SDRtrunk and RDIO-Scanner talkgroup / alias question

[N3EMC]

I have SDRTrunk running fine on a rpi 5 with a 7" screen with built in speakers. I have several channels set up for the same system but with the alias's set for what I want to listen to - i.e I have Baltimore County Fire that uses the 'fire' alias that has all of the non-fire talkgroups muted and the fire talk groups rated by priority. I have the same for police and local government. So I have 3 'channels' each with a predefined alias that lets me listen to only what i want at the time so I don't have to listen to the whole county system.

I also have RDIO-scanner running and I would like for the feed going to RDIO-scanner to have the entire system available since you can easily toggle talkgroups on and off with RDIO-scanner.

MY ISSUE: when setting up the streaming in sdrtrunk I can select the alias I want to stream so I've added the whole list of talk groups to the available to stream side of the screen. If I run the whole county 'channel' in sdrtrunk it works fine and streams everything to rdio-scanner but when listening to the rpi locally I have to listen to everything. I can fire up the fire channel and only listen to the fire group of aliases locally but that also only streams the fire group. As I'm typing this I'm not seeing any real answer to how I can have talk groups muted locally but still stream those talk groups through rdio-scanner. Is that right, or is there a way to do what I am trying to do.

Sorry if that is confusing, it's confusing in my head and I don't know if I explained it well enough.

I've read the scant documentation for rdio-scanner and the streaming section of sdrtrunk but couldn't find anything to answer my question.

My family likes to listen to police and fire in the house but don't like the constant chatter from the other talkgroups. I'd like to stream everything so I can pick and choose on the PC for myself and just have certain talk groups on the local machine.

 

[N3EMC]

I think I just answered my own question after reading a few more posts in this forum.

For some reason if I added aliases to stream that were already muted before I started the stream they wouldn't play through the stream but when I went and unchecked listen for all of the talk groups I didn't want to hear locally in a fresh alias list that was already added to stream it worked. So now I'm streaming everything but not having to listen to everything on the machine sdrtrunk is running on. Hopefully this survives a reboot and continues to work.

 

[BinaryMode]

So you have an alias for SDRTrunk that mutes all but what you're interested locally and in another alias you use that for RDIO?

 

[N3EMC]

So you have an alias for SDRTrunk that mutes all but what you're interested locally and in another alias you use that for RDIO?

I have tried this two different ways. I have two rtl-sdr dongles so I'm not sure how well it'll work with just one but I have one channel and one alias list assigned to one dongle that alias list is the one I added to stream rdio and is all muted on the local side. The other dongle is assigned to the two channels with the only things I want to hear each channel has it's own alias list with talk groups set by priority and unnecessary tg's muted.

I tried it with just using one channel and alias list for both local and rdio streaming and muted the tg's I didn't want to listen to locally and that worked also and I see no reason not to do it that way except it is easier to stop playing one of the two channels I am running in the first set up so I can only listen to fire side if there is an incident or the police side if there is something happening there, with only one channel set up there is no way on the local machione to quickly stop or start a group of tg's but with the three channel method there isn't a problem doing that.

Potentially I am missing calls due to only using one sdr for two channels and one for the whole county. I haven't really had a chance to sit and compare what is going on on the local machine and what is being streamed. I just have a feeling it's not as capable as having two dongles and one channel.