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Surely they can be renamed from the original “pi-star” on your router as they will have unique MAC addresses. My Icom radios appear as IC-9700 and IC-7610, thanks to their MAC addresses.

73 Dave

I don't know about prior to first booting Pi_star, this method of removing the requirement for a password works for one that is up and running. It may give you a clue as to where to look. The method was posted on this forum by someone else some time ago. I don't use a password for the admin screen ...

Thanks for the links Brian. I am not sure the issue I have is quite the same as those. In a nutshell this is what happens:

On power up I get the usual announcement of "connecting to..." and if I look on the Reflector web dashboard it shows me as a remote user (http://ref079.dstargateway.org/). A ...

Both my Raspberry Pi/MMDVM boards almost always fail to connect to a D-Star reflector when initially powered up.

It has been this way on previous versions as well as the current one (4.2.3).

Running an update results in a connection straightaway.

Is there a setting I am missing?

73 Dave

Two days ago I updated both my Pi-Stars, one uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W and the other a Pi 3B. Both now run 4.2.3 with a Chinese (eBay) MMDVM board complete with OLED displays.

No problems with D-Star, the 3B one has been on REF079 for over 24 hours.

Not sure about benefits, but it is very easy to do. Upgraded one of mine this morning. Just remember to make a backup using the backup/restore feature on the Pi-Star dashboard. I put the backup into the root of the SD card and it read the settings.

If you have more than one WiFi that you use, it ...

Having carefully checked what is happening, the following seems to be the case with mine:

If the Raspberry Pi is left running 24/7, it always connects to a reflector. However, the automatic update each morning sometimes results in a delay of up to an hour before the Pi is reconnected to a reflector ...

I have the same issue on a DVAP (Pi 3B) and an MMDVM board on another Pi 3B. One is used via a phone hotspot and the other is wired to a router. I have a third using a Pi Zero W in a slim aluminium case, but that restricts the WiFi performance and is rarely used.

My “workaround” is to leave the ...

Update... A little midnight oil later, did a backup. Formatted the card and re-installed a fresh image, restored from backup.

Problem solved and the backup even restored my colour scheme. Quite painless and quick.

73 Dave

The fetch-head problem might need a little more doing to fix...

From the CLI type

cd /usr/local/bin
sudo git stash
sudo git pull

Sent via smoke signals from my SM-G935F M1DNS (Admin)

Tried that, unfortunately without success.
It still returns the following afterwards when I run "update ...