Set Scanner is a fork of Wireless Microphone Analyzer by Bernd Konnerth optimized for film set camera departments. Set Scanner shows the frequency spectrum captured with the "RF Explorer" or "tinySA" hardware and overlays additional important information like forbidden frequency ranges, recommended/congested manufacturer channels and the old TV channel grid. It is designed to help Camera Assistants and DITs find free or congested wireless channels on a film set. Equipment manufacturers have defined specific frequency ranges for their equipment. The app allows preselecting these vendor specific bands. E.g. if you are using a Preston with a G4 radio, you can select exactly this frequency range to be shown on the screen.
When starting the app, it automatically tries to detect the serial port to which the scanner hardware is attached to. Nevertheless you have to make sure that the correct hardware type is selected! If this doesn't work, you can open the "Port" menu and select the corresponding port manually. In case there is still no display, please restart the app or press <CTRL><R>. It looks like sometimes the serial ports are not detected properly by the underying Electron framework.
It is possible to show/hide each of the displayed graphs:
- Recommended manufacturer channels
- Forbidden ranges
- Congested / forbidden channels
- TV channels
by clicking the corresponding entry in the legend on top.
The following mouse/keyboard commands zoom/move the frequency range:
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Mouse wheel scroll OR Arrow up/down zooms in/out of the waveform. Which means decreasing/increasing the span width of the spectrum analyzer
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Mouse wheel tilt OR Arrow left/right moves the frequency range down-/upwards (when holding down freqency range shifts by 50%)
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<CTRL> Arrow left/right toggles between vendor channel presets within the selected vendor specific frequency band.
Download and install the .exe installer. The required drivers for Windows can be found here: https://j3.rf-explorer.com/43-rfe/how-to
Download and install the .dmg package. Also make sure to download and install the necessary USB-Serial driver according to this guide: https://j3.rf-explorer.com/43-rfe/how-to/205-h2-macosx-drivers
IMPORTANT: For Catalina (MacOS 10.15) and later, make sure to download the latest USB-Serial driver! Older versions cannot be installed anymore due to Apple's security restrictions!
For all common Linux distribuitions the .AppImage can be used without any installation (like a portable applications on Windows).
For Linux distributions using Debian packages, a Debian package is available as well. Just download the .deb package and install it as follows:
sudo dpkg -i <package_name>.deb
If the command above fails, you might need to update the dependencies with:
sudo apt install -f
In order to run the tool as non-root, you have to add your username to the "dialout" group:
sudo gpasswd --add <your_username> dialout
IMPORTANT: After adding your username to the group you should reboot your system.
For Linux normally no special driver is required, as the corresponding driver is already included in most Linux distribuitions. In case you are on a different OS and the driver is missing in your installation, you can download it from here.