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Just bought Rapberry pi Zero W but can not make it work with the most up to date software


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Make sure you download the correct image and do not try this one: Pi-Star_OrangePiZero_V4.2.0_05-Feb-2024.zip.

Just because it says PiZero, it doesn't mean it's correct. So ...

Yes, that sorts it for the moment.

Same here, nobody is able to sustain a connection to my YSF reflector, they just disconnect after a few minutes. This started a couple of days ago.

The odds are good that anyone trying to answer would have to have done exactly what you did -- find a zone with spotty cell-phone service and drive in/out of service area.


Thanks, I wasn't suggesting that someone specifically go out and test this, I was hoping that someone would already know ...

I'm sad that nobody was able to answer this.

To help anyone out who has the same question.

I did some tests today, I drove through areas of poor mobile phone coverage and when I came out the other side, my hotspot announced "Linking to reflector [insert reflector name here]", followed a few ...

I'm going travelling in a couple of weeks and I'm going to take a Pi-Star MMDVM hotspot with me for D-Star.

I'll be tethering to an Android phone and I know that some areas will have limited coverage so the internet connection will drop. Will the hotspot automatically reconnect to my reflector of ...

Why do you need the GUI frontend?


I don't, I was using that as an example to show that I'd actually done some work and tried to find out where the backup was called from and wondering whether it would be possible to invoke it that way somehow.

I'll use what you've posted as a basis for my ...

I don't need to restore from a backup very often but it's occurred to me that I don't take a backup of my Pi-Star hotspots often enough.

I see that the backup is triggered from within /var/www/dashboard/admin/config_backup.php but is there an easy way I can kick this off via cron with the output ...

Replying to myself.

I've renamed the reflector by editing the 'name' field in /etc/YSFReflector.ini and I waited until the system realised it had changed. This has resolved the problem as it appears to be limited to reflectors that have leading zeros in the IDs.

We have a new number and it's ...

W3PMK wrote: ↑Sat Dec 12, 2020 2:31 pm I changed my reflector number

How do you change the reflector number please?