Favorites List Problems

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pjscott51

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I have both the Uniden 436 and 536HP's.

I have several favorites that won't work. When I turn on one of these favorites to monitor nothing displays.
I've even tried creating a new favorite and again nothing displays. I've tried this on both the 436 and 536 and I get the same results.
All favorites have a distinct FL Quick Key number.
I've even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Sentinel software.

Does anyone have any ideas what's going on or what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

Paul
 

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I have both the Uniden 436 and 536HP's.

I have several favorites that won't work. When I turn on one of these favorites to monitor nothing displays.
I've even tried creating a new favorite and again nothing displays. I've tried this on both the 436 and 536 and I get the same results.
All favorites have a distinct FL Quick Key number.
I've even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Sentinel software.

Does anyone have any ideas what's going on or what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

Paul
You need to clarify what you mean by "nothing displays".
Did you mean that you get a "nothing to scan" message, or that the scanner seems to be scanning, but nothing is being received.
Have you reviewed Service Types, so that all the Public Safety types are set as enabled? Not just DIspatch, but also Tac & Talk? (like Law Talk, Fire Tac, etc).
Are you using location control?
If so, have you entered your current location?
For your Favorites lists, did you create them manually, entering the frequencies & system details by hand, or did you append the systems from the database.
If you have any DMR or NXDN systems in your list(s), have you also purchased those upgrades?

Give a little more detail on your problem, so that we can help you figure out what's happening. You might also attach one of your Favorites lists to a post.
Attaching an *.hpe file to a post

Use Sentinel to "read from scanner" if you have made changes on the scanner that were not also made in Sentinel.
Then, export the resulting Favorites list(s) into an *.hpe file. Then, attach that to a post and upload so that we can take a peek & see if anything is out of place. The Export function is listed under the File drop-down menu. If you have more than one list, export each Favorites list separately.

Note: To upload an *.hpe file, to the Forums, you must change the file extension to one acceptable per forum requirements. To do that, note where your exported *.hpe file is saved on your PC.
Using Windows Explorer, find the file.
There are two ways to do this. You can either change the file extension itself, or compress the file using 7-Zip or another file utility. The *.zip file extension can be attached to a post and uploaded to the Forums.

Or, using Windows Explorer, rename your file one of these two ways:
For illustration, let's call your exported file 'MyFile.hpe' (without the quotes).
<Right><Click> on the file & choose Rename from the pop-up menu.
You can then rename your file to MyFile.txt, or MyFile.hpe.txt in order to attach it to a post. Whoever views the file will need to reset the file name back to MyFile.hpe, then it can be imported into Sentinel for viewing.
 

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I have both the Uniden 436 and 536HP's.

I have several favorites that won't work. When I turn on one of these favorites to monitor nothing displays.
I've even tried creating a new favorite and again nothing displays. I've tried this on both the 436 and 536 and I get the same results.
All favorites have a distinct FL Quick Key number.
I've even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Sentinel software.

Does anyone have any ideas what's going on or what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

Paul
Check the Profile. Did you set Monitor and Download to ON for each Favorites List?
If you didn't, click on Edit - Profile. Then change them to ON and then download to your scanner.
 

pjscott51

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You need to clarify what you mean by "nothing displays".
Did you mean that you get a "nothing to scan" message, or that the scanner seems to be scanning, but nothing is being received.
Have you reviewed Service Types, so that all the Public Safety types are set as enabled? Not just DIspatch, but also Tac & Talk? (like Law Talk, Fire Tac, etc).
Are you using location control?
If so, have you entered your current location?
For your Favorites lists, did you create them manually, entering the frequencies & system details by hand, or did you append the systems from the database.
If you have any DMR or NXDN systems in your list(s), have you also purchased those upgrades?

Give a little more detail on your problem, so that we can help you figure out what's happening. You might also attach one of your Favorites lists to a post.
Attaching an *.hpe file to a post

Use Sentinel to "read from scanner" if you have made changes on the scanner that were not also made in Sentinel.
Then, export the resulting Favorites list(s) into an *.hpe file. Then, attach that to a post and upload so that we can take a peek & see if anything is out of place. The Export function is listed under the File drop-down menu. If you have more than one list, export each Favorites list separately.

Note: To upload an *.hpe file, to the Forums, you must change the file extension to one acceptable per forum requirements. To do that, note where your exported *.hpe file is saved on your PC.
Using Windows Explorer, find the file.
There are two ways to do this. You can either change the file extension itself, or compress the file using 7-Zip or another file utility. The *.zip file extension can be attached to a post and uploaded to the Forums.

Or, using Windows Explorer, rename your file one of these two ways:
For illustration, let's call your exported file 'MyFile.hpe' (without the quotes).
<Right><Click> on the file & choose Rename from the pop-up menu.
You can then rename your file to MyFile.txt, or MyFile.hpe.txt in order to attach it to a post. Whoever views the file will need to reset the file name back to MyFile.hpe, then it can be imported into Sentinel for viewing.


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pjscott51

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I made some changes to the Service Types and everything seems to working now. Apparently that was my problem.

Thanks for the replies and help,

Paul
 

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If you continue to have issues, feel free to create the HPE files, zip them and post them or e-mail to me. I'll be happy to give a look-see.
 
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