RDIO SCANNER

[bucknut937]

Does anyone in Ohio have RDIO setup for their use I'm thinking about setting mine up and would love to share the link.

 

[mtindor]

Does anyone in Ohio have RDIO setup for their use I'm thinking about setting mine up and would love to share the link.

I run my RDIO on a Digital Ocean droplet, and the service is sitting behind Cloudflared. So when somebody connects to mine, they are actually connecting to Cloudflare, which in turn has a tunnel to my DO droplet. Of course mine is specific to Carroll Co and counties immediately adjacent to it. I have multiple locations feeding stuff into it. Everything I personally feed into it also gets sent to BCFY Calls.

But I'm sure there are quite a few others around Ohio doing similar things. Some may except feeds from anywhere in the state (or perhaps even out of state). I just happen to keep mine limited to eastern Ohio.

 

[tomcat2702]

west central Ohio - Mercer, Auglaize, Darke, Shelby mainly but also bring in Van Wert, Paulding, Logan and Miami counties on a pretty reliable basis

Rdio Scanner

hgnscanner.homegrownalerts.com

 

[rdmcvicar]

Ohio might be the most rdio-scanner'd state in the nation -- between AlertPage, (edited to add Homegrownalerts), and OhioRSN (they may have built something different; I've not followed it closely). At least as to the largely public ones.

It'd be interesting to know how many of us are doing our own. I don't personally have any in OH, but do in several other states (LMR and VHF/UHF airband), and enjoy comparing notes offline with folks doing similar things.

Watch out for addiction, and have fun!

 

[mtindor]

Ohio might be the most rdio-scanner'd state in the nation -- between AlertPage, (edited to add Homegrownalerts), and OhioRSN (they may have built something different; I've not followed it closely). At least as to the largely public ones.

It'd be interesting to know how many of us are doing our own. I don't personally have any in OH, but do in several other states (LMR and VHF/UHF airband), and enjoy comparing notes offline with folks doing similar things.

Watch out for addiction, and have fun!

Good point. I swap some traffic back and forth with one of the fellows from OhiORSN. They definitely have aggregated a lot of counties, trunked and conventional. I know that I do it in Carroll Co, NA2T does it in Jefferson Co. And I know a fella in Brooke Co WV across the river from Jefferson who is doing it (which is how us Ohio guys get WVSIRN Ohio Co Simulcast). Then all of us gather some other stuff that doesn't necessarily get sent to anyone else - local DMR trunked traffic, university security, and other stuff that doesn't necesssarily interest anyone other than us.

 

[saioke]

I run a personal Rdio-Scanner server in the Jackson/Vinton area just for myself and family. Usually can pick up Pike, Meigs and sometimes Hocking and Athens Counties on the site too. Also have a separate SDR running to throw in Wellston PD, fire, and Wellston/Jackson school buses on DMR. Not using any fancy webhost, DNS or anything like that, just my IP. Probably not wise but my rdio scanner admin panel is password protected, and I'm not too worried about hackers messing around on my PC. I don't really even advertise it anywhere. If I know the person and I know they're interested in listening on in the area, and I know they aren't going to commit crimes and listen in, I would share it with them, but it's mostly just for personal entertainment.

I run a bluetooth speaker to my living room when I'm home, and I can listen on my phone out on the road.

On a really good night I can even switch it up and pick up clear traffic from WVSERN, what I presume to be in the Point Pleasant area. But, that rarely happens. Conditions just need to be perfect I guess.

 

[bucknut937]

that's awesome I'm doing Wood and Hancock right now if anyone is doing Columbus id be glad to share the server links with you

 

[lukestaker]

I have Scioto and Pike county, occasionally pickup some traffic from Adams and Lawrence County. I keep a close eye on my SDR data to find new talkgroups. I also plan on getting more dongles to cover some stuff over in kentucky and the backup analog system in scioto county. Sadly i’m waiting on a new machine until i get a new machine to run my sdr feed off of. but i host RDIO scanner on a server i bought on ebay for like $200 and its been great. i use cloudflare tunnels. i put in a pull request for documentation on how to use tunnels on the official rdio scanner github but haven’t heard back

 

[infusopharm]

I run my RDIO on a Digital Ocean droplet, and the service is sitting behind Cloudflared. So when somebody connects to mine, they are actually connecting to Cloudflare, which in turn has a tunnel to my DO droplet. Of course mine is specific to Carroll Co and counties immediately adjacent to it. I have multiple locations feeding stuff into it. Everything I personally feed into it also gets sent to BCFY Calls.

But I'm sure there are quite a few others around Ohio doing similar things. Some may except feeds from anywhere in the state (or perhaps even out of state). I just happen to keep mine limited to eastern Ohio.

Can you provide any information on what particular service I would need with the Droplet. Can you provide what you approx pay per month and what kind of scanner traffic you deal with?

