This scanner app is doing the one job it has and still failing.113 people sitting there staring at a map of Waukesha County like something’s about to happen, and the app just slaps up “This feed is off the air right now.” Then a giant orange refresh button, like hitting that is going to invent a radio signal.Half the time the feed isn’t even dead. The app just lost the stream, choked on the server, or decided midnight on a weekend was a good time to lie to you. “Try Again” is developer-speak for “we don’t know, you figure it out.”Enhance Audio. Show Captions. Volume slider ready. Map looking official. All the costume of a real scanner — and then silence. It’s a flashlight with no batteries.Broadcastify-style apps have been like this for years: pretty UI, dead streams, and a star button so you can favorite the disappointment. The cops didn’t go off the air. The app just quit and blamed the feed.
Thank you for the detail. It's useful. The off-the-air message comes from the feed directory's status for that feed, not from a test of the stream itself. So when the directory is out of date, a working feed can show as off the air. A feed with listeners that is also marked off the air is exactly that case, and we've logged your Waukesha County report.