Freescan Bugs and Issues

This page will be utilized to capture bugs and issues in the latest beta of FreeScan to support development in an open source environment. Feel free to add snapshots and any other data that will explain how to recreate the bug. The more detail that is provided, the more precise the solution

View the issues currently being tracked and their status on GitHub.

• Issue: The trunk system warnings when using the RRDB import function are outdated
  • if you try to import a system with a type that isn't supported, you will get a warning message, but the import will still continue. Note that Freescan may currently not have the capability to check for NXDN or DMR/MOTOTRBO systems but these should be warned as well as ProVoice (which it currently does issue a warning). The P2 scanners are the only ones that can handle these system types with the proper firmware upgrades.
    • Suggestion: If a P2 scanner is not being used to load the above 3 modes, issue a warning and send the user either to the RRDB conventional import (with the frequencies loaded), or load these frequencies into EZ-Grab. Either one will allow the user to configure the system the way they want.
    • System Types and Examples
      • DMR Type 1
      • DMR Type 2
      • DMR Type 3
      • EDACS ProVoice
      • Hytera XPT
      • MOTOTRBO Capacity Plus Single Site
      • MOTOTRBO Capacity Plus Multi Site
      • MOTOTRBO Connect Plus
      • NXDN IDAS Icom Type D
      • NXDN NEXEDGE 4800
      • NXDN NEXEDGE 9600

• Issue: Freescan needs to support DMR and NXDN Conventional frequencies found, for example, in the RRDB
  • Examples:
    • DMR Conventional
    • DMR Conventional Networked
    • NXDN Conventional

• Issue: Various import functions allow downloading of frequencies and systems that are not trackable or scannable
  • No scanner can handle D-Star or Yaesu Fusion. Frequencies like these can be imported (using the EZ Grab function, or the RRDB conventional import) from the amateur radio side of the database, or from other websites. Examples of D-Star listings can be found here. An example of a Fusion repeater can be viewed here under mode YSF. Perhaps they can be programmed but locked out so they can't be scanned.
  • In cases where a trunk system type is untrackable (i.e. Open Sky), Freescan issues a warning but allows the import to continue. In such cases, a warning message should be followed by an additional warning that the import is discontinued. Open Sky is a protocol that can't be decoded by any hobby level software such as Unitrunker or DSD.
    • Additional Undecodeable types: iDen Standard and iDen Harmony
  • In the amateur radio database, it's quite possible to run into listings for USB or LSB such as found on this page. Not even the now-discontinued BR330 could handle this mode, so these frequencies should be dropped from the import with a warning.

• FreeScan will issue a warning about using a special table for loading a P25 system when it isn't needed
  • This is a long standing bug that confuses a lot of people. A true P25 system carries all the information it needs in the control channel, so this message is erroneous

• When there is a change made of any kind, if you go to open a new file it usually happens about 1/2 the time go to close it or open a file, it won't open a pop up asking to save changes. Other 1/2 the time is if you just open a file and don't do anything, go to close it or open a file, it will ask to save changes when there were no changes made.