Changeset 119:3a24ab5a997b
- Timestamp:
- 11/08/08 02:47:52 (3 years ago)
- Author:
- cfreeze@…
- Branch:
- unix
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add quick start information
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| 25 | 25 | expiration times of the alerts. |
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| 28 | 27 | StormSiren is written in the Python programming language. It |
| 29 | 28 | has been developed and tested under Python version 2.5, though earlier |
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| 31 | 30 | on a number of platforms, including Linux, Solaris 2.8, OS/2 Warp, |
| 32 | 31 | Windows 2000, and Windows 98. |
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| 35 | 33 | In order to run StormSiren, you'll need to have Python on your system. |
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| 39 | 37 | Unix/Linux users, you may or may not need to modify the first line |
| 40 | 38 | shebang and/or set the file permissions properly. RedHat users may |
| 41 | | want to change the shebang to #!/usr/bin/env python2. The first time |
| 42 | | you run the program, it will walk you through setting up a |
| 43 | | configuration file. Once you've completed the setup, you can edit it |
| 44 | | at any time with a text editor, or just delete or rename the config |
| 45 | | file and StormSiren will run the configuration wizard again. |
| | 39 | want to change the shebang to #!/usr/bin/env python2. |
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| | 41 | In order to use StormSiren, you will need to create two configuration |
| | 42 | files. Examples of these files can be found in the examples directory |
| | 43 | in the root of this directory. Information about these files can be |
| | 44 | found by visiting the website: |
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| | 46 | http://www.cfreeze.com/trac/stormsiren/wiki/Configuration |
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| 48 | 48 | Once you have your configuration setup, you'll want to test it by |
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| 63 | 63 | StormSiren can send two types of messages, short text (SMS) and full text. |
| 64 | | SMS mode sends short text messages to SMS type devices such as |
| | 64 | SMS mode sends short text messages to SMS type devices such as MythTv, |
| 65 | 65 | cell phones, pagers, and wireless enabled PDAs. Full text (e-mail) mode |
| 66 | 66 | sends the full text of the NWS bulletin. This allows you to get an alert |
