SDS200 Remote Head currently being tested by Uniden Beta Testers???
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The ones on the Tablet work the ones on the scanner if you use PROSCAN.
With so many people pulling of their faceplates to fix the hum issue, you would hope someone would get an idea of how to remote it.
I studied a bit. There are so many different headers and associated connections. You would need some sort of adapter board on each side with high density cabling, maybe HDMI.
Perhaps there might be market for a Raspberry PI + custom control interface board (for volume/squelch control) + LCD screen + WiFi doodad. Like a Wi-Fi based RH-96 type thing with hardware knobs for squelch and volume control and a larger-than-stock LCD touchscreen, and a USB port to remote other models that don't have Wi-Fi. Basically ProScan in a dedicated box with hardware knobs and buttons...
Someone linked a project here that was posted on FB which was a full touch screen display running on an Arm processor I think.
What Uniden should have done was interface all the wiring between the head and the main unit by a single connector. That way it would have been easy for us to fabricate our own cable, and 3d print the brackets and covers ourselves.
No kidding. That would have been nice! Unfortunately, they didn't have that foresight...or did but didn't want to accommodate. Disappointing but "should haves" don't change the way it is. Maybe something is in the works but I, for one, am not holding my breath.
This is pretty much exactly what the Scanner Master Remote Head Kit for the BC780XLT did. There was a backplate for the removed front panel and a foreplate for the rest of the radio, each with communication circuits to allow the head to communicate over a Cat5 cable. It worked well but the installation was a royal pain. I did 2 of them, one successfully and it involved soldering as well as an almost complete teardown of the radio.
That kit was almost as expensive as the radio was and then was made obsolete by the RH-96 for the BCT15/996 series that followed. It worked well, and had minimal latency but in the end was too expensive and difficult to be a successful product.
bklynrob70
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Came across this tread this evening and figured I'd inquire if anyone has seen any forward movement with Uniden developing a remote head for the SDS200?
I own the Whistler TRX-2, which I've mounted in my vehicle. The unit itself is mounted under the driver seat and the remote head hard wired on a mount at center console. I'd love to replace it with an SDS200 but the unit as currently made is simply not practical for vehicle use. I know they call this a base/mobile scanner, but its really not designed to be a mobile device.
I realize some of you have come up with tablet solutions, and if I knew what I was doing, I could probably make that work. But for a $650.00 scanner, I would expect a detachable head unit to be a standard feature for a mobile unit.
I own the Whistler TRX-2, which I've mounted in my vehicle. The unit itself is mounted under the driver seat and the remote head hard wired on a mount at center console. I'd love to replace it with an SDS200 but the unit as currently made is simply not practical for vehicle use. I know they call this a base/mobile scanner, but its really not designed to be a mobile device.
I realize some of you have come up with tablet solutions, and if I knew what I was doing, I could probably make that work. But for a $650.00 scanner, I would expect a detachable head unit to be a standard feature for a mobile unit.
It is not Uniden doing this it is MEMBERS HERE working on this project.
Your finding the SDS200 not an ideal mobile for your needs is understandable. Where does on mount a double-din sized radio these days? The answer is there’s not many places where you can and still read the display. But unless you do what I have done (install a center radio console akin to what you see in a police vehicle), you might consider going the handheld/portable route with the SDS100. It would need a coffee cup mounting system or some other method of holding the scanner where you can see the display, an external speaker and power supply.
As for the possibility of Uniden producing a remote head for the SDS200, I haven’t heard about them even considering this. I hope I’m wrong, but after their last attempt (where it was priced about as high as the scanner itself) and did poorly in sales To the point they discontinued it, I doubt we will ever see one.
I would also like to hear from others if what you hear are rumors or is there any truth to them?
bklynrob70
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Unfortunately, a center console mount is not an option for me as that is where my transmission gear shift is located. Pic of my current set up, you can see that the limited space does not make mounting of a full sized unit practical. Seems Uniden's marketing team is out of touch with their market, or maybe there is not much of a market for vehicle mounted scanners? Seems to me that a scanner that has the functionality of the SDS-200 (supporting wide array of systems, simulcast management, GPS enabled, awesome display) combined with the remote head style of the TRX-2 would result in strong sales. Neither Uniden or Whistler seem to come up with that kind of scanner.
Guess I'm holding off on any purchase and will wait and see what, if anything comes to market.
bklynrob70
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Is there a project? Or is it some individual folks tinkering on their own with a tablet display solution and reporting back on results?
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Uniden Remote Head Project
All, Due to the interest in the thread Jon recently started about a possible Raspberry Pi remote head project, I thought I would post an update on my own project. In the last several months, I have been working on a remote head project for my BCD996P2. It uses a Raspberry Pi3 as the compute...
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