SDS100/SDS200: Sds100 change color per city?

[noaim]

Can you change the color of text per city or per frequency


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[jonwienke]

No. You can change the alert light color per channel though.

 

[noaim]

No. You can change the alert light color per channel though.

Thanks


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[mancow]

That would be a neat feature.

 

[WX4JCW]

That or color by agency


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XPR7550 - SDS100

 

[budevans]

That or color by agency.

Color by agency gets my vote. PD blue, Fire red, Public Works green, etc..

That should eliminate the complaints about the Alert Light not staying lit throughout the entire transmission.

 

[ka3aaa]

do you have any clue how much memory that would take or how difficult a job that would be, apparently not.

Secondly why does every one want scanners to do thing their not designed to do.

 

[radio3353]

do you have any clue how much memory that would take or how difficult a job that would be, apparently not.

Secondly why does every one want scanners to do thing their not designed to do.

The Radio Shack (GRE) PRO-106 (circa 2008) allows the user to program a different color light for each channel (up to a point...there are 7 color choices). Why can't a $650 scanner do it? Doesn't seem to be a memory problem for my PRO-106.

 

[mule1075]

The Radio Shack (GRE) PRO-106 (circa 2008) allows the user to program a different color light for each channel (up to a point...there are 7 color choices). Why can't a $650 scanner do it? Doesn't seem to be a memory problem for my PRO-106.

The sds 100 can do it. It as the others back to the xt models the light does not stay on or blink for the whole transmission. Reason being because of the GRE patent.

 

[JohnSC]

I agree, and your alert colors are similar to mine: blue for sheriff, cyan for police, red for fire, yellow for ems (almost orange) and green for highway patrol. Wish some form of this was encoded in the national database when traveling. At least law enforcement blue, fire red and EMS yellow. I've edited the locals statewide in the full database. An option would be for the state forums to work together to share their hpd files.

Color by agency gets my vote. PD blue, Fire red, Public Works green, etc..

That should eliminate the complaints about the Alert Light not staying lit throughout the entire transmission.

 

[jonwienke]

do you have any clue how much memory that would take or how difficult a job that would be, apparently not.

If you made color a Service Type setting, it would add a total of 29 bytes to the scanner profile. Pretty sure that wouldn't be a noticeable impact on memory use under any circumstance. Coding changes would be fairly minimal.

I would change the background color instead of text color, if that didn't fall foul of a patent.

 

[WX4JCW]

If you made color a Service Type setting, it would add a total of 29 bytes to the scanner profile. Pretty sure that wouldn't be a noticeable impact on memory use under any circumstance. Coding changes would be fairly minimal.



I would change the background color instead of text color, if that didn't fall foul of a patent.

Unication does background now


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[noaim]

do you have any clue how much memory that would take or how difficult a job that would be, apparently not.



Secondly why does every one want scanners to do thing their not designed to do.

No offense but older scanners did agency colored..


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[pinballwiz86]

I use blue for police/sheriff, red for fire/ems, yellow for amateur radio, green for the feds, magenta for business/everything else, white for airplanes, cyan for highway patrol.

 

[cop284]

Alert light color

Can someone please tell me how to turn on the colored alert light on the SDS100?
(To assign it to a system & to change color)

Thanks In advance!!

 

[jonwienke]

It's a channel setting in Sentinel.

 

[noaim]

I may be blind but I don't see in sentinel this is. I went to the channel itself and there was no options to change it by right clicking or double clicking

 

[phask]

I may be blind but I don't see in sentinel this is. I went to the channel itself and there was no options to change it by right clicking or double clicking

First - it must be in a fav. Llist. You can' modify anything in the main database other than avoids.

 

[noaim]

First - it must be in a fav. Llist. You can' modify anything in the main database other than avoids.

That's what I was missing - Thanks

 

[noaim]

I take that back still don't see the option..