If you dont mind spending 5-8 grand on the software that you can only load 1 dispatch console and i think 25? radios to then go for it!
No idea why its SOO expensive. We have 130 school buses on a single hytera RD982S and they would love to have a dispatch software but dont want to fork out 10 grand all said and done for that to be able to see GPS locations, emergency button alerts+gps loaction, and send and rx text messages. Kenwood use to have a similar software back in the day for about 500 bucks that did all the same stuff. Now thats a good price.
Under the access manager section for local access you put any radio id number that you want to be able to access the repeater. So someone COULD just change their radio id to a known working one and possibly get onto the repeater, but if you encrypt voice+data and use a over the air authentication key you put in all your radios they wont be able to hijack your group at least. Dont think hytera has their version of RAS just yet.. or if so i havnt noticed it or deployed it
OTA programming is its own software and you can send update via repeater connected to a computer or even a mobile/portable connected to a pc thats in range of the repeater.
Remote management of a repeater could be done in a basic way with rdac but very limited
Emergency options are done in the radios not the repeater and seems to work just fine on the school bus company we have it enabled for.
We have done SIP on the RD series to call into specific talkgroups from a phone line or even have the option to private call specific radios. And make outgoing phone calls from the radios too
GPS locations can be seen on the radio in a few differnt formats. Give lat+lon or another option would show the distance the calling radio is from your location and also show the degree its coming from.
All this stuff can be done at no extra cost but in a much more limited way then using the very nice but very expensive smart dispatch. Hytera does have a IP dispatch software, you connect a repeater or mobile and can see all the activity on a repeater. what talkgroups are in use and radio ids, can send and rx text message plus use a pc mic to transmit. Downside to it is hasnt been updated since 2016 or 2018 and does not seem to work on H series radios that iv tried. Only MD/RD series so.. that sucks.
