New TwoToneDetect in the works - Python based

[al911er]

I am running v58a with no problems for 14 depts. The question I have is, after making changes to the paging list, ie; add cell phones or email addresses, Does the program need to be restarted? Thanx

[aaknitt]

Originally Posted by al911er

I am running v58a with no problems for 14 depts. The question I have is, after making changes to the paging list, ie; add cell phones or email addresses, Does the program need to be restarted? Thanx

It will automatically pull any new email/cellphone info in after each page. If you change any parameters other than email addresses you'll need to restart the program for those changes to take effect.

Andy

[al911er]

Thanx great program

[iceman977th]

Has anyone else had problems with sending MMS messages to Ntelos users? We have two or three that are unable to receive the messages via @pcs.ntelos.com

[N1EO]

Andy,

Testing V59 here with the same settings I used in the previous versions no problems here so far with three pages today. We get two sets every time so the ignore is still working well also.

Ed

[DC31]

Originally Posted by iceman977th

Has anyone else had problems with sending MMS messages to Ntelos users? We have two or three that are unable to receive the messages via @pcs.ntelos.com

Encourage any of your iPhone customers to set up a specific email acct to receive pages, then use the VIP folder for notification. Today we had a page at 11:33 am. VIP email received essentially immediately. The text to the phone arrived at 13:24, yes, that is almost 2 hours later. Sorry, i don't have any experience with ntelos.

[Smoky13]

Just a quick question. I will be setting 2 tone detect for another fire dept and they are running windows 7 64bit. I will be using V56 as this is the version I am using right now on my desktop running vista 32bit.
Is there any difference between the 64 and 32 bit as I have V56 that I am running right now on a jump drive. The reason I am setting them up with this version is I am running it with no issues.
Also the ffmpeg file that I am running right now is it a universal file as I downloaded it as per the instruction from the link provided on the forum.

Thanks

[ve3nsv]

I've added V59 to my test virtual machine which has 55 tone sets monitoring 3 Counties.I will let you know how it works out.

Originally Posted by aaknitt

Hi everyone,

I just posted v59 on the program page, and I'm looking for some people experienced with TTD to help test it. This version uses a completely different algorithm for tone set detection. I think it should be pretty robust and should solve the few remaining problems that the previous algorithm had under some specific situations. When I get a chance I'll post a graphic that shows the difference between the two algorithms. With the v59 algorithm, an Atonelength can be specified as an optional parameter. You'll need to do this via manual tones.cfg file editing, as the TonesEditor doesn't yet have this added. If nothing is specified it uses an Atonelength of .4 seconds (same as prior versions). Also, v59 doesn't use Btonedebounce or Longtonedebounce...the debounce is equal to the tone length. The graphic should make this clearer. In the meantime, give it a shot and let me know how it works, especially in stacked page situations or situations where you've had issues with the prior algorithm either falsing or not detecting pages.

If the feedback on v59 is good, all future releases will use this new algorithm, including the Raspberry Pi version. BTW, making good progress on the Pi, my previous issues seemed to be solved by switching to a different (although more expensive) USB sound card.

Thanks,

Andy

[N1EO]

Andy,

V59 update: I may have spoken to soon in my last post, last night we had two pages which V56 got but not V59 which was still up and running but appears to have lost its connection to the sound card by watching the audio level meter. There were no windows errors everything looked fine other than the meter.

I have restarted it and will update if it happens again

Ed

[jweiss06]

Hello,

I have installed Two Tone Detect on 3 different computers and used 3 different versions. I can get the program to run .... I can get it to pick up the tones and send out the messages and emails, however, the audio is extremely low. A guy from another department let me listen to theirs and it is much louder.

Is there a setting that I need to change? I'm looking for ideas on how to increase the sound.

I have a scanner hooked up using a double male audio cable to the "Line In" port in the back of the computer. I've picked the Line In option for input, and the Microsoft Sound Mapper for the output. It worked great when I selected the mic to the webcam, but it recorded everything in the room *LOL* and the audio was loud too. I can hear the page come through the computer speakers. (I hope I've given enough info on the setup)

Looking for help to fix this because it is a very neat program.

Thanks,
John

[silfam1]

Andy,
Installed V59 yesterday, got 3 toneouts overnight and it worked great. Still testing, will let you know if anything pops up. Great work, thanks!

[Cardiac69]

Thanks for all of your time and effort with this program. I am trying to get it up and running to no avail. Followed all of the instructions, and watched the Youtube video.

It is running on a Win XP box. The sound card detects the tone properly (Single long tone), but recording never starts. I have tried both v58 and 56. ffmpeg is installed in the TTD directory, and the config.cfg and tones.cfg are minimal. This is what the debug looks like when a call is dispatched:

1005.0 Atone1
1005.0Atone2
A Tone Found! 13:37:29
Checking for B Tone 13:37:29
Checking for Long Tone 13:37:33
1021.0 Atone1
467.0Atone2

This is as far as anything goes. I can see that the audio is still being recognized, as it shows up on the "Tone Frequency" area on the program.

We do not have a Tone A or B, just a single Long tone.

This is what the tones.cfg looks like:


[Longtone1]
Longtone = 1005.1
Longtonelength = 1
Description = HFD Dispatch
mp3_emails = rsxxxx@yahoo.com, 21xxxxxxx@vzwpix.com
amr_emails = 21xxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com, 21xxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com


[Longtone2]
Longtone = 898.0
Longtonelength = 1
Description = HFD Dispatch
mp3_emails = rsxxxx@yahoo.com
amr_emails = 21xxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com, 21xxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com

Can anyone shed a little light on this? I know it is something stupid.....

