Welcome to DVSwitch
Purpose
1) Allows “local” networking during an outage of the regional national/international network server.
2) Allows a local network operator to “blend” upstream feeds from different Networks (capital N on purpose). These Networks can’t get their act together and learn how to play nice with each other (everyone guilty as far as we are concerned). They may not like people doing this, but the solution is to grow up and work with each other, and not keep trying to force people to take sides.
3) Allows local segregation of localized traffic with more flexibility.
4) Allows experimentation with linking and how it’s done (part 97 specifies experimentation and advancement of the radio art are a core part of amateur radio).
Mission Statement/Position
WHEREAS the Networks continue to be largely islands and are not working together to create a unified network of Networks.
WHEREAS no firm reason has been given by any of the Networks why a *competent* local network operator cannot make this work effectively.
(US ONLY)
WHEREAS 47 CFR 97 (Amateur Radio Service) specifies that a core component of amateur radio is experimentation and advancement of the radio art [97.1(b)].
BE IT RESOLVED the core group of US amateur radio operators and experimenters organized around the DVSwitch project, and in the spirit of USA 47 CFR 97 and its intentions, support the *responsible* and *thoughtful* use of digital voice networking tools to create localized networks that will interconnect to the national/international Networks, and will support users of its tools in order to do this in the most effective and sustainable way possible.
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Re: DStar on DV Switch Mobile
Patrick Perdue
Not in the context of DVSM, but I ran a remote AMBEserver for
Analog_Bridge for a while, ran into some problems and eventually
scrapped it for md380emu, since I didn't care about DStar. My
DStar bridge is strictly done with XLX and a pair of AMBE dongles,
and I don't need outbound connectivity to DStar reflectors in my
setup. At the time, my AMBEserver running on a Pi was a good solid 2 to
3 ms ping from the VPS running DVSwitch. The datacenter was
practically in my backyard. While it did work reliably sometimes,
it would randomly drop, or have huge gaps between audio packets,
so I eventually just gave it up as a bad job. Running
Analog_Bridge and AMBEserver locally, or using the dongle directly
connected to Analog_Bridge through /dev/ttyUSB0 worked fine, but I
always had various problems using AMBEserver remotely with
Analog_Bridge, at least when connecting back to Allstar. The
network path was about as good as I could hope for, considering it
was a remote connection to AMBEserver.
On 8/24/2020 8:33 AM, Tom Corcoran
wrote:
Has anyone been able to get a remote AMBEserver working with DVSwitch running on a cloud server? I have an AMBEserver sitting on a RPi at my home and DVSwitch running on a cloud server. Made appropriate (?) changes to AB.ini but can’t seem to make the combination work. Advice?
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Re: DStar on DV Switch Mobile
Has anyone been able to get a remote AMBEserver working with DVSwitch running on a cloud server? I have an AMBEserver sitting on a RPi at my home and DVSwitch running on a cloud server. Made appropriate (?) changes to AB.ini but can’t seem to make the combination work. Advice?
-- Tx Tom VE3NY
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Re: DVSwitch-System-Builder throws up error
You can try to run the script again but I think you will get errors.
I would burn a fresh SD card.
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On 8/24/2020 7:57 AM, Derek William
Haden wrote:
When you say from Scratch, you mean the OS too?
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Re: DVSwitch-System-Builder throws up error
Derek William Haden <facebook@...>
When you say from Scratch, you mean the OS too?
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Re: DVSwitch-System-Builder throws up error
Derek,
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It should be fixed now. You will have to start over from scratch. Sorry I can tell you that the System-Builder is getting a rewrite in the not to distant future. Steve N4IRS
On 8/24/20 7:03 AM, Derek William Haden
wrote:
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DVSwitch-System-Builder throws up error
Derek William Haden <facebook@...>
DVSwitch-System-Builder throws up error
"parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10 Error, DMR ID file does not seem to be valid"
The script then stops, or as come to a natural end, I don't know. Can anyone help?
