I've been asked if there is a way to remotely record and insert an emergency message when the station is on automation. I'm looking for ideas.

We have an Asterisk phone system that I can have record a message. I'd set up an extension and the person issuing the emergency message would record it in the alternate outgoing message. We've never used RDCatch so I don't know what's possible there. Is there a way for RDCatch to do a check to see if that file is there (over ftp?) every 20 min? Then how would we get it into an existing log stream? Would we have to put log entries to play this every 20 min and if there was nothing there it would just skip it?

The other thing is that we get EAS alerts on our Sage ENDEC. I know there is an input to the ENDEC to hold off playing an alert for up to about 5 minutes (depending on the kind of alert). Is there a way to have Rivendell recognize an alert is ready (like a GPIO input) and assert the hold off until a break in the log then release the alert and resume the log after the alert has played?

Thanks, Bill

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