Using the Dispatch Panel

Learn more about using the Sonoran Radio dispatch panel.

Dispatch Portal

When you first open a Sonoran Radio community with standalone enabled, you will see this page:

Sonoran Radio - Connect to Radio

To join the radio, press Connect. After connecting, you will be greeted with a row of channels, and a list of connected users underneath them

Sonoran Radio - Radio Hub

Hotkeys (Keybinds)

Push-to-talk key binds are only global in the desktop application.

On web, the browser window must be in focus.

Dispatch Hotkeys

Hotkeys allow for faster actions at the press of a button. These can be configured by clicking the gear icon to open the settings menu.

• Push to Talk

• AI Mode Toggle

• Temporary Per-Channel Push to Talk

• Tone Board

• Change Group Tab

• Change Channel

• Volume Change

Right click on a hotkey button for the option to clear it.

Transmitting (Push to Talk)

Dispatch Push To Talk

To transmit over Sonoran Radio, you can press the microphone button on the top-left.

Alternatively, use the PTT hotkey.

Dispatch: PTT Button

To temporarily transmit in a single channel, and move back to your original channel afterwards, select the keyboard icon to set a per-channel XMIT hotkey.

Dispatch: Per-Channel XMIT Hotkey

Switching Transmit and Scanned Channels

Switching Transmit and Scanned Channels

To switch to another channel, click the microphone button on the channel card.

CTRL + Click on the microphone option to transmit on multiple channels at once.

You can also change channels via hotkey.

Scanning (Listen) To Multiple Channels

Select the headphone icon on each channel to listen in. You can listen to multiple channels at once.

Drag and Drop Users

User Drag-And-Drop

Change a user's channel (requires permission) by dragging and dropping their name into the channel header.

User Actions

User Actions (Right Click)

Right click in the user to:

• Kick the user from the channel (Requires Permission)

• Clear the user's panic status

• Move the user to a different channel (Requires Permission)

• Adjust the user's volume (Requires Permission)

• Change the user's display name (Requires Permission)

Unit Panic

Unit Panic Status

When a unit toggles their panic status in-game, the dispatch portal will reflect this with a red banner and a red highlight on the panicked unit.

Dispatchers can right-click the user to clear the panic for them.

The customizable panic sound effect will also alert dispatchers to an active unit panic.

Display Names

Via Dispatch Portal

To change your display name, users will need the Change Display Name permission. To manage others, users will need the Manage Display Names permission.

Via Radio Interface

Right click a user in the radio interface and select Display Name

Via Members Tab

Via Members Tab

In the admin panel's Members tab, select the drop-down and Set Display Name button to edit a user's display name.

Via Sonoran CMS

Via Sonoran CMS

Sonoran CMS can also automatically set and manage your Radio display names and sync them with Discord.

Via Sonoran CAD Sync

Learn about automatically setting radio display names to match your unit information in Sonoran CAD.

Via Command

Use the in-game command /radio displayname John Doe to update your radio display name.

In-game commands can also be restircted with ACE permissions.

Via Developer Export or Endpoint

Programmatically update a user's display name in FiveM, update a display name via API, or use a custom framework function for guest users.

Volume Changes

Volume Sliders

Adjust the overall voice and sound effect volume by opening the settings menu and selecting the Audio tab.

In addition to the manual sliders, you can customize how much the volume hotkeys adjust the volume.

You can also adjust volume for a specific user.

Viewing Channel IDs

Channel IDs

Some integrations like ACE perm sync or scanner permissions may require you to enter the internal ID number of a specific channel.

Select the # symbol on the last channel in the dispatch panel to toggle ID visibility.