1.3 Firmware

[Cheeseburgers]

Did I misread something is this coming in May 2020?

 

[mdsxfire]

It is still in beta, if u signed up and uploaded ur code plug to get the beta recently we should get it in the next few days as they are making some fixes to issues that were already reported

 

[Cheeseburgers]

Roger

 

[N6ML]

It is still in beta, if u signed up and uploaded ur code plug to get the beta recently we should get it in the next few days as they are making some fixes to issues that were already reported

Are you talking about the same thing? (AFAIK) 1.3 is the next release of the regular firmware, *not* the new variant with scanner-like features.

 

[blackbelter]

The Beta 1.4 FW with Scanner feature:

 

[AJorge1219]

The Beta 1.4 FW with Scanner feature:

Is this direct from Unication? I am curious about the LTE interference rejection model referenced...does anyone know more about this?

 

[Cheeseburgers]

Are you talking about the same thing? (AFAIK) 1.3 is the next release of the regular firmware, *not* the new variant with scanner-like features.

yeah I was talking about the 1.3 regular firmware update

 

[mdsxfire]

Has anyone using this firmware noticed a longer delay when voice buffering is on, sitting both my G5s next to eachother on the same system the one running 1.3 is at least a full second behind the 1.2 pager, which puts it a second or more behind the radio voice. Currently my G5 with 1.2 is spot on when placed next to my portable radio. Has anyone disabled the buffering, as that should take the delay away and not had any TX cut off?
second does anyone know the exact workings of the new priority, non priority boxes and how they should be set up, when i upgraded to 1.3 F/W it automatically threw all my TGs into the priority box in the same order they were and it seems to be treating them in priority as it did with the 1.2, just wondering what the non priority box is for then, and how to correctly use it.

 

[N6ML]

I run with voice buffering disabled, because the delay is really distracting when you're at a scene with other radios that don't have delay. I've noticed that 1.3 is dropping the start of messages where 1.2 wasn't (at least not noticeably) - short messages like "copy" are sometimes not heard at all. They do get recorded - just not heard "live".

I haven't had time to experiment with the priority scan yet, but my assumption is that the priority list behaves as it did before, and that the non-priority groups will be played only if there is no traffic on a priority group *and* will *not* be interrupted by any other non-priority group. The problem with everything being in the priority list is that it'd constantly jump around between groups, making it difficult to follow any conversation. I made the suggestion of a non-priority concept a while back. I don't know if they implemented because of that, or they arrived there for some other reason.

 

[mdsxfire]

I run with voice buffering disabled, because the delay is really distracting when you're at a scene with other radios that don't have delay. I've noticed that 1.3 is dropping the start of messages where 1.2 wasn't (at least not noticeably) - short messages like "copy" are sometimes not heard at all. They do get recorded - just not heard "live".

I haven't had time to experiment with the priority scan yet, but my assumption is that the priority list behaves as it did before, and that the non-priority groups will be played only if there is no traffic on a priority group *and* will *not* be interrupted by any other non-priority group. The problem with everything being in the priority list is that it'd constantly jump around between groups, making it difficult to follow any conversation. I made the suggestion of a non-priority concept a while back. I don't know if they implemented because of that, or they arrived there for some other reason.

do you have paging setup on the TGs that u have voice buffering disabled on? Person im dealing with from Uni said it really only needs to be enabled if you are receiving alert tones so that the voice dispatch doesnt get cut out by the tones.
ive been experimenting with my portable and doing very quick TX, quick air blow into mic and it is not missing a bit of it with buffering disabled and it is spot on with my other G5 and my portable, wondering what and why they changed in the voice buffering

 

[N6ML]

do you have paging setup on the TGs that u have voice buffering disabled on? Person im dealing with from Uni said it really only needs to be enabled if you are receiving alert tones so that the voice dispatch doesnt get cut out by the tones.
ive been experimenting with my portable and doing very quick TX, quick air blow into mic and it is not missing a bit of it with buffering disabled and it is spot on with my other G5 and my portable, wondering what and why they changed in the voice buffering

The agency that I monitor doesn't put paging tones out on the P25 system, so I'm monitoring only. Are you doing the above test with 1.2 or 1.3?

