Unitrunker and DSD

[SCPD]

I've gotten a lot of requests to add DSD decoding capabilities to Unitrunker. In the current US Patent Law climate - that won't happen. Sorry folks.

But ... I have been also hearing from others who successfully use DSD and Unitrunker to follow voice calls - most notably on EDACS ProVoice systems. Here's how:

1. Windows machine running Unitrunker configured for (at least) two receivers
a. connected to a signal receiver monitoring the control channel (may be disc. tap or one of the "Inline" models).
b. connected to a control receiver configured in the Voice role; this radio must have a disc. tap.
2. Linux machine running DSD
a. DSD decodes the discriminator audio from receiver in 1(b) above.

I know - this requires two machines. However, it is possible to run one or the other as a VM host using VMWare or whatever virtual machine environment you like. WINE might be an option for an all-Linux solution. I haven't tried that.

 

[mhzscan]

Awesome, thanks!

 

[scanlist]

Unfortunately Unitrunker crashes instantly under wine in Ubuntu Linux.

The 1st window appears for a split second then disappears.

 

[SCPD]

Unfortunately Unitrunker crashes instantly under wine in Ubuntu Linux.

I'll check this out. Apparently the Uniscope and Tuner apps bundled with Retro do run under WINE. Don't know why the main program won't.

 

[mostar]

> But ... I have been also hearing from others who successfully use DSD and Unitrunker to follow voice calls > - most notably on EDACS ProVoice systems. Here's how:

Rick -
I have been running that exact setup for about 4 days now, and it is working like a champ. I'm actually pushing feeds from 2 separate Unitrunker (EDACS) instances to DSD, as well as a 3rd scanner going direct to DSD for conventional P25.

Honestly, even if/when a Windows DSD port is released, I think that particular setup would be asking a lot of a single processor...

I'm not a big WINE user, so I don't really know what might be causing the Unitrunker issues there, but I'd be surprised if there won't be a fairly simple solution.

Another option for people who insist on running both Unitrunker and DSD on a single machine might be a CoLinux installation. Topologilinux (Topologilinux - [Running Linux inside Windows]) is one I've used and, for what I was using it for at the time, it was pretty outstanding.

For me, the number of scanners needed is a bigger issue than the number of computers needed.
It would be great if there was a way to force an EDACS-capable scanner to not ignore ProVoice data, so you could push that directly to DSD (ahem...if anybody from GRE or Uniden is listening...)...that would give you a 'single scanner/single computer' solution right there.

 

[SCPD]

It would be great if there was a way to force an EDACS-capable scanner to not ignore ProVoice data, so you could push that directly to DSD (ahem...if anybody from GRE or Uniden is listening...)...that would give you a 'single scanner/single computer' solution right there.

Apparently the PRO-92 isn't smart enough to ignore ProVoice calls - which in this application - is actually a feature!

 

[mostar]

> Apparently the PRO-92 isn't smart enough to ignore ProVoice calls - which in this application - is actually a feature!

Good to know!

The bad news for me is that the '92 won't play nice with systems using ESK, but that will be a good solution for anybody with a non-ESK ProVoice system...

(note - i don't actually have a '92; can somebody who does confirm whether or not it will track EDACS w/ESK?)

thanks

 

[c5corvette]

I've gotten a lot of requests to add DSD decoding capabilities to Unitrunker. In the current US Patent Law climate - that won't happen. Sorry folks.

But ... I have been also hearing from others who successfully use DSD and Unitrunker to follow voice calls - most notably on EDACS ProVoice systems. Here's how:

1. Windows machine running Unitrunker configured for (at least) two receivers
a. connected to a signal receiver monitoring the control channel (may be disc. tap or one of the "Inline" models).
b. connected to a control receiver configured in the Voice role; this radio must have a disc. tap.
2. Linux machine running DSD
a. DSD decodes the discriminator audio from receiver in 1(b) above.

I know - this requires two machines. However, it is possible to run one or the other as a VM host using VMWare or whatever virtual machine environment you like. WINE might be an option for an all-Linux solution. I haven't tried that.

Besides this thread, was there another thread that discussed this topic in more detail?

Specifically, I want to not only be able to follow the voice and direct a second scanner to the voice channel, I want to not monitor certain talkgroups - is there any cc decoding program (for P25 X2) that also outputs to control a second scanner that will ultimately let me direct the second scanner to a voice channel only when/by recognizing certain group of tg's, etc. ???