Touch-Scanner

[ra7850]

7.7K views · 82 reactions | The next generation Uniden Remote Head Project is here. TouchScanner is a new Android app that connects to Uniden scanners via USB, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi. No Raspberry Pi required. Sign up to be a tester at touch-scanner.com before it launches. #ScannerRadio #TouchScanner #hamradio #hamr | Scanner School

TouchScanner — The independent Android app for Uniden SDS scanners

Full control. Live audio. Five connection modes. Built by the team behind the original TouchScanner Raspberry Pi platform. Phase 1 tester program for SDS150 owners is open. Patent pending.

www.touch-scanner.com

 

[w2lie]

Thanks for sharing @ra7850

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[ra7850]

Long-time subscriber, here's the first proper post for the new TouchScanner app. I built something for myself, used it for real this afternoon, and figured the right place to put it out is here.

My drive home from NJ today is what convinced me to post this.

It was 96 degrees and full sun when we left New Jersey this afternoon. Inside of 45 minutes / ~45 miles on the PA turnpike, it was 64 degrees and we were in a monsoon — visibility down to maybe a car length, wipers couldn't keep up, I could barely see the lines on the road. I tell my wife, a NON scanner user, who has never touched a scanner in her life, to tune the weather channel. She tries "tune weather" — that didn't work, the app's command grammar doesn't know about "weather" yet. So I tell her, "tune 162.550." She presses the mic button on the app on the phone, while yelling at me to watch the road. The radio tunes. NOAA Weather Radio comes through my hearing aids, hands-free, mid-storm. That's why I built the TouchScanner app.

What it is.

Android app that connects to a Uniden SDS scanner, SDS100 or SDS200 today, the new SDS150, the BCD436HP, and BCD536HP scanner, over BLE, USB, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi. You can drive the scanner from your phone — view the screen, work the controls, route audio to your hearing aids / car BT / wired headset, voice-command frequency entry while driving.

No Raspberry Pi. No PC. No serial-to-Wi-Fi bridge in the middle. Phone to scanner, direct.

What works today, real tester build.

An industry first.
Yes, real voice tuning and scanner control, it works today!

- Scanner display rendered on the phone
- Frequency tune (button entry + voice "tune to 146.520")
- Search, resume, back, record, zipcode + range for the database
- Volume / squelch up + down
- BLE pairing for SDS150 / SDS150B
- USB-OTG for SDS100/SDS200 over the cable
- Wi-Fi for the network-capable models

What I'm asking for. For the first wave of testing, user's that have the new Uniden SDS150 Scanner.

I'm looking for testers — people who own a Uniden SDS scanner, one in the list of scanners above. I need people that can fully test the app, it has very detailed logging, and reporting on its use, and that will tell me when I broke something, or when something isn't working, or an idea for a new functionality that they'd like to see added. Spots are small, deliberately for the first release. Sign up here at:

TouchScanner — The independent Android app for Uniden SDS scanners

Full control. Live audio. Five connection modes. Built by the team behind the original TouchScanner Raspberry Pi platform. Phase 1 tester program for SDS150 owners is open. Patent pending.

www.touch-scanner.com

There's a tester section + a Community page with the various places this is being talked about, including the Scanner School FB reel that ran last week.

A note on what this isn't.
This isn't a Uniden product. I'm not affiliated with Uniden. Uniden, SDS, BCD are their trademarks. This is one operator's project, built around radios I already owned. I'll talk openly about what works and what doesn't — I'm happy to answer technical questions in this thread. Keep in mind I do have a full time job, other than this, but I promise I will do my best to address any questions up until the release.

When is the release going to be?
I hope within the next 30 days.

Is there an IOS app?
Not yet, Im an Android guy. My plan is to try and have the IOS app done by the end of the year.

Thanks for the time, and thanks for what RR has been to this hobby for a couple of decades now.

Robert
EnvyGroup, LLC
touch-scanner.com

 

[themaninseat1a]

Long-time subscriber, here's the first proper post for the new TouchScanner app. I built something for myself, used it for real this afternoon, and figured the right place to put it out is here.

My drive home from NJ today is what convinced me to post this.

