Status Update: 11/21/25
Hi, everyone. Just a few notes:
- New Audio Player – I hope you have found the new live audio player useful. I spent well over 150 hours developing the concept, writing code, and testing. It is definitely my favorite way to listen now. I’m still making small changes and adjustments so if you experience some weird behavior, it’s most likely something I’m doing. As a project, it’s not “done” and probably never will be.
11/22/25 – I added some code to handle network disconnects, like you might experience with poor/no wireless service. Now, instead of just quietly reconnecting but never resuming the audio feed, the server will detect that you’ve reconnected and start sending you audio information again. The code will also detect and remove stale connections. - Fire Tone-Out Notifications – This is my latest project. I’m writing code to conduct near-real-time analysis of fire department radio traffic to detect agency-specific tone frequencies and patterns, and send automated notifications to your device. If a department you’ve enabled this feature for gets toned out, you get a notification to your device, whether I’m listening to send the notification or not. This project is in the very early stages and I have barely begun development. Matching specific waveforms and patterns is tough, especially given the variances in audio files recorded from radio traffic.
- Incident Alert Notifications – I did some troubleshooting and discovered what was causing the issues with notifications not being sent to your device. Those who still had active notification subscriptions probably received a notification Tuesday morning about a residential fire in Lakeshore. Now that I have fixed what was broken, I’m considering redesigning the entire user interface and integrating it into the new live audio player as a separate tab. I will continue to use the existing system for breaking incidents for the time being.
If you don’t see the option to enable Notifications above the alert feed (below the player) on your device, it’s because you are not running the app version of the site. Note that enabling Alerts is not the same as enabling Notifications. I’ll admit this is somewhat confusing, and I’m planning on making the whole thing more intuitive and (hopefully) user friendly.
