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Gotta Say Eric, I so appreciate your tireless devotion to the hobby! Because of you, Josh, the other Josh, and Bob, I dove right in, bought myself a JumboSpot and an Anytone AT878 Plus, set everything up (building a code plug and all) and started working contacts all over the place. It was simple and easy, and that was because of all your hard work. I really appreciate it!!! Thank you so much!!!
I can't thank you enough for this video. I picked up a JumboSpot on Amazon and followed your setup video and was on air right away. The setup was so easy to follow and I've been having a great time with it. I don't have a DSTAR repeater close enough to me to hit so this is awesome! Thank's again!
Thanks! I just set up a generic D-Star hotspot by following your instructions. It worked very well. Within a little while I was talking to hams in Korea, Ireland, and England from NYC. Great Job!
I'm sure that this video was a great help for folks who are already familiar to setting up hot spots. Myself just a newbe , I'm left standing on the ground while your at 20,000 ft.. The links that you suggested cam up blanks. Thanks anyway and 73, Doug
good video. I haven't even got my radio in the mail yet and just ordered a hot spot because of your video. I have more confidence that I will get the hot spot programed before the radio.
Wow what a crystal clear explanation. I'm just getting into this bought a DMR radio and just ordered a hotspot , I'm sort of lost I bought a Antenna + Al Case + OLED+ MMDVM hotspot Support P25 DMR YSF for raspberry pi . I already have a raspberry pi so I'm sure if the one I bought will have to fit on top of it
Oh, just a "no biggy" comment here but if you click "apply changes" other than at the very bottom of the dialog box whose content you just changed, the changes will still take affect. Great videos!
Thanks for a really great video. The info was layed out clearly and explained well. This helped me get my hotspot going quick and easy. I was listening to a net on dmr and making contacts right away.
435.5 is in the middle of the AMSAT uplink band for satellites. I was hearing a ton of noise one this morning and realized that the INTERFERANCE was these hotspots. Could you please go above 436?
@@JosephTrezza Best to use the range between 445-447mhz. Those are simplex frequencies. Stay away from 446.000 though because that is the calling frequency.
I just set my Raspberry Pi up from scratch yesterday to run Pi-Star, it is not that difficult, did find an issue with WiFi running WEP (I have an old media player in the house). Using WPA was far easier. Today another Raspberry Pi arrived in the post and that took very little time to set up. I only found your video subsequent to setting mine up but it is nevertheless helpful.
Do you just need to drag and drop the WiFi builder file to the SD card? Or do you need to do anything fancy to flash it to the card or put it in any particular folder?
Please note, you can't turn off Duplex when setting up a new memory for your Hotspot. If you do, the set will skip the entry and you will not be able to use the Hotspot. Leave duplex turned on and set Offset to 000.000. The set will now see the Hotspot entry and not Skip it.
Nice one Eric. You have a great presentational skill that gets the info across nice and easy (IMO). Have just bought one and got it running after a couple of days. I had an issue with the pre-programmed sd card so that the device would not boot. Solved by downloading an image from pi-star (I chose the latest generic version - v4 beta RC2), clearing the card and creating a new logical partition using EaseUS Partition Master (free), flashed the card using Etcher (free) and shazaam! best regards, Bob MM0MMQ (try that one in morse!)
My MMDVM Pi-Star arrives tomorrow. I can't seem to find any videos on anyone using this with P25 radios. Is the only way to manage talkgroups via the web interface if I want to use a P25 radio?
I just ordered one I have a zumspot elite 3.5. I just wanted other one to play with. I use fusion. I may have both set up and run two nodes. All I have to to do is change frequency.
I wanted to thank you so much, You really helped me setup & get things going without feeling like a idiot! Very well done and look forward to watching other video's you do. 73 & Aloha, WH6FVC.
Excellent tutorial, however, it's a shame you decided to use a frequency within the satellite band plan more so for one of the active FM satellites AO-92 which is experiencing a large amount of uplink interference from DSTAR/DMR etc on this frequency. I believe the latest MMDVM firmware does have a limitation in place now, but not all users upgrade. Perhaps the video could be corrected to use a frequency somewhere more appropriate.
Question: I have a Jumbospot on order and is now in the country and on its way. I already have a GD-77 I will use with it. Something I am unsure of is when I want to join a talk group do I just go to the channel on my radio where I have programmed in the frequency of my jumbospot and a talk group and just for a split second key up? Even though I have had the radio about a year I have never used it in DMR because I live in a deep, narrow valley where my signals can't reach any local repeaters, so the hotspot is my only option. I just want to learn how to work it before it gets here so I can roll with it as soon as it shows up.
