With the chip shortages some of the radios that the OpenGD77 firmware supported changed to an unbranded clone and the firmware would not work. Thanks to Roger Clark, VK3KYY, and Colin Durbridge, G4EML, they figured out why the firmware wouldn’t…
M7DHQ, Simon, submitted a new hide kerchunks feature for W0CHP’s Pi-Star Dashboard, and it’s actually pretty nice especially if you use DMR. No more having your dashboard dominated by people activating talk groups, so you’ll just see the people talking.…
If I had heard of the Helium Network, it didn’t catch my eye at the time with there being so many cryptocurrency projects. However, the project has advanced quite a bit and actually according to their website has an…
I just saw this excellent project for Allstarlink nodes on the mailing list this morning, AllScan. It’s a web application to show your favorites (favorites.ini) with status, allows you to connect/disconnect, and add/remove favorites easily. On the back end this…
I don’t think this is documented and would kind of be unique to W0CHP’s Pi-Star Digital Voice Dashboard. Usually with DMR2YSF and DMRGateway you use a special TG, talk group, to activate and use a YSF reflector or FCS reflector.…
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…