 

[mtindor]

I have a 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB space droplet. It's overkill. RDIO scanner doesn't use any CPU. You can do just as well with a 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, and 40 GB space or less. I have a full Almalinux install on it, and I retain audio for 30 days. And I'm only using 13 GB/80 GB of space. It's not a $5/mo deal. I pay $24/mo. But you can get 2G/2vCPU/60 GB disk for $18/mo, or 2G/1vCPU/50 GB for $12/mo, and 1 G/1vCPU/25 GB disk for $6/mo.

I use my machine for any/every project I'm interested in playing around with it though, so it's worth it for me to pay $24/mo for what I have.

I never have more than 10 connected users to my RDIO via web or app. But i wouldn't matter if I had 100 or 200 users (although I think 200 is the limit with free CF tunnel). Connections take up very ilttle bandwidth and really don't raise CPU usage any significance.

You could do it just as easily with a droplet from Vultr or someplace else too. But I have always used Digital Ocean and am loyal to them for any of my VPS needs.

Mike

 

[iceman977th]

Hopefully OhioRSN pops in at some point, I would guess he probably has the busiest Rdio Scanner server in OH. He's also working on a new version of Rdio with a lot of features and fixes.

I have Rdio running on a $20/mo OVH dedicated server along with a couple other light things (4c8t Intel Xeon E3-1270v6 and 32GB RAM) I've got about 15 separate systems ingesting to it, mostly railroad, and one large ingest for public safety right now. As we speak, it's sitting between 3-5% CPU usage and 5GB RAM usage total, but my server is used by maybe 5-10 concurrent users at most. Once the ORSN version launches and I tweak a few problems, I'm going to set up my own site and subscription service for my area.

 

[saioke]

Hopefully OhioRSN pops in at some point, I would guess he probably has the busiest Rdio Scanner server in OH. He's also working on a new version of Rdio with a lot of features and fixes.

I wonder if he's going to publicize his changes to rdio? It seems like the original project has been abandoned considering the last update was 3 years ago. I think I read somewhere that the dev said he was going to start working on it again awhile back but I haven't heard anymore.

 

[mtindor]

I wonder if he's going to publicize his changes to rdio? It seems like the original project has been abandoned considering the last update was 3 years ago. I think I read somewhere that the dev said he was going to start working on it again awhile back but I haven't heard anymore.

I wish I knew that answer too. I imagine that if a new update is released, it would probably be a pay-for update. I only say that because it seems the dev was basically dragged out of RDIO-retirement to do the updates. Of course, I'd pay for it if it's reasonable.

 

[saioke]

yeah I'd be happy with a pay-for-update model as long as it's not subscription-based. A one-time fee or maybe a fee per major update similar to DSD+ Fastlane would be fine imo. If it remains open source though, I think someone else would just fork it to provide the same features at no cost.

The rdio phone app currently has ads, but the developer of the phone app and the dev of rdio-scsanner are two different people afaik.

 

[mtindor]

yeah I'd be happy with a pay-for-update model as long as it's not subscription-based. A one-time fee or maybe a fee per major update similar to DSD+ Fastlane would be fine imo. If it remains open source though, I think someone else would just fork it to provide the same features at no cost.

The rdio phone app currently has ads, but the developer of the phone app and the dev of rdio-scsanner are two different people afaik.

Ok I might have been thinking about the RDIO App. I forogt that RDIO itself was open source. Oh, I didn't realize that the developers of the phone app and rdio-scanner were different. Hell, I guess I don't know anything

 

[saioke]

Hell, I guess I don't know anything

Join the club! That app is very useful though. Without it I'm not sure how you could get audio from rdio-scanner once your phone is down and idle. If you listen through your web browser I think it will just shut off when your screen does.

 

[mtindor]

Join the club! That app is very useful though. Without it I'm not sure how you could get audio from rdio-scanner once your phone is down and idle. If you listen through your web browser I think it will just shut off when your screen does.

I do love the app. When I'm on my laptop I listen via the web. But it's so useful when away from the computer to just open the app and listen. I'm not sure what is going to be improved in the app or rdio-scanner, or if it will even be made available to the public at all (just thinking that a private entity may be funding the update for only themselves). At any rate, everything is completely usable right now between the server software and the app. I'm sure there can be improvements, but I'm pretty happy with it as is. Of course, I'm always one of those guys who likes to have the latest. So I'd do a one-time payment for a major update if that ends up being the option.

 

[saioke]

One thing I do hope they eventually improve on is the Dirwatch. It doesn't seem to work as well compared to uploading calls from Trunking Recorder. In my case, in order to upload via Dirwatch, I had to rename my rdio system to id 840 for some reason, and also disable tg aliases and radio id aliases in dsd+. Otherwise dirwatch doesn't upload at all. Disabling those aliases in dsd+ however, will sometimes bug out the recording name which also causes rdio to skip over calls because there's "no talkgroup id" as seen below.



The fix I found is leaving aliases on in dsd+ and just using trunking recorder for call uploading. It works well, but that means there's another extra program running on the system.