Beartracker 885 manager

[kjhutto]

GitHub - disturbedkh/scanner-manager: Unofficial companion app for the Uniden BearTracker 885 (BCT885) SD card: HPD editing, RadioReference import with user-event reconciliation, ZIP/GPS coverage simulation, and Uniden Sentinel / BT885 Update Manager

Unofficial companion app for the Uniden BearTracker 885 (BCT885) SD card: HPD editing, RadioReference import with user-event reconciliation, ZIP/GPS coverage simulation, and Uniden Sentinel / BT885...

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Unofficial companion app for the Uniden BearTracker 885 (BCT885) SD card: HPD editing, RadioReference import with user-event reconciliation, ZIP/GPS coverage simulation, and Uniden Sentinel / BT885...

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Whipped up a little vibe coded SD card manager for the Beartracker 885 to aid in editing the SD card/programming the scanner service types, adding new channels, seeing stations in range of a zip code or city (simulates what the GPS does) and visualizing/simulating button presses. Please feel free to try out and give feedback/assist in debugging.

NOTE: THIS PROJECT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED IN ALPHA/EXTREME BETA. ESPECIALLY THE HEATMAP FEATURE. BACKUP YOUR SD CARD AS IS TO PRESERVE ANY CHANGES YOU ALREADY HAVE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DATA LOSS.

Ill say one HUGE performance gain I got was updating my local stations with RR latest data. It had all my local trunked channels listed as Mode-All. Switching them to Mode-Digital and thereby making them scan by TGID offered huge gains in the amount of traffic picked up.

One of the things Ive noticed during this project is Uniden is very lazy in how it takes new RR data and converts it for the beartracker 885. I have gotten huge gains just eliminating a bunch of multicast conventional stations that would only be used during disaster, deleting encrypted stations (which Uniden leaves in what the heck) and correcting modes all to modes digital.

 

[I_Am_Infinite]

GitHub - disturbedkh/scanner-manager: Unofficial companion app for the Uniden BearTracker 885 (BCT885) SD card: HPD editing, RadioReference import with user-event reconciliation, ZIP/GPS coverage simulation, and Uniden Sentinel / BT885 Update Manager

Unofficial companion app for the Uniden BearTracker 885 (BCT885) SD card: HPD editing, RadioReference import with user-event reconciliation, ZIP/GPS coverage simulation, and Uniden Sentinel / BT885...

github.com

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Unofficial companion app for the Uniden BearTracker 885 (BCT885) SD card: HPD editing, RadioReference import with user-event reconciliation, ZIP/GPS coverage simulation, and Uniden Sentinel / BT885...

github.com

Whipped up a little vibe coded SD card manager for the Beartracker 885 to aid in editing the SD card/programming the scanner service types, adding new channels, seeing stations in range of a zip code or city (simulates what the GPS does) and visualizing/simulating button presses. Please feel free to try out and give feedback/assist in debugging.

NOTE: THIS PROJECT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED IN ALPHA/EXTREME BETA. ESPECIALLY THE HEATMAP FEATURE. BACKUP YOUR SD CARD AS IS TO PRESERVE ANY CHANGES YOU ALREADY HAVE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DATA LOSS.

Ill say one HUGE performance gain I got was updating my local stations with RR latest data. It had all my local trunked channels listed as Mode-All. Switching them to Mode-Digital and thereby making them scan by TGID offered huge gains in the amount of traffic picked up.

One of the things Ive noticed during this project is Uniden is very lazy in how it takes new RR data and converts it for the beartracker 885. I have gotten huge gains just eliminating a bunch of multicast conventional stations that would only be used during disaster, deleting encrypted stations (which Uniden leaves in what the heck) and correcting modes all to modes digital.
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Very impressive, amazing job my friend!

 

[pb_lonny]

This is very cool.

 

[kjhutto]

Release Scanner Manager 0.9.0b2 · disturbedkh/scanner-manager

First beta release on GitHub. Big jump from v0.9.0a2: a real-map heatmap that scales, multiple virtual SD card profiles with snapshot history, comprehensive deleted-tower visibility, a user-facing ...

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Update pushed today - the biggest feature added is the ability to create multiple virtual SD cards that can quickly be swapped between on the physical SD card in order to change between entirely different profiles quickly without having to buy multiple SD cards.
Theoretical, but untested Linux and MacOS support also added. Many other small things added or improved upon.

 

[Ronaldski]

Added this to Beartracker 885 - The RadioReference Wiki
Anyone with an account here can edit wiki's.

 

[rjdj2000]

Will be messing with this as I have a 885 and have been editing the files via excel. This will be more convenient to edit and make the listing to what I want on the card. I just played with it for a quick minute and what would be nice (as I make a custom sd card for my county) is a way to multi-select items to delete. So say I don't want all the other counties around me, a bulk select and delete. Also for selecting TG and changing to all digital. I tried to select more than one TG and could not. Unless I'm missing something, but I only messed with it real quick before getting on here. Will spend a little more time on it once I bring in the sd card from the radio itself and not my statewide card. I've tried to get someone else to make a program like this, but guess that isnt going to happen anytime soon.