ProScan: Official Software Thread

[ProScan]

ProScan Version 1.7 Build 2 includes the RadioReference Imports feature, improved Scanner Over IP, and bug fixes.

Supported scanners are the BCD996T, BC796D, BC785D, BC780XLT, BC296D, and the BC250D.

I'm thriving to make this the best Computer Aided Scanning program and suggestions are very much appreciated.

http://www.proscan.org/index.htm

Bob

 

[ProScan]

It seems this could be done at either the HP-based export level or during the import and would also apply to System and Group names. But it would be best left up to you to figure out.

I decided not to renew my premium subscription after 10 years, losing the ability to update my non-HP based scanners, and were it not for Uniden's weekly HP updates and your import from hpe feature, I would be in trouble because there's no other way to do it that I'm aware of. Glad I at least have ProScan for the Uniden's but have nothing for the Radio Shacks.

It's a great feature and selling point for those in my situation, but the long alpha tags are a pain to deal with when going backwards.

I may look at this down the road. No guarantees.
Bug Reporting and Suggestions

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But it would be best left up to you to figure out.

If you can't come up with anything to shorten the text tags then I suspect it's not an easy problem to solve.

 

[ProScan]

It seems this could be done at either the HP-based export level or during the import

I'm thinking of a process that pulls all the text tags from the source and puts them in a tab delimited file that can be edited before the import

 

[4436time]

That might work. Need a way to globally strip out spaces and perhaps vowels, and to abbreviate. I will submit the suggestion soon.

I'm thinking of a process that pulls all the text tags from the source and puts them in a tab delimited file that can be edited before the import

 

[buddrousa]

For all of my scanners over 20 Uniden Mobile and 6 Handheld if I do not like what Radioreference Names them I change them by hand.

 

[wizzardproduction]

well iam wandering what iam doing wrong ive made my channel list using radio reference and organized everything including my search banks and everytime i download to scanner it says its doing it channel by channel bank by bank but all it does is erase all the channels from the program and delete everything from the scanner what am i doing wrong ?......by the way iam using a Uniden BC 780XLT anybody have any ideas ???thanks
73s
kc5fws
Monte
214-206-7949

 

[ProScan]

well iam wandering what iam doing wrong ive made my channel list using radio reference and organized everything including my search banks and everytime i download to scanner it says its doing it channel by channel bank by bank but all it does is erase all the channels from the program and delete everything from the scanner what am i doing wrong ?......by the way iam using a Uniden BC 780XLT anybody have any ideas ???thanks
73s
kc5fws
Monte
214-206-7949

You want to do a Upload To Scanner and not Download From Scanner.

 

[wizzardproduction]

well that what i thought i was doing but will try again lol .....and i will report back i onlu saw 1 place to either as the button says .....upload and the button bellow it says download ....it didnt give options other than that .......

i think iam used to uploading to the computer from the radio and .......downloading from the computer to the radio lol so i guess this is backward from kenwood ill learn this program yet lol thanks

 

[ProScan]

well that what i thought i was doing but will try again lol .....and i will report back i onlu saw 1 place to either as the button says .....upload and the button bellow it says download ....it didnt give options other than that .......

i think iam used to uploading to the computer from the radio and .......downloading from the computer to the radio lol so i guess this is backward from kenwood ill learn this program yet lol thanks

I see now. It's all relative. "uploading to the computer from the radio". Kenwood and ProScan are both correct. I stand by my terminology.

This was brought up once before.

