It's so useless visually, all those blips that appear that point to nothing, only way to even locate materials is the sounds it makes but even then it will make sounds for shiggles, glad i use vr and find things with my eyes, can't even imagine how stupid it is without it.
Why is the srv scanner just garbage?
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Only ever had issues with the srv scanner back when there was a known bug with the wave scanner display that didnt show anything (you still had sounds but nothing on display).
Other than the above its been pretty good. Although i would like a volume slider which a actually worked , sounds can be vey low while driving around.
Other than the above its been pretty good. Although i would like a volume slider which a actually worked , sounds can be vey low while driving around.
If you're just looking for elements, go to a geological site on a High Metal Content world, they usually have things to shoot and collect, it's much faster for higher grades.
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons Wave Scanner Object Identifier [Animated]
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Perhaps you can go into more detial as to what problem you are facing. The scanner works just fine for me.
What is the point of all the visual noise elements on it that point to absolutely nothing, small blips, large ones, all pointing to or leading to nothing. My issue with it is it doesn't really do what it's supposed to and my eyes do a damn better job since the materials and anything I look at will get a targetting icon.
The signals do point to things. Unless vr is broken. Learn 2 scan 
It does exactly what it's supposed to do. The signals are pretty easy to interpret - stuff at the bottom is mats, stuff at the top is metal, lines that are full top-to-bottom are "I think there's something there but I'm not sure". I think there's also stuff at the top and bottom with a gap in the middle, and I think that's bases. Going from memory though, so I may be wrong.
I think the wavescanner works just fine now - admittedly the audio from the SRV engine drowns it out too much but the visuals are top-notch now.
My SRV scanner is fine it's my thrusters that are rubbish.
There's a couple of audio options they added last year which make it a lot easier to hear over the engine - or do you mean even with those?
The scanner works just fine.
To me it sounds you might want to have a look at a few SRV scanner tuts on youtube.
I used to run with tis on my phone, because I could never remember the meanings to anything.All signs for meteorites and all sounds are explained here. Pretty useful.Elite Dangerous: Horizons Wave Scanner Object Identifier [Animated]
Now I just cut the crap and go to geological sites.
Kinda wish I could turn the scanner off. I rarely use it now.
I found that after I did a recent planetary circumnavigation event I now have a better handle on what the signals mean. Practice makes perfect!
Couldn't agree more it totally sucks.
Going for some retro 1940's look and functionality is pathetic, utterly boring too.
SRV scanner was one of the best introductions of Horizons. Too bad they dint build on the strong elements of that and instead went for power creep.
To be fair to the OP, the SRV scanner is compelely broken in regard to the way it works at Geo' POIs.
At Bio' POIs it detects the mat' drops, themselves, so the signal decays and, eventually, vanishes as you harvest mat's.
This is, presumably, working correctly.
At Geo POI's it seems to detect the "area", itself, so the signal remains constant regardless of how many mat's you harvest or whether you've depleted the area entirely.
This would seem not to be working correctly, and certainly isn't working the same as it does at Bio' POIs.
At Bio' POIs it detects the mat' drops, themselves, so the signal decays and, eventually, vanishes as you harvest mat's.
This is, presumably, working correctly.
At Geo POI's it seems to detect the "area", itself, so the signal remains constant regardless of how many mat's you harvest or whether you've depleted the area entirely.
This would seem not to be working correctly, and certainly isn't working the same as it does at Bio' POIs.