JoesScanner: A Modern Frontend for Trunking Recorder to Listen, Browse, and Download Calls
Thank you to Joe for submitting news about the release of his project called "JoesScanner". JoesScanner is an app for Windows, Android, and iOS that provides a modern frontend for Trunking Recorder, for listening to, browsing, and downloading trunked radio calls.
A trunked radio call uses dynamically assigned frequencies from a shared pool, so tracking a conversation requires trunking software (e.g., Unitrunker, SDRTrunk, DSDPlus) and typically two RTL-SDRs, one for the control channel and one for the voice channel.
Trunking Recorder is a Windows application for recording/importing audio from trunked radio systems monitored by Unitrunker, SDRTrunk, ProScan, or DSDPlus. While Trunking Recorder already has a web-based browser front-end viewer, Joe was not happy with it and decided to build his own.
Joe writes:
Joe’s Scanner is a Windows, Android, and iOS app that connects to a Trunking Recorder (TR) backend and provides a modern front end for listening, browsing, and downloading calls.
The idea is to make TR based setups easier for end users, especially on mobile, while staying lightweight and ad free.
Key features:- Connects to any Trunking Recorder server over HTTP or HTTPS, with or without username/password
- iOS background audio support
- History browsing with downloadable calls
- If the TR installation provides transcriptions, the app can enable address detection and what3words detection
- Free to use with no ads, and no data harvesting or resale
Background:I built it because I run my own TR servers and was not happy with the existing client options, so I created what I wanted for my customers.
I am also making it available for anyone to use with their own TR servers for free.
Server owners can optionally apply to have their server listed in the in app directory to simplify setup for their users:
https://joesscanner.com/support/joes-scanner/joes- scanner-server-addition/ Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/
detail/9n5hbztcnt4t?hl=en-US& gl=US Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/
apps/details?id=app. joesscanner.com Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/
joes-scanner/id6758413482
Joe notes that the code is all open source and is available on GitHub.
