Welcome to DVSwitch

Thanks.  Well, the newer methods seem to require a ThumbDV or similar,
which I don't have, meaning additional cost, and worse still these days,
lengthy mail order delays, with the global postal system affected by
COVID-19.

But I do have a blue DV Dongle, which I'm hoping to repurpose for this
job, hence looking at DummyRepeater.

Of course, if there's other ways to make use of the DV Dongle as part of
a gateway, I'm open to those as well.  It's likely I've missed some
information somewhere.

On 5/8/20 8:24 pm, Steve N4IRS wrote:

Tony,
Sorry, I did not see this when you posted. I have restored my old copy
of the info on using DummyRepeater.
A you know, we no longer use this method to connect AllStar to D-Star.
The files are at <https://github.com/N4IRS/DummyRepeater>

73, Steve N4IRS

On 8/2/20 5:21 AM, Tony Langdon wrote:

I'm looking to build a a gateway between AllStar and D-STAR, and I've
seen references to using DummyRepeater and IRCDDBGateway, instead of
Analog_Bridge.  This has the advantage for me of being able to repurpose
a blue DV Dongle to do the DSAMBE conversion, saving a bit of money and
postage time (postage is quite slow these days)

I am aware there is a modification for DummyRepeater that allows it to
use the USRP interface, making it a perfect fit for AllStar, and I have
the AllStar side configured.  However, from there, documentation seems
to be lacking, and I couldn't find the patch (found a dead Guthub link).


Anyone have any more info?

Tony,
Sorry, I did not see this when you posted. I have restored my old copy
of the info on using DummyRepeater.
A you know, we no longer use this method to connect AllStar to D-Star.
The files are at <https://github.com/N4IRS/DummyRepeater>

73, Steve N4IRS

On 8/2/20 5:21 AM, Tony Langdon wrote:

I'm looking to build a a gateway between AllStar and D-STAR, and I've
seen references to using DummyRepeater and IRCDDBGateway, instead of
Analog_Bridge.  This has the advantage for me of being able to repurpose
a blue DV Dongle to do the DSAMBE conversion, saving a bit of money and
postage time (postage is quite slow these days)

I am aware there is a modification for DummyRepeater that allows it to
use the USRP interface, making it a perfect fit for AllStar, and I have
the AllStar side configured.  However, from there, documentation seems
to be lacking, and I couldn't find the patch (found a dead Guthub link).


Anyone have any more info?

I'm hoping someone can help with this one. We are trying to get 2 P25 reflectors to run on the same machine. The second service has a different name that the 1st, there is a separate .ini file, it has a separate port and it runs in a separate directory. The service starts just fine with no errors but we cannot connect to it via pi-star even though we've updated the P25Hosts.txt file on the pi-star.

Any help would be great.

73's
Ted
W6SAT

That is what it is supposed to do.
It's waiting for traffic from MMDVM_Bridge on a TG to tell it what reflector to connect to.
Unless, you want it to startup on a particular reflector.

P25Gateway.ini
[Network]
Startup=3166
InactivityTimeout=10
 
This says, connect to the reflector for TG 3166.
If P25Gateway is pointed to another reflector and there is no activity, P25Gateway will revert to TG 3166

Steve N4IRS

Thanks Steve. That got me past the error in the DVSwitch.sh.

 

Now, when I run /opt/P25Gateway/P25Gateway P25Gateway.ini  , I get:

 

root@P25reflector:/opt/P25Gateway# ./P25Gateway P25Gateway.ini

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:35.943 Opening P25 network connection

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:35.943 Opening P25 network connection

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:36.315 Loaded 13 P25 reflectors

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:36.315 Loaded P25 parrot (TG10)

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:36.853 Loaded 169569 Ids to the callsign lookup table

M: 2020-08-06 19:17:36.853 Starting P25Gateway-20180409

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:36.853 Started the DMR Id lookup reload thread

 

And it just hangs there.

 

Tom

 

From: main@DVSwitch.groups.io <main@DVSwitch.groups.io> On Behalf Of Steve N4IRS
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020 1:27 PM
To: main@DVSwitch.groups.io
Subject: Re: [DVSwitch] error while installing quantar

 

Tom,
As root:
cd /opt/MMDVM_Bridge
ls -la
# do you have a dvswitch.sh?
mv dvswitch.sh dvswitch.sh.old
wget https://github.com/DVSwitch/MMDVM_Bridge/raw/master/dvswitch.sh
chmod +x dvswitch.sh
apt-get install -f

Steve N4IRS

On 8/6/2020 2:10 PM, Tom wrote:

I started with a clean raspian Stretsh (Debian 9) in a Pi3B+. I installed the dvswitch-repo and an update. While installing quantar I get errors associated with DMR ID file:

Setting up mmdvm-bridge (1.5-20200427-23) ...

Error, DMR ID file does not seem to be valid

dpkg: error processing package mmdvm-bridge (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 251

Setting up p25gateway (1.1-20180424-9) ...

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/p25gateway.service -> /lib/systemd/system/p25gateway.service.

Setting up quantar (1.01-20180420-2) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 mmdvm-bridge

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks,
Tom / K5TRA

 

Thanks Steve. That got me past the error in the DVSwitch.sh.