Thanks!

[aaknitt]

Originally Posted by Cardiac69

Thanks for all of your time and effort with this program. I am trying to get it up and running to no avail. Followed all of the instructions, and watched the Youtube video.

It is running on a Win XP box. The sound card detects the tone properly (Single long tone), but recording never starts. I have tried both v58 and 56. ffmpeg is installed in the TTD directory, and the config.cfg and tones.cfg are minimal. This is what the debug looks like when a call is dispatched:

1005.0 Atone1
1005.0Atone2
A Tone Found! 13:37:29
Checking for B Tone 13:37:29
Checking for Long Tone 13:37:33
1021.0 Atone1
467.0Atone2

This is as far as anything goes. I can see that the audio is still being recognized, as it shows up on the "Tone Frequency" area on the program.

We do not have a Tone A or B, just a single Long tone.

This is what the tones.cfg looks like:


[Longtone1]
Longtone = 1005.1
Longtonelength = 1
Description = HFD Dispatch
mp3_emails = rsxxxx@yahoo.com, 21xxxxxxx@vzwpix.com
amr_emails = 21xxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com, 21xxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com


[Longtone2]
Longtone = 898.0
Longtonelength = 1
Description = HFD Dispatch
mp3_emails = rsxxxx@yahoo.com
amr_emails = 21xxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com, 21xxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com

Can anyone shed a little light on this? I know it is something stupid.....

Thanks!

Increase your Longtonelength parameter to 5 instead of 1 and it should work.

Andy

[Cardiac69]

Thank you for the prompt reply, Andy. I increased the Longtonelength in both 1 and 2 to a value of 5 as you said, and the recording still does not begin. I end up with the same debug output as I posted above.
Anything else I should be looking for?

Bob

[aaknitt]

Originally Posted by Cardiac69

Thank you for the prompt reply, Andy. I increased the Longtonelength in both 1 and 2 to a value of 5 as you said, and the recording still does not begin. I end up with the same debug output as I posted above.
Anything else I should be looking for?

Bob

Do you have a recording of your tone you could post? It's detecting the 1005 Hz tone when it starts but not seeing it 5 seconds later for some reason.


Andy

[Cardiac69]

Originally Posted by aaknitt

Do you have a recording of your tone you could post? It's detecting the 1005 Hz tone when it starts but not seeing it 5 seconds later for some reason.


Andy

Yes, I have a complete test page out recording. The toone does not last for 5 seconds. It only lasts for maybe 2. It is a very short tone.... I could strip the voice from this recording and post the tone by itself in a .wav format. Is that good? Also, I don't know if I have priviledges to post a file. I've been a member for 8 years, but never posted: just lurked

Bob

[aaknitt]

Originally Posted by Cardiac69

Yes, I have a complete test page out recording. The toone does not last for 5 seconds. It only lasts for maybe 2. It is a very short tone.... I could strip the voice from this recording and post the tone by itself in a .wav format. Is that good? Also, I don't know if I have priviledges to post a file. I've been a member for 8 years, but never posted: just lurked

Bob

Ah, that makes things different. If you're using v59, try using a Longtone = 1005 with Longtonelength = 1.5 or 2. If you're using v58b, try using an A-B tone with Atone = 1005, Btone = 1005, Btonelength = 1.5 (or less if needed), Btonedebounce = 2 or 3.

That short of a tone may suffer from falsing more frequently that others.

Andy

[Cardiac69]

Originally Posted by aaknitt

Ah, that makes things different. If you're using v59, try using a Longtone = 1005 with Longtonelength = 1.5 or 2. If you're using v58b, try using an A-B tone with Atone = 1005, Btone = 1005, Btonelength = 1.5 (or less if needed), Btonedebounce = 2 or 3.

That short of a tone may suffer from falsing more frequently that others.

Andy

You da man! The longtone won't work. It needed to be the A-B tone each set @ 1.

Thanks you so much!

Bob

[nordike84]

Andy,

We are running 6 depts on v58 we just upgraded from v53. All of our freq in the county are extremely close. We have adjusted the btone length to weed out the false pages caused by the B tone but some are hitting because of the A tone. Any suggestions on what we can do to avoid this??

This program is amazing and we have had no other issues besides the false pages. Thank you for providing it.

[jweiss06]

Hello,
I posted 2 previous times (I'm a new user) and I'm not sure where they ended up as I can't find them anywhere.

I've installed Two Tone on a few different computers and I'm having a problem with the audio level that is sent out in the text messages and email. I have the scanner audio turned up at least 3/4 the way and I've tried it up all the way. It seems like it has a low audio level. I guy from another department let me listen to his and it is 5 times louder so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I've tried 3 different computers (2 different brands) all with built-in sound cards. I have used two different scanners and even a fire pager with amplifier. The only thing that was consistent was the cable that was used. Last night I bought a new cable and hooked it up and the audio is a little louder but not much.

I have the scanner hooked up with the audio cable into the Line In port on the back of the computer.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, or what I need to change to get the audio sound louder so that it can be heard without difficulty.

You can also email me at jweiss@willard-oh.com to help walk me through this if you are able to.

Thanks,
John