Add support for a 'I need emergency help' button. about firmware HOT 11 CLOSED

Perhaps pressing the "I need help" button once means "help, I'm lost, come find me", but pressing it three times or something similar means "help, my life is in danger". The first case sends an alert to everyone in the mesh, with current/last known location. The second case sends an alert, or possibly ongoing periodic alerts, AND prompts the rest of the mesh users to contact 911 / emergency responders. That way, the "I need help" button could be used by a kid/person that accidentally took the wrong trail fork to notify the others, WITHOUT accidentally sending in the Search & Rescue helicopter.

from firmware.

This issue has been mentioned on Meshtastic. There might be relevant details there:

https://meshtastic.discourse.group/t/user-story-added-for-an-i-need-help-mode/65/1

from firmware.

This issue has been mentioned on Meshtastic. There might be relevant details there:

https://meshtastic.discourse.group/t/extension-of-the-functionality-of-devices-meshtastic/411/1

from firmware.

This issue has been mentioned on Meshtastic. There might be relevant details there:

https://meshtastic.discourse.group/t/real-world-use-cases/175/45

from firmware.

This issue has been mentioned on Meshtastic. There might be relevant details there:

https://meshtastic.discourse.group/t/public-emergency-chat-room-not-encrypted/713/2

from firmware.

This issue has been mentioned on Meshtastic. There might be relevant details there:

https://meshtastic.discourse.group/t/notification-and-beacon-mode/768/2

from firmware.

This issue has been mentioned on Meshtastic. There might be relevant details there:

https://meshtastic.discourse.group/t/public-emergency-chat-room-not-encrypted/713/14

from firmware.

Just thinking about it ... this is almost integrated into the ExternalNotificationPlugin as is.

We can take advantage of the bell character as part of the current implementation, so when a device gets the bell character, that means "SOS!"

On the device hardware, it would mean adding support for an event to send the emergency button and then adding support to the mobile device to respond to the alert character.

from firmware.

In fact, we can just work with the existing button with button.attachMultiClick and if we get five quick clicks, that means we want to send an alert. That would mean no additional hardware.

from firmware.

Support for bell character #1035

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Closing this as the device side is done.

Triggering on the ASCII BELL will cause an alarm if used with the external notification plugin.

ASCII BELL can be sent by a client as a tap back and/or in the message itself.

More support needs to be built out in the clients.

At present, there's no way to send the ASCII BELL from the device directly, but that can be a feature request of the ext notification plugin if it's needed.

from firmware.