New to scanning? No scanner (yet)? Have an old unused cell phone?

[Omega-TI]

If you are new to scanning, or this site, and don't have a scanner yet, there is an alternative. Use an old smartphone and dedicate it to listen to the Broadcastify feeds at home over your WiFi. You may or may not find a local feed, but if you do, it's a great way to monitor stuff. Also, if there is something major going on someplace, it'll can alert you to the happenings in places you local scanner could never pick up.

Now if you don't like your cellphones audio, you can use a Bluetooth speaker, the line in on a radio or a recording device as well.

 

[StoliRaz]

How about setting up a scanner at home and being able to monitor a specific frequency remotely on my phone without doing a broadcastify feed? Kind of a personal, "private" feed? Preferably free/low cost software

Just an idea I've been playing with lately, haven't seen anything I could use yet.

 

[jtwalker]

How about setting up a scanner at home and being able to monitor a specific frequency remotely on my phone without doing a broadcastify feed? Kind of a personal, "private" feed? Preferably free/low cost software

Just an idea I've been playing with lately, haven't seen anything I could use yet.

ProScan can do this pretty easily. Hardest part is port forwarding on your specific router.

 

[StoliRaz]

ProScan can do this pretty easily. Hardest part is port forwarding on your specific router.

I'll check it out. Thanks

 

[scannersnstuff]

If you are new to scanning, or this site, and don't have a scanner yet, there is an alternative. Use an old smartphone and dedicate it to listen to the Broadcastify feeds at home over your WiFi. You may or may not find a local feed, but if you do, it's a great way to monitor stuff. Also, if there is something major going on someplace, it'll can alert you to the happenings in places you local scanner could never pick up.

Now if you don't like your cellphones audio, you can use a Bluetooth speaker, the line in on a radio or a recording device as well.



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The thing is,don't you lose phone connection once you've upgraded to a new phone ?.

 

[bob550]

The thing is,don't you lose phone connection once you've upgraded to a new phone ?.

Your old un-activated phone can continue to be used on Wi-Fi. You will not be able to use your phone for this purpose otherwise.

 

[IAmSixNine]

ProScan also gets my vote for a great way to set up a private feed. I have several scanners at home set up like that so i can listen to a few things while at work. (office is a wanna be faraday cage). 2 of my feeds are BCD996P2 so i can use the remote function while at work and start or stop scan and have the control of the scanner like i was sitting in front of it. I also have 1 feed set up on zello. Its a medical helo dispatch channel so its not very active which is perfect for zello.
Side note, Scanner Radio Pro by Gordon Edwards allows for custom radio set up. SO i can use that with my ProScan set up at home. BUT this only applies to the Android version. The iOS version does not allow for custom radio set up.
As mentioned above you need to be able to get into your router and set up port forwarding. So might require some extra skill level.

 

[scannersnstuff]

Your old un-activated phone can continue to be used on Wi-Fi. You will not be able to use your phone for this purpose otherwise.

I did not even know that. Thank you.

 

[bob550]

I did not even know that. Thank you.

You can use the old phone as you would a tablet without a cellular network connection. You can also use un-activated phones to dial 911 from anywhere in an emergency. Old factory reset handsets are routinely donated to persons under threat of domestic violence if they have no phone of their own.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

The thing is,don't you lose phone connection once you've upgraded to a new phone ?.

Na I have several older model Samsung Galaxies (some 10+ years old) that still work like a champ on my wifi