Scanner Screen software for 436 and 536
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Have had it running for a few hours now on the HP-1.Working great thanks for all the work you have put into it.You are a great asset to the hobby.Thanks again.
Glad it's working for you and thank you for your troubleshooting
Hey Vonskie, forgot to tell you thanks for the inclusion of running log inside main window. "Rock On!"
Your welcome
Question: I am thinking about adding audio recording to the program.
How does this normally work?
Do you connect a splitter to the head phone jack one goes to computer and one goes to a speaker?
Or does the software pipe the audio in to the computer speakers and to a file at the same time?
How does this normally work?
Do you connect a splitter to the head phone jack one goes to computer and one goes to a speaker?
Or does the software pipe the audio in to the computer speakers and to a file at the same time?
That seems like a nice touch.
I have a BCD536 Scanner. I have downloaded the program but get a error. Do you hook the mini USB to the front where you program it or to the back where you have the WIFI USB connection to make the program work.
front
I have one user using it that I know of with his 536 on the GPS / Serial port
Been running for 2 weeks now on the rear port on my 536
Thanks, I'm trying to get it working with my 436, but not having much luck. I think it's a matter of settings, but I'm not 100% sure. I'll play around with it and probably stumble on it at some point.
ETA: Like the proverbial blind squirrel I stumbled on an acorn. I found out that I had the port speed set at the wrong speed to send data to Scanner Screen. I was able to update the profile using Sentinel and now it's working fine. I couldn't find out how to change the Location settings using the scanner menu, but no matter.
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On the scanner, the port speed settings are under the GPS setup menu item.
I finally found that under "Location" which should have been obvious to me. Thanks.
How do you get the Mac version to work with 436? Software works fine on Windows, but the Mac version I get "cannot read device" error. There are two choices /dev/cu.usbmodemfd121 or /dev/tty.usbmodemfd121 neither work.
You select the device and click connect to scanner, one thing about the 436 and the 536 the usb to serial firmware is kind of buggy. Normally you can just restart the scanner and it will then make the serial connection.
If that does not work not sure what it could be.
There are two devices as one user reported it worked better with tty. Normally you would choose CU but they both should work.
Good luck and let me know.
Also make sure you have the latest mac version.
Von,
I actually got it to work with the CU after I had made the post about they tty or cu.... I ended up making the connection to the mac, clicked button to connect and it wouldn't... Then I ended up shutting program down, turned the scanner off then on, making sure not to go into usb then reloaded scanner screen and it worked in cu. Not sure why it wouldn't awhile back when you had made the switch over to that. But the latest did work fine on my Mac Pro 3,1
I actually got it to work with the CU after I had made the post about they tty or cu.... I ended up making the connection to the mac, clicked button to connect and it wouldn't... Then I ended up shutting program down, turned the scanner off then on, making sure not to go into usb then reloaded scanner screen and it worked in cu. Not sure why it wouldn't awhile back when you had made the switch over to that. But the latest did work fine on my Mac Pro 3,1
It's a nice little Screen program for these new scanners..
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