I let the cat out of the bag in the Mobile subgroup so for everyone
else...
We have been working to enhance AB, MB and dvswitch.sh We have been
trying to squash bugs and provide the features we know were needed
and we have seen requested here on
groups.io. The changes made to
the basic components of DVSwitch will enhance not only Mobile users
but bridges and other more esoteric applications. All of the TESTING
for now has been on the ARM family but once we are ready to release,
we will build ALL of the apt packages to support the 4 hardware
families:
armhf: 32 bit (Raspberry Pi all models) (Orange Pi) (Nano pi)
etc Pretty much any Debian based ARM board.
i386: 32 bit (low power Intel and compatible)
amd64: 64 bit (Intel and compatible)
arm64: 64 bit (ARM)
That's 16 packages for each hardware family. These packages are in
apt format for Debian compatible systems. If you run something else
(Arch, Centos etc) the binaries and support files are available on
Github. The process is, when a binary is updated, it's uploaded to
github and then it's built into a apt package right away. Github and
apt will be in sync. This means that to get the most current binary
for your hardware family it's simply apt-get update / apt-get
upgrade.
All of the packages can be installed or added. You don't have to
install everything, just what you need or add what you want. Add the
dashboard to Quantar, add the menu to dvswitch. It's up to you.
All packages include the scripting needed for updating the data
files, pushing updated data to the mobile clients, log file
management and some scripting to help in troubleshooting.
We have included binaries for the support programs needed. This
includes md380-emu, NXDNGateway NXDNParrot, P25Gateway, P25Parrot,
YSFGateway. YSFParrot and ircDDBGateway. These programs are build
directly from the authors github repositories.
All of the programs are installable individually. How do you know
what programs to install you ask. We have grouped these programs
together in a "Meta Package" for easy install
For example:
apt-get install dvswitch
Will install analog-bridge, md380-emu, mmdvm-bridge, nxdngateway,
nxdnparrot, p25gateway, p25parrot, ysfgateway, ysfparrot,
ircddbgateway, quantar-bridge
apt-get install dvswitch-quantar
Will install mmdvm-bridge, quantar-bridge, p25gateway, p25parrot
Just what you would need for putting a Quantar repeater on the MMDVM
P25 network
apt-get install dvswitch-server
Will install all of the above plus the Menu, Dashboard and System
Monitor.
Menu? Dashboard? System Monitor?
The Menu system will walk you through basic setup. You enter your
callsign, DMR ID etc and the menu will place the proper values into
the .ini files. The menu will also help a DVSM or pyUC user
configure Macros. You can upload sample macros to clients. You can
also customize macros. The menu system is built with translation
files to allow easy translation to other languages. Some of these
are machine translations, so we hope they are close to correct. The
first release menus will be available in the following languages:
English
French
German
Greek
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Spanish
The documentation is being written. That is not to say ever nuance
of AB, MB and dvswitch.sh are covered. The doc is geared towards the
user of DVSM who wants to build his own server. Either from a image
or from a script The documentation will be available in English,
Korean Polish (to start)
The dashboard is a modified version of the Pi-Star Dashboard.
<http://server.dvswitch.org>
The System Monitor is built on Monit. Monit can monitor the health
of services, monitor data file updates, run periodic program checks.
Monit has been configured to restart some services if they start to
use too many resources. This web page is locked down so only local
connections can view it.
<http://server.dvswitch.org/demo_monit.png>
We have built a Raspberry Pi Buster image that contains all of the
programs in a ready to run format. All you have to do is burn the
image to a SD card, insert the card in a Raspberry Pi (any model)
and go. If you don't want to run a Raspberry Pi, or you have a
existing Debian based system you want to add to, you can do that
too. apt-get install dvswitch-server will install everything
installed on Raspberry Pi image onto your system. We have reached
Release candidate 2 which means baring any unforeseen issues, we
will release soon. The accompanying documentation is being tweaked
now. A lot of work has gone into refining the packages. I expect
there will be problems found after release. Those fixes will be
applied using the apt install / upgrade system. All I can say is
anything over 10 lines of code has a bug, in my case anything over 2
lines of code and the first line is a comment.
This does not cover all of the features available. Image clone, file
backup/restore password recovery Just to name a few.
I have posted the first introductory video.
<https://youtu.be/ykW8oF1AGUc>
We are working hard on this. When I say we, I mean Mike and I and a
number of others. If my wife does not kill me first, it should be
out soon. As someone in the software industry once said, "Just 2
weeks"