Theme
App appearance. Light, Dark, or Automatic. Automatic can follow a clock schedule or sunset at GPS or a chosen city.
Reference
Every user-facing setting in the current app, grouped the way App Settings and the drawer are grouped. Debug-only screens are omitted.
App appearance. Light, Dark, or Automatic. Automatic can follow a clock schedule or sunset at GPS or a chosen city.
When Automatic uses Time schedule, these hours stay in light mode.
When Automatic uses Sunset schedule, use live GPS or a selected city.
Featured card at the top of App Settings. Status shortcuts into Driving Mode, Units, CarPlay, Voice, Alerts & Audio, Navigation, Road Alerts, Speed Limits, Required Data, Custom Feeds, and Backup. It does not change settings itself.
Hides radar/detector UI in Alerts & Audio and related screens. Road alerts, map, voice, and navigation stay available.
Units → Speed. Paired with Distance (metric or imperial).
Units → Distance.
Prevents auto-lock while the app is open.
Normal keeps full phone visuals. Cool Driving reduces phone-local visuals. Screen-Off Alerts turns off phone-local visuals when the screen is off. Alerts continue.
Scales visuals down when the phone is thermally stressed.
Keeps CarPlay maps and overlays coherent when heat management trims phone visuals.
Power Saver lowers map and overlay draw cadence only. Location, alerts, GPS, lockouts, routing, and detector behavior stay the same.
Further limits map and animation load. Detection, GPS, and navigation are unchanged.
Standby about five minutes after the detector disconnects. Mutually exclusive with ALP/TMG saver, Standalone, Docked, and CarPlay optimization.
Standby about five minutes without a connected laser system.
Run without a radar detector. Detector scan stays off. Overlays, cameras, feeds, and navigation remain. Unplugged standby after five minutes unless Allow unplugged operation is on.
Shown when Standalone is on. Keeps the app active on battery instead of standing by after five minutes.
Docked power: pauses GPS and data while unplugged; resumes on external power.
Standby about five minutes without CarPlay.
Apple Maps traffic coloring on roads.
Phone map style. Power Saver always uses Standard.
Draws Location Automation boundaries on the map.
Dims muted radar banners. Hidden when detector UI is hidden.
Shows muted alerts as compact pills.
Keeps the map north-up instead of rotating with heading.
Available when North up is on. Rotates with heading during navigation.
Bigger report-menu icons for at-speed use.
Police red; other report types orange. Shows a legend when on.
Arrow or Dot. Arrow styles include Classic and Vehicle (Silver, Black, Blue, White). Separate phone and CarPlay sizes (CarPlay as small as 30%). Fill and outline colors are customizable.
Historical enforcement heatmap. Separate from live Risk Score and from Threat Horizon.
Download CSA overlay packages by region (Wi-Fi recommended).
Base overlay strength before speed boost.
CSA palette. Auto picks warm in light mode for contrast.
How easily roads gain enforcement tint.
Show All, Medium and High, or High Only.
Show or hide the CSA overlay by speed on phone and CarPlay.
Used with Hide Above Speed or Show Only Above Speed.
Strengthens CSA intensity above an independent speed threshold.
Colors rails beside the navigation route from CSA heat. Off by default. CarPlay route casing is a separate CarPlay Map & Camera control.
Paint areas where you do not want enforcement tint (home, false hotspots).
Shows the posted limit for the current road from regional packs, then OpenStreetMap.
Current Road shows the limit you are on. Predictive can show an upcoming lower limit early.
How early Predictive mode shows an upcoming lower limit. Custom 50–600 m in 25 m steps (default 200 m).
When Predictive is on, TMG can use predicted limits.
Where the limit appears on the phone map.
Pencil control to correct a wrong or missing limit.
Keeps speed text from turning red when over the posted limit.
Shows whether the limit came from a pack or online lookup.
Opens regional pack downloads. Also listed under Data & Downloads.
Removes downloaded packs and OpenStreetMap cache.
Live Risk Score for your area. Not the CSA heatmap and not Threat Horizon.
Banner at the bottom or a compact map widget.
When using Banner style. 0% keeps the banner always available in that mode.
What the risk widget shows.
How cautiously live risk is calculated.
Download CSA risk packages used by live Threat Intelligence. Separate from heatmap overlays.