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Re: PTT button solution
Derek William Haden <facebook@...>
I was going to suggest a selfie stick button, not sure if that is the same or different to what you are using?
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PTT button solution
F1JMJ Joël
Hello,
The DVSWITCH app is great. But there is the problem in the car with the PTT. In many countries, touching the phone while driving is punishable by law. Currently I use a bluetooth button for the PTT which is intended to take a picture with the telephone (code 24), but after a few uses the phone goes into alarm mode and I have to restart the phone. Is there a viable solution to this problem or a real alternative for PTT with a classic mobile phone with a Zello-like PTT button that works well with DVSWITCH ? Thank you for your answers. 73 F1JMJ
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Re: Ports
The settings for MMDVM_Bridge are defined in DVSwitch.ini. UDP
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On 8/23/20 2:45 PM, Aaron Groover
wrote:
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Ports
Aaron Groover
Hey guys. Happy Sunday! So i had to rebuild my system after some *cough* user error. Which I then found out what i was doing wrong. However i can not seem to find the settings for DMR 31100 31103. is it TCP or UDP? Thank you!
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Re: Where are the Host files stored?
Yes,
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Over time we standardized file name locations etc. The .ini files tell you were to find the host files and data files.
On 8/23/20 2:44 PM, David wrote:
Steve,
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Re: Where are the Host files stored?
Steve,
My bridges have been working fine for a year or more. I have no "/var/lib/mmdvm" directory. I'm guessing you've updated the kit and files are now in different places? David
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Re: DStar on DV Switch Mobile
Derek William Haden <facebook@...>
I would recommend using the Ambe server with the DV dongle. I could not get the DVSwitch to connect to the dongle via USB.
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Re: Some ini files missing after installing on Rpi
Derek William Haden <facebook@...>
I will bear that in mind in future.
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Re: Where are the Host files stored?
Derek William Haden <facebook@...>
Thank you.
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Re: Some ini files missing after installing on Rpi
On 23/8/20 3:08 am, Derek William Haden wrote:
just bumping this up, as I didn't get an answer first timeFor those of us using email, this message is a waste of bandwidth, reposting would have made more sense, so we could see the original query (I missed it first time around). -- 73 de Tony VK3JED/VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
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Re: DStar on DV Switch Mobile
On 23/8/20 3:06 am, Derek William Haden wrote:
As I understand it (Could be wrong) you have to enable DStar inYes, D-STAR requires a hardware vocoder, because there are no decent software vocoders for that audio format. I tried D-STAR in DroidStar once, where there was no hardware option, and the audio was very poor, practically unreadable. You _can_ enable the software vocoder in Analog_Bridge, but not recommended. As one set of instructions put it - "You won't like the result". Normally, D-STAR would be setup with an AMBE3000 device, either on the DVSwitch host or via an AMBEServer. On my multimode gateway, I had an original DV Dongle lying around doing nothing, so I used ircDDBGateway and DummyRepeater to do the transcoding, since DummyRepeater supports the DV Dongle hardware. -- 73 de Tony VK3JED/VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
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Re: The audio in DVswitch App mobile, with 4G/LTE is distorted.
EA5GVK Joaquin
Yes. Yes. In all the codecs. It does the same distortion.
El sáb., 22 ago. 2020 22:34, Mike Zingman - N4IRR <mike.zingman@...> escribió: Try different audio codecs in the mobile app.
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Re: The audio in DVswitch App mobile, with 4G/LTE is distorted.
Try different audio codecs in the mobile app.
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Re: Some ini files missing after installing on Rpi
Neil k8it
I would also like to know how to install DV switch with the latest RPI image on the Allstar download from the Allstar site it seems like the documentation that I'm finding is not consistent with the install process is there a current update on the procedure that is readable not graphic as I am blind thank you. Thanks 73 Neil Sablatzky K8IT
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