This notification service is a work in progress, and so need help from you to try it out, experiment, poke holes in the idea and so forth. I'll need volunteers to take test calls and verify. I can't do this on my own, I need your help! So contact me if you would like to partake. If you have another idea or suggestions please let me know. Thanks!
I'm thinking the notifications would be for those living around Lindbergh, Cygnet or Diamond L Bar. I've decided to have only one Topic, "Urgent" This is NOT to replace 911 or reverse- Smart 911. It is similar to the Amber Alert in that the messages are broadcast to everyone subscribed. Currently it would be a one-way or simplex notification service. Always call 911 first if it is a medical or other emergency. This notification service could be used as a follow up in case help can get to you faster than the Quick Response unit or whatever other public emergency services are in route.
At past LLHOA meetings, there have been requests to create a quick easy way to contact people around the lake. Especially for loose items floating down the lake, like docks, boats, water skis, and other items. Notifications can be sent if bears, cougars, vicious dogs, burglars are on the Summer home Road or elsewhere nearby.
The phone tree is one option. Another is using AWS Services. I think combinations of Amazon, Pinpoint, Polly, Lambda, SAM CLI, IAM with necessary policies/pemission and more will be needed. This service would allow those wishing messages sent to them using a synthesized voice to their Landline phone. Later we might have messages sent to their smartphone via text message or email. It would be up to the individual subscribers on how they would like to be notified.
"Volunteer Urgent Notification Publishers" from our community will be trained and required to log in under their own credentials (called IAM) and publish the notifications. "Volunteer Urgent Notification Publishers" will be identified on this website, so you can contact them to request they broadcast the message to the neighborhood.
So instead of a phone tree where many people have to be contacted, only one person that knows how to log in and publish a message needs to be contacted. That one person then logs in and publishes the message, whereby it's immediately sent to all subscribers based on their preferred method of receiving notifications.
Click the link highlighted in orange in order to signup. Bill Cory will set up and administer the service. Subscribers must pay for their own phone carrier charges for text messages... most carriers have unlimited text messaging. Note, you can always click "unsubscribe" to email messages and reply STOP to SMS and call me to opt out of the Voice messages if you no longer wish to receive any messages.
Listen to the Summit Wolf Pack broadcasting a notification that I recorded just outside my door: The Summit Wolf Pack notifies Lindbergh Lake