 

Now, when I run /opt/P25Gateway/P25Gateway P25Gateway.ini  , I get:

 

root@P25reflector:/opt/P25Gateway# ./P25Gateway P25Gateway.ini

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:35.943 Opening P25 network connection

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:35.943 Opening P25 network connection

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:36.315 Loaded 13 P25 reflectors

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:36.315 Loaded P25 parrot (TG10)

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:36.853 Loaded 169569 Ids to the callsign lookup table

M: 2020-08-06 19:17:36.853 Starting P25Gateway-20180409

I: 2020-08-06 19:17:36.853 Started the DMR Id lookup reload thread

 

And it just hangs there.

 

Tom

 

From: main@DVSwitch.groups.io <main@DVSwitch.groups.io> On Behalf Of Steve N4IRS
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020 1:27 PM
To: main@DVSwitch.groups.io
Subject: Re: [DVSwitch] error while installing quantar

 

Tom,
As root:
cd /opt/MMDVM_Bridge
ls -la
# do you have a dvswitch.sh?
mv dvswitch.sh dvswitch.sh.old
wget https://github.com/DVSwitch/MMDVM_Bridge/raw/master/dvswitch.sh
chmod +x dvswitch.sh
apt-get install -f

Steve N4IRS

On 8/6/2020 2:10 PM, Tom wrote:

I started with a clean raspian Stretsh (Debian 9) in a Pi3B+. I installed the dvswitch-repo and an update. While installing quantar I get errors associated with DMR ID file:

Setting up mmdvm-bridge (1.5-20200427-23) ...

Error, DMR ID file does not seem to be valid

dpkg: error processing package mmdvm-bridge (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 251

Setting up p25gateway (1.1-20180424-9) ...

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/p25gateway.service -> /lib/systemd/system/p25gateway.service.

Setting up quantar (1.01-20180420-2) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 mmdvm-bridge

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks,
Tom / K5TRA

 

Tom,
As root:
cd /opt/MMDVM_Bridge
ls -la
# do you have a dvswitch.sh?
mv dvswitch.sh dvswitch.sh.old
wget https://github.com/DVSwitch/MMDVM_Bridge/raw/master/dvswitch.sh
chmod +x dvswitch.sh
apt-get install -f

Steve N4IRS

I started with a clean raspian Stretsh (Debian 9) in a Pi3B+. I installed the dvswitch-repo and an update. While installing quantar I get errors associated with DMR ID file:

Setting up mmdvm-bridge (1.5-20200427-23) ...

Error, DMR ID file does not seem to be valid

dpkg: error processing package mmdvm-bridge (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 251

Setting up p25gateway (1.1-20180424-9) ...

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/p25gateway.service -> /lib/systemd/system/p25gateway.service.

Setting up quantar (1.01-20180420-2) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 mmdvm-bridge

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks,
Tom / K5TRA

I started with a clean raspian Stretsh (Debian 9) in a Pi3B+. I installed the dvswitch-repo and an update. While installing quantar I get errors associated with DMR ID file:

Setting up mmdvm-bridge (1.5-20200427-23) ...

Error, DMR ID file does not seem to be valid

dpkg: error processing package mmdvm-bridge (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 251

Setting up p25gateway (1.1-20180424-9) ...

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/p25gateway.service -> /lib/systemd/system/p25gateway.service.

Setting up quantar (1.01-20180420-2) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 mmdvm-bridge

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks,
Tom / K5TRA

I'm looking to build a a gateway between AllStar and D-STAR, and I've
seen references to using DummyRepeater and IRCDDBGateway, instead of
Analog_Bridge.  This has the advantage for me of being able to repurpose
a blue DV Dongle to do the DSAMBE conversion, saving a bit of money and
postage time (postage is quite slow these days)

I am aware there is a modification for DummyRepeater that allows it to
use the USRP interface, making it a perfect fit for AllStar, and I have
the AllStar side configured.  However, from there, documentation seems
to be lacking, and I couldn't find the patch (found a dead Guthub link).


Anyone have any more info?

Steve,
  I had a power Blip and reset everything. The problem is I can hear my DMR audio from Brandmeister thru the Bridge over my repeater.
I see on brandmeister that my repeater is sending data to brandmeister but nothing is heard over my DMR from them. example:

DMR to Hotspot to BM to TG 314651 to AB over repeater works fine
Analog to AB to MB to Brandmeister tg 314651 sees packets but
Brandmeister to tg 314651 to my hotspot nothing heard and no data.

Please help me understand that. it also doesn't matter what server or talk group I use same results.
attaching logs for your viewing

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 10:11 PM, Steve N4IRS wrote:

mmdvm_bridge.system

Here is what it looks like

[Unit]

Description=MMDVM_Bridge Service

# Description=Place this file in /lib/systemd/system

# Description=N4IRS 04/20/2018

 

# The device name should point to the

# port the mmdvm is plugged into.

# For USB ports (Arduino Due)

# BindTo=dev-ttyACM0.device

#

# To make the network-online.target available

# systemctl enable systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

 

After=network-online.target syslog.target netcheck.service

Requires=netcheck.service

Wants=network-online.target

 

[Service]

Type=simple

Restart=always

RestartSec=3

Restart=on-abort

StandardOutput=null

WorkingDirectory=/opt/MMDVM_Bridge

ExecStartPre = /bin/sh -c 'echo "Starting MMDVM_Bridge: [`date +%%T.%%3N`]" >> $

ExecStart=/opt/MMDVM_Bridge/MMDVM_Bridge /opt/MMDVM_Bridge/MMDVM_Bridge.ini

ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID

 

KillMode=process

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target