tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42581112031639628952024-02-07T01:00:10.288-05:00DV4MiniDV4Mini HOTSPOT for the modes D-Star, DMR (C4FM Fusion) and now DPMR - Amateur RadioAREDNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16690492064346040533noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-41332726823482082162020-05-05T14:01:00.003-04:002021-02-01T04:14:10.120-05:00Digital Ham Radio / Amateur Radio Discussion Group<h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px;">
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Digital Ham Radio / Amateur Radio Discussion Group<br />DigitalHamRADIO@groups.io<br /><a href="https://groups.io/g/DigitalHamRADIO">https://groups.io/g/DigitalHamRADIO</a><br /><br />****** share this with others *******<br /><br /><br />#RadioFrequency #NXDN #P25 #C4FM #DMR <br />#Brandmeister #DMR+ #DMRMARC #DMR #FUSION #DSTAR #Digital #HamRadio #RaspberryPi #AmateurRadio #Icom #Kenwood @Motorola #MD380 @Hytera #Anytone #Rfinder #Tytera #openspot @mmdvm #zumspot #dv4mini<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">I have owned 2 DV4MINI and found then to be something that could not be used at my Home.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">I had many problems with Locking up for no reason, or Looking for DV4MINI stick and not found, or Looking for CCS7 and repeat over and over again and stop working( yet was told this had nothing to do with the DV4MINI stick). I have a disconnect sent from where I do not know them disconnect, would lock up in transmit mode for no reason or show call sign of a ham yet was other ham in the net talking and other Issues.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">I could not keep the DV4MIN running over 3 to 8 hour with out having to reset and reboot.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">I was told was my computer I have 3 laptops and 4 raspberry Pi the one laptop was Toshiba with 16gb memory, SSD drive and my net was cat 5 from router to computer with Net speed of 100mbps down load 10 up..</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">I spend over $600 trying to make Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 or Windows 7 or 8 or 10 to work and still lockup and issues. I spent over 650 hours trying to make work. I was in there help ask other hams and in groups and still did not work.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">With what i spend in Money for new modem new router new mini computer ( was told they used this and worked so buy ,,,them told this computer was not stable to use for DV4MINI) new powered USB hub new usb cables new sd cards for Raspberry Pi put toroid coils on everything Power cord USB cord HTMI cord and other thing I could have paid for 4 DVhome.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">I did send many many Email to wireless Holdings and allot was never answered. I sent screen shot of my problems and nothing. some of the time was told what happened had nothing to do with the DV4MINI yet it stopped it from working for me</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">One Post on there Face book page said Keep trying you find the answer. Also was told no one else had the problems i did or Complained.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">They sent me a Free DV4MINI thinking mine was bad still did not work.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">I send 2 DV4MINI back for refund Only refund for 1 and I keep the Free one .</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">So I am out not having something they said every one else is using and then said was no one complain of issues LOL</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Gary N0FIB No Fib</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-57917873630600680952017-07-22T03:24:00.001-04:002021-02-01T04:13:15.608-05:00DV4mini Dongle Software Installation and Set UpDV4mini Dongle Software Installation and Set Up<br />
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I received a lot of questions about the DV4mini software upgrade on the
Raspberry Pi 2, this video is showing how to do it easily. It also
included the firmware upgrade procedure.<br />
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Note: In the DV4mini
directory the Archives folder is not there by default, you need to
create it. You can also just delete the older file you need to replace.<br />
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http://youtu.be/jYudCMl-nSYUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-87887769817233789342017-04-30T23:17:00.000-04:002018-04-28T14:03:04.054-04:00DV4mini Quad core raspberry pi softwareDV4mini Quad core raspberry pi software<br />
Typical running images...<br />
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link for Quad core raspberry pi software..<br />
NOTE! this will NOT run on a single core variant. (tried and failed :-( ) check out how many onscreen raspberry's on boot up!)<br />
Also, a firmware update to v1.61 or v1.64 maybe a good idea also! (files at the bottom of page, if you don't have it, ready to flash!)<br />
