Scannerjack is a simple GTK+ application to edit channel settings on classic Uniden scanners.
Scannerjack is tested with an Uniden UBC 780 XLT, but it should work with at least the following scanners:
- BC245XLT / UBC245XLT
- BC250D / UBC250D
- BC780XLT / UBC780XLT
- BC785XLT / UBC785XLT
- BC895XLT / UBC895XLT
Scannerjack is not compatible with modern (GPS-enabled) Uniden scanners.
For compiling Scannerjack GTK+ v3, gcc and make is required. On Ubuntu Linux
this can be installed from the Ubuntu repositories with
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev gcc make.
Compiling the application should be as simple as typing make.
When developing it can be useful to open the GTK+ inspector like this:
make && GTK_DEBUG=interactive ./scannerjack
Scannerjack is hardcoded to use /dev/ttyUSB0 at 19.200 baud. If this doesn't
match your setup, you will need to modify the source code before Scannerjack
will be usable.
Please note that your user will need access to the serial device. Usually this
can be accomplished by adding your user to the dialout group or using sudo
to start the binary. You can verify acess rights in the shell by piping nothing
to the device >/dev/ttyUSB0. If you miss the needed rights, your shell will
output an error like "bash: /dev/ttyUSB0: Permission denied".
The user is allowed to do anything with the Scannerjack. Should the user of the product meet the author and consider the software useful, he is encouraged to buy the author a beer.