Join the network
Point your hotspot at this server. Allow about ten minutes. Nothing here changes your radio, and you can undo all of it.
This network is not accepting hotspots yet
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Open your hotspot
In a browser, go to your hotspot's dashboard — usually
pi-star.localorwpsd.local— then open Admin → Configuration → DMR Configuration.Will this hotspot carry any other DMR network as well?
Then set every other network on the page to off. Two networks at once compete for the same talkgroup numbers, and yours would reach whichever answered first. You can switch back at any time.
Leave your other networks alone. Step 3 gives you a block to paste that keeps them all working, by putting this network behind a leading digit of your choosing.
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Fill in the custom network
Set Custom DMR Network Enable to on, then enter these:
Server Name QSPServer Address …Port …Password Sent to you separately — it is not shown on this page ESSID NoneThen press Apply Changes. Your hotspot restarts, which takes a few seconds.
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Paste this into DMRGateway
Your hotspot keeps its other networks. This block adds ours behind a leading digit, so dialling
7000009reaches us and every number you already use still reaches where it always did.Open
/etc/dmrgatewayon your hotspot and check which of these two are still free. Nothing on this page can see that file.Loading…
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Check it really saved
Reload the configuration page and confirm the custom network still shows as enabled.
Dashboards sometimes show a network as enabled when it did not save. Thirty seconds here can save an evening.
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Wait for your hotspot
Watching for your hotspot to connect…
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Set your radio
These are the talkgroups on this network. Dial the number in the first column — your hotspot changes it on the way through, which is normal and why the second column looks different.
Dial this Timeslot Name Arrives as Loading… Then key up for a few seconds. You do not need anyone to answer — this page will tell you whether your audio reached the network.
Nothing heard from you yet.
Text messages
Texts cross this network exactly as your radio sends them, so whether another radio can read yours depends on the text format set on your radio. Choose M-SMS if your radio offers it.
| Format | Which radios can read it |
|---|---|
| M-SMS Use this | Motorola radios, and most AnyTone, BTech, TYT and Retevis radios. Texts this network sends you are in this format. |
| DMR Standard | Most AnyTone, BTech, TYT and Retevis radios. Most Motorola radios show nothing. |
| H-M | Hytera radios. Motorola radios show nothing. |
- The sender's setting is the one that counts. If someone's radio shows nothing when you text it, change the format on yours, not on theirs.
- If your radio asks for a CAI network, set it to
12. Motorola-format texts are addressed with it and your DMR ID. - On a hotspot that carries only this network, turn off any automatic rewrite rules in its dashboard. They can readdress a text so it never arrives. If you pasted the DMRGateway block above, leave those rules as they are.
Linking an AllStar node
An AllStar node joins through DVSwitch: its MMDVM_Bridge logs in here as a hotspot does, and Analog_Bridge turns the node's audio into DMR on the node's own vocoder. Ask whoever runs this network to admit your node's DMR ID first, as you would for a hotspot.
In MMDVM_Bridge.ini
| [General] Id | The DMR ID your node registers with |
|---|---|
| [DMR Network] Address | … |
| [DMR Network] Port | … |
| [DMR Network] Password | Sent to you separately — it is not shown on this page |
In Analog_Bridge.ini, under [AMBE_AUDIO]
| txTg | A number from the Dial this column above |
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| txTs | Its timeslot, from the same table |
Names as DVSwitch's sample files give them; check them against your version. This network has not linked a node this way yet — tell whoever runs it how it goes.