Restores marker colors.
How radar alerts are laid out. Radar Direction View adds a map cone. Hidden when detector UI is hidden.
Which signal leads in Consolidated or Radar Direction View.
Places the Radar Direction View banner as a HUD during navigation.
Compact RDV layout.
Draws a bearing cone when Radar Direction View is active.
Richer cone rendering when the cone is on.
How the RDV cone looks for GPS-lockout muted alerts.
Optional learning that refines Radar Direction View by band and lockouts. Off by default.
Records alert sessions for Encounters.
Shortcut that turns on modern card styles for police, hazard, camera, and laser banners.
Customize X, K, Ka, Laser, Gatso, and MRCD colors. Reset to defaults is available.
Front, rear, and side arrow colors per band.
Hides direction arrows on omnidirectional detectors such as R4 and DS1.
Dukes radar tones (separate from the detector speaker).
Play Dukes radar tones for ALP radar when tones are on.
Dukes tones for Uniden, Radenso, and V1 alerts.
Dukes alert-tone volume.
Import WAV files per radar band. Test tones from the editor.
How police alerts sound.
How community hazard alerts sound.
Dark card look for ALP/TMG laser banners.
ALP parking-sensor proximity on the map. Proximity beep tones and CarPlay map banner are on when this is on.
Import ALP laser voice packs.
Test the screen-flash effect.
Color, opacity 10–100%, pulse count 1–3.
Per-band flash for X, K, Ka, MRCD, GATSO. Optional Reduce motion and Skip when muted (K, X, MRCD, GATSO).
Screen flash for community police. Color, opacity, pulse count 1–3.
Master switch for spoken alerts. Audio routing still applies to navigation.
What happens to other audio during speech. Media Audio uses media-style playback if voice fails through a head unit.
Speaks “Police reported ahead.” using the live speech path.
Standard, Enhanced, or Maximum CarPlay speech behavior.
Silences voice when the device is locked.
Only police voice while locked. Hidden if mute-all is on.
Respects zero ringer/media volume.
Silences voice without a connected detector.
Silences voice without ALP connected.
Idle before mute: 2–30 minutes (default 10).
Routes alerts through CarPlay or Bluetooth. Mute after disconnect: Immediately, 1, 3 (default), or 5 minutes.
Drag to reorder. Laser Defense stays highest. Typical families: Police, Hazard, Camera, Radar, Aircraft, Lockout, Navigation.
Speaks police on a named street when a feed report is relevant.
Speed camera, red light, and license plate reader voice (individual toggles).
Master for hazard speech. Per-category voice also exists under Community Hazards.
Spoken ALP/TMG laser alerts.
Spoken Ka detections.
Spoken K detections.
Skips the short K-band delay. May announce signals that would have been muted.
Spoken X detections.
Spoken Gatso detections.
Spoken MRCD detections.
Adds frequency (for example 34.7 GHz) to radar voice.
Adds Front, Rear, or Side to radar voice.
Speaks Uniden/Radenso/V1 connect and disconnect.
Speaks ALP/TMG connect and disconnect.
Camera Alerts → Speed Camera under Road Alerts.
Intersection red-light cameras.
ALPR cameras. Not speed cameras.
Possible plate-reader sites with a shorter alert window.
Speed, red light, and custom camera distance.
License plate reader distance.
Dark card camera banners.
All Alerts, Timed Cooldown, Same Road Only, or Smart Same Road (with switch speed and high-speed voice).
Dukes, Enhanced US/CA, or ExCam. Download, update, or remove from this screen.
Restores cameras you hid. Shown only when hidden cameras exist.
Banner & CarPlay: speed/red-light icons, LPR icons, suspected LPR, approach banners. Mostly off by default.
Master for community hazard banners.
Area Scan or Same Road.
How far a hazard can be and still alert.
Hazard banner arrow.
Timer 3–30 s (default 8 s) when on.
Toggles: Accidents, Traffic Jams, Crowdsourced Traffic Jam Lines (off by default), Traffic flow, Road Closures, Construction, Car Stopped, Weather, Objects on Road, Emergency Vehicles, Broken Traffic Lights, General Hazards.
Draws community jam lines on the map in addition to jam pins. Off by default.
When Aircraft Awareness is on, only watchlisted identities produce alerts.