I have the Anytone 878 ht and the MMDVM hotspot. I followed the procedure in this video to setup the hotspot(pi-star). Also could not determine the TX/RX offsets. Documentation is very poor so I'm using 0/0 for offsets. The problem is that there is no gateway activity shown in the pi-star dashboard or local rf activity. Any ideas on what I might check first? The radio was programmed with a codeplug designed for my state(TN) which I got from the Bridgecom website. Thanks Jimmy KN4LXH
Also noticed that the left side of the dashboard on Eric's video shows Trx = Listening mine is blank. Also his dashboard shows TG31123 and mine says "No TG/No Ref" Jimmy KN4LXH
I have found lots on TH-cam about the Jumbo spot end of this and definitely helped to get it working ... little on the RADIO side of things and how to set up there. I know that the RADIO settings for DStar using the Jumbo spot are different than for the DV Mega - offset and call routing entries - How should the DMR units be set up... as simple as the freq and color code or other subtle settings required.
This seems like a hotspot for me. This model is also 2m compatible right? So I would need to use 2m band antenna, or dual band. 70cm DMR band creates interference with my PC speakers. Is the frequency entered in the hotspot an analogue or digital frequency? I guess digi, but want to make sure I do not disturb locals if it's in FM. Thnx.
I recently have a simplex Jumbo spot. I wanted to know these two things: 1) If calibration is required, for lower BER, to work with Wires-X Fusion 2) If calibration is required to work the DMR in Wires-X I use, Yaesu ft-2d. Thanks in advance for your help and any other information. '73!
This is a good starter video to show what this unit can and can't do. I will be putting mine together in my own little package. I'm going to leave out the display and probably add a battery. I was fiddling with the idea of giving it a modem as well. It would be interesting to slap a SIM card in and go. There are lot's of possibilities with such a modular system. Already owning the RPI the total cost of ownership is pretty low. It's too bad it can't cross encode like the big boys can.
Hello, question I do have this hotspot program for DMR. I want to program it for D-Star. The question is do I need a D-Star radio or can I just use my Anytone 878 handheld.
Tried to update flash firmware my one i got off ebay..... seems to have bricked, then found it they can be locked by the vendor is there a work around?
Hi Eric, excellent video. A real education. One quick question please... In adjusting the BER settings... does one adjust both the TX and RX settings together when making any change? Thanks in advance. Wm.
it comes fully assembled but it's not plug and play. I'm unsure on your video whether I have to connect the jumbo spot to my PC and program it that way. I don't have a PC with internet connection I only have a Wi-Fi and a tablet at my home. Will I be able to configure this with that. I did download the pi star app on Android.
in the Root of the SDcard or in the Boot? Maybe many things have changed since this video because they now ask for country in that page and I dont see how to get access to the root of the SDcard using a Windows PC, I can get access to the boot partition but not the root, Anyways that conf file is not doing anything so far, I opened with notepad and the lines with the SSID and password are commented out, tried uncomenting them but still not working. Going to install a fresh image of Pistar to see what happens, maybe is the image that came from factory that is probably wrong. I just wanted to point out the root vs boot partition on PI's
Check out the Nextion Screens, you can make this little thing work very well. I have this same one for my car with a usb battery and another large one with a rpi 3 and the nextion screen. Dont forget to set the offset, It drove me crazy when I could not connect then I saw the sticker with a 500mhz offset. Great video! 73,s
What confuses me most about digital is which format makes the most sense- this video is informative, but it's now about 2yrs old. Have you done an update to this world of digital lately? Thanks!
Can I use my Android for the dashboard and setup since I don't have a laptop? I've been looking to get one like this on ebay.I want to do digital since I bought a new FT 70.Just so much out there I'm looking for something easy to set up and use.Love the channel!73. KD9KNN
So question ... if I join using my P25 Motorola's, can I then partake in the DMR talkgroups or is each mode totally independant in mode AND network/tg to each other? In regards to the talkgroups, is the talkgroup selected and locked by the the mmdvm or is it able to change tg's like dmr or p25 trunking? Where or what sets that talkgroup? What's the chances of getting 2 of these on the same frequency running at the same time on different time slots for different talkgroups? We've only just been permitted at my level to play in digital and it's about time I branch out from P25 commercial.
it wasn't nearly this easy for me. Im having issues getting mine to power on all the way. When i first got it out of the box this morning, I plugged it into my computer to power on... in about 2-3 minutes the device turned on and seem to be working fine. I found it on my computers list of available wifi list, i think i got it all set up with the pistar website. Then I unplugged it to move it closer to my radio and now it one power back on all the way. I tried unplugging it, plugging it back in and waiting, and i tried using the other port that also powers it.. with no luck. I can see the green light and red blinking light, so it's getting power but it wont turn on all the way. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I didn't realize how big of a pain this would be just to use d-star.
Thanks for this nice video. I have set up mine hotspot, and it works excellent... but the scrolling MMDVM is not running? Any ideas why not? Appreciate any logical reply.
Thanks for the video. It helped me to get onto my Jumbo spot. The only thing missing was that you had your dashboard on Pi-Star already set up and did not go over signing on to Pi-Star with the user name pi-star and the password raspberry. I was gong nuts trying to get to the pi-star page you were on in the video. I found the missing piece in another video. Otherwise an awesome video.
