Hi there! I have been enjoying using the DVSwitch software to bridge my Allstar node into the digital modes. I followed one of the documents to then add function commands so I can switch modes and talk groups, and it works reasonably well for TGIF and Brandmeister on DMR. I ended up implementing the DVSwitch side of things on a cloud-based Allstar node because I didn’t want to go down the Hamvoip rabbit hole and mess up my Clear Node. Also, I am an iPhone user, so, this is the only way I know of to access the digital modes, and I control that with commands sent through Zoiper. Then, I found some nets that are on Fusion, such as the Saturday net on America Link. I had made my *00 command, after hitting *06 to switch to YSF, hard coded to what was the current hostname and port to Americalink. That worked OK until the reflector address must’ve changed hostnames, and one week I got some other QSO, and the next week, I got nothing. Looking it up on the ysf reflector website list told me that my problem was an address that changed. How can I, using the dvswitch.sh tune command, tune to these with a command that will look up the current address and use it? It is kind of tedious to look up hostnames when someone mentions a reflector a net is on, or I otherwise find it online. Is that even available with the commandline scripts, or am I stuck having to make rpt.conf functions that contain each hostname/port to tune to and hope they don’t change ty the time I call them up?

Thanks

 

Brent,
You can also tune to a YSF reflector using the reflector ID number. You can find the ID number at <https://register.ysfreflector.de/>
For example The DVSwitch reflector ID number is 10200. For YSF reflectors you want to add a 8 in front of the ID.
Change modes to YSF
enter 810200 in he dial string.
You are connected to the DVSwitch YSF reflector.

Hope this helps,
73, Steve N4IRS 

Hi there! I have been enjoying using the DVSwitch software to bridge my Allstar node into the digital modes. I followed one of the documents to then add function commands so I can switch modes and talk groups, and it works reasonably well for TGIF and Brandmeister on DMR. I ended up implementing the DVSwitch side of things on a cloud-based Allstar node because I didn’t want to go down the Hamvoip rabbit hole and mess up my Clear Node. Also, I am an iPhone user, so, this is the only way I know of to access the digital modes, and I control that with commands sent through Zoiper. Then, I found some nets that are on Fusion, such as the Saturday net on America Link. I had made my *00 command, after hitting *06 to switch to YSF, hard coded to what was the current hostname and port to Americalink. That worked OK until the reflector address must’ve changed hostnames, and one week I got some other QSO, and the next week, I got nothing. Looking it up on the ysf reflector website list told me that my problem was an address that changed. How can I, using the dvswitch.sh tune command, tune to these with a command that will look up the current address and use it? It is kind of tedious to look up hostnames when someone mentions a reflector a net is on, or I otherwise find it online. Is that even available with the commandline scripts, or am I stuck having to make rpt.conf functions that contain each hostname/port to tune to and hope they don’t change ty the time I call them up?

Thanks

 

Hmmm, so, on the commandline, I tried tune 810200, and nothing happens. The dashboard doesn’t change, and my ysfgateway log file doesn’t update to show that I connected. There must’ve been something that messed up. The mmdvm log accepts the command and acknowledges changing to the reflector ID as a talk group instead. Hmmm

 

 

From: main@DVSwitch.groups.io <main@DVSwitch.groups.io> On Behalf Of Steve N4IRS
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 7:24 AM
To: main@DVSwitch.groups.io
Subject: Re: [DVSwitch] command for tuning YSF with Allstar

 

Brent,
You can also tune to a YSF reflector using the reflector ID number. You can find the ID number at <https://register.ysfreflector.de/>
For example The DVSwitch reflector ID number is 10200. For YSF reflectors you want to add a 8 in front of the ID.
Change modes to YSF
enter 810200 in he dial string.
You are connected to the DVSwitch YSF reflector.