 

[mdsxfire]

The agency that I monitor doesn't put paging tones out on the P25 system, so I'm monitoring only. Are you doing the above test with 1.2 or 1.3?

I have one pager running 1.3 with voice buffering off and one with 1.2 with voice buffering on and they are identical with what and when they receive, had 2 calls today and unfortunately I had the pager that alerts on a knob that I still have buffering on, so now I’m parked with buffering off to see how it deals with our stacked tones, works flawlessly with buffering on

 

[relicwr]

Has anyone using this firmware noticed a longer delay when voice buffering is on, sitting both my G5s next to eachother on the same system the one running 1.3 is at least a full second behind the 1.2 pager, which puts it a second or more behind the radio voice. Currently my G5 with 1.2 is spot on when placed next to my portable radio. Has anyone disabled the buffering, as that should take the delay away and not had any TX cut off?
second does anyone know the exact workings of the new priority, non priority boxes and how they should be set up, when i upgraded to 1.3 F/W it automatically threw all my TGs into the priority box in the same order they were and it seems to be treating them in priority as it did with the 1.2, just wondering what the non priority box is for then, and how to correctly use it.

I tried turning off the buffer. It didn't seem to do anything for me. I still get cut-offs whether it's on or off. I'm missing a lot of transmissions that DSD+ is still getting and also have a lot of control channel drop-outs when it's idle which is definitely contributing to the missing traffic.

 

[minasha]

When did you guys get 1.3 firmware? I'm still waiting

 

[APX8000]

Prior to upgrading to beta firmware, I had voice buffering enabled and the transmissions were spot on with my APX subscribers. Upon upgrading to beta, there is now a delay as my APX’s receive the transmission about a second prior. It’s highly annoying when both are on. Turning voice buffering off puts in back in line with my subscribers. And the fun part is you have to do it for EVERY knob position in every zone ! I’ll never get back that time going through 64 zones.....

I *****ed to Unication about the change they made to this feature as a beta tester. Can’t wait until they switch it back and I have to do the reverse LOL

 

[N6ML]

That's odd. Voice buffering always created a delay for me - as you would expect. I always turned it off because of that annoyance when around other radios (e.g. APX's). The only difference I see with 1.3 is that the start of messages now gets cut off (with buffering disabled),

 

[mdsxfire]

Prior to upgrading to beta firmware, I had voice buffering enabled and the transmissions were spot on with my APX subscribers. Upon upgrading to beta, there is now a delay as my APX’s receive the transmission about a second prior. It’s highly annoying when both are on. Turning voice buffering off puts in back in line with my subscribers. And the fun part is you have to do it for EVERY knob position in every zone ! I’ll never get back that time going through 64 zones.....

I *****ed to Unication about the change they made to this feature as a beta tester. Can’t wait until they switch it back and I have to do the reverse LOL

Me too always had buffering on and it was right on with our dept radios, this 1.3 buffering put it a second off, good thing, after having to go through every knob and turning it off it’s back spot on and I don’t miss any parts of the TX did many quick transmits and got them all, are they going to change it back to how it was, my guess is they just added to the buffer

 

[mdsxfire]

That's odd. Voice buffering always created a delay for me - as you would expect. I always turned it off because of that annoyance when around other radios (e.g. APX's). The only difference I see with 1.3 is that the start of messages now gets cut off (with buffering disabled),

I don’t notice any cut offs with mine turned off now, just wished they left that part alone never saw anyone complaining about that feature

 

[stevenp1]

Where's this firmware dl page still has 1.2 listed

 

[picscan]

^^^^^what he said^^^^^