Creating Alerts
One of the most important features of AirNav RadarBox is that you can program the software to trigger alerts for certain circumstances. For example, you can have the program to automatically send an email message when British Airways flight 272 is received. The Alert feature can be accessed on the RadarBox Interface. If it not shown open it from the program menu [ Tools | Interface | Show/Hide].
Above: The Alerts setup window
How does it work?
The alert feature is divided in two parts:
| • | Conditions that will trigger an alert |
| • | Type of Alert |
There are five types of conditions to trigger an alert:
| • | Mode-S: when an aircraft with a specific mode-s has been received an alert is triggered |
| • | Registration: when a specific registration is received |
| • | Range: when a flight is less that a defined number of miles from a specified location |
| • | Flight ID: to trigger an alert when a defined flight number is received |
| • | Aircraft: when an aircraft type appears on the system |
| • | Mode 3A "squawk" code |
There are four types of alerts
| • | Play a Sound: a sound is played when an alert is triggered. The sound file can be specified using the browse key |
| • | Show a notification message: a windows notification window opens on the bottom right corner of the screen |
| • | Send an email: an email is sent to a specific email address |
| • | Execute a file |
If you wish Network traffic to trigger an alert, tick the "Activat Alerts for Network Flights" box.
Note that you can use wildcards to specify conditions. For example if you want your computer to play a sound whenever a British registered aircraft has been received enter G-* in the registration condition (all the British registered aircraft registrations start with a 'G-').
On the bottom of the Alert tab you will also see the alert log box. This will keep a log of the alerts sent for you to check.
Example of an Alert
Let's imagine we want an email message to be sent to "johnsmith@email.com" whenever British Airways flight 272 is received.
1- Check the Flight ID check box to activate this type of alert condition
2- Type 'BAW272' on the aircraft alert box
3- Check the "Send an Email to the following addresses:" option
4- Type the email address on the email address box
5- That's it. When flight BAW272 is first received by the system an email address will be sent to the specified email address.