Eric if you use 1 hotspot for dmr and dstar how do you keep, say the dstar radio from picking up the digital signal when a dmr transmission comes through? This just happened to me lol
ok you show entering your ssid and password and it creates a file and then you say install it on the root of the ssd card. How do I do that part? you skip that and go to another website. As someone new to this and raspberry pi and linux and other stuff im not sure how to get the file off my computer and onto this card?
When you write the SD card with Etcher you can search your Windows GUI and it will see it as two drives (one section is not readable) you copy the file to the section of the drive that is visible (Boot). Cancel any warnings from Windows about a drive needing formatting. TBH if you have an ethernet cable kicking around you can skip the wifi config file and do it all through the dashboard. The one I set up today I did the other method. If you just power the thing up without any network connections after a while it will adverrtise itself as a wireless access point called Pi-Star_Setup (or something similar)... very easy then.
@@mikemcdonald5147if you don't want to drag and drop that file the Pi-Star installation sets the Pi-Star up as a "pretend access point" and you can work from there. I have had Pi-Star running and working on 3 Raspberry Pi in the last few days. Once you have cracked it you can literally set one up in minutes. Good Luck
@@g0fvt I've imaged one of these hotspots and it's sat next to my tablet and iPhone for nearly an hour and I still haven't seen the Pi-Star_Setup AP appear on either my tablet or on my iPhone both within a foot of the device. Also, the screen hasn't lit up at all. Think it might be DOA?
My DMR section was very short on the firmware in the one I bought. I did an update to it, and that didn't change anything. The one thing was the +DMR section was missing. I'm not sure why since there is not reason for it to be different. Just looked ta your dashboard and compared it to mine, mine says this Pi-Star:3.4.13 / Dashboard: 20180523, Yours says 3.4.12, Dashboard 20180502. So, newer Dashboard.
Eric: Quick question. I put the disc image on the sd card, then the computer says it needs to format the sd card to access. So I put the supplicant.conf on the card first, then the disc image. I can't get it to come up on pi-star. Do you have any words of wisdom to help me out? Thanks Eric
Thanks for the video. Can't get mine working. On my dashboard bottom right under DMR Repeater block ID shows up CC 1 shows up TS1 shows disabled TS2 shows enabled under that it shows[ not linked/not linked ]. Any ideas on why it's not linking? wifi shows ok About ready to see what a 44 mag will do to a jumbo spot
You have the radio programmed for the appropriate timeslot and talkgroup? The same DMR ID in both the radio and the hotspot? When you press PTT on the talkgroup you want, does it link the hotspot? It does not link to anything unless you press PTT.
Thanks for the reply. Yea double checked all that. Setup just the way you have it, will not recognize any talk group after PTT. Supplier suggested updating firmware on mmdvm hat. Did that still nothing but the scrolling MMDVM Guess I'm one of the people that got one of the bad boards going around.
Thanks for the video. I've been looking at these and other hotspots. I'm still new to all of this. If the device loses power, does it corrupt the OS or do you have to do a power down before unplugging it from a power source? Is there anyway to have multiple SSIDs like if you wanted to use it at home and work or would you have to change the config or maybe easier to have two sd cards, one for home config and one for work config...
Thanks...Do you do the multiple SSIDs through the dashboard or edit the conf file on a PC? I may wind up picking one of these things up. Still researching. Are you selling the others through a website store front? Good to hear you don't have to worry about it corrupting although I'd image the card after getting it set up completely just in case.
What do you mean when you say "If the device loses power" Dapper ?? Are you talking about an event where there might be a power outage at home or if the battery (Which is what I assume powers the thing when not plugged in) runs out of juice ?? #Confused
Already been answered for me Pat. I was asking if the JumboSpot itself lost power either AC or using a battery pack would you risk the SD card corrupting. It's read only so it's not a problem.
HeLP!!!! I accidentally hit the AP auto button (turned off) and now I can't access the jumbospot. How do I fix it? is it possible to get another micro sd card with the software on it if need be?
Just viewed this video, will set my hotspot as per instruction, awaiting delivery, let you know how things go. Will see if their is a Fusion specific one as well. that's my mode. 73's all
KoljaMineralka you talk into your handheld or desktop radio which is transmitting into the hotspot.the hotspot sends it over internet to the repeater or reflector you.choose. it goes back to RF on the other person's radio I use mine in the car, tethered to my phone wifi hotspot. My id5100 in my vehicle talking to this keeps me in contact with people hundreds of miles away when I don't have repeater cpverage
I saved the wifi to the sd card but when I go to pi-star it comes up unable to find. I can talk on my DMR radio. What am I doing wrong unable to get to the dashboard
just a word of advise on nxdn and p25.. make sure it is legal for AMATEUR use in your state. Seen as the sherifs dept also uses the same concept.. id recommand sticking to ham dmr ( dstar pdmr etc..) avoids your hotspot being confiscated
I have one DMR ID. It is in my portable DMR radio. Do I have to apply for an extra DMR ID to put in this hotspot, or do I use the same ID in the hotspot as I already have? Indead interesting device.
