Motorola XTS5000 - Emergency Button Assignment

[RedShoeRider]

Good Morning, All:

I'm moving up from the small (but mighty) EX600XLS to a much-larger (and mightier) XTS5000.

I have the EX's emergency button programmed as home-channel revert (personality 1, channel 1), and I'd like to program the XTS the same way. Problem is that I can't figure out a way to do that. The EX was easy: there's an option for doing just that right in CPS. If the XTS can do that, I don't see it in Astro25 (v20, if that matters), or it's not as obvious. I realize that with the mechanical hard-stop that the XTS has for channel 1 on the selection knob, rather than the un-stopped EX, having the button programmed to revert isn't as necessary, but I like having the option. This is all under Conventional personality; we're not trunked/encrypted/talkgrouped/anything advanced.

In case anyone asks:, this is my personal radio for the volunteer fire department, my department does not use/have use of the emergency button, and the Chief is ok with my programming it this way if I can.

Thanks very much!

 

[jps200]

Looking at the CPS under Controls/Buttons, Top Button, it does not appear as that is an option

 

[FFPM571]

No because the XTS has a dedicated Home button that if you hold that it will go to whatever personality you want as your home

 

[doughboy5100]

You should be able to program the top button to "MS1". Then go to your desired home channel and press and hold the top button.

 

[Giddyuptd]

Here's a picture to help guide in Doughboys post.

 

[RedShoeRider]

Good Evening, All:

Oh, cool! I'll try the MS1 thing in the morning when I have my radio. Thank you for the suggestion/thought. What does MS1 stand for, anyway? I saw those in there (MS1, 2, 3), but didn't see a good explanation of what they were in the literature.

Cheers!
-Red

 

[RedShoeRider]

....nevermind. After 4 minutes of Googling, I found the description in the manual for the APX series of radios.

 

[RedShoeRider]

Good Morning, All!

Not so much success
I reprogrammed the top button to MS1, went to Personality 1, Channel 1, pressed and held the top button, and got that dull "beep" that you get when you tell the radio something invalid. I tried going to a different channel and pressing the button to see if it took the program anyway....no such luck.

Thoughts or ideas on the matter?

Thanks a lot!
-Red

 

[mikegilbert]

It's a firmware-dependent feature, so you may need to update. Not sure which revision it became available.

 

[jthorpe]

Just program the home button on the XTS-5000 to go to the home channel. Whatever one you define in CPS as the home channel under radio wide.

 

[AK4FD]

I use my emergency button to turn scan on/off. Never had an issue.

 

[mikewazowski]

I use mine for Nuisance Delete.

 

[AK4FD]

Yep, you can make it whatever you want to. I use it for scan as a short press & Nuisance Delete for long press on my Chinese radios and for scan enable on my Moto radios. It comes in handy being right on top when the radio is on your belt!

 

[N4KVE]

I use mine for Nuisance Delete.

Me too.