Spoken alerts when entering an average-speed corridor.
Create a custom average-speed enforcement zone.
Per-category Standard, 30 Minutes, or Live Presence. Experimental screen. Confirmations do not restart Standard/30-minute clocks.
Public ADS-B positions for awareness only — not a legal enforcement classification.
Spoken low aircraft / helicopter / nearby.
Aircraft icons when awareness is on.
Quiet, Balanced, or All Aircraft.
Include aircraft in the CarPlay Threat Horizon HUD.
Ignore aircraft above this altitude.
Horizontal radius for aircraft alerts.
Ignore taxi/ground traffic. 0 includes all.
Ignore faster aircraft (typical airliners).
Include helicopters.
Suppress near airports. 0 = off.
Prioritize specific identities. Optional only-alert-watchlisted toggle.
Never alert on listed identities.
Phone identity density. CarPlay has a separate Compact/Detailed control (default Compact).
Shows types such as C172 or B738 on CarPlay.
adsb.lol, adsb.fi, and/or FlightRadar24. At least one required.
Optional local identification database.
Average-speed zones. Voice, approach distance (default 800 m), map, and CarPlay icons are separate.
User-added cameras, ALPR, traps, waypoints. CarPlay icons and approach banners default on.
Alerts when detector legality may change at a border.
Which community police reports get banners and voice. Independent of Threat Horizon.
Smart Area Scan and Smart Same Road switch with speed. Strict modes need an updated regional speed pack and will not silently fall back to Balanced.
Voice, banner, and map-icon distances, plus Area Scan speed threshold and Smart Same Road switch speed.
Still There / Not There on the proximity strip and Data Mode. Optional auto-dismiss if you do not vote.
Off, Smart, After Passing, or Timer.
When Auto-Dismiss is Timer.
Pulses the banner at a set distance.
Groups nearby police banners. Voice clustering is a separate toggle.
Tints the star on pills and map pins by freshness. Confirmation age is separate from original report age.
Shows text such as “20 min ago.”
Standard, Threat Priority, Minimal, or Heatmap.
Filters tone and voice only — not necessarily map/HUD display.
Halo behind police map icons at Soft / Strong / Pulse distances. Independent of pill border flash.
Modern card look for police feed banners.
Compact chips for extra or dismissed police alerts, with their own filter and distance.
Flashes pills when you are heading toward them (Ahead or Same Road modes).
Richer feed-health UI. Voice when feeds are down is a separate toggle (off by default).
Police banner arrow.
Phone dashboard while CarPlay shows the map. Optional Follow app theme and Small/Big element size.
Dukes banners, Risk Badge, and Threat Horizon. Not system CarPlay notifications.
Auto, Horizontal, Vertical, or Small Horizontal. Applies on the next CarPlay connect. Use Vertical for portrait screens.
Mirrors overlay placement. Reconnect required.
Offsets overlays when the vehicle keeps a persistent CarPlay top bar.
Hidden, Speed Only, or Speed & Limit.
Circle and related CarPlay limit styles. Highway Sign is also available from phone Map & Display.
Speed styling sub-screen. Compact speed/limit pill.
Never, At Limit, or +5 through +25.
Thumbs up/down near the speed overlay for nearby police or cameras.
Full Navigation, ETA Mode, or Cluster Directions.
Shortens the Cluster Directions turn card.
Stacks alerts under the cluster turn card. Alert Rail Placement can nudge the rail right or down.
ETA Mode turn preview, preview distance, next-turn bar, and show next turn on phone.
Uses the JTK control to toggle ETA vs full navigation when no laser system is connected.
Auto, Standard, Satellite, Hybrid.
Terrain, buildings, immersive camera while cruising. Turn-by-turn uses classic 2D, then 3D returns when the trip ends.
Camera style when 3D Navigation Map is on, including close-camera dynamics.
Switch to classic zoom and pitch above a speed while 3D is on.
Brief overview when a CarPlay route begins.
Default or Custom 100–150% for banners and ETA cluster.
Camera animation preset. Reconnect may be required.
Five zoom levels for slow vs highway driving, plus transition speeds. Switch speed uses hysteresis so zoom does not bounce.
Blue route width, heat casing width, presets, heat colours, colour strength, Dark Outer Casing.
