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Learn about vigilant mode.

VoxDMR v0.8.0 — Time-Out Timer

The marquee addition is a configurable Time-Out Timer (TOT). It caps the length of a single transmission so a stuck PTT, a forgotten toggle, or just an
enthusiastic ragchew can't hold the talkgroup indefinitely. Standard radio behavior, finally available client-side instead of relying solely on
Brandmeister's server-side cutoff at ~190 s.

What it does

While you're keyed up, TOT counts up alongside the existing TX clock. Cross a threshold and you get one or both of:

  • Visual warning — the TX timer under the PTT button changes color: gray during normal TX, amber when the warning fires, red in the last 5 seconds.
  • Audible sidetone — a short 800 Hz beep at the warning threshold, two short 600 Hz beeps at the cutoff. Plays through your local audio output device
    only — never goes to the network.

If you've configured a hard cutoff and you reach the duration limit, VoxDMR auto-releases PTT for you (same flow as letting go of the key yourself — clean
terminator frame, no half-keyed state). To talk again, just press the key fresh.

Modes

Pick whichever matches how strict you want to be:

Mode Warning Auto-cutoff
Off — —
Warn only ✓ —
Warn then cutoff (default) ✓ ✓
Hard cutoff — ✓

Defaults

  • Mode: Warn then cutoff
  • Duration: 180 s (range 30–190 s)
  • Warning lead: 15 s before expiry (max = duration / 2)
  • Visual + audible warning: both on

The 190 s ceiling matches Brandmeister's own forwarding cutoff — anything higher would be silently dropped by the network anyway, so the slider doesn't go
there.

Where to configure

Settings → Interface tab → "Time-Out Timer" section. Mode is a dropdown; duration and warning lead are sliders. Visual / audible toggles independently.
Lowering the duration mid-transmission takes effect immediately — if you drop it below the time you've already been keyed, the cutoff fires within the next
tick.

Status card now reflects your TX state

Previously the top status card stayed on Idle / waiting for activity on TG … even while you were keyed up. It now flips to Transmitting → TG 98 ·
Worldwide (or whichever TG you're on) in red, and reverts to Idle the moment you release.

Settings window improvements

The Interface tab grew with the new TOT controls, so:

  • The right-hand settings panel is now scrollable when content overflows the window.
  • Default settings window opens 150 px taller (480 → 630 px), so TOT controls fit without scrolling on first open. Minimum size unchanged — small-screen
    users aren't affected.

No breaking changes

config.toml gains a new [tot] section; older configs without it pick up the documented defaults. No env vars, paths, or protocol semantics changed.

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