you can check version running on your stick at the top of the program window once the main Dv4 software is running.<br />
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download link!<br />
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...Warning This file is large! 2.0gb<br />
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This zip file needs extracting, it contains the .img and instructions (PDF) in german. All credits to DG9FFM for his Efforts.<br />
if you are going to use the network socket on the pi for internet, then you are ready to go, else you need to set up pi wifi dongle initially.<br />
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you need a blank 8gb tf card class 6 or faster, and win32 diskimager software (download zipfile below) to write image file to blank tf card.<br />
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After this is written, insert card on raspberry pi, and it should all autostart.<br />
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You will need to set software first time round, id number, locator, ect<br />
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If pi is repowered for any reason it will default to your settings.<br />
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http://a23-wertheim.de/index.php/downloads/raspberry-pi/dv4mini/file/14-dv4mini-raspberrypi-mit-vnc-und-autostartUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-13095585091413078402017-04-28T22:59:00.000-04:002018-04-28T14:03:03.861-04:00DV4mini New Raspberry Pi 3 ImageThe DV4mini software developers have been hard at work fixing bugs, especially with DMR, and making things work better. So, I thought it time to create a new DV4mini RPi image for your enjoyment. I first built my own image last year when I wanted to have turnkey vnc access to my DV4mini/RPi system.<br />
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This build no longer contains the unsupported DV4MF2 software. Rather, it has the most recent version of the DV4mini dashboard (201.77), the updated dv_serial (20170106) and my add on Brandmeister XTG Dialer. If you haven’t used the XTG dialer before, you’re in for a treat. It works great with a touchscreen display, but just fine with a keyboard and a mouse too. You might need to edit a couple of text files to set it up to your liking. For details, see /opt/dv4mini/bmxtg/README once you have the distro up and running.<br />
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Important default password info follows.<br />
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root / raspberry<br />
pi / dv4m<br />
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vncviewer – dv4m<br />
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You SHOULD change the default passwords after you get things going. The standard unix passwd command is used to change the root and pi passwords. To change the vnc password, use x11vnc -storepasswd.<br />
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DV4mini RPi image<br />
http://ftp.islenet.com/ftp/dv4mini-dist-031117.img.gz<br />
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Brandmeister XTG Dialer<br />
http://www.k2dls.net/blog/2017/01/13/brandmeister-xtg-dialer/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-38210980203394091502017-04-14T20:44:00.003-04:002021-02-01T04:13:03.669-05:00DV4mini software sync 1 and sync 2 errorHello, I wonder if you can help, I have tried all sorts of things and looked all over the net.<br />
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My dv4mini software keeps coming up with a sync 1 and sync 2 error. I am using a tyt380 radio and when it does this the audio I am sending is unreadable.<br />
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Do you have any idea what the error - missing sync 1: missing sync 2:
means, i have set everything up correctly as far as I can see, but the
software for the DV4mini generates a error? <br />
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please help as I do not know how to solve issue<br />
Regards,<br />
Paul<br />
M6MGQ - https://www.qrz.com/db/M6MGQ<br />
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Paul Loader ADI 4/15/2017<br />
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Do you have any idea what the error - missing sync 1: missing sync 2: means, i have set everything up correctly as far as I can see, but the software for the DV4mini generates a error?<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-60496352663436469562017-03-29T00:16:00.003-04:002021-02-01T04:12:43.556-05:00DV4MINI ReveiwI have owned 2 DV4MINI and found then to be something that could not be used at my Home.<br />
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I
had many problems with Locking up for no reason, or Looking for DV4MINI
stick and not found, or Looking for CCS7 and repeat over and over again
and stop working( yet was told this had nothing to do with the DV4MINI
stick). I have a disconnect sent from where I do not know them
disconnect, would lock up in transmit mode for no reason or show call
sign of a ham yet was other ham in the net talking and other Issues.<br />
