We are looking into a hotspot unit. It seems Openspot 4 Pro may be the most useful, elimanating the need of dstar or other protocol hand held. Just need your iphone. The blackberry approach would be cheaper, but apparently support will disapper by end of this year? Something to keep in mind. If we decide to get one, we will do a setup and test video. The only concern would be, will one use it enough to justify the purchase?
the terminal mode is very convenient and fast to use unfortunately you can not navigate between the reflectors and every time you have to reconfigure the radio to change it! a brilliant solution is the Doozy program but it only exists on Windows platform!
Yes, aware of that, but I have made occasional contact and chats. It one way to find out, if this mode would be of interest. One can decide how much you want to invest into hotspot devices, Openspot 4 Pro vrs the kits. Though the price is narrowing down. Also Pi-Star may shut down end of December according the company that run it. They will meet in december and decide if it shut down or get extended. They may end customer support for sure, but will the Pi-Star page stay and/or no further updates? hummm
We can run Window, but don't enjoy using it for ham radio. We hanging on to one intel Macbook Pro 15 inch unit. To do window base updates that we still have.
I find, that there is only 3 sites that I care to monitor on Terminal Mode & can switch pretty quick between them.' If i was to go heavy into this, I proably will go with the Openspot 4 Pro. It would free up my ic-705 and I can use iphone or ipad to monitor/chat on. No radio required. One wouldn't have to buy another dstar radio. For mobile use, the iphone with cellular data would be enough for monitoring or an urgent need to contact. The unit is grabbing my curiousity. The openSPOT4 Pro extends the feature set of the openSPOT4 with onboard transcoding hardware: The openSPOT4 Pro has the best voice quality in cross mode operation. You don’t need a transceiver for the Pro! Use the free SharkRF Link app on your computer or phone to talk. Supports D-STAR cross modes: use your D-STAR transceiver to access DMR, C4FM, NXDN networks, or your DMR, C4FM, NXDN transceiver to access D-STAR networks Supports call audio playback on the web interface Supports 10 configuration profiles
I found another step/alteration on terminal mode. If you start by going DR mode, then go to terminal mode, enter ip/domain address, exit out back to DR mode. Select TO, enter the /xlsxxx plus port if required, link with a forward slash in Direct Input (RPT). The go to gateway and select terminal mode, Then key PTT for verification of connection. One should be heard, with no x coming back. If you enter the info in Direct input (UR), it appears to work, but it seems to autofill the (RPT). Not always, so using (RPT) seem more reliable. Probably a firmware bug issue?? Basically, before, after entering the ip/domain, I went directly to terminal mode, then went to the TO field and entered /xlsxxx add a port if needed. Then keyed for verification of connection. Feels faster to do it this way. It would be nice if they added a list of all the ip/domain address that you entered and can scoll and select from the list. Hopefully the next firmware update will finish properly the Terminal Mode.
We talked on the RYC reapeter today.
Yes we did, thank for allowing me to break in and have a chat.
We are looking into a hotspot unit. It seems Openspot 4 Pro may be the most useful, elimanating the need of dstar or other protocol hand held. Just need your iphone. The blackberry approach would be cheaper, but apparently support will disapper by end of this year? Something to keep in mind. If we decide to get one, we will do a setup and test video. The only concern would be, will one use it enough to justify the purchase?
the terminal mode is very convenient and fast to use unfortunately you can not navigate between the reflectors and every time you have to reconfigure the radio to change it! a brilliant solution is the Doozy program but it only exists on Windows platform!
Yes, aware of that, but I have made occasional contact and chats. It one way to find out, if this mode would be of interest. One can decide how much you want to invest into hotspot devices, Openspot 4 Pro vrs the kits. Though the price is narrowing down.
Also Pi-Star may shut down end of December according the company that run it. They will meet in december and decide if it shut down or get extended.
They may end customer support for sure, but will the Pi-Star page stay and/or no further updates?
hummm
We can run Window, but don't enjoy using it for ham radio. We hanging on to one intel Macbook Pro 15 inch unit. To do window base updates that we still have.
I find, that there is only 3 sites that I care to monitor on Terminal Mode & can switch pretty quick between them.'
If i was to go heavy into this, I proably will go with the Openspot 4 Pro. It would free up my ic-705 and I can use iphone or ipad to monitor/chat on.
No radio required. One wouldn't have to buy another dstar radio. For mobile use, the iphone with cellular data would be enough for monitoring or an urgent need to contact. The unit is grabbing my curiousity.
The openSPOT4 Pro extends the feature set of the openSPOT4 with onboard transcoding hardware:
The openSPOT4 Pro has the best voice quality in cross mode operation.
You don’t need a transceiver for the Pro! Use the free SharkRF Link app on your computer or phone to talk.
Supports D-STAR cross modes: use your D-STAR transceiver to access DMR, C4FM, NXDN networks, or your DMR, C4FM, NXDN transceiver to access D-STAR networks
Supports call audio playback on the web interface
Supports 10 configuration profiles
@@SimplyOffGridLife I have a pi economic and work fine!
@@SimplyOffGridLife I don't know this product, it's not widespread in Europe! I'm going to read more information right away! thanks
I found another step/alteration on terminal mode. If you start by going DR mode, then go to terminal mode, enter ip/domain address, exit out back to DR mode. Select TO, enter the /xlsxxx plus port if required, link with a forward slash in Direct Input (RPT). The go to gateway and select terminal mode, Then key PTT for verification of connection. One should be heard, with no x coming back.
If you enter the info in Direct input (UR), it appears to work, but it seems to autofill the (RPT). Not always, so using (RPT) seem more reliable. Probably a firmware bug issue??
Basically, before, after entering the ip/domain, I went directly to terminal mode, then went to the TO field and entered /xlsxxx add a port if needed. Then keyed for verification of connection. Feels faster to do it this way.
It would be nice if they added a list of all the ip/domain address that you entered and can scoll and select from the list.
Hopefully the next firmware update will finish properly the Terminal Mode.