Sentinel: Sentinel Database update to favorites

[BobW55]

Since the main database does not automatically update your favorites list, How do you handle it?
1) Manually make the required changes?
2) Add the updated section to your existing list?

I do not have location turned on for any of my list, so for all the P25 systems, I only have the tower frequencies for each county. (keeps it from scanning all of them) so option #2 is not the best for me.

 

[mass-man]

option 1)...

 

[hiegtx]

Since the main database does not automatically update your favorites list, How do you handle it?
1) Manually make the required changes?
2) Add the updated section to your existing list?

I do not have location turned on for any of my list, so for all the P25 systems, I only have the tower frequencies for each county. (keeps it from scanning all of them) so option #2 is not the best for me.

You're a Premium Subscriber, as I am as well.

Set up your "MyRR page" with the counties, trunked systems, as well as agencies that are of interest you.

Check your page periodically (that's the first page you see if logged in". Anything changed in the past 24 hours will be highlighted in green. If there was an update more than 1 day, but 7 days or less, your entry will be highlighted in yellow.

I check for updates to areas, systems, etc, that are of interest to me, and make the updates, if any are needed, manually.

You're in Michigan, so fairly often you will see MPSCS highlighted for an update. But when you actually look at the system to see what changed, quite often it will be a change in a text description, or background information that plays no part in scanning. And, of course, it will be highlighted in a distant county, well out of range for you. The same applies to counties. Very often, the change may be a text tag, or an update to a private company's system that is of zero interest to you.

 

[BobW55]

Steve.
Didn't even consider setting up a MY PAGE.
Will have to do that thanks.

 

[mass-man]

Steve.
Didn't even consider setting up a MY PAGE.
Will have to do that thanks.

I got that idea from Steve a couple of months ago...sure has been a help!

 

[dave3825]

Since the main database does not automatically update your favorites list, How do you handle it?
1) Manually make the required changes?
2) Add the updated section to your existing list?

I do not have location turned on for any of my list, so for all the P25 systems, I only have the tower frequencies for each county. (keeps it from scanning all of them) so option #2 is not the best for me.

Location on or off does not make a difference to me in how I update.

If its a handful of updates, I do manually. If many, I download it into fav list as a new system, then copy / paste what I need into the existing system. Then delete the new downloaded system. So if I had a trunked system, and had a bunch of sites locked out or location control set to on, and there were talk groups added to the system, I just copy the talkgroups from the new import and paste into my existing favorites list. Then all sites that were not being scanned due to location being off or being locked out, are still not going to scan, because all that was added was talkgroups. Of course there are location settings on departments also so those preferences need to be set accordingly. All of my favorites lists, systems, departments and sites have a quick key.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Personally, being a premium sub I use the Proscan favorites list editor to make changes, additions, subtractions, etc. To me the cut, copy & paste functions are much easier to deal with than via Sentinel

 

[K4EET]

Personally, being a premium sub I use the Proscan favorites list editor to make changes, additions, subtractions, etc. To me the cut, copy & paste functions are much easier to deal with than via Sentinel

I’ll second that motion for ProScan. Bob, Mr. ProScan himself, has done a superior job of making ProScan such a flexible yet all encompassing program that earns ProScan the right to be called a “must have” in the scanning shack for the current 24 scanners that it supports. It runs circles around Sentinel and makes maintaining scanner files as easy as it gets. By regularly checking “MyRR Page” for the color highlights of changes and using ProScan to make the necessary changes, one can spend more time doing what they want to do in the scanning shack.

 

[BobW55]

I have proscan... like it better than sentinel.