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I could not keep the DV4MINI running over 3 to 8 hour with out having to reset and reboot.<br />
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I
was told was my computer I have 3 laptops and 4 raspberry Pi the one
laptop was Toshiba with 16gb memory, SSD drive and my net was cat 5 from
router to computer with Net speed of 100mbps down load 10 up..<br />
<br />
I
spend over $600 trying to make Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 or Windows 7 or 8 or
10 to work and still lockup and issues. I spent over 650 hours trying
to make work. I was in there help ask other hams and in groups and still
did not work.<br />
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With what i spend in Money for new modem new
router new mini computer ( was told they used this and worked so buy
,,,them told this computer was not stable to use for DV4MINI) new
powered USB hub new usb cables new sd cards for Raspberry Pi put toroid
coils on everything Power cord USB cord HTMI cord and other thing I
could have paid for 4 DVhome.<br />
<br />
<br />
I did send many many Email to
wireless Holdings and allot was never answered. I sent screen shot of my
problems and nothing. some of the time was told what happened had
nothing to do with the DV4MINI yet it stopped it from working for me<br />
<br />
<br />
One
Post on there Face book page said Keep trying you find the answer. Also
was told no one else had the problems i did or Complained.<br />
<br />
They sent me a Free DV4MINI thinking mine was bad still did not work.<br />
<br />
I send 2 DV4MINI back for refund Only refund for 1 and I keep the Free one .<br />
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So I am out not having something they said every one else is using and then said was no one complain of issues LOLUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-63993242547307293402017-03-21T23:31:00.001-04:002021-02-01T04:12:26.621-05:00DV4mini Raspberry PI Raspian SDcard imageWe have created an Raspberry PI Raspian SDcard image for the PI2 and 3 containing both the DV4Mini abd DV4Mini Compact software. This image will boot up only with a Waveshare LCD TFT screen as seen here:<br />
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http://www.waveshare.com/3.5inch-RPi-LCD-A.htm<br />
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It requires an 8GB or greater SD card. Will only work on the Raspberry PI3 and Pi2. Use 7Zip software to decompress and either Win32DiskImager to copy the bootable image to an SD card.<br />
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You can download the image from here: http://latinovoip.net/dv4mini/dv4mini_combined_LCD35TFT.7z<br />
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The original DV4Mini can be found here: http://dv4m.ham-dmr.ch/. Once you download, copy the image, and boot it up. don’t forget to expand the SD card. To do that:<br />
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Log in as user pi/raspberry via SSH or in LXE terminal. At the prompt, type:<br />
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sudo raspi-config<br />
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In the config, perform the following:<br />
Expand the filesystem to fill the SD card<br />
Set your locale, timezone, and keyboard for your location to en-US-UTF8 (this has already been done)<br />
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It will boot to the TFT screen, not the HDMI monitor.<br />
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If you want to switch to an HDMI monitir, use the terminal or SSH to it, login as pi/raspberry, and do this:<br />
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cd LCD-show/<br />
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./LCD-hdmi<br />
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It will reboot and show on HDMI monitor. Do this to switch back to LCD:<br />
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cd LCD-show/<br />
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./LCD35-showUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-30476712590513520032017-03-17T00:08:00.005-04:002021-02-01T04:12:16.555-05:00Part 1 - DV4home - Basic setup and menu navigationPart 1 - DV4home - Basic setup and menu navigation<br />
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Part 2 - DV4home transmit and receive with two actives modes and reflectors
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This DV4home demonstration shows the transmit and receive with two
actives modes and reflectors. This is the equivalent of having two
seperate VFO on a RF transceiver.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-33563506064810434542017-03-14T00:42:00.000-04:002018-04-28T14:03:14.458-04:00It just works. Period.I've got a DVMega, DV4mini, DV4home, and now the OpenSPOT.<br />
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<b>Out of all 4 devices, the OpenSPOT is the most stable and just works all the time.</b><br />
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The
DVMega is good, but lately the Raspberry Pi seems to lose connection