It was 96 degrees and full sun when we left New Jersey this afternoon. Inside of 45 minutes / ~45 miles on the PA turnpike, it was 64 degrees and we were in a monsoon — visibility down to maybe a car length, wipers couldn't keep up, I could barely see the lines on the road. I tell my wife, a NON scanner user, who has never touched a scanner in her life, to tune the weather channel. She tries "tune weather" — that didn't work, the app's command grammar doesn't know about "weather" yet. So I tell her, "tune 162.550." She presses the mic button on the app on the phone, while yelling at me to watch the road. The radio tunes. NOAA Weather Radio comes through my hearing aids, hands-free, mid-storm. That's why I built the TouchScanner app.

What it is.

Android app that connects to a Uniden SDS scanner, SDS100 or SDS200 today, the new SDS150, the BCD436HP, and BCD536HP scanner, over BLE, USB, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi. You can drive the scanner from your phone — view the screen, work the controls, route audio to your hearing aids / car BT / wired headset, voice-command frequency entry while driving.

No Raspberry Pi. No PC. No serial-to-Wi-Fi bridge in the middle. Phone to scanner, direct.

What works today, real tester build.

An industry first.
Yes, real voice tuning and scanner control, it works today!

- Scanner display rendered on the phone
- Frequency tune (button entry + voice "tune to 146.520")
- Search, resume, back, record, zipcode + range for the database
- Volume / squelch up + down
- BLE pairing for SDS150 / SDS150B
- USB-OTG for SDS100/SDS200 over the cable
- Wi-Fi for the network-capable models

What I'm asking for. For the first wave of testing, user's that have the new Uniden SDS150 Scanner.

I'm looking for testers — people who own a Uniden SDS scanner, one in the list of scanners above. I need people that can fully test the app, it has very detailed logging, and reporting on its use, and that will tell me when I broke something, or when something isn't working, or an idea for a new functionality that they'd like to see added. Spots are small, deliberately for the first release. Sign up here at:

TouchScanner — The independent Android app for Uniden SDS scanners

Full control. Live audio. Five connection modes. Built by the team behind the original TouchScanner Raspberry Pi platform. Phase 1 tester program for SDS150 owners is open. Patent pending.

www.touch-scanner.com

There's a tester section + a Community page with the various places this is being talked about, including the Scanner School FB reel that ran last week.

A note on what this isn't.
This isn't a Uniden product. I'm not affiliated with Uniden. Uniden, SDS, BCD are their trademarks. This is one operator's project, built around radios I already owned. I'll talk openly about what works and what doesn't — I'm happy to answer technical questions in this thread. Keep in mind I do have a full time job, other than this, but I promise I will do my best to address any questions up until the release.

When is the release going to be?
I hope within the next 30 days.

Is there an IOS app?
Not yet, Im an Android guy. My plan is to try and have the IOS app done by the end of the year.

Thanks for the time, and thanks for what RR has been to this hobby for a couple of decades now.

Robert
EnvyGroup, LLC
touch-scanner.com

Congrats on the product! Have you thought about making an Android Auto version that could then be controlled via voice/Google Assistant while someone is driving?

 

[ra7850]

Congrats on the product! Have you thought about making an Android Auto version that could then be controlled via voice/Google Assistant while someone is driving?

Already done, finalizing code to send to Google approval an inclusion in Android Auto. It will be far less functional on Android auto as they really restrict what can be done. But it works today in Android Dev Studio, until approved it can't run on a car display. But the dev studio has the emulator. It's really kind of cool. Ill give you another one, do you use or have a galaxy smartwatch? It works from there also to control the scanner.

 

[scruggsy]

Hello and congrats on the TouchScanner app!
I am extremely interested in this and would love to help in any way possible. The scanners I own are as follows, SDS-150, 2 SDS-200's, SDS-100, BCD-436, BCD-536. I'm currently using the BCD-536 to supply a feed for the county I live in. As I said I would be more than willing to help, I'm not altogether sure what you are looking for in a BETA tester and what it would require of me but I'll be up front and say that when it comes to Computers and programming my knowledge is extremely limited. I know enough to keep my scanner feed running, I use the Program that I have on the Sentinel software to program my scanners. I had an individual that met on FB help me with the original programming. I occasionally play around with it but not much because quite honestly I am afraid I will screw it up and not be able to keep my feed supplied. I said all that to give you an honest feel of what you would be getting as a tester, I have the equipment, willingness, limited ability. other than that I am excited and look forward to using your finalized product.
Thanks.