Unitrunker Restart EDACS system

[hakman]

It's been a while since I used unitrunker, and I seem to remember some way I had of restarting an old EDACS system (that I had entered lots of group labels and whatnot) into to continue monitoring it. Now I can't figure out how I was doing it before. Every time I start the receiver, I get a new system, which is quite annoying. Can someone refresh my memory on how to continue monitoring a saved edacs system?

(Perhaps I was editing the raw XML files while the program was open actually, come to think of it)

Andrew

[mtindor]

Originally Posted by hakman

It's been a while since I used unitrunker, and I seem to remember some way I had of restarting an old EDACS system (that I had entered lots of group labels and whatnot) into to continue monitoring it. Now I can't figure out how I was doing it before. Every time I start the receiver, I get a new system, which is quite annoying. Can someone refresh my memory on how to continue monitoring a saved edacs system?

(Perhaps I was editing the raw XML files while the program was open actually, come to think of it)

Andrew

Andrew, if you are running a relatively recent version of Unitrunker, and if you have your old data for that particular EDACS system already stored in Unittrunker, then it shoudl automatically pull up that site's information when you sit on the control channel for that system.

The only time it would not do that is if the control channel you are monitoring now has never been added as a channel under the "Site" entry for that system.

For instance, if I have a site that I first monitored two months ago in Unitrunker and it had a control channel of 856.3125 at that time, but now the site has a control channel of 857.3125, Unitrunker won't automatically pull it up unless I go into the "Site" section for that site on the system and add 857.3125 as a confirmed control channel.

Then again, I'm using a PSR-500 to monitor EDACS, so it obtains the current control channel frequency that I'm listening to from the scanner. If you are using a discriminator tap, then it should prompt you for the current control channel. Even then you would still have to have that frequency already added under the particular site, with the correct LCN, before Unitrunker will pull up the information for that system that you have stored.

I hope this makes sense - but I'm finding it difficult to say what I mean to say

mike

[hakman]

Oh, yeah, now I remember. The control channel frequency is the "key" to the system, and once you put that in, it starts using the stored groups and things for the system. I think the raw XML editing I remember was how to get the system back in to unitrunker once you export it (as the import doesn't do anything for me).

I'm using a 246T with discriminator tap for the control channel, and it's not setup with serial. I think the command to read the current frequency from the scanner is missing on the 246T (or I seem to remember something like that) as I always had to type in the CC frequency manually.

Cool, it's working now.
Thanks for jogging my memory.

Andrew

[mtindor]

Originally Posted by hakman

Oh, yeah, now I remember. The control channel frequency is the "key" to the system, and once you put that in, it starts using the stored groups and things for the system. I think the raw XML editing I remember was how to get the system back in to unitrunker once you export it (as the import doesn't do anything for me).

I'm using a 246T with discriminator tap for the control channel, and it's not setup with serial. I think the command to read the current frequency from the scanner is missing on the 246T (or I seem to remember something like that) as I always had to type in the CC frequency manually.

Cool, it's working now.
Thanks for jogging my memory.

Andrew

You're welcome. You said it better than I could have heh. Glad you were able to decipher my code

Mike

[K8TEK]

You could just put the CC frequency in Unitrunker and it should do that automatically.