with the DVMega board modem forcing me to shut it down and power-cycle
it.<br />
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The DV4mini ... well, I think we all know the horror stories with that one.<br />
The DV4home is also an unmitigated disaster. Google "dv4home review" for more info on that one.<br />
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But
SharkRF has come up with a simple, small device that just plain works
and I've been running it non-stop for over a week now with no issues. <br />
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DMR audio feedback reports are that the audio is clear with no packet loss.<br />
Add
to that they've released a complete set of APIs to remotely control the
device for anyone who wants to build their own web-based or stand-alone
app and they're light years ahead of the amateur radio digital hotspot
competition with maybe the exception of the bluetooth-connected DVMega
hotspots out there. <br />
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If only they'd drop a bluetooth chip or a full-size USB for wifi/bluetooth in a future hardware revision...<br />
But I'm sure they're looking towards the future on that.<br />
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SharkRF team, you're on a roll. Keep it up!<br />
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I
swear, Estonia is just like California's Silicon Valley...only with
nicer people the last time I visited there back in the 00's.<br />
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https://forum.sharkrf.com/viewtopic.php?t=190<br />
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All about the DV4home<br />
Recently got a DV4home last week and have been doing a bit of playing around with it. I reported the numbered issues below to Wireless Holdings and they replied back that they sent them to the developer however I have not heard back anything else from them or the developer so I'm releasing my findings to the public so they might be better informed on this product.<br />
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Here is what I've found so far:<br />
1) Audio quality is excellent both inbound and outbound.<br />
2) Does not do Brandmeister "officially" - more on that later.<br />
3) You can connect to both DSTAR and DMR at the same time however it will not play both at the same time - whichever one keys up first you'll hear.<br />
4) On busy DSTAR reflectors the main display will crash after 10-15 minutes and the entire thing will be in an unusable state.<br />
5) On busy DMR reflectors when not connected to a DSTAR reflector as well, eventually the main screen will stop displaying call signs and information. The green RX LED will also go solid. When it's in this state DMR still works, you can still transmit/receive however after about 10-15 hours in this state it will eventually stop working entirely.<br />
6) The buttons on the handmic do nothing, just the PTT switch.<br />
7) The rotary encoder is jittery - spin the knob "too fast", i.e. at any rate other than "dog slow" and it's either non-responsive or the counter starts going in the opposite direction.<br />
8) The speaker in the box itself is only "OK". You're going to want to use to an external speaker. I use an old Kenwood comms speaker I had laying around.<br />
9) On the web page interface the "unlink" option in the DCS menu doesn't work. The only way to unlink from a DMR reflector is to link to a different reflector. There is no "4000" option to hard unlink entirely.<br />
10) No way to hard-reset the box back to factory defaults that I can find if you screw up entering your callsign and DMR ID so make sure you NEVER, EVER screw up the initial setup web page process.<br />
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Now for some internal discovery. This box runs both an SSH server as well as a mini-httpd webserver.<br />
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The web server runs the webpages that allow you to connect to different reflectors.<br />
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Over the weekend I was able to guess the root SSH password and login to the box. What I found is:<br />
SPECS: 128MB of RAM and 4GB of internal flash storage. I haven't opened the box to see if the flash is chip-based or card-based. There is also an internal 2-port USB hub. One USB port for the DV4mini and the other obvious port on the back for a future wifi USB adapter I guess. CPU is an ARM926EJ-S rev. 5 (ARMv5TEJ), all info taken from DMESG.<br />
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1) DV_SERIAL. That's right. When you plug in a DV4mini and power up the box, after the main process "sees" the DV4mini is plugged in it launches dv_serial and you control it using software on the desktop. There's no way to control it from the device itself neither from the front panel nor the built-in webserver. Same thing as if you had it plugged into a Raspberry Pi. DV_SERIAL does NOT control the rest of the box, just the DV4mini if you have it plugged in. This is the same dv_serial program that the Linux DV4mini software uses on the Raspberry Pi.<br />
