Smartconnect; Site Trunking Feature; Locking And Unlocking A Site; Viewing The Current Site - Motorola APX 8000XE User Manual

6.18.3

SmartConnect

SmartConnect allows your radio to maintain voice communication when LMR is out of range by
switching to a Wi-Fi, LTE through Tethered Data Modem and Satellite through Ethernet.
Before switching broadband connections, your radio compares the relative signal strength of the
various broadband connection types to one another, as well as LMR. Your radio remains or returns to
LMR connection when the other broadband connections fall below the quality threshold. In addition, a
radio operating on a lower priority broadband connection returns to the higher priority or quality
connection while idle on SmartConnect.
NOTICE: This feature must be preprogrammed by a qualified radio technician. Contact your
system administrator for more information.
Your radio can connect through a fixed Wi-Fi access point in buildings or in-vehicle Broadband modem
such as the following modems:
• Motorola Solutions VML750
• Sierra Wireless MP70
• Sierra Wireless GX450
Your radio displays the SmartConnect capable icon
the device is connected to an available network, the radio displays SmartConnect connection icon
.
Your radio displays Out of Range when both LMR and SmartConnect are unavailable.
6.18.4

Site Trunking Feature

If the Zone Controller loses communication with any site, that site reverts to site trunking. When this
occurs, you can communicate only with the radios within your trunking site.
The display shows the currently selected zone/channel and the Site Trunking message.
6.18.5

Locking and Unlocking a Site

When and where to use:This feature allows your radio to lock onto a specific site and not roam
among wide-area talkgroup sites. This feature should be used with caution, since it inhibits roaming to
another site in a wide-area system.
Procedure:
Use the preprogrammed Site Lock/Unlock button to toggle the lock state between locked and
unlocked.
The radio saves the new site lock state and returns to the Home screen.
6.18.6

Viewing the Current Site

Procedure:
Press the preprogrammed Site Displ/Srch button.
The display shows momentarily the name of the current site and its corresponding received RSSI.
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