UNLESS you already have a radio & Hotspot assigned to that ID (In which case you need to change one of the Hotspots to another ID (From what Craig, W1MSG said in a video on his channel, it appears as though all you need to do in THAT event is to change JUST ONE number on one of your Hotspots in order for it to route properly (You CANNOT do it on your radio)
I have no hotspot yet, I am considering buying one. But let me get things clear. I guess when I transmit with my radio through my hotspot, on the net I will be shown with the ID in the hotspot, not the ID in the radiio, correct? So I could enter a imaginary ID in my radio since it does not go further than my Hotspot?
Of all the hotspots I have and have had, I use one DMR ID, mine.. In the radio, and in the hotspot. No issues at all...Now if you are talking about running multiple hotspots at the same time, I am not sure why anyone would run 4 at one time, when my hotspots do all 5 modes anyways on one unit.
I see that you mentioned about the config file being generated and needs to be copy to your SD card. Is this the on the JumboSpot or what? You were not being very specific about that. In fact showing how to do this would have been nice. Second I see in the Dashboard that TS1 is disabled and TS2 is enabled. My codeplug uses TS1. Is there anyway to ammend this choice on the hotspot? I appreciate any help you can give regarding this.
It should till work on your codeplug using TS1.. That only applies to a repeater. The only reason I mentioned it was to make it routine as with other dmr programming. As far as the wifi config.. Simply download the file, put the sd card in your computer, it will come up with 2 partitions on the SD card. DO NOT FORMAT!! D.O. N.O.T. F.O.R.M.A.T. the SD card. Just throw that config file you downloaded onto the "boot" partition of the sd card and put it back into your jumbospot.
Please edit the video to change the freq. This freq is in the satellite band, and, for US hams, auxiliary stations are banned from this sub-band (145.8 to 146.0 and 435 to 438 MHz). Please refer to www.arrl.org/news/digital-mobile-radio-hotspots-may-be-interfering-with-satellite-uplinks-amsat-reports
Sold out of hotspots. Thanks for the quick sell out.
I'll take one. K3NE
email me. Ill process now..
I sent an email I want one!!!
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RATS - I'd have been happy to swap the cheap Chinese JumboSpot RIP-OFF I seem to have for one of yours Eric. Ohh well..... #Sigh
Gotta Say Eric, I so appreciate your tireless devotion to the hobby! Because of you, Josh, the other Josh, and Bob, I dove right in, bought myself a JumboSpot and an Anytone AT878 Plus, set everything up (building a code plug and all) and started working contacts all over the place. It was simple and easy, and that was because of all your hard work. I really appreciate it!!! Thank you so much!!!
I can't thank you enough for this video. I picked up a JumboSpot on Amazon and followed your setup video and was on air right away. The setup was so easy to follow and I've been having a great time with it. I don't have a DSTAR repeater close enough to me to hit so this is awesome! Thank's again!
Thanks AGAIN FOR SUCH A THOUGOUGH VIDEO
Thanks! I just set up a generic D-Star hotspot by following your instructions. It worked very well. Within a little while I was talking to hams in Korea, Ireland, and England from NYC. Great Job!
I'm sure that this video was a great help for folks who are already familiar to setting up hot spots. Myself just a newbe , I'm left standing on the ground while your at 20,000 ft.. The links that you suggested cam up blanks. Thanks anyway and 73, Doug
OMG! This video is a God-send. I have been searching the net of videos on the JumboSpot and almost bought one from China two days ago. I want one!
Thanks!
good video. I haven't even got my radio in the mail yet and just ordered a hot spot because of your video. I have more confidence that I will get the hot spot programed before the radio.
Received my jumbo spot today. Straight forward setup thanks to your video. Thanks Eric. 73 de MI0HOZ.
Wow what a crystal clear explanation. I'm just getting into this bought a DMR radio and just ordered a hotspot , I'm sort of lost I bought a
Antenna + Al Case + OLED+ MMDVM hotspot Support P25 DMR YSF for raspberry pi . I already have a raspberry pi so I'm sure if the one I bought will have to fit on top of it
Thank you so much for this video. I don’t have DStar repeaters close and just ordered and got my jumbo spot in and it’s fantastic.
Can this hotspot listening to Public Safety frequency? Like NXDN and P25.
Oh, just a "no biggy" comment here but if you click "apply changes" other than at the very bottom of the dialog box whose content you just changed, the changes will still take affect. Great videos!
Thanks for a really great video. The info was layed out clearly and explained well. This helped me get my hotspot going quick and easy. I was listening to a net on dmr and making contacts right away.
435.5 is in the middle of the AMSAT uplink band for satellites. I was hearing a ton of noise one this morning and realized that the INTERFERANCE was these hotspots. Could you please go above 436?
where do you recommend the frequency be at?