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2) OLED - oled is the main process that controls the entire box, not just what is displayed on the screen. Upon power-on after the Debian Linux OS has booted up the oled program is launched and it launches two other additional programs - DCS and DMR. But the OLED program has a bit of a problem - it crashes with a segmentation fault after 10-15 of listening to a busy DSTAR reflector because it seems to not be able to handle corrupted DSTAR packets very well. The OLED program also doesn't handle the display very well leading to corrupted characters on-screen after a while when connected to a DSTAR reflector.<br />
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3) DMR - DMR is the program that handles DMR reflectors. It's rock-solid except for one tiny issue - upon every transmission it receives it spawns local UDP ports that it never closes. Over time on a busy DMR reflector it will eventually spawn hundreds and hundreds (thousands?) of open UDP ports that never close and eventually ties up all the RAM causing the entire box to be non-responsive and stop working forcing you to power-cycle the box. On boot up it spawns 3 DMR processes.<br />
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4) DCS - DCS is the program it uses to connect to DSTAR reflectors. There seems to be conflict with the DCS program and the OLED program that initially calls it since on busy reflectors the DCS program causes the OLED program/process to crash out entirely leaving the control panel and display in an unresponsive state. Unlike the DMR process, the DCS process does not spawn a lot of UPD ports. Upon bootup 6 DCS processes are spawned and it keeps to that number over time.<br />
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5) DV4AMBE_1 and DV4AMBE_2. These two programs control the audio decoding/encoding. As you can see, there are two of them indicating there really are two AMBE chips in this thing. That's actually pretty cool.<br />
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5) LINK - Link is the program called by the user interface webpages that connects both DMR and DCS reflectors. you basically call "/media/data/system/link LG4369" and it will connect the DMR program to reflector 4369. "/media/data/system/link REF030C" will connect DCS to the famous reflector 30 Charlie. On the DMR side the link program is hard-coded to only be able to use 4-digits. More on that issue later.<br />
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6) USER - user is the program the initial setup webpage uses to populate the config.cfg file located in /media/data/system with your callsign and DMR ID. If you screwed up this setting in the beginning configuration page there's no way to edit this short of SSH'ing into the box and editing it using nano. Possibly by browsing directly to the config web page as well but I haven't tried that yet.<br />
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7) config.cfg - this file is located in /media/data/system and contains your callsign and DMR ID. It also contains the DMR_MASTER configuration, i.e. this is where it's setup to connect to a particular DMR_MASTER server located in Florida. It is possible to change this to point to a Brandmeister master server and I currently have mine pointing to the BM Dev server where it's working fine...well, as fine as the DMR and OLED and link programs allow.<br />
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I found a slew of leftover debugging and testing web files and other oddities while looking around in the box indicating the developer did not do proper cleanup prior to releasing the software.<br />
Also, the link program itself is hard-coded to only use 4-digits meaning that after connecting it to a Brandmeister master server you can't go to a 5-digit talkgroup - at least as far as I've been able to find. Decompiling the link program itself didn't give me any clues either.<br />
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I find it very, very odd that they made the OLED program the main program that controls everything including the display. I feel the display controls should have been split out into a separate program entirely.<br />
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There is also no watchdog process in place to monitor the state of the running DMR, DCS, and OLED processes and re-start them if they crash. Once they crash - and the OLED process crashes a lot - you have to reboot/power-cycle the device to get it working again.<br />
There is no real internal logging done on this device at all that I can see.<br />
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There are a few main things that really bug me about this box:<br />
1) Every few minutes the device pings <a href="http://www.google.com/">www.google.com</a> for one ping - and one ping only. This is probably a way to do some sort of poor man's network connectivity test. But if your DNS servers ever go down for any reason, not sure what will happen when it tries this single ping to Google.<br />
