Andy Taylor, MW0MWZ and coder of Pi-Star, last put out a request for people to take over parts of the project as he had made it quite complicated and wasn’t going to be able to do it alone. The Debian…
The OpenGD77 firmware project is what prompted me to get a Radioddity GD-77 (rebranded TYT MD-760) DMR radio back when the project was just starting out. And that project blossomed and gave us a lot of capability with a firmware…
If you compile software on a Raspberry Pi you can overwhelm it by using too many CPU’s depending on how the application is setup to compile as well as what other software is running and what you are using for…
Andy Taylor, MW0MWZ, who maintains Pi-Star uses old versions of MMDVMHost and DMRGateway probably for stability, but I’ve taken to using the latest versions with all the bug fixes on my Pi-Star hotspots. Really what Andy maintains with Pi-Star for…
DVswitch Server is a software suite that allows access via the internet to ham radio digital modes, DMR, D-Star, YSF, NXDN, and P25, using your smartphone or an internet radio running Android, coded by Michael Zingman, N4IRR, and Steven Zingman,…
If you’re not aware of DVSwitch Mobile, it’s an Android app that you can use to connect to your Allstarlink node or your DVSwitch Server for digital modes. But to use the app you had to have an existing Allstarlink…
Gone are the days of there being repeater systems with complex RF linking between sites or voting receivers, although a few holdovers from the past still exist as an exercise of love by their owners, clubs, or as a backup…
The default DMRGateway in Pi-Star has all DMR networks active with adjustable timeouts/holds, but VE3RD created a DMRGateway that has only one network active at a time, and the user can use multiple ways to switch networks. I have opted…
