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Hi all,

I've been a longtime lurker on these boards, so thanks for all the info available here.

We're testing out a new live scanner feed of SPD and SFD on the KOMO site:
http://www.komonews.com/news/content/scanner

Any thoughts or feedback is welcome.

- newsguy

Is it running from one of the newer Uniden DMA scanners? If so maybe bcTool is in your future; it'll show the active talkgroup. I'm also kind of curious which talkgroups are programmed in.

Yes, it's being fed by a Uniden BCT15.

I've been playing around with bcTool, but the trick will be piping that info into the live feed.

Current talkgroups include SFD 1A, 2A, 4A, 5A, 6A, 8A, and 9A.

SPD has West, North, South, East and their respective Tac channels, as well as TAC1-4, ATG, and DATA.

Why not use bcTool to output the current channel? I haven't played around with its server settings, but from what I've read, it creates its own server or something like that.

OK, anyone else been having problems getting KOMO's site to load? I have been for a couple weeks.

Been working fine for me all week.

firecommdude,

Feel free to drop me a note and I'll try to help troubleshoot: webteam@komonews.com

If you could include your operating system, browser type and version, etc. that would be helpful.


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Atomic Taco,

Looks like the bcTool server version is still in a somewhat private beta. I'll see if I can get in on that, but the issue will be making that system interface with a streaming server system that can support a high number of concurrent connections.

But we'll try to make it happen.

If anyone has other questions or thoughts please let me know.

Thanks!

Looks good. Works fine on my end.

I just sent you and email with with links to my feed and a King. Co feed.

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Its very clear for me here in SeaTac.
There may be a cell phone too close to your scanner. I hear it updating.

Thanks
KOMO is great!

Thanks for all the feedback.

You asked for feedback, it sounds nice and clear the problem is that you are scanning too many talk groups at one time and at peak times it is difficult to be able to hear both sides of the communication. A scanner for each Fire & Police in the Puget Sound area would be nice. This is the same problem with many other live web scanners that choose to scan police and fire at the same time.

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Yes, ultimately we'd like to have dedicated scanners for each department.

I'll work to winnow down the talkgroup list a bit. We're trying to strike a balance between allowing people to follow an incident, and not having too long a period of silence in times when there's not a lot going on. Given our main site audience, many of the people accessing the feed will be first-time scanner listeners, so we want them to get a taste of something.

Yup. I have the same issue with my live feed. There is a bunch more I could turn on but then it would simply be too much. As it is now I have to lock any good working incident to make sure nothing gets missed.

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curious what the marketing angle from this is, seems like it would cause more trouble in the end then good.

for a public media company to broadcast this...

more public calling in to police - bogus things that they don't understand because they clicked a link on the news page. more people flocking to the scene of things because they heard it on the news page. or more people trying to sue the police because they heard what they felt was not proper on komo's scanner page.

the more reason for the lockdown of the system to opensky etc where this wont cause issues for the generic public who arnt smart enough to buy and program a scanner to cause problems because of links like this

i mean in the end we will likely all loose the hobby ambulance chasers included (sorry komo i hate all news and the way they attack any gore story because they got it on WSP scanner with all intensity like we need to see the death or the news wont sell)

if the news didnt use scanners as they do to feed on story's to the society ending corruption they create i would likely be more enthusiastic that the media is opening the public air to the public, but I dont see how this is a win win for anyone.


chock this up to the FCC for every one complaint there are a billion others.



or is it, next on komo listen to the death we will show you live on our scanner link just go to komo4.com then click on the advertisement then click to watch the fall line up, after watching a promo video you will be directed to the scanner page where the old lady can write a letter to the editor about how rude police are because they didnt respond to her 911 about a cat in a tree for 2 hours and she knows because it was called in on the radio and no one answered it. Next you know ken shram gives his 2 cents, herb wisebaum and that other "get payback" dude do a investigation where the KC-Radio desk gets 100 calls a day and says WTF mate.

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