Hope this helps,
73, Steve N4IRS 

On 1/21/2021 11:50 PM, Brent Harding wrote:

Hi there! I have been enjoying using the DVSwitch software to bridge my Allstar node into the digital modes. I followed one of the documents to then add function commands so I can switch modes and talk groups, and it works reasonably well for TGIF and Brandmeister on DMR. I ended up implementing the DVSwitch side of things on a cloud-based Allstar node because I didn’t want to go down the Hamvoip rabbit hole and mess up my Clear Node. Also, I am an iPhone user, so, this is the only way I know of to access the digital modes, and I control that with commands sent through Zoiper. Then, I found some nets that are on Fusion, such as the Saturday net on America Link. I had made my *00 command, after hitting *06 to switch to YSF, hard coded to what was the current hostname and port to Americalink. That worked OK until the reflector address must’ve changed hostnames, and one week I got some other QSO, and the next week, I got nothing. Looking it up on the ysf reflector website list told me that my problem was an address that changed. How can I, using the dvswitch.sh tune command, tune to these with a command that will look up the current address and use it? It is kind of tedious to look up hostnames when someone mentions a reflector a net is on, or I otherwise find it online. Is that even available with the commandline scripts, or am I stuck having to make rpt.conf functions that contain each hostname/port to tune to and hope they don’t change ty the time I call them up?

Thanks

 

 

Brent,
Please show the section of the MB log when you issue the command and your YSFGateway.ini file.

Steve

Hmmm, so, on the commandline, I tried tune 810200, and nothing happens. The dashboard doesn’t change, and my ysfgateway log file doesn’t update to show that I connected. There must’ve been something that messed up. The mmdvm log accepts the command and acknowledges changing to the reflector ID as a talk group instead. Hmmm

 

 

From: main@DVSwitch.groups.io <main@DVSwitch.groups.io> On Behalf Of Steve N4IRS
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 7:24 AM
To: main@DVSwitch.groups.io
Subject: Re: [DVSwitch] command for tuning YSF with Allstar

 

Brent,
You can also tune to a YSF reflector using the reflector ID number. You can find the ID number at <https://register.ysfreflector.de/>
For example The DVSwitch reflector ID number is 10200. For YSF reflectors you want to add a 8 in front of the ID.
Change modes to YSF
enter 810200 in he dial string.
You are connected to the DVSwitch YSF reflector.

Hope this helps,
73, Steve N4IRS 

On 1/21/2021 11:50 PM, Brent Harding wrote:

Hi there! I have been enjoying using the DVSwitch software to bridge my Allstar node into the digital modes. I followed one of the documents to then add function commands so I can switch modes and talk groups, and it works reasonably well for TGIF and Brandmeister on DMR. I ended up implementing the DVSwitch side of things on a cloud-based Allstar node because I didn’t want to go down the Hamvoip rabbit hole and mess up my Clear Node. Also, I am an iPhone user, so, this is the only way I know of to access the digital modes, and I control that with commands sent through Zoiper. Then, I found some nets that are on Fusion, such as the Saturday net on America Link. I had made my *00 command, after hitting *06 to switch to YSF, hard coded to what was the current hostname and port to Americalink. That worked OK until the reflector address must’ve changed hostnames, and one week I got some other QSO, and the next week, I got nothing. Looking it up on the ysf reflector website list told me that my problem was an address that changed. How can I, using the dvswitch.sh tune command, tune to these with a command that will look up the current address and use it? It is kind of tedious to look up hostnames when someone mentions a reflector a net is on, or I otherwise find it online. Is that even available with the commandline scripts, or am I stuck having to make rpt.conf functions that contain each hostname/port to tune to and hope they don’t change ty the time I call them up?

Thanks

 

 

OK, MB log when I issued the commands

 

M: 2021-01-22 21:08:34.038 YSF, Remote CMD: txTg=ysf

M: 2021-01-22 21:08:34.039 Closing YSF network connection

M: 2021-01-22 21:08:34.039 Opening YSF network connection

M: 2021-01-22 21:08:34.080 YSF, Remote CMD: info

M: 2021-01-22 21:10:42.355 YSF, Remote CMD: txTg=810200

M: 2021-01-22 21:10:42.355 Closing YSF network connection

M: 2021-01-22 21:10:42.355 Opening YSF network connection

M: 2021-01-22 21:10:42.396 YSF, Remote CMD: info

 

 

 

YSFGateway.ini file

[General]

Callsign=KB9LWJ

Suffix=RPT

# Suffix=ND

Id=316982301

RptAddress=127.0.0.1

RptPort=3200

LocalAddress=127.0.0.1

LocalPort=4200

WiresXMakeUpper=1

WiresXCommandPassthrough=0

Daemon=1

 

