Common Alert Protocol (CAP) across multiple geographic regions

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I am testing the CAP (Common Alert Protocol) and can not seem to get it to work down to the County level. Many states in the USA are very large and an alert in Illinois for example may only be needed for the north side and not the whole state. Example is Winter Weather. North will have many alerts for snow and ice while the south will have more alerts for rain and ice.

With that said, is there a way for me to only show the CAP alert based on where the Display is located?

Based on the current settings, I would need to create a schedule and layout for each location (in this case County) and show all the alerts for that location. If there is an alert, it will end up showing all alerts and not just the local region.

Only other way is to update the NWS (National Weather Service) to the API with the county code (Example: https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active?zone=ILC031).

End goal is that the display will only react to the alert for its area.

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@Nadz any idea on this one?

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Hi @GeneralSnipe

I’ve ran into this same issue as our county is very large. You can create alerts based on coordinates. Take the link below and alter the Lat/Long coordinates as desired.

api.weather.gov/alerts/active.atom?point=42.102151%2C-94.335392

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Yes. I have tried that. It still comes back to the same issue of having multiple display in different areas. We have at least 3 states we work in at the moment. Making that work would mean a Xibo server for each location and defeats the purpose.

I did try the CAP widget for location and even with the data there, it is not loading.