KI4SIA
Member
I've been on RR for years now, mostly just listening with the occasional forum browsing. Love the site. Finally decided to be more active and provide some feeds and play around. I'm a web developer and love to tinker with anything electronic. I like to integrate and match things that aren't designed to go together. I recently took over upkeep of my volunteer fire department's website and have some plans.
The plan is below. It's long but I had to be detailed.
I've spent a few days in a row doing a lot of reading on what I want to do. It doesn't seem like a difficult concept but I'm having trouble finding the right tools to catch the data I want. I really don't see anything on this forum that directly discusses what I want to do. It's all bits and pieces so I'm going to explain and ask about it.
I want to create a page on the website that is a live view of all information I can gather related to what I'm scanning. In this case it's 3 repeaters used in a county for the 11 volunteer fire departments and the county EMA. This web page will of course include the live feed from RR that I've already put up and been playing with. Also on this page I want to display any other data I can possible grab and send to the website. The following are things I think I can capture:
-Log and Display of every tone-out (Motorola SC2 2 tone)
-Log and display of every transmission through these repeaters including
- Time stamp of transmission
- Length of transmission
- Signal strength of transmission
- DTMF code (Added to the end of every TX of every unit in the county. Unit/Truck Numbers. 4 digit)
With this data I can also compile and display additional stats and data such as number of times a single unit has been heard, number of transmissions, call numbers per department (tone-out) per week/month etc.
There are so many possibilities. I want to integrate this data into a single page on my department's website. I would be using AJAX/Javascript to constantly update and scroll the incoming data without the need to refresh the page.
So what is my problem? Simply capturing the items on the list above and logging them to a plain text file or csv. If it's in text and added to that text file as it happens I have all the rest figured out. I already have code in place to read the logs every second and upload new lines to a MySQL database on the web server.
I've downloaded and read about so many programs the last few days. I have DTMF Decoder running on my feed now. It does a decent job but constantly displays random characters in the log during voice transmission. I see a lot of promising software such as ARC-XT and PCR-Pro. Those go with specific scanners that I don't have. I don't mind buying them I just need to know what will capture all this. The descriptions of those software packages only say it does data logging. It won't say exactly what it logs or how fast etc.
As a temporary playground. Currently running a Pro-97 into a dedicated PC (Vista 32bit, SoundBlaster Card with Line-In) with a home made copper j-pole antenna. ScannerCast, DTMF Decoder, WinMDCD
So in short I need knowledgeable users here to give me some feedback on the idea, along with what software/scanner combination I am going to need to do it. I will save and purchase whatever I need to make this work. Let me know what you think of the idea, and if possible help deciding what I need to make it happen.
Thanks so much RR,
- Russell KI4SIA
The plan is below. It's long but I had to be detailed.
I've spent a few days in a row doing a lot of reading on what I want to do. It doesn't seem like a difficult concept but I'm having trouble finding the right tools to catch the data I want. I really don't see anything on this forum that directly discusses what I want to do. It's all bits and pieces so I'm going to explain and ask about it.
I want to create a page on the website that is a live view of all information I can gather related to what I'm scanning. In this case it's 3 repeaters used in a county for the 11 volunteer fire departments and the county EMA. This web page will of course include the live feed from RR that I've already put up and been playing with. Also on this page I want to display any other data I can possible grab and send to the website. The following are things I think I can capture:
-Log and Display of every tone-out (Motorola SC2 2 tone)
-Log and display of every transmission through these repeaters including
- Time stamp of transmission
- Length of transmission
- Signal strength of transmission
- DTMF code (Added to the end of every TX of every unit in the county. Unit/Truck Numbers. 4 digit)
With this data I can also compile and display additional stats and data such as number of times a single unit has been heard, number of transmissions, call numbers per department (tone-out) per week/month etc.
There are so many possibilities. I want to integrate this data into a single page on my department's website. I would be using AJAX/Javascript to constantly update and scroll the incoming data without the need to refresh the page.
So what is my problem? Simply capturing the items on the list above and logging them to a plain text file or csv. If it's in text and added to that text file as it happens I have all the rest figured out. I already have code in place to read the logs every second and upload new lines to a MySQL database on the web server.
I've downloaded and read about so many programs the last few days. I have DTMF Decoder running on my feed now. It does a decent job but constantly displays random characters in the log during voice transmission. I see a lot of promising software such as ARC-XT and PCR-Pro. Those go with specific scanners that I don't have. I don't mind buying them I just need to know what will capture all this. The descriptions of those software packages only say it does data logging. It won't say exactly what it logs or how fast etc.
As a temporary playground. Currently running a Pro-97 into a dedicated PC (Vista 32bit, SoundBlaster Card with Line-In) with a home made copper j-pole antenna. ScannerCast, DTMF Decoder, WinMDCD
So in short I need knowledgeable users here to give me some feedback on the idea, along with what software/scanner combination I am going to need to do it. I will save and purchase whatever I need to make this work. Let me know what you think of the idea, and if possible help deciding what I need to make it happen.
Thanks so much RR,
- Russell KI4SIA