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2) Upon bootup (really upon startup of the OLED main program) it connects to and pulls down and saves the list of Brandmeister master servers. It also contains a list of Brandmeister reflectors/talkgroups. It does not use these in any way whatsoever during operation so not sure why it does this unless it's leftover code from the Linux version DV4mini control program being used in the OLED program. Also finding traces of DVRPTR-NET all over the place including the hostname itself.<br />
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3) Compiler tools are already installed on the device to include git. I was able to successfully git clone and compile the MMDVMHost software even if it was very slow to compile.<br />
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4) If something happens to the Linux OS inside the box there is no way for a user to reflash the OS to it that I can find. I'm sure there's some sort of undocumented process to do so but we're not being told what that process is.<br />
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My bottom-line review of this device is that while the hardware itself has potential, the software is very poorly developed and very buggy. From my limited research on the matter it seems code that was on past hardware DG1HT has worked on has been repurposed for this box as well. That would be fine if not for the fact that the code is buggy and prone to memory leaks (DMR UDP ports) and seg faults (OLED/DCS not handling corrupted DSTAR data properly).<br />
Until they fix these issues I would advise against anyone buying a DV4home at this time.</div>
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And now Wireless Holdings has banned me from the DV4mini support group on FB after I posted this there.<br />
Well folks, there's your answer about getting support from Wireless Holdings about anything "DV4" from them.<br />
I do hope DG1HT fixes the problems with the software, but as far as I'm concerned Wireless Holdings can now kiss my ass.<br />
Time to cross-post my findings across the entire amateur radio community.<br />
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It is. They had my account locked.<br />
But now that I've discovered how their hardware presents itself to the OS, I'm sure I can make something work with it.<br />
<a href="http://www.dvmega.auria.nl/AMBE3000_shield.html" rel="nofollow">The DVMega folks are already working on their own solution.</a> and I should be able to examine what they're doing and do the same on the DV4home.<br />
DV4AMBE_1 and DV4AMBE_2 sit on ttyS1 and ttyS2 so they're already on the
serial ports. That's basically what the AMBE3000 board provides to the
Raspberry Pi - the AMBE device on a serial port.<br />
Well, oversimplified anyway...<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-56793817282955828432016-11-30T10:06:00.005-05:002021-02-01T04:11:18.381-05:00DV4MINI DV4 MINI manualSo, in a nutshell, the DV4 Mini is a low power UHF transceiver and network gateway in a single USB interfaceable stick. The RF side is the "link" between your handheld and the stick. The USB side is the "link" between the stick and the DMR/DStar/P25 reflectors that they have been given the OK to connect to. My hope is that someday they'll have a way to connect to the DMR-MARC network and remove the need for a complete Motorola MotoTrbo repeater to get on the network.<br />
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I went back through the last few pages of threads and didn't see any discussion on the DV4 Mini dongle that is coming out of Germany:<br />
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<a href="http://www.helitron.de/shop/product_info.php?language=en&products_id=81">DV4mini USB Stick for D-Star and DMR - HELITRON Online Shop</a><br />
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Looks like there is a US reseller gearing up to ship next month:<br />
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<a href="http://wirelesshold.com/">Wireless Holdings, LLC</a><br />
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You can download and install the DV4mini software from <a href="http://dv4m.ham-dmr.ch/V1.6/">Index of /V1.6</a> <br />
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Here is a facebook group everyone can join for help and support with the DV4 mini <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1002588673121292/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/10025</a><br />
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I found the DV4mini <a href="http://dv4m.ham-dmr.ch/Dokumentation/Manuals/Manual-DV4mini_english-V1_6.pdf">manual </a>. It looks like the software will support reflectors on D-Star, DMR, Fusion, and P25.<br />
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<a href="http://176.10.105.218/">Fusion Reflector</a> - not a Yaesu sanctioned reflector I assume (i.e. not accessible via a WIRES X box)<br />
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<a href="http://pcs001.xreflector.net/">P25 Reflector</a> - I didn't know such a thing existed<br />