@@JosephTrezza Best to use the range between 445-447mhz. Those are simplex frequencies. Stay away from 446.000 though because that is the calling frequency.
Best to check the bandplan for your country, here in the UK one of our allocated frequency for hotspots is 434.000MHz
I know this video is a few years old but it just solved all of my problems. Thank you! KE4CMP
Does this pick up stuff that would require paid upgrades on a uniden scanner?
Thanks Eric, these instructions were very helpful to me to get my JumboSpot up and running quickly.
I just set my Raspberry Pi up from scratch yesterday to run Pi-Star, it is not that difficult, did find an issue with WiFi running WEP (I have an old media player in the house). Using WPA was far easier. Today another Raspberry Pi arrived in the post and that took very little time to set up. I only found your video subsequent to setting mine up but it is nevertheless helpful.
Excellent Tutorial. Thank You. It motivated me to order such device on ebay.
Do you just need to drag and drop the WiFi builder file to the SD card? Or do you need to do anything fancy to flash it to the card or put it in any particular folder?
Please note, you can't turn off Duplex when setting up a new memory for your Hotspot. If you do, the set will skip the entry and you will not be able to use the Hotspot. Leave duplex turned on and set
Offset to 000.000. The set will now see the Hotspot entry and not Skip it.
Nice one Eric. You have a great presentational skill that gets the info across nice and easy (IMO).
Have just bought one and got it running after a couple of days. I had an issue with the pre-programmed sd card so that the device would not boot.
Solved by downloading an image from pi-star (I chose the latest generic version - v4 beta RC2), clearing the card and creating a new logical partition using EaseUS Partition Master (free), flashed the card using Etcher (free) and shazaam!
best regards,
Bob
MM0MMQ (try that one in morse!)
Thank you! This video really helped me. My Radiodity Hot spot is up and running!!!!
My MMDVM Pi-Star arrives tomorrow. I can't seem to find any videos on anyone using this with P25 radios. Is the only way to manage talkgroups via the web interface if I want to use a P25 radio?
Does this work with anytone
I just ordered one I have a zumspot elite 3.5. I just wanted other one to play with. I use fusion. I may have both set up and run two nodes. All I have to to do is change frequency.
I'm very new so this may be a very stupid question but could you plug in a outdoor antenna and let others transmit through it. Would that even work
I wanted to thank you so much, You really helped me setup & get things going without feeling like a idiot! Very well done and look forward to watching other video's you do. 73 & Aloha, WH6FVC.
Just bought one! you mentioned some interesting point, thanks
Excellent tutorial, however, it's a shame you decided to use a frequency within the satellite band plan more so for one of the active FM satellites AO-92 which is experiencing a large amount of uplink interference from DSTAR/DMR etc on this frequency.
I believe the latest MMDVM firmware does have a limitation in place now, but not all users upgrade.
Perhaps the video could be corrected to use a frequency somewhere more appropriate.
whats your recommendation on frequency?
Question: I have a Jumbospot on order and is now in the country and on its way. I already have a GD-77 I will use with it. Something I am unsure of is when I want to join a talk group do I just go to the channel on my radio where I have programmed in the frequency of my jumbospot and a talk group and just for a split second key up? Even though I have had the radio about a year I have never used it in DMR because I live in a deep, narrow valley where my signals can't reach any local repeaters, so the hotspot is my only option. I just want to learn how to work it before it gets here so I can roll with it as soon as it shows up.
I have the Anytone 878 ht and the MMDVM hotspot. I followed the procedure in this video to setup the hotspot(pi-star).
Also could not determine the TX/RX offsets. Documentation is very poor so I'm using 0/0 for offsets. The problem is
that there is no gateway activity shown in the pi-star dashboard or local rf activity. Any ideas on what I might check first?
The radio was programmed with a codeplug designed for my state(TN) which I got from the Bridgecom website.
Thanks
Jimmy
KN4LXH
Also noticed that the left side of the dashboard on Eric's video shows Trx = Listening mine is blank. Also his dashboard shows
TG31123 and mine says "No TG/No Ref"
Jimmy
KN4LXH
Sorry for dumb question, can I use my FT3D with this to connect to TGIF network on DMR?
I have found lots on TH-cam about the Jumbo spot end of this and definitely helped to get it working ... little on the RADIO side of things and how to set up there. I know that the RADIO settings for DStar using the Jumbo spot are different than for the DV Mega - offset and call routing entries - How should the DMR units be set up... as simple as the freq and color code or other subtle settings required.
This seems like a hotspot for me. This model is also 2m compatible right? So I would need to use 2m band antenna, or dual band. 70cm DMR band creates interference with my PC speakers. Is the frequency entered in the hotspot an analogue or digital frequency? I guess digi, but want to make sure I do not disturb locals if it's in FM. Thnx.
Is it OLED3 or OLED6 for the display? There is no OLED by itself.
