In the settings you can also set it to periodically wake up every so often to keep it alive and not sign out or lose connection.
It's greatly improved over the past year and recommend it for the people that may have had bad experience with it before to try it again. Ham radio works great but not everyone is a ham operator but anyone can use Zello.
Looks and feels like a walkie talkie with the added bonus of supporting any networks like EchoLink, Internet Radio Network, etc. If you are a devoted Zello user i suggest the Inrico T320 network radio. I use the Zello app for communications with my Spotters/Skywarn group to communicate with the public to get info out and take storm damage reports. My Zello app always stays connected without any issues, the last update fixed any of those. It's made quite a bit of upgrades over the last year and now with the Network Radios gaining popularity especially. Quality costs money in nearly all cases, and this is no exception. Still, the free Zello is likely still the best option for PoC communications, if you really don't want to pay for anything. This wouldn't be required, if Zello weren't also overrun with a bunch of kids that use it for gaming, so no password = eventually some teenager will get into your talkgroup and just start shouting nonsense. Ideally, you'd want a talkgroup to have password protections, and Zello loves doing that thing where you set a password, then go to put that password in, and it doesn't work. Standard Zello can definitely be confusing when you have a lot of contacts, and if you're trying to get multiple people onto one talkgroup, it can also be a hassle. It appears that T-Mobile, being the outlier among major carriers, has a tie-in with ESChat. Zello for Work and ESChat also operate along these same lines, although IMHO are less stable and less effective than Kodiak. You can manually input contacts you wish to communicate with, no problem, but it's all based on a corporate web portal, where you can add and change designators and accounts, much like if you operated, say, an ambulance service, or a delivery company, or something along those lines. To date, in extensive talks with all 3 carriers, none seem to have any idea how to do such a thing, and all are surprised to hear that their company states that it's possible in advertising materials.Īlso, all of the Kodiak options operate as a dedicated corporate account would operate. It should be noted that Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T all claim that there is carrier interoperability, and that non-carrier members may use the service, by adding a "cross-carrier account". The only way around that with Kodiak is to use Motorola WAVE. With the exception of the Motorola product, all of them are locked to carrier dependency, so you can only talk to other users who have both the service, as well as the same carrier, as you.
These options include Motorola WAVE OnCloud (the most flexible), Sprint Direct Connect Plus, Verizon Push To Talk Plus, and AT&T Enhanced PTT. They meet Mission Critical standard, and are about as reliable as you can get for PoC comms. We didn't need any of the mobile functionality or the other bells and whistles, but we still had to pay for them.I can attest that all of the Kodiak-based platforms are solid. Those folks use it like a digital version of two-way radios, or the old Nextel PTT phones. It's designed and priced for larger organizations who need it for managing fleets or large mobile teams, think trucking dispatchers, or managers of large field staffs. You would think it wouldn't be hard to find an IP-based version of the old-school intercom, like on Mad Men (but with way less sexual harassment) where you can push a button and say something to someone in a different office, rather than forcing their phone to ring, or waiting for them to see and answer an IM, but this isn't just the best option, it's the only one I found. This is the only app I could find anywhere that provides us with what is essentially an intra-office intercom.
Sometimes you really need to know if someone is at their desk and available to take a call, but you don't want to interrupt them with a ringing phone and you don't have time to hope and wait for them to see a Slack-like instant message.
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