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http://xreflector.net/neu3/<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-5733950045957845322016-11-16T00:12:00.001-05:002021-02-01T04:10:59.412-05:00DMR-MARC has support for the DV4mini USB dongleDMR-MARC made an important annoucnement that it can now support for the DV4mini USB dongle. Through a partnership with the DMRPlus network, DMR-MARC is now able to support DV4mini users through the addition of three new DMR-MARC talkgroups, which incliude: <br />
DMRPlus USA (talkgroup # 133) <br />
DMRPlus UK (talkgroup # 143) <br />
DMRPlus South Pacific (talkgroup # 153) <br />
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These new talkgroups will allow interconnection between the DMR-MARC and DMRPlus networks using timeslot 1 and will configured as “on-demand”, which can be enabled using the PTT and will have a 10-minute inactivity timeout on the eight core DMR-MARC bridges. DMR-MARC also announced that in the coming months, it is planning to launch additional interconnected talkgroups, including three German language talkgroups, a French language talkgroup, and a Spanish language talkgroup as well.<br />
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Source :<br />
http://www.va2pv.com/dv4mini<br />
http://www.dv4mini.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5<br />
http://www.va3xpr.net/dmr-marc-dv4mini-support/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-77321038588997302312016-11-09T23:06:00.000-05:002018-04-28T14:03:14.579-04:00DV4mini Latest Firmware v1.73! with new softwareFirmware 1.73 now adds DPMR mode.<br />
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The support for DPlus REF Reflectors is updated, this fixes dropout problems. The quality of data coming from DPlus reflectors is measured and displayed since we found that about 2 to 3% of all voice frames are missing. These missing frames are replaced with silence frames.<br />
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Remember.., if you loose the dongle and the hardware dosen't see it. There's a link on the dongle board that can be shorted, as in the manual to force the bootloader to become active. Allowing you to then program the firmware...<br />
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Raspberry pi tip!<br />
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Here i run the dv4dongle on raspberrypi2. Without any video, keyboard, or mouse involved. If the power drops, on repowering the rpi will autostart the DV4mini dongle!!<br />
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Here's how.<br />
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Firstly make sure that the dv4mini is working ok on raspberry pi<br />
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frequency, reflector, call ,ect.<br />
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load up file manager from main menu. and check the hidden files box from view menu. Now look for .config folder.<br />
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Inside this folder make new folder called AUTOSTART. Then from the main desktop, drag ur dv4mini start up icon into the newly created AUTOSTART folder. All done!<br />
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So when you restart raspberry pi. with power lead,dongle and either network lead or wifi dongle it will boot up and boot dv4mini software and run happily on its own!<br />
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The new v1.73s/w is able to utilise cheap chinese dpmr handsets is great,( with fusion style rooms, with echo facility on reflector 99)<br />
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Also the new software has an adjustment feature.<br />
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first (very important! ) Disconnect dv4mini from any reflector that maybe in use.<br />
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goto expert settings, key radio and under<br />
qrg rx/tx settings you will now see a bar showing link data quality. the qrg rx/tx dropdown menu can now be adjusted for lowest errors!<br />
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The zip files are at bottom of page. (DV4_v1.6x) contains both the pc software installer and the firmware for the dv4mini stick.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-52508843288180158662016-08-17T20:03:00.001-04:002021-02-01T04:10:47.231-05:00DV4Mini DV4MF2 software installation DV4Mini DV4MF2 software installation<br />
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After searching countless hours and trying many different how-to guides I
decided the community needed a quick how-to guide on how to setup the
DV4Mini & DV4MF2 software. After hours of frustration and many many
trials and errors I've come up with this quick how-to video for you. I
hope it helps you save some time in your DV4Mini adventures.<br />
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Please keep in mind this was created on March 30th 2016 and due to the
rapid development of the DV4Mini & DV4MF2 software it could be
out-dated rather quickly.<br />
