Motorola XPR Programing Help..

[rpfd41]

Greetings,

I Need a little help to Understand how to Thru the CPS 2.0 for the XPR 2500 trying to Display Contact Alias from all the XPR 3300e portables. I'm not sure how to do this with the digital channel. All the XPR3300e have been given their own ID now I'm looking for the XPR2500 to Display the Radio ID example 1234 to Alias "John". I'm used to working with the OLD CDM1550 radios and software. All Help would be appreciated I'm still trying to figure out this DMR Software.

Rpfd41

 

[EWC_BDN]

I'm not familiar with the new Over the air Alias option, but I think everything would need to be on a newer FW for that.

to do it the old way you would add every radio to the contacts of the radio you want to see the Alias on. so under contacts click add and make private call contacts. Name them and use the ID number from the radio as the ID.

I've had customers want their employee's name on all their portable. I tell them no don't do that. They said do it anyway. I even explained that if it ever needed to be changed they would need to reprogram all of them. They said their employees don't leave so it's not a big deal. Then they fire John and now I have to reprogram all of their radios to change it lol. I guess not eh?

Call them radio 1 radio 2. or shop 1, shipping 1. jobs remain people change. (might not matter in your case of course, but for companies it was silly)

 

[rpfd41]

I'm not familiar with the new Over the air Alias option, but I think everything would need to be on a newer FW for that.

to do it the old way you would add every radio to the contacts of the radio you want to see the Alias on. so under contacts click add and make private call contacts. Name them and use the ID number from the radio as the ID.

I've had customers want their employee's name on all their portable. I tell them no don't do that. They said do it anyway. I even explained that if it ever needed to be changed they would need to reprogram all of them. They said their employees don't leave so it's not a big deal. Then they fire John and now I have to reprogram all of their radios to change it lol. I guess not eh?

Call them radio 1 radio 2. or shop 1, shipping 1. jobs remain people change. (might not matter in your case of course, but for companies it was silly)

I will Give it a try Thank you for the help

 

[R8000]

I tell them no don't do that. They said do it anyway.

I 1000% feel your pain. I did the same thing when I built TRBO systems. I tried to explain employee turnover and often fell on deaf ears. So, they get a bill to reprogram. Usually after 3 or 4 trips to reprogram the whole fleet does the idea of generic labels make sense to them. Sometimes it takes a hit to the wallet a few times to get the point across.

Now that we have social media pages that highlight poor LMR installs, it's easy for folks who don't do this for a living to forget that sometimes the customer demands something that isn't good practice. But, we have to do it because the customer is "always" right. *sigh*

We tell the customer "this is a bad idea", but they want it done anyway.
Social media "look what this dumb radio shop did!! They don't know anything"

Some days, you can't win no matter what.

 

[Firebuff880]

With the release last year of M2021.02 a feature called Talker Alias became available. To use it all of the components of the system MUST be at least at that level most importantly the REPEATERS.

Once in it makes life so much better, as only Groups, Dispatch Ids for apps, an Subscriber ids that you need to map in a TX-Contact for default PTT on a Zone/Channel, need to in the contacts section.

A small fix for Caller Alias...

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