Optional −10% to +10% marker offset during heading-up follow. Apply Always, or Threat Horizon HUD Only. Off keeps the classic CarPlay vehicle position. Threat Horizon does not move the vehicle by itself.
Off (Recenter only), After Inactivity, or After Inactivity + Movement.
Legacy or Adaptive. Show full dashboard visuals is off by default.
Floating CarPlay risk badge. Hidden while Threat Horizon is showing.
Adds risk level and day/time context when the badge is shown.
Moves the risk badge.
Nearby police summary on the risk badge. Style: Count + Distance or Police Count Only. Distance slider 1–12 km (default 12).
Experimental CarPlay forward-threat HUD. Separate from Custom Feed filter modes.
Classic, Classic Plus (extra report details), Stealth Alert (compact clustered look), Dukes Carbon (darker high-contrast HUD with light and dark appearance), Signature HUD (floating glass instrument).
Hides Threat Horizon below a minimum speed (default 40 km/h when on).
Hides the HUD when the forward snapshot is quiet (Risk Badge can return).
Off, Flash Once, Flash Then Pulse, Pulse While Active. Category toggles: Police and Laser on by default; Risk Hotspots and Ka History off.
Flashes the primary Threat Horizon summary when a selected threat appears. Police can alternate red/blue.
Shows full map overlays on the CarPlay Dashboard view when supported.
If CarPlay shows km while the app is in miles (or the reverse), choose Follow App Units or change iPhone Settings → Maps.
Keeps police ahead on a matching road name when the road outline is hard to match.
How strong historical heat must be before Threat Horizon shows it. Live police always outranks heat.
Ka Encounters Required and Ka Hotspot Retention Days (0 = never expire). Distinct visits after leaving the area.
Police Pill Border Flash at a chosen distance and border color. Independent of Proximity Glow.
Alert families, radar re-alert delay/trigger, and muted-banner policies while CarPlay is connected.
Where background alerts go. Both, Phone Only, CarPlay Only, or Advanced per family (Police, Cameras, Hazards, Laser, Radar).
Shows background CarPlay alerts as a Live Activity on supported iPhones (Lock Screen / Dynamic Island) and CarPlay. Off by default.
Fires at most once per police report as you approach. Reminder distance 500–4000 m when on.
Hides muted radar from background CarPlay alert routing.
Shows why a radar banner is muted (lockout, Temporary Mute, low speed, and similar).
Reorder report-grid buttons. The vehicle decides the grid size.
Experimental / Testing. Intensity and tone sliders when on.
CarPlay map speaker control: Sound On, Alerts Only, Sound Off.
Mutes the detector speaker only, not Dukes app audio.
Local decision log for Threat Horizon. Mark Issue, Export Diagnostic Log, Clear Diagnostic Log.
Download and manage Enhanced Speed Limits by region. Used before online lookup; works offline.
Lower-memory pack variant. Does not require re-download.
Improves speed-limit transitions on divided roads, intersections, and nearby parallel roads. Off by default. Does not guarantee a perfect match.
Same regional overlay manager as Map & Display → CSA Overlay.
Risk packages for live Threat Intelligence.
Creates a .dukesbackup with settings, lockouts, Location Automations, feeds, cameras, favorites, profiles, speed overrides, and encounters.
Replaces current data from a .dukesbackup file.
On-device policy. No account required.
Runs the first-run demo again.
Optional walkthrough of lockouts, Location Automations, K Blocks, and related tools.
Email support from About.
Version, credits, and legal. Opens from Backup & About.
Backup first. Then use restore or the in-app reset options where available.
Master switch. Off by default. Saved lockouts do not mute until this is on.
Learns recurring false alarms. A pass requires leaving the mute radius and coming back — waiting in place does not count again.
Add/Remove Lockout on radar banners. Manual lockouts activate immediately.
K Hold continues K mute briefly after you leave the lockout radius.
Skips weak K-band BSM frequencies when auto-learning.
Also writes promoted X/K/Ka lockouts to detector mute memory when supported. MRCD/Gatso stay app-side.
Unmutes the detector when a new Ka appears while you are manually muted. Different from a tap mute and from Temporary Mute.
V1 only. Does not run while Ka is active.
Silences X and K below a speed. Low Speed Mute Threshold defaults to 40 km/h / ~25 mph.
