Prospect62
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And can anyone tell me about the "RSSI Cal on/off" feature?
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V1.31 G2-G5 Firmware Release
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FYI - that Distributed COM event is actually very common on Windows machines - it's not related to the Unication. You'll find it on just about every Windows 10 computer. DCOM has nothing to do with drivers - it stands for Distributed Component Object Model and is very heavily used in the software development world. It's unrelated to what we're running into with not being able to detect the G4/G5 properly.
My guess is Unication hasn't tested Windows 10 version 20H2 yet. My G5 isn't the only device I've had trouble with. I have another radio that was giving me grief the other night. I was able to work around that one, but it was a case of a device that truly needed a USB Virtual COM (serial) port.
What I've noticed when connecting my G5 is that Windows will detect it as a Network Adapter and install the Unication RNDIS driver (at first). Then the RNDIS network adapter disappears from Device Manager. A few seconds later, it's detected as a COM port which is why PPS is unable to see the radio.
I run VMware Workstation on my Windows 10 version 20H2 computer. I have a virtual machine running an older version of Windows 10. I ran that VM, installed PPS 03-16-21 with the accompanying driver, then told VMware to connect the G5 to the virtual machine. It worked perfectly.
I'm 99.9% certain this is a compatibility issue with 20H2.
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It's working fine on 20H2 for me, but I did have to install the driver that's available separately from PPS at Downloads- G2-G5 P25 Voice Pager | Unication USA
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Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this or if I missed a message about it, but from time to time I'll be monitoring a Trunked-Scan knob with my set talkgroups, and I'll receive a transmission from a talkgroup in the same TRS but not listed under my priority or non priority groups. It acts exactly the same way as Trunked-Monitor where it doesn't show the group name, just the TG ID (unless placed in the group list). Maybe I ticked the wrong setting, but everything looks normal...
Check D-5 Private Call ID setting and make sure it's all "No Setting". That's what fixed this for me.
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I had the P25T set to 1 and checked by accident. Thanks!
CFP387
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Received Signal Strength Indicator Calibration
I have only found that when I try to turn the feature on and go to exit out of it, it will turn right back off.
It's not to be confused with AGC, or Automatic Gain Control, which is a really needed function in the G-Series line of pagers.
Upgraded several G5's last night to the new firmware, now all 4 that was done will no active for conventional 2-tone. I have reprogrammed with using different profiles with no change.
Send me the file and tone timing and I will take a look.
I fought this issue for many months, always reverting back to v1.2 which worked fine.
I finally resolved the issue by checking the timing of the transmitted tones. I discovered they did not use the standard 3/5 second tone timing and had a different page wait time. I changed the two tone settings to the wait time (750ms) and tone A and tone B length to 3500ms. Worked great ever since.
It was my mistake to presume the dispatch center was using “normal” tone lengths (silly of me!). The newer firmware was very picky whereas the 1.2 version didn’t care!
Current Version: V03.16.24
Released: 5/2021
Are there any big changes in this PPS version?
Released: 5/2021
Are there any big changes in this PPS version?
I am told was a radio ref import fix.
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No need to update if you currently successful in importing.This version addresses no other issues.
I'm sending you my file, I was able to get the tone issues fix. The beta software at least on my end had changed the timing however now I can not getting silent, priority, or normal scanning to work which is causing issues since we are dispatched by two different counties.
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Upgraded to v1.31, now I get message "PPS does not support this device". Also updated PPS to version on download page. Device is G4,
have not had any problems at all until now. Help!! PPS does recognize device is connected.
have not had any problems at all until now. Help!! PPS does recognize device is connected.
emessick3
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Problem solved! Computer did not recognize new version of PPS, still using old version, not compatible with firmware upgrade.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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I am having trouble with the relay. My relay is hooked to a horn. After the pager tones open the radio I get a horn. This is the correct operation. Here is my problem. When the dispatcher's carrier drops I get a horn again. This is not correct. After the dispatcher's carrier drops the radio squelch stays open for a few seconds more allowing other traffic to be heard and each time other traffic is heard the horn sounds. Depending on radio traffic I can get 7 or 8 horns. This is unacceptable. Only the first horn is wanted. Does this firmware upgrade fix this? BTW, how about a button to push (reset) to open the squelch manually to listen to see if the radio is receiving OK? My current G4 firmware is version V1.20. Thanks in advance.
What connector are you using? For alert relay, you want the din connector, not the green one. The green connector closes anytime there is audio.
Does anyone know how to select volume reduction by talkgroup? One of our local FD's talkgroups is for ALERT, automated voice (text to speech) to page out stations. It is EXTREMELY LOUD. If I turn the volume down so it is comfortable, all other talkgroups are so low as to be illegible. Perhaps this would be a good addition to the next s/w upgrade? Thanks for reading.
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