may come in handy one day
SOS Flashlight App transforms your smartphone into a powerful Morse code signaling device, capable of transmitting emergency messages or custom text through multiple channels simultaneously.
Signal Transmission Methods
- Flashlight: Utilizes your device’s camera led flashlight to transmit visual signals.
- Screen Light: Maximizes screen brightness to create visual signals in darkness.
Neat, this means you can talk to someone in morse code without having to learn morse. Did anyone try how well it works in practice?
I just tried it, sadly it doesn’t have a camera sensor option to detect and translate flashing Morse Code from another source, but it does have a Morse to Text translator that you can manually enter the incoming dots and dashes and it’ll translate back to text.
The send feature converts plain text to the appropriate dots and dashes, with options to flash the screen, the flashlight, beep over the speaker and also vibrate. Dunno why they chose red as the screen flashing color with no option to change color though…
For it to be version 1.0.1, its actually alright, it does work, although slightly clunky (but simple) UI right now. Everything, even the custom text you enter, has to be accessed in the Settings menu.
Its worth a try, I’ll be keeping it on my devices to go alongside the Survival Manual app (different developer), and hope to see some improvements and new features down the road…