Official Starrsoft WIN500 Software Thread

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Official Starrsoft WIN500 Software Thread.

This thread is to report & Discuss anything related to The WIN500 software.


Starrsoft WIN500 Software: http://starrsoft.com/ Version 1.07 is now Available **** updated on 11/27/2007

System Requirements
In order to run Win500, you'll need the following:

* A copy of the Win500 program
* A PSR-500 Scanner
* The blue GRE USB Scanner Programming cable that came with your PSR-500.
* A Windows (2000, XP, Vista) PC. Sorry - 95, 98, and Me are not supported.

 

[Bote]

Bote. I have 2 "LCD Blink On" settings. Should the change me made on the top or the bottom one? Thank you.

No, you don't. You have an LCD blink and an LED blink.

The difference is left as an exercise to the reader.

 

[ChuckinSC]

The proof is in the details. Thanks for pointing out the difference!!!!!!

 

[jnewell]

Thanks, Bote. I've set it the same way you've set yours and the display is much easier to use now.

Steve, N4TX

x2. Made the change as suggested by Bote - wow, what a great increase in usefulness!!!

 

[Bote]

LCD blink settings

DOH! I just remembered the potential downside of the LCD blink setting: it also affects the blinking of the Lockout flag in the upper right of the teeny tiny display on the scanner. If you make it too quick you won't be able to tell easily if a channel is locked out.

I don't like the fact that you have to stare at the screen to tell whether the lower case 'l' is going to blink or not to determine the status of that channel.

I would prefer it to show nothing at all if the channel is unlocked, but that would break the model they use on all the other indicators. So I see why they went with it, it's just less than helpful.

So test these settings before you commit to them. You might be reverting back before you know it.

 

[ind224]

same problem again

Please look at my post 1219. This time I try to make a new conventional object in my already populated scan list 5. (all are conventionals) A new horizontal column does not show up with the sequential channel number increased by one,however the "counter" at the top of the page indicates I have in fact added another conventional object and block availability decreases by one. Duplicate item works fine and is my current work around..I just duplicate and change the frequency.

If I go to scan list 7 that has nothing, I'm back to where I was in post 1219.
Add new item at end will not work and even saving my file and reopening the application will not make it work.
I click the grid header and then edit then New item at end. Nothing appears below,just the box telling me how to make a new object.

 

[Bote]

I click the grid header and then edit then New item at end. Nothing appears below,just the box telling me how to make a new object.

1) Be sure you are on the CONVentional tab up top, not the All Objects tab.

2) Move your mouse down into the grid area where existing conventional objects lie.

3) Don't move your mouse, and right-click to bring up the floating menu. Select "New item at end". This works for me just now.

Don't click the header, that just allows you to sort the colums from what I can tell. This might be your problem. Click in the grid where the channel data is shown.

With any object-oriented program, you select the object first, then select the action that you want to perform on it.

 

[ind224]

Thanks for the help Bote.
Can't get the floating choices,down where the freqs are supposed to be on empty scan list 7 but on scanlist 5 where I already have items it does appear but only changes the count and no "new" horizontal column appears. Copy item does work and a "new" line appears with the copied freq and line info. Is there a limit to how many lines I can have?
I figured a scan list can be as big as block availability will allow.
I checked mouse settings and they appear to be OK.
Is it possible my killing specific tasks in task manager prior to opening Win500 is my issue? I kill all non essentials like Network Services printers and unknown .dll that just show up as rundll. Edit: Control shift n also has no joy

 

[Bote]

Is it possible my killing specific tasks in task manager prior to opening Win500 is my issue? I kill all non essentials like Network Services printers and unknown .dll that just show up as rundll. Edit: Control shift n also has no joy

Uh, yeah, stop doing that. Those services might be unknown to you, but Windows kind of depends on them to run properly.

Boot your computer normally, let everything settle down, and run Win500 normally.

So that we agree on terms, columns run vertically, rows run horizontally.

I still don't understand where you are getting these divisions between scan lists.

What do you see when you click the CONV tab and have every last Scan List checkbox checked (filled in) over on the right? Let's start there.

If that is blank, then you have no other conventional channels. But previously you said you did, so let's clear that up. Most likely this is simple cockpit trouble.

 

[ind224]

Ok reboot and looked at all lists.. i have conventional in 1, 4, and 5.
I went back to list 5 and clicked on the ID number where one would to duplicate a row but chose add new at end. It added a new conventional item into list 1, apparently what is has been doing all along.

Now I see the problem. Instead of being able to pick and modify a scan list just with the conventional tab and scan list selected, I must go to the general tab and put the list I want to populate (add rows) in the default field.
Is this normal? At least now I know what was going on. If I select scan list 5 with 7 listed as the default in the general tab, any new entries tried while looking at the 5 grid end up on the list selected as default (7). I don't agree with the way it does this but if thats the way it is....
Thanks again..your 'lets try this' got me to the reason.

The cockpit trouble I have is money..I should let my medical lapse and go LSA..

 

[Bote]

Adding new objects

Now I see the problem. Instead of being able to pick and modify a scan list just with the conventional tab and scan list selected, I must go to the general tab and put the list I want to populate (add rows) in the default field.
Is this normal?