Low-speed mute for photo-radar bands.
Visits required before an auto-learned lockout becomes active (1–10). Also listed as Hits to Promote in search.
Frequency window for matching lockouts.
GPS zone around each lockout.
Automatic can remove auto-learned lockouts after verified misses. Keep Forever never auto-removes promoted lockouts.
Stricter lockout matching above activation speed (default 90 km/h) or when Ka is alerting.
Advanced. Ka auto-learn is off by default. X and K learn on by default.
Manual only — never auto-learned.
Full-screen lockout map, list with search/merge, import/export JSON and CSV.
Activates lockouts still in the learning phase.
Permanently deletes every lockout.
Dynamic Muting: app-side mute until a band reaches a strength threshold.
App-side mute below a speed unless a signal is strong enough to override.
Mute selected bands below posted speed limit plus buffer.
Up to eight app-side K-band windows (Uniden R4/R8/R9). Not detector K Blocks.
Long-press a phone radar banner. 5 / 15 / 30 / 60 minutes. Uniden, Radenso, Valentine. Not laser/MRCD/Gatso. Ka optional and off by default. Also Mute Connected Detector off by default.
Lets Temporary Mute apply to Ka. Detector may still sound unless hardware mute is on.
Sends a hardware mute while Temporary Mute is active, when the detector supports it.
If the Uniden has parking sensors, suppresses automatic hardware mute commands from lockouts/low-speed mute. Manual mute still works.
Connected and remembered hardware. Statuses include Connected, Connecting, Searching, Reconnecting, Not Connected. Add Device for Radar Detector, ALP, TMG, or Flic 2.
R4, R4w, R8, R8w, R9, R9w, DS1. R7 is not supported because Dukes cannot connect to it over Bluetooth. Auto-connect and auto-scan live on the device detail screen.
Turn on only if the optional Uniden laser pack is installed (Laser TP logging).
ESP pairing (V1connection). May show Connected, waiting for V1 data. Optional connection diagnostics with export.
PIN pairing, auto-connect last device, Force Reconnect, Ignore ALP mute for radar, ALP radar antenna installed, Forget Device.
Reconnect, Auto/Front/Rear role, banner duration and colors, PSL/JTK timing, Forget.
Single Press, Double Press, Hold → None, Mute Detector, Add GPS Lockout, JTK Jammer, Report Police.
Bluetooth Devices preferences for spoken connect status.
Uniden settings complexity. Expert adds segments, POP, tones, antenna options.
Reads current Uniden settings into the Default profile.
Pushes Default profile to the Uniden.
Second Uniden profile. Toggle from the map bar when saved. Includes bands, Gatso, GPS, Laser TP fields where the model supports them.
Uniden K-band notches for BSM. Hidden for DS1 and V1.
Fine-tune individual K-band windows on Uniden hardware.
All Bogeys, Logic, Advanced Logic.
Show on Phone Map, Show on CarPlay Map, Show in CarPlay Data Mode.
Requires firmware v4.1035+.
V1 K auto-mute modes, K Rear Mute, Mute X/K Rear. Logic Mute status is shown in V1 Settings.
V1 Gatso RT4 filter.
Photo-radar intersection filter (plus related Advanced photo options).
Custom sweeps. Not stored inside Saved Detector Profiles.
Detector volume over ESP. Needs compatible firmware. Not Dukes app volume.
Optional saved City and Highway profiles by speed threshold.
Location Automations can apply V1-specific overrides on enter and restore on exit.
Create polygon areas that apply settings on enter/exit. Editor tabs: Where, When, Actions (Alerts / Laser / Radar), Priority, Summary.
Entry Buffer, Exit Buffer, Entry Delay, Exit Delay, Minimum Stable Time, Ignore Poor GPS Accuracy.
When areas overlap, the higher-priority automation wins conflicting settings. Leaving restores previous values.
Add a feed URL with optional headers and refresh mode. Legal acknowledgment required for third-party sources.
Share feed configurations between devices.
Guided setup and downloadable presets.
Alert history with search, labels, notes, Advanced Warning, Estimated Acquisition Threshold, Front→Side→Rear, laser gun names and IDs.
Native .dukesencounters, summary CSV, detailed CSV, telemetry CSV, KML. Screenshot Mode and Explain Encounter on detail.