Can this talk simplex to a repeater, or it must work through the internet?
Can you setup a hotspot only just to hear it without Call sign?
I recently have a simplex Jumbo spot. I wanted to know these two things:
1) If calibration is required, for lower BER, to work with Wires-X Fusion
2) If calibration is required to work the DMR in Wires-X
I use, Yaesu ft-2d.
Thanks in advance for your help and any other information. '73!
This is a good starter video to show what this unit can and can't do. I will be putting mine together in my own little package. I'm going to leave out the display and probably add a battery. I was fiddling with the idea of giving it a modem as well. It would be interesting to slap a SIM card in and go. There are lot's of possibilities with such a modular system. Already owning the RPI the total cost of ownership is pretty low. It's too bad it can't cross encode like the big boys can.
Thanks, helpful video - helped me get my hotspot working in about 10 minutes!!
Hello, question I do have this hotspot program for DMR. I want to program it for D-Star. The question is do I need a D-Star radio or can I just use my Anytone 878 handheld.
Need a dstar radio, I think the only unit that will cross mode from DMR to DSTAR is the openspot 4 hotspot.
Tried to update flash firmware my one i got off ebay..... seems to have bricked, then found it they can be locked by the vendor is there a work around?
Hi Eric, excellent video. A real education. One quick question please... In adjusting the BER settings... does one adjust both the TX and RX settings together when making any change? Thanks in advance. Wm.
Could. you use it. listing only without a radio like police scanner
it comes fully assembled but it's not plug and play. I'm unsure on your video whether I have to connect the jumbo spot to my PC and program it that way. I don't have a PC with internet connection I only have a Wi-Fi and a tablet at my home. Will I be able to configure this with that.
I did download the pi star app on Android.
in the Root of the SDcard or in the Boot? Maybe many things have changed since this video because they now ask for country in that page and I dont see how to get access to the root of the SDcard using a Windows PC, I can get access to the boot partition but not the root, Anyways that conf file is not doing anything so far, I opened with notepad and the lines with the SSID and password are commented out, tried uncomenting them but still not working. Going to install a fresh image of Pistar to see what happens, maybe is the image that came from factory that is probably wrong. I just wanted to point out the root vs boot partition on PI's
Thanks mate, you are a champion! 73, VK3HMV.
Excellent. I'm looking for as many options as possible to enjoy Ham radio. Thanks
Check out the Nextion Screens, you can make this little thing work very well. I have this same one for my car with a usb battery and another large one with a rpi 3 and the nextion screen. Dont forget to set the offset, It drove me crazy when I could not connect then I saw the sticker with a 500mhz offset. Great video! 73,s
Do you still have remaining? Interested - zip code is 76103 in Texas, what is total price
Would you Sir tell me what FREQUENCY should I use ? Thank You kindly for this video
Hi. Thanks for the Super Thanks you gave!!!
I used to use a simplex frequency around 434.500MHz
@@HamRadioConcepts thank you for responding it means
Much!
What confuses me most about digital is which format makes the most sense- this video is informative, but it's now about 2yrs old. Have you done an update to this world of digital lately? Thanks!
Can I use my Android for the dashboard and setup since I don't have a laptop? I've been looking to get one like this on ebay.I want to do digital since I bought a new FT 70.Just so much out there I'm looking for something easy to set up and use.Love the channel!73. KD9KNN
excellent video...this made it easy to setup with my FT-70 THANKS
Still good to get in 2023?
So question ... if I join using my P25 Motorola's, can I then partake in the DMR talkgroups or is each mode totally independant in mode AND network/tg to each other?
In regards to the talkgroups, is the talkgroup selected and locked by the the mmdvm or is it able to change tg's like dmr or p25 trunking? Where or what sets that talkgroup?
What's the chances of getting 2 of these on the same frequency running at the same time on different time slots for different talkgroups?
We've only just been permitted at my level to play in digital and it's about time I branch out from P25 commercial.
But if you set the hotspot from private to public, will it need additional settings in there?
Do you have an updated version of the hotspot to buy?
Hey Eric will this video apply to the DVMEGA as well
it wasn't nearly this easy for me. Im having issues getting mine to power on all the way. When i first got it out of the box this morning, I plugged it into my computer to power on... in about 2-3 minutes the device turned on and seem to be working fine. I found it on my computers list of available wifi list, i think i got it all set up with the pistar website. Then I unplugged it to move it closer to my radio and now it one power back on all the way. I tried unplugging it, plugging it back in and waiting, and i tried using the other port that also powers it.. with no luck.
I can see the green light and red blinking light, so it's getting power but it wont turn on all the way. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I didn't realize how big of a pain this would be just to use d-star.
Does a dmr radio need to have Bluetooth to work with a hotspot?
no not at all
Thanks for this nice video. I have set up mine hotspot, and it works excellent... but the scrolling MMDVM is not running? Any ideas why not? Appreciate any logical reply.
