MicroP25RX

[goldmyne99]

Dsd has a number thesh hold. If you set TG's for 40 all TG's 40 and under would be heard anything above it muted.

Thanks for the info. Interesting. The @btt TG Zones enable/disable feature could be used in a similar way.

 

[btt]

After taking a brief look at the DSD+ files, I will commit to making FW changes to import all of the applicable information. Thanks! I may have some questions.

 

[ScannerDude244]

If need an other example I can send you some of my files

 

[raidamation]

@btt Great work as always Todd! I do have one possible issue. Last night I was receiving encrypted unknown talk groups. I tried to disable unknown talk groups and then they must have finished there transmissions. Today I looked at the ini file and found unknown talk groups set to 1 which I believe is enabled. I have not finished editing the ini file to try yet. As always it could be operate error with the joystick.

 

[ScannerDude244]

I am not aware of how Priority levels work on DSD.

On the P25RX and the MicroP25RX I always use the Priority Interrupt feature.
To avoid confusion, please note that in the @btt radios a higher number in the Priority field = higher priority. Example: Priority 30 will interrupt a Priority level 1.

It sounds like op25 but the lower value is higher

 

[goldmyne99]

It sounds like op25 but the lower value is higher

Thanks for the info.

Todd's "Priority Interrupt" feature works great on both my P25RX and the new MicroP25RX.

 

[KMG54]

Todd is being quite, this is good!

 

[btt]

@btt Great work as always Todd! I do have one possible issue. Last night I was receiving encrypted unknown talk groups. I tried to disable unknown talk groups and then they must have finished there transmissions. Today I looked at the ini file and found unknown talk groups set to 1 which I believe is enabled. I have not finished editing the ini file to try yet. As always it could be operate error with the joystick.

Try with the latest Wio firmware please. Let me know if the issue persists.

If need an other example I can send you some of my files

Sure, go ahead and send them to the address you received notifications from.

Todd is being quite, this is good!

I had to head out for a few. No new improvements yet. I will get it done!

 

[Stecomp]

There is another Wio Terminal firmware update available. 111902. Holding the top-left button for >1 sec in the MONITOR mode is a shortcut to the CONFIG mode->EDIT menu. Pressing the top-middle button will abort the edit. Thanks to Stecomp and goldmyne99 for the ideas.

Nice quick work Todd. Definitely makes it quicker to disable. Just got to be careful to avoid disabling the wrong TG! Hopefully the WIO 40 pin terminal is robust enough to handle taking off and on - initially I was worried about bending a pin.

 

[raidamation]

Try with the latest Wio firmware please. Let me know if the issue persists.

@btt I will try changing and saving ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TALKGROUPS and then check the SD card again tomorrow. If I have problems I will try a new firmware and let you know. Separate question, if you backup the .ini file is that all that would be needed to do a full restore including talkgroups or is a talkgroup.csv file still needed on the SD card?

 

[goldmyne99]

@raidamation the backup ini file does contain all the current config info (including the TG info) to do a restore. It is always good to do a backup before a firmware update.

Edit: the backup ini file could also be used to clone one MicroP25RX config settings to another MicroP25RX very quickly by using the restore function.

 

[btt]

Nice quick work Todd. Definitely makes it quicker to disable. Just got to be careful to avoid disabling the wrong TG! Hopefully the WIO 40 pin terminal is robust enough to handle taking off and on - initially I was worried about bending a pin.

goldmyne99 figured out that you can use a right-angle USB-Type C connector for the Wio. This allows connection to the Wio without removing it. The is very handy If you are doing lots of updates to the Wio firmware (during firmware development).

@btt I will try changing and saving ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TALKGROUPS and then check the SD card again tomorrow. If I have problems I will try a new firmware and let you know. Separate question, if you backup the .ini file is that all that would be needed to do a full restore including talkgroups or is a talkgroup.csv file still needed on the SD card?

As goldmyne99 pointed out, 100% of configuration information is contained in the microp25rx_backup.ini file. There are separate [TALKGROUPS] sections for each each system.

 

[btt]

I'm working on improving the DSD talk group import. For the override column what do "NORMAL", "High", and "L/O" used for? The highest value I'm seeing for priority is 100. Is that the maximum value?

 

[btt]

What I'm going to do for now is priority = (100 - DSD_priority) to flip the order around. higher number = higher priority. I figured out the L/O is lock-out. I'm not sure what 'High' is, but I will use NORMAL/HIGH for enable and L/O for disable during the import.

 

[btt]

Firmware updates for 2022-11-20-01 are available for testing.

Changes:

• At least 10x speed up when importing TG, ALIAS and when doing a RESTORE.

• Much improved importing of DSD TG files. Including priorities, and Normal/ L/O status. Allows spaces in the fields.

• Fixed the lockup bug when changing DEMOD for the first time after flash reset to defaults. (not 100% sure this is fixed. needs more testing).

• Allow changing of frequency with the joystick when voice is decoding

 

[KMG54]

DSD is opposite of what you would think. The lower the number the higher the priority. High is the highest priority before hold.

 

[btt]

DSD is opposite of what you would think. The lower the number the higher the priority. High is the highest priority before hold.

I ended up handling that with tthis for the TG import:

micro_priority = (50 - dsd_priority)+1;
if(micro_priority < 1) micro_priority=1;

 

[ScannerDude244]

High is override very similar to the priority you have now. You can set some TG's to High on the threshhold you are monitoring. I like the priority you have now similar to op25 "fire 1 and Law 2"

protocol, networkID, group, priority, override, hits, timestamp, "group alias
P25, 908EE.33F, 2, 50, Normal or High, 810220, 2022/11/19 22:38, "MCSO 1"

BTW look what came in late last night

 

[btt]

The MicroP25RX talk groups have a field for enable/disable and another for priority. I used the Normal/High values for DSD override to "enable" the TG, and the L/O (lockout) override to disable the TG during import. The priorities get reversed (higher# is higher priority) and clamped to a minimum of 1. All extra outer spaces in fields are stripped during the DSD TG import. When you copy your TG DSD files to the uSD card, the filename must end with .groups, .dsd, or .csv. (lower case).

 

[ScannerDude244]

Ok i'll try the new firmware this afternoon. You can import Dsdplus files now?