Wireless Emergency Alerts on Particle

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The alerts are not technically SMS text messages. Although they go over carrier networks, they use a separate technology that "will not get stuck" if wireless traffic is congested in the region — often a problem in an emergency situation.

How wireless emergency alerts work | Mashable

Even though they are not technically SMS... I wonder if they are received that way.

If so you can catch them:

Sending Text/SMS with Electron

I’ll drop some code in here… we can do better in the future but for right now it’s what I have and it works well! Here’s a polled SMS app that also has a smsSend() function. Read the Info.md file for how to interact with it. Make sure you set the APN credentials correctly at the top. This method has always been available. https://gist.github.com/technobly/fb164a7012c64eed7a775f4f7ba91662 And here’s an implementation of SMS reading that is done asynchronously (not polling). When a …

Let's see what David's sources say