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REQ: Long Range Systems - Restuarant pagers?

Open chudgoo opened this issue 7 years ago • 3 comments

I went to Panera Bread the other day and they handed me one of those pagers used to tell you when your order is ready. I immediately looked up the FCC info and found it uses 467.75MHz.
https://fccid.io/2AB6ORXCS7

Also it seems someone has done some leg work decoding it and it looks fairly straight forward. POCSAG at 2400 baud and uses FSK. http://www.windytan.com/2013/09/the-burger-pager.html?m=1

It would be fantastic fun (once or twice anyway) to light up the whole stack.

(That said, I’ve never worked in retail/food service, but can imagine I’d be super confused if this happened on my shift... one of the commenters on the last link had a better idea. When waiting for a table, set yours off early and see what happens. Before anyone gets mad, the firmware is called “havoc”, is it not? ;)

chudgoo avatar Feb 10 '18 00:02 chudgoo

Hahaha yes red Robin has these also I would have fun with this

ImDroided avatar Feb 10 '18 00:02 ImDroided

POCSAG RX and TX are already done, so all that would be needed is a special POCSAG TX mode which would transmit address-only messages in a defined range ? Or maybe -50/+50 around a given address ? A friend noticed that some MMCall pagers used POCSAG also, but the messages had a text payload.

furrtek avatar Feb 22 '18 06:02 furrtek

@furrtek this video explains how LRS works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycLLb4eVZpI He does it on a HackRF I would love to see this implemented in Havoc (as in being able to specify the pager ID and restaurant ID)

jLynx avatar Jul 26 '19 01:07 jLynx