You can tell it which scan list you want new objects to go in by default. If you're adding a bunch, change this to the new destination.

Or you can just go back and select all the new ones, then check and uncheck the scan list boxes as desired. You don't have to do them one at a time, to be sure.

Next, Don needs to add a method to "Add n new objects" so you can just blast in 10 new channels at once based on the current selection, then go back and fill in the unique properties. This would be quite a time saver.

 

[SCPD]

You can tell it which scan list you want new objects to go in by default. If you're adding a bunch, change this to the new destination.

Or you can just go back and select all the new ones, then check and uncheck the scan list boxes as desired. You don't have to do them one at a time, to be sure.

Next, Don needs to add a method to "Add n new objects" so you can just blast in 10 new channels at once based on the current selection, then go back and fill in the unique properties. This would be quite a time saver.

If I'm understanding what you want Don to add, he already did it per a request I made a long time ago on this thread. In conventional or TSYS you can highlight as many objects as you want blank lines, whether those object rows are blank or not. Then you proceed with the insert procedure. This will result in as many blank rows you highlighted. This procedure does not copy the rows with data entered in them already. I too, was tired of having to insert or create a new line at the bottom for every channel I was filling in. The highlight procedure

 

[Mike_G_D]

Exsmokey,

You know - I really didn't know that and I've been using the program for quite a while now! That is a cool feature to know about! I could have used that earlier when reworking my files as the San Diego RCS is changing most of its fire talk group id's to a whole new arrangement. Oh well! At least I learned something for the next time!

And to ind224 -

Something to note - scan lists are NOT separate memory locations! Think of them more as pointers to memory locations or tags. The objects can be members of any number of different scan lists but that does not increase the memory usage; the memory usage does not change whether an object belongs to one or twenty lists! So, rather than focusing on "populating scan lists" you should focus on simply building up your objects, conventional frequencies or talk groups, and then go back and select whatever scan list you want the item(s) to belong to. As was said earlier, if you select and highlight, say 5 objects, and then go over to the right where it says "Scan Lists" just select the lists you want and all of those 5 objects will then be members of that list (or those lists if plural).

-Mike

 

[RKG]

Here's one way to do what I think you're talking about:

1) Reset the "Default Scan List" to SL 20 (one otherwise not used).
2) Insert a bunch of lines and add your data.
3) On either the "Conv" screen or the "TGID" section of any TSYS screen, there is a box for "Show Scan Lists." It probably says "All." Open it and slide down to "20." Now all you will see are the lines you just created.
4) Click on any line, hit <Ctl><a>, and all will be marked.
5) Over on the right, under "Details" unclick SL 20 and click the list (or lists) to which you want the new lines tagged.

Slick and fast.

 

[jetkat]

NEED HELP LOADING V CHANNELS on PRO-106 w Win-500

Just bought a Pro-106 that has most of the v channels erased from it when I bought it from RS. Got the files, but don't understand how to get them back into the 106? (Got software & cable set up and working.


Please and thank you!!
Jack

 

[TES]

The factory V-Scanners for the PSR500, and likely your Pro-106, are available from Don Starr's site.

Click on 'Win500" and then on "Factory V-Scanners": Software for RadioShack PRO-series (PRO-92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 99, 163, 164, 106, 197) and GRE PSR-series (PSR-500, 600, 300, 400) scanners

 

[fmon]

Just bought a Pro-106 that has most of the v channels erased from it when I bought it from RS. Got the files, but don't understand how to get them back into the 106? (Got software & cable set up and working.


Please and thank you!!
Jack

Click Scanner>Virtual. You may need to check what locations you need to load to scanner by clicking Refresh button. This will provide a listing of empty spacing. Then click Write box for each unused locations. Navigate to and select the file. Repeat checking other Write boxes for additional files.

After all missing files are indicated in virtual management, press the Commit button and wait for completion.

 

[kayleesdad]

Is it the case with the Pro106 that for line 4 from the top:
a) for conventional channel it toggles between object alpha tag and scan list name; and
b) for TGRPs it toggles between TGRP object alpha name and TSYS alpha tag.

For TGRPs i want it to toggle between TGRP and scanlist name. Can Win500/arc500 or manual settings make that happen?

 

[Bote]

Is it the case with the Pro106 that for line 4 from the top:
a) for conventional channel it toggles between object alpha tag and scan list name; and
b) for TGRPs it toggles between TGRP object alpha name and TSYS alpha tag.

For TGRPs i want it to toggle between TGRP and scanlist name. Can Win500/arc500 or manual settings make that happen?

Nope. That's the way the scanner is programmed from the factory. Sorry.

 

[Highpockets]

Don,

I see GRE site has a new driver for their cable 30-3290, I see you have a link for a driver for that cable to use with win500, do you think the GRE updated driver will cause a problem with win500?

 

[grumpy_hermit]

Don,

I see GRE site has a new driver for their cable 30-3290, I see you have a link for a driver for that cable to use with win500, do you think the GRE updated driver will cause a problem with win500?

I was just comparing the version numbers of the firmware (the installers, not installed firmware) in question and it appears that the one linked to from Don's site is a newer version (v2.04.06) than the newly added one on GRE's site (v2.02.04).