarm display software for fire departments. Running at the twelve fire stations in Kleve, Germany since 2018.

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Alarm Display

This is an alarm display implementation for fire departments (etc). It has been designed for the local circumstances of the Kreis Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It should be adaptable for other areas and countries.

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Hardware

The original hardware is a Raspberry Pi with a large display connected via HDMI and a digital alarm pager connected via USB.

Software

The software is written in Python3, using the PyQt libaries for Qt5.

Features

  • Alarm data display with target map and route map
  • Maps using OpenStreetMap tiles or custom tiles with fire hydrants
  • Alarm report document for printer output
  • Receive alarms from pagers, IMAP or WebSockets (JSON)
  • Show previous alarms, calendar information, weather data in idle mode
  • Switch screen on and off via CEC
  • Forward alarms to subsequent displays
  • Use GPIO pins to switch lighting or open doors
  • Play sounds and read alarm data with text-to-speech engines
  • Display vehicle status

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