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Updates, release notes and stories from the iOnCall team.
New this week: a crew board, one-tap callout answers, every station keeps an admin, and dark mode
A crew board for the crew-room TV, answering a callout straight from the notification, a responding log with stand down, a way for every station to keep an admin, reworked crewing rules, and dark mode in the app.
iFireiCrewiRescueIntroducing the iOnCall Developer API
Your station's crew and their current availability, now readable from your own software. A small, read-only first version with keys tied to one station, and a demo station you can try with no sign-up.
iCrewCrewing rules that understand a lifeboat station
Rules for each boat, role ladders so you only tick a person's highest role, your own names for roles, and a check that you can launch both boats at once. Built with a lifeboat crew, and just as useful on a fire station.
iFireiCrewiRescueThe Crew board: your station on the crew-room TV
A live page for the TV in your crew room: who's on call, whether you can respond, and, the moment the pager goes, who's on the way. It runs in any browser, and it comes with the Station Dashboard.
iFireiCrewiRescueBuilt with a lifeboat crew: calendar, rotas, logos and more
A new Calendar tab, booking time off in one go, setting your rota once, your station's logo in the app, and alerts that know when you're booked off - all shaped by feedback from a lifeboat crew.
iFireiCrewiRescueWhy iOnCall is moving to station subscriptions
iOnCall is moving from optional personal subscriptions to one simple licence per station: every feature for every crew member, the new Station Dashboard, and callouts that are never locked. Here's why, what you get and what it costs.
iFireiCrewiRescueG-Cloud: where we're up to
Seven weeks on from our first post about listing on the UK Government's G-Cloud framework, here's an honest update: what's moved, what hasn't, and why we're not rushing the last few steps.
iFireiCrewiRescueUnder the hood: the engineering behind iOnCall
Most app companies keep the engineering behind closed doors. We'd rather show you. Here's an honest tour under the hood of iOnCall — one codebase serving three apps, a self-healing fleet on AWS in the UK, and the thinking that keeps it fast when it matters most.
iFireiCrewiRescueGeofencing: a one-tap nudge as you arrive and leave
Forgetting to mark yourself available when you get back, or unavailable when you head out of the area, happens to everyone. Geofencing watches the edge of your station area for you — and gives you a one-tap prompt to update your availability as you arrive and leave.
iRescueiRescue now works with HM Coastguard Alerting and Tasking
Coastguard rescue officers shouldn't have to update their availability twice. iRescue now works alongside HM Coastguard's Alerting and Tasking system - set your status once in the app, and send the matching update with a single tap.