ProScan: - Official Software Thread

There is one problem with the manual. That I just found. In 'History Logging', the first sentence "The History Logging feature logs the all the radio activity. " needs to be edited. It is not grammatically, correct.

forums.radioreference.com

You should of seen one of these dialogs. The key words are To & From

 

[BKTP]

Ok, please forgive me for not searching all 307 pages here, but can one install proscan and setup webserver then access it from a android phone. (I'm sure this info is buried somewhere in this thread? 😳

 

[fxdscon]

Ok, please forgive me for not searching all 307 pages here, but can one install proscan and setup webserver then access it from a android phone. (I'm sure this info is buried somewhere in this thread? 😳

Yes, works just fine on any web browser, including control. Which scanner are you using? The list of supported scanners for the webserver is on the left side of this page under the "Proscan" header:

ProScan

Computer Aided Scanning Software for the Uniden BC125AT BC250D BC296D BC346XT BC346XTC BC780XLT BC785D BC796D BCD160DN BCD260DN BCD325P2 BCD396T BCD396XT BCD436HP BCD536HP BCD996P2 BCD996T BCD996XT BCT15 BCT15X BR330T SDS100 SDS100E SDS200 SDS200E UBC125XLT UBC126AT UBCD160DN UBCD260DN...

proscan.org

 

[BKTP]

Thank you, back to reading through the info here. Will get this as soon as my SDS arrives. USPS is playing checkers with it.

 

[Patch42]

The key words are To & From

Perhaps if "Upload/Download" were replaced with "Transfer", it would more make more obvious the dependence on "to/from" to indicate direction. I've long found upload/download to be terms loaded with confusion because they imply a hierarchical relationship that's often not at all obvious.

 

[Patch42]

Question on Find & Replace -- Is there a way to insert a string at the beginning of each of a group of fields? What I'm looking for is equivalent to what regex "s/^/xyx/" would do. When I do a Find on "^" it comes back as none found so clearly "^" doesn't indicate beginning of line.

 

[ProScan]

Question on Find & Replace -- Is there a way to insert a string at the beginning of each of a group of fields? What I'm looking for is equivalent to what regex "s/^/xyx/" would do. When I do a Find on "^" it comes back as none found so clearly "^" doesn't indicate beginning of line.

I don't believe regex works with Find & Replace.

 

[Patch42]

I don't believe regex works with Find & Replace.

I kind of figured that since "^" didn't work, but I was wondering if maybe there was another way to insert something at the start of each channel name. I often find when quickly glancing at the scanner that what's in the channel name portion of the display isn't enough to fully identify the channel. The other qualifying information is there, but in other areas of the screen. It takes my old eyes long enough to focus on the display that often the scanner has moved on before I'm able to read all the information. So I'd like to preface each channel name with an abbreviation of the agency associated with the channel. Being able to insert a string at the beginning of each channel name would make this a lot easier.

 

[ProScan]

I kind of figured that since "^" didn't work, but I was wondering if maybe there was another way to insert something at the start of each channel name. I often find when quickly glancing at the scanner that what's in the channel name portion of the display isn't enough to fully identify the channel. The other qualifying information is there, but in other areas of the screen. It takes my old eyes long enough to focus on the display that often the scanner has moved on before I'm able to read all the information. So I'd like to preface each channel name with an abbreviation of the agency associated with the channel. Being able to insert a string at the beginning of each channel name would make this a lot easier.

I'm not sure. It's been a while since I was there and in the middle of something now so it will be awhile before I can get to it. If you're hinting at a suggestion. Take a moment to read this. Bug Reporting and Suggestions

 

[Patch42]

At this point I'm just trying to determine if I've overlooked some way to accomplish what I'm trying to do.

 

[ProScan]

At this point I'm just trying to determine if I've overlooked some way to accomplish what I'm trying to do.

Try using the settings like in the image below. Substitute ABCD for your text. Backup your file to another location just in case.

 

[Patch42]

That worked. Thanks. I had to do them one by one to limit the range (huge system with many agencies), but 'click-click' was still much easier than typing it all by hand.

 

[BKTP]

Is there a guide anywhere for a newb of at least upper tier idiot qualifications to help setup Proscan to be able to monitor my SDS100 over the internet on my phone? Im looking but scratching head. Source client, Web Server, Remote scanner over IP??? All? Some? None of these?