[Info]

RXFrequency=223500000

TXFrequency=223500000

Power=1

Latitude=41.7333

Longitude=-50.3999

Height=0

Location=GreenBay

Description=YSF

URL=https://groups.io/g/DVSwitch

 

[Log]

# Logging levels, 0=No logging, 1=Debug, 2=Message, 3=Info, 4=Warning, 5=Error, 6=Fatal

DisplayLevel=1

FileLevel=2

FilePath=/var/log/mmdvm

FileRoot=YSFGateway

 

[aprs.fi]

Enable=0

# Server=noam.aprs2.net

Server=euro.aprs2.net

Port=14580

Password=9999

Description=APRS Description

Suffix=Y

 

[Network]

# Startup=Alabama-Link

InactivityTimeout=0

Revert=0

Debug=0

 

[YSF Network]

Enable=1

Port=42000

Hosts=/var/lib/mmdvm/YSFHosts.txt

ReloadTime=60

ParrotAddress=127.0.0.1

ParrotPort=42012

# YSF2DMRAddress=127.0.0.1

# YSF2DMRPort=42013

# YSF2NXDNAddress=127.0.0.1

# YSF2NXDNPort=42014

# YSF2P25Address=127.0.0.1

# YSF2P25Port=42015

 

[FCS Network]

Enable=1

Rooms=/var/lib/mmdvm/FCSRooms.txt

Port=42001

 

[Mobile GPS]

Enable=0

Address=127.0.0.1

Port=7834

 

[Remote Commands]

Enable=1

Port=6073

 

 

 

 

From: main@DVSwitch.groups.io <main@DVSwitch.groups.io> On Behalf Of Steve N4IRS
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 3:01 PM
To: main@DVSwitch.groups.io
Subject: Re: [DVSwitch] command for tuning YSF with Allstar

 

Brent,
Please show the section of the MB log when you issue the command and your YSFGateway.ini file.

Steve

On 1/22/21 3:51 PM, Brent Harding wrote:

Hmmm, so, on the commandline, I tried tune 810200, and nothing happens. The dashboard doesn’t change, and my ysfgateway log file doesn’t update to show that I connected. There must’ve been something that messed up. The mmdvm log accepts the command and acknowledges changing to the reflector ID as a talk group instead. Hmmm

 

 

From: main@DVSwitch.groups.io <main@DVSwitch.groups.io> On Behalf Of Steve N4IRS
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 7:24 AM
To: main@DVSwitch.groups.io
Subject: Re: [DVSwitch] command for tuning YSF with Allstar

 

Brent,
You can also tune to a YSF reflector using the reflector ID number. You can find the ID number at <https://register.ysfreflector.de/>
For example The DVSwitch reflector ID number is 10200. For YSF reflectors you want to add a 8 in front of the ID.
Change modes to YSF
enter 810200 in he dial string.
You are connected to the DVSwitch YSF reflector.

Hope this helps,
73, Steve N4IRS 

On 1/21/2021 11:50 PM, Brent Harding wrote:

Hi there! I have been enjoying using the DVSwitch software to bridge my Allstar node into the digital modes. I followed one of the documents to then add function commands so I can switch modes and talk groups, and it works reasonably well for TGIF and Brandmeister on DMR. I ended up implementing the DVSwitch side of things on a cloud-based Allstar node because I didn’t want to go down the Hamvoip rabbit hole and mess up my Clear Node. Also, I am an iPhone user, so, this is the only way I know of to access the digital modes, and I control that with commands sent through Zoiper. Then, I found some nets that are on Fusion, such as the Saturday net on America Link. I had made my *00 command, after hitting *06 to switch to YSF, hard coded to what was the current hostname and port to Americalink. That worked OK until the reflector address must’ve changed hostnames, and one week I got some other QSO, and the next week, I got nothing. Looking it up on the ysf reflector website list told me that my problem was an address that changed. How can I, using the dvswitch.sh tune command, tune to these with a command that will look up the current address and use it? It is kind of tedious to look up hostnames when someone mentions a reflector a net is on, or I otherwise find it online. Is that even available with the commandline scripts, or am I stuck having to make rpt.conf functions that contain each hostname/port to tune to and hope they don’t change ty the time I call them up?

Thanks