Did you get a response?
Can you set this up to run off a router so no PC would be needed?
Good video on this hotspot and how it is setup
Anyone else notice at the end of a transmission on YSF Fusion, the audio level will spike? I have noticed it a lot in the Americas Link room.
Thanks for the video. It helped me to get onto my Jumbo spot. The only thing missing was that you had your dashboard on Pi-Star already set up and did not go over signing on to Pi-Star with the user name pi-star and the password raspberry. I was gong nuts trying to get to the pi-star page you were on in the video. I found the missing piece in another video. Otherwise an awesome video.
I got mine today, came in an anti-static bag with a website url that gives me a page cannot be displayed and no instructions
Yet another one Eric Great work, buying two, one for the shack one for the car Keep it up mate Pete VK3TQ
Eric if you use 1 hotspot for dmr and dstar how do you keep, say the dstar radio from picking up the digital signal when a dmr transmission comes through? This just happened to me lol
you turn off the modes except the one you are using. I only keep 1 mode on at a time it gets confusing when multiple modes are on
HOw does this compare to the Openspot 2?
I just ordered the OpenSpot 2 but this is almost half the price, so was curious about the difference/compare?
thank you for all your videos...bought mine today:)
Are you able to access the talk rooms on system fusion with this hotspot?
How is my router login info kept safe?
hello, what is the purpose of this jumbo spot or hotspot???
ok you show entering your ssid and password and it creates a file and then you say install it on the root of the ssd card. How do I do that part? you skip that and go to another website. As someone new to this and raspberry pi and linux and other stuff im not sure how to get the file off my computer and onto this card?
Simply copy the file to the drive called Boot.
thank you for responding been wondering LOL
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When you write the SD card with Etcher you can search your Windows GUI and it will see it as two drives (one section is not readable) you copy the file to the section of the drive that is visible (Boot). Cancel any warnings from Windows about a drive needing formatting. TBH if you have an ethernet cable kicking around you can skip the wifi config file and do it all through the dashboard. The one I set up today I did the other method. If you just power the thing up without any network connections after a while it will adverrtise itself as a wireless access point called Pi-Star_Setup (or something similar)... very easy then.
@@mikemcdonald5147if you don't want to drag and drop that file the Pi-Star installation sets the Pi-Star up as a "pretend access point" and you can work from there. I have had Pi-Star running and working on 3 Raspberry Pi in the last few days. Once you have cracked it you can literally set one up in minutes. Good Luck
@@g0fvt I've imaged one of these hotspots and it's sat next to my tablet and iPhone for nearly an hour and I still haven't seen the Pi-Star_Setup AP appear on either my tablet or on my iPhone both within a foot of the device. Also, the screen hasn't lit up at all. Think it might be DOA?
Do you have any idea why a mmdvm pi-star raspberry zero have no tx and rx?
My DMR section was very short on the firmware in the one I bought. I did an update to it, and that didn't change anything. The one thing was the +DMR section was missing. I'm not sure why since there is not reason for it to be different. Just looked ta your dashboard and compared it to mine, mine says this Pi-Star:3.4.13 / Dashboard: 20180523, Yours says 3.4.12, Dashboard 20180502. So, newer Dashboard.
Very Good Tutorial
Eric: Quick question. I put the disc image on the sd card, then the computer says it needs to format the sd card to access. So I put the supplicant.conf on the card first, then the disc image. I can't get it to come up on pi-star. Do you have any words of wisdom to help me out? Thanks Eric
nevermind. Threw the SDcard in my laptop running Ubuntu,a nd made it a lot easier. Thanks
yah it has 2 drives partitioned on that card. The one is Linux the other Windows. @@cogitoaprendo1017
do you run dstar dmr and fusion all on the same ferq at the same time?
Thanks for the video. Can't get mine working. On my dashboard bottom right under DMR Repeater block ID shows up CC 1 shows up TS1 shows disabled TS2 shows enabled under that it shows[ not linked/not linked ]. Any ideas on why it's not linking? wifi shows ok About ready to see what a 44 mag will do to a jumbo spot
You have the radio programmed for the appropriate timeslot and talkgroup? The same DMR ID in both the radio and the hotspot? When you press PTT on the talkgroup you want, does it link the hotspot? It does not link to anything unless you press PTT.
Thanks for the reply. Yea double checked all that. Setup just the way you have it, will not recognize any talk group after PTT. Supplier suggested updating firmware on mmdvm hat. Did that still nothing but the scrolling MMDVM Guess I'm one of the people that got one of the bad boards going around.
Thanks, I am ready to build one of these and this will be helpful. Ken
Thanks for the video. I've been looking at these and other hotspots. I'm still new to all of this. If the device loses power, does it corrupt the OS or do you have to do a power down before unplugging it from a power source? Is there anyway to have multiple SSIDs like if you wanted to use it at home and work or would you have to change the config or maybe easier to have two sd cards, one for home config and one for work config...
