Software Heroes: Episode 1
Today's software hero is Andy Knitt. He developed and freely shares the TwoToneDetect software that is used by fire departments everywhere as a secondary communication channel for first responder alerts. It allows departments to take audio feeds and connect them to notification services like pushover, email, and sms. Traditionally, pager radios will alert first responders and this program works in a similar way. A man of my own heart, it's written in Python!
Radio reference thread
4,500+ post thread on radioreference (!!).
Really incredible that he developed and released this software for free on his website it’s what been powering the pushover and now IaR alerts I’ve been getting for years. The amount of support he rovide on radio reference alone, just WOW (see above link). The guides for departments low on resources to just use a pi and a handheld radio, super cool. I’m not sure how much people appreciate that emergency responders are benefitting from such collaborative initiatives.
Now at IaR
The author appears to now work at IaR and the compiled code is available through IaR now and not the TTD blog. I was curious, so I checked and you can still download the older versions of TTD from the web archive. E.g., https://web.archive.org/web/20141229172004/http://www.twotonedetect.net/ I bet Andy can request to get it removed from the web archive if he doesn't want old versions floating around.