DarrelH
Member
I have Unitrunker & SDR# running great for the local Smartnet II system here.
Unless I'm missing something, I don't see an easy way to change between 'favorite' talkgroups in Uni. Like, sometimes I want to listen to Fire/EMS. Sometimes Sheriff. Sometimes different districts of each, etc. So I find myself locking out channel-by-channel, which is a bit annoying. Also, I don't know of any way to remotely make these adjustments, aside from remote-accessing my server.
So I figured I could get more NooElec SDR dongles/antennae and a good powered USB hub, and use something like ScannerLive (are there any alternatives?) to easily switch among talkgroups I want to hear.
Today I'm using one dongle for the control channel, and one for tuning the audio. This is the best-case scenario right?
That said, for each additional talkgroup I'd like to always have running so I could switch to quick & easy, would I need one more dongle or two? I'm sure multiple instances of SDR# have to run, one per audio/talkgroup. But I'm having trouble theorizing the setup for the front-end... (It would help if I wasn't rebuilding this PC today and could test on it)
Can I piggyback the audio from ONE dongle on the control channel, to multiple Unitrunker instances, and set those each to control different SDR#'s? This would mean I'd only need to buy one USB dongle per group I wanted active, instead of two.
And feel free to offer any other suggestions... I've jumped in head-first and had a rocketship start with all this, but I'm by no means an expert... yet.
Thanks
Darrel
Unless I'm missing something, I don't see an easy way to change between 'favorite' talkgroups in Uni. Like, sometimes I want to listen to Fire/EMS. Sometimes Sheriff. Sometimes different districts of each, etc. So I find myself locking out channel-by-channel, which is a bit annoying. Also, I don't know of any way to remotely make these adjustments, aside from remote-accessing my server.
So I figured I could get more NooElec SDR dongles/antennae and a good powered USB hub, and use something like ScannerLive (are there any alternatives?) to easily switch among talkgroups I want to hear.
Today I'm using one dongle for the control channel, and one for tuning the audio. This is the best-case scenario right?
That said, for each additional talkgroup I'd like to always have running so I could switch to quick & easy, would I need one more dongle or two? I'm sure multiple instances of SDR# have to run, one per audio/talkgroup. But I'm having trouble theorizing the setup for the front-end... (It would help if I wasn't rebuilding this PC today and could test on it)
Can I piggyback the audio from ONE dongle on the control channel, to multiple Unitrunker instances, and set those each to control different SDR#'s? This would mean I'd only need to buy one USB dongle per group I wanted active, instead of two.
And feel free to offer any other suggestions... I've jumped in head-first and had a rocketship start with all this, but I'm by no means an expert... yet.
Thanks
Darrel