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== Website's Mentioned ==<br />
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DV4Mini Info - <a class="yt-uix-servicelink" data-servicelink="CDEQ6TgiEwiCl8fbp9TQAhWP3k4KHcDvCaEo-B0" data-url="http://www.g0hwc.com/dv4mini.html" href="http://www.g0hwc.com/dv4mini.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.g0hwc.com/dv4mini.html</a><br />
DV4Mini Software (v2016.01.12) - <a class="yt-uix-servicelink" data-servicelink="CDEQ6TgiEwiCl8fbp9TQAhWP3k4KHcDvCaEo-B0" data-url="http://dv4m.ham-dmr.ch/Testversionen/" href="http://dv4m.ham-dmr.ch/Testversionen/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://dv4m.ham-dmr.ch/Testversionen/</a>...<br />
DV4MF2 Software (v2.0.0.10) - <a class="yt-uix-servicelink" data-servicelink="CDEQ6TgiEwiCl8fbp9TQAhWP3k4KHcDvCaEo-B0" data-url="http://www.g0hwc.com/downloads/DV4MF2" href="http://www.g0hwc.com/downloads/DV4MF2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.g0hwc.com/downloads/DV4MF2</a>...<br />
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Should you have any questions please feel free to drop me a note in the comments section.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-14021805265303041892016-08-02T12:51:00.001-04:002021-02-01T04:10:41.465-05:00new function of dv4mini ambe for mic and speaker pc<h2 alt="new function of dv4mini ambe for mic and speaker pc" class="fs-14 fw-600 sprint" data-subject="new function of dv4mini ambe for mic and speaker pc" id="yg-msg-subject" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">new function of dv4mini ambe for mic and speaker pc</span></font></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOQaTP0OeuaXlDV1kxkPVwLO3Th7K0ypV0oojtKiMn9_Jsenn9TlBrYZ7yUAVCjEiH6ODn8NXCf1YqZ1YOCcirgLy86TbwBhkR3TJFQ1g9LdXaI37VWGPub6bj1EgdsdnCBKpAN06y/s799/Photo%25252020160802125158105.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="340" id="blogsy-1470156726055.7542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOQaTP0OeuaXlDV1kxkPVwLO3Th7K0ypV0oojtKiMn9_Jsenn9TlBrYZ7yUAVCjEiH6ODn8NXCf1YqZ1YOCcirgLy86TbwBhkR3TJFQ1g9LdXaI37VWGPub6bj1EgdsdnCBKpAN06y/s500/Photo%25252020160802125158105.jpg" width="500" /></a></div> <br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-69370954827780644692016-08-02T12:25:00.002-04:002021-02-01T04:10:35.783-05:00Pi/DV4 mini powered by DeWALT 20v tool battery<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Pi/DV4 mini with my DeWALT 20v tool battery with USB / jacket adapter. That adapter comes with heated DeWALT jackets or hoodies </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">to heat the jacket and provide 2 USB ports to charge cells while wearing the jacket.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Toronto, ON, Canada43.653226 -79.383184315.342992163821151 -114.5394343 71.963459836178842 -44.226934299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-74671137908354368962016-08-02T12:11:00.001-04:002017-03-29T00:41:59.463-04:00pictures of a setup DV4mini<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here is DV4mini setup... </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Pi is now powered by 2a wall wart, but I have 12 Vdc adapter to go in a car or battery pack and I also have solar panel to charge up my battery pack that I made up </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 1.3em; text-align: center;">years ago for all my radios to operate off the grid.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here is the Pi / Dv4mini fully operational with wifi to hotspot on my iPhone</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And all of it controlled by my iPad on the same hotspot from my cellphone.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of course when at home I would not use my iPhone as hotspot by the house wifi or ethernet cable.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My "home made" power pack with lighter socket at one end and standard banana jack at other end and both ends with LED strip for emergency light or connecting and disconnecting to battery pack at night. I do have 6in pig tail with Anderson connector and USB cigarette lighter adapter but thinking of having those incorporated in the power pack, less parts to lose.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mike VA3MCX</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4258111203163962895.post-16609560731015079102016-08-02T01:33:00.001-04:002017-03-29T00:41:59.368-04:00DV4 Mini pointed to a DR1x repeater<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Does anyone have the fix on this problem below<span class="ygrps-yiv-494013614Apple-tab-span"> </span></span></p><p id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470113833740_4721" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We have multiple Dr1x's with dv4 mini's pointed to them. we have the box checked and call sign inserted in the gateway box. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The issue is the GPS and call sign info does not get transmitted in DN If we use VW the box then does pop up for a call sign but its blank. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0