I had my phone on do not disturb and was woken up by several testing messages at 5AM. Can these be broadcast messages be disabled in Sailfish?
Maybe implementing them into messages would help since they wouldn’t bypass do not disturb.
I was surprised to see your message - because I have been looking for a way to enable cell broadcast messages (which are used in the Netherlands for general alerts) and I always thought that they are not supported at all by SailfishOS… Have I missed some release notes recently?
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Might be that different channels are used.
Here is a PR from Ubuntu Touch (to Sailfish OS version of Ofono) to add more channels as supported
Maybe the code around there could give some hints on if it can be disabled too…
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And has there been any information released about how to enable the reception of cell broadcast in the dutch emergency alert system (nl-alert) by now?
Strange. I’m using the same device and am not getting those messages. Which provider are you using?
Simyo, which uses the KPN network I believe. I have VoLTE enabled if that matters.
I have the exact same. Same phone, same network. Wondering what’s different.
I’m on latest SFOS. What Android version did you have installed before you flashed SFOS? Are you using AppSupport? Google Pray?
I think you should be able to get and set the subscribed channels using the org.ofono D-Bus service. In /ril_0 there should be a org.ofono.CellBroadcast object with GetProperties and SetProperty methods. ‘Topics’ is the one you want. There are some common channel numbers set for the big alerts and maybe the Dutch test one is in that range?
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I’m also on lastest SFOS (5.0.0.68 at the time of writing). I flashed on top of Android 13. I am using AppSupport, no Google Play.
I did not receive the nl alert on my xperia 10 II. I have volte disabled. Mobile data is disabled for most days as well, almost always at mondays at noon (the test time for the alerts).
I’m on the Odido network, that could matter.
As I mentioned a while ago, it has always been a hit-or-miss for me Cell Broadcast Alerts in Denmark - #2 by adekker
@abranson I do have two SIMs (both Vodafone NL), SIM1 (ril_0) gives me an empty Topics value, while SIM2 (ril_1) gives me a Topic of 0-999. I now have set the value of 0-999 also for ril_0, so they are both the same. I will keep an eye on this and see if it will get me consistent results. I am a bit sceptical about this, given the fact that Jolla has not been able to give more information about this subject in a those years people ask about it in this forum.
Btw this is the command to set the Topics value:
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.ofono /ril_0 org.ofono.CellBroadcast.SetProperty string:“Topics” variant:string:0-999
Edit: now have set values to 0-9999 for good measure.
Is there a list of available/assigned channels somewhere? Or some way to determine available ones?
Anyway, the curious and adventurous are invited to test:
https://build.sailfishos.org/package/show/home:nephros:devel:myapps/mobile-cb-manager
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We just had a cell broadcast test in the Netherlands. Having cellBroadcast on true and Topcs set to 0-9999 … resulted in no message this time 
So it seems as random/buggy as it was without adapting the topic channel range.
I did not receive anything this time either. Strange.