CommandStar Lite- w9 Consolette- scanning

[Equinox]

Recently installed a CommandStar Lite to a w9 Consolette. Customer's old set up gave them the ability to edit their scan list. According to everything I can find/try, the CS Lite does not have the capability to have a scan menu edit button or even a nuisance delete button. Does anyone have a trick to get around this?

[Lake Effect]

I set up a couple of them and I think the scan list mod could be done through the menu and select buttons at the main display. I don't have one here available now so I'm only going on (failing) memory. I don't recall if nuisance delete was available.

L.E.

[515]

I'm not real familiar with the Command Star Lite, but from what I've seen, it's functionality is very similar to the MC3000 deskset.

On the MC3000 / W9 consolette setup, all of the W9 control head buttons are mapped to buttons on the MC3000. So, if you had a Scan button specified in the CPS control head screen, and the scan list was set to be "Operator Selectable" in the CPS, pressing and holding the Scan button on the deskset should allow you to edit the list.

Are you sure a Scan button is enabled in the CPS? Can you turn scan on and off with it? What happens when you press and hold it?

For nuisance delete, you would need the Del button enabled somewhere on the control head.

[Equinox]

I'm not real familiar with the Command Star Lite, but from what I've seen, it's functionality is very similar to the MC3000 deskset.

On the MC3000 / W9 consolette setup, all of the W9 control head buttons are mapped to buttons on the MC3000. So, if you had a Scan button specified in the CPS control head screen, and the scan list was set to be "Operator Selectable" in the CPS, pressing and holding the Scan button on the deskset should allow you to edit the list.

Are you sure a Scan button is enabled in the CPS? Can you turn scan on and off with it? What happens when you press and hold it?

For nuisance delete, you would need the Del button enabled somewhere on the control head.

That's the problem. In the manual, the fine print says you cannot access the Delete button with a CS Lite. None of the other programmable buttons (A thru P) have delete as a selectable function. The MC3000 does allow you access to that button, however.

As far as doing a Long Press on the scan button, all it does is let you see which channels are in the scan list.

It seems a bit impractical, but I'm wondering if the solution would be to have an MC3000 hooked up just for them to edit the scan list? maybe under the guise of a "backup remote just in case"?



Lake Effect,

You're talking about the buttons on the keypad module, right? All I could get out of that was getting the menu/home button to be programmed for home. The select button acted as another zone or mode up/down button.

[Lake Effect]

As I said, I'm only going by memory and it has been a year ago that I saw one of them. I will try to get a look at one today and talk to the operator but I'm sure he can set up scan list from the console. Will get back to you when I know more.

L.E.

[Equinox]

Well, after messing with this thing for quite a while two weeks ago (prep before the install) and after calling Moto and being told it will not do it, I discovered that it actually WILL allow user programmable scan. I think the problem may have been that only certain buttons, from the A thru P buttons that correspond with the W9 control head, can be assigned as the select button. I don't remember where I originally had the scan button ( I think G), but after moving it to button D, button C then had SEL as one of the options. As God is my witness, it was not anywhere when I had scan on one of the G thru P buttons. I must have looked 50 times. The only other thing I can think of is that the dispatch chief had reprogrammed the radio from an archive while I was away. Beyond the operator selctable scan list and priority select features (which I had tried in various combinations) maybe there is some other setting somewhere else that was not set correctly in the original program, but is set correctly in the archive that she put in. Bottom line, after she had dumped her archive in I was poking around and suddenly there was a SEL option when there wasn't one before. So now the thing now does what they want, and I'm sleeping in my own bed tonight.

Thanks for the responses guys.

[SDOG]

Hello!
After reading your post about acanning and the W9 Consolette you may be able to help me!!! We just had two w9 Consollettes installed and are using the MC3000 desksets. The tech said that it could not be set up to scan due to it being a didgital set up using the junction boxes. I have a difficult time believing that Motorola would buld a product that would not scan. Can you point me in the right direction? We had a VHF consollete and a 800mhz consollete installed and if it can't scan then my dealer and I will be having words!!

Thanks in advance for any help!!!

[wavetar]

The tech is wrong. The MC3000 simply acts as an extended control head, so if the radio has a scan button programmed into it with CPS, then there will be a corresponding button mapped to scan in the MC3000. The entire purpose of having a "digital remote" is to access features such as scan.

Todd

[SDOG]

That is what I thought too! The tech is an older gentleman and he has only been doing programming for a few years. I think he got frustrated and said it couldn't be done... I will give them a chance to fix the problem, but if they don't I have access to someone who can.

Thanks for the info!