GPS Waypoints

[xpr8300]

Ok had an interesting question. On the APX, you have the ability to create waypoints via the control panel and name them. Where are they stored and where can you edit them in CPS? I have been all over CPS and cannot find anything about them. The customers use case is to tag a physical location and then drive to another to determine distance. Yes, I know there are a billion other ways of doing this, but they discovered the feature on the radio. Any ideas?

TIA

 

[moetorola]

It is not able to be read out or edited by the CPS. It is stored and calculated in the radio itself.

 

[xpr8300]

Figures lol.. do you know if they are overwritten during a codeplug read or once in the radio, they stick?

Sounds like the customer will not be able to do what they want.

 

[moetorola]

It appears as though it is retained after a write. (At least a write with no changes.)

 

[TESTMODE]

The waypoints are retained after a write, even with changes. I suspect that they are likely stored in the same area as voice recordings and the like.

 

[Mars]

The GPS data, playback audio, BT pairing parameters and I think "recent" private call IDs, are stored in the following partition:

RPDP: 00100000 - 001BFFFF (Size: 0x000C0000, 6 128kB blocks)

If you ever have issues with the RCNT (audio playback) being corrupt/not logging calls, or other weird anomalies, this partition can be safely erased with certain tools that Motorola has allowed their employees to leak all over the internet. I'm not going to participate in distributing it.

 

[phonebuff]

Sounds like the customer will not be able to do what they want.

Which is what, if I might ask ?

 

[xpr8300]

Their thought was to have the user to quickly save a waypoint and be able to tell the distance from it to a destination for range testing and microwave hops. If they were CPS editable, they could quickly build a list of the all the lat/longs and clone them to the fleet.

 

[Mars]

Their thought was to have the user to quickly save a waypoint and be able to tell the distance from it to a destination for range testing and microwave hops. If they were CPS editable, they could quickly build a list of the all the lat/longs and clone them to the fleet.

There are smartphone apps (which work offline) that work way better than the APX at GPS waypoint management/storage. I'd go that route. Motorola's GPS functionality in the ASTRO25, APX and MOTOTRBO products is quite limited and (unfortunately) proprietary. Shit, you can't even forward the GPS data from one XPR7550 to another.

 

[xpr8300]

So what you are saying is its yet another half assed implementation of a feature, with zero documentation?

 

[Mars]

So what you are saying is its yet another half assed implementation of a feature, with zero documentation?

I'm sure it's documented, somewhere. But the features were definitely developed by autistic kids, with zero interest in making it work the way it should or could. Just look at the Astro 25 series portables, and the GPS speaker mic. What is the point of that? What does it do? Nothing. The data cannot be sent to anyone, and requires a proprietary server running on a trunking system, and even then only a dispatcher can see it. Where is the software? Where can I download it or purchase it from? Why is this so difficult?

Motorola is a useless company and is no longer innovative. The NEXT and Ion speak volumes as to this assertion.

 

[phonebuff]

Look at the Esri Field Apps with Navigator -- It is a MUCH better solution to this problem -

There are many others as well including maybe QuickRoute which I learned of from Andrew's Blog.