It is set to read only so it does not corrupt. And you can have multiple config for wifi on same unit. Switches networks automatically.
Thanks...Do you do the multiple SSIDs through the dashboard or edit the conf file on a PC? I may wind up picking one of these things up. Still researching. Are you selling the others through a website store front? Good to hear you don't have to worry about it corrupting although I'd image the card after getting it set up completely just in case.
What do you mean when you say "If the device loses power" Dapper ?? Are you talking about an event where there might be a power outage at home or if the battery (Which is what I assume powers the thing when not plugged in) runs out of juice ?? #Confused
Already been answered for me Pat. I was asking if the JumboSpot itself lost power either AC or using a battery pack would you risk the SD card corrupting. It's read only so it's not a problem.
HeLP!!!! I accidentally hit the AP auto button (turned off) and now I can't access the jumbospot. How do I fix it? is it possible to get another micro sd card with the software on it if need be?
Just viewed this video, will set my hotspot as per instruction, awaiting delivery, let you know how things go. Will see if their is a Fusion specific one as well. that's my mode. 73's all
silly question, does one need to have a dmr id to use a hotspot for fusion only ?
My Jumbospot got two weeks ago requires TX/RXoffset 500 (not negative like yours), and P25=offset+500. Is it correct figure ?
I wonder if you still have some of this device. Thank you!
Hotspot is online. However, I see nothing in the Local RF section of the dashboard. I have the frequency simplex, digital mode, in band. Any ideas?
Have you entered the offset? Do you know what the offset is?
Do you mean the -475 you mentioned in the video? Yes. I tried that and -250. I am using an ID-51.
WHAT DO YOU PLUG THE HOTSPOT INTO WHEN PROGRAMING
Nothing its done via wifi
so what's the purpose of this thing ? You use home internet to transmit radio ? I'm trying to understand the practical usage of this thing. Thx
KoljaMineralka you talk into your handheld or desktop radio which is transmitting into the hotspot.the hotspot sends it over internet to the repeater or reflector you.choose. it goes back to RF on the other person's radio
I use mine in the car, tethered to my phone wifi hotspot. My id5100 in my vehicle talking to this keeps me in contact with people hundreds of miles away when I don't have repeater cpverage
I saved the wifi to the sd card but when I go to pi-star it comes up unable to find. I can talk on my DMR radio. What am I doing wrong unable to get to the dashboard
just a word of advise on nxdn and p25.. make sure it is legal for AMATEUR use in your state. Seen as the sherifs dept also uses the same concept.. id recommand sticking to ham dmr ( dstar pdmr etc..) avoids your hotspot being confiscated
What laws does it break?
Can I change reflectors with this?
I have one DMR ID. It is in my portable DMR radio. Do I have to apply for an extra DMR ID to put in this hotspot, or do I use the same ID in the hotspot as I already have? Indead interesting device.
You put your DMR id in the hotspot, the same that is in your radio.
UNLESS you already have a radio & Hotspot assigned to that ID (In which case you need to change one of the Hotspots to another ID (From what Craig, W1MSG said in a video on his channel, it appears as though all you need to do in THAT event is to change JUST ONE number on one of your Hotspots in order for it to route properly (You CANNOT do it on your radio)
I have no hotspot yet, I am considering buying one. But let me get things clear. I guess when I transmit with my radio through my hotspot, on the net I will be shown with the ID in the hotspot, not the ID in the radiio, correct? So I could enter a imaginary ID in my radio since it does not go further than my Hotspot?
Of all the hotspots I have and have had, I use one DMR ID, mine.. In the radio, and in the hotspot. No issues at all...Now if you are talking about running multiple hotspots at the same time, I am not sure why anyone would run 4 at one time, when my hotspots do all 5 modes anyways on one unit.
I see that you mentioned about the config file being generated and needs to be copy to your SD card. Is this the on the JumboSpot or what? You were not being very specific about that. In fact showing how to do this would have been nice. Second I see in the Dashboard that TS1 is disabled and TS2 is enabled. My codeplug uses TS1. Is there anyway to ammend this choice on the hotspot? I appreciate any help you can give regarding this.
It should till work on your codeplug using TS1.. That only applies to a repeater. The only reason I mentioned it was to make it routine as with other dmr programming. As far as the wifi config.. Simply download the file, put the sd card in your computer, it will come up with 2 partitions on the SD card. DO NOT FORMAT!! D.O. N.O.T. F.O.R.M.A.T. the SD card. Just throw that config file you downloaded onto the "boot" partition of the sd card and put it back into your jumbospot.
how do i get into fusion without having a fusion radio? i wana use a rpi and have no experience any ideas?
Please edit the video to change the freq. This freq is in the satellite band, and, for US hams, auxiliary stations are banned from this sub-band (145.8 to 146.0 and 435 to 438 MHz). Please refer to www.arrl.org/news/digital-mobile-radio-hotspots-may-be-interfering-with-satellite-uplinks-amsat-reports