4.1.0 Announcement - Selling Yourself Short?
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:41 pm
Hello,
First - congrats to the Pi-Star team on shipping version 4.1.0!!!
Second - I read the announcement on the forum and I think you're selling yourself short. You have a lot to be proud of!
The quote "So whats new - not much honestly, this process was focussed on fixing up the weird issues with WiFi on the Pi 4 mostly, and those seem to be behind us" is only true for those that are looking for what changed between 4.1.0 RC8 and the final release.
In reality, a lot has changed between 3.1.17 and 4.1.0! Why not take this as an opportunity to provide a high-level list of the new features and new versions of underlying services (MMDVMhost, DMRGateway, DStar Gateway, etc.). There's support for using OpenGD77 as an MMDVM for DMR, support D-Star Access Point mode via the Icom Repeater Controller ID-RP2C with DStar Gateway, many new MMDVM boards are officially supported, etc.
Sell it! You're in competition with SharkRF and the Openspot 3 is the shiny new object - until today with the release of Pi-Star 4.1.0. Market the heck out of it!
Congrats again to everyone that made this happen - including everyone that participated in the testing (whether you released it or not, you helped test 4.1.0 if you were running any version with "RC" in the version name).
73,
-JeffH
First - congrats to the Pi-Star team on shipping version 4.1.0!!!
Second - I read the announcement on the forum and I think you're selling yourself short. You have a lot to be proud of!
The quote "So whats new - not much honestly, this process was focussed on fixing up the weird issues with WiFi on the Pi 4 mostly, and those seem to be behind us" is only true for those that are looking for what changed between 4.1.0 RC8 and the final release.
In reality, a lot has changed between 3.1.17 and 4.1.0! Why not take this as an opportunity to provide a high-level list of the new features and new versions of underlying services (MMDVMhost, DMRGateway, DStar Gateway, etc.). There's support for using OpenGD77 as an MMDVM for DMR, support D-Star Access Point mode via the Icom Repeater Controller ID-RP2C with DStar Gateway, many new MMDVM boards are officially supported, etc.
Sell it! You're in competition with SharkRF and the Openspot 3 is the shiny new object - until today with the release of Pi-Star 4.1.0. Market the heck out of it!
Congrats again to everyone that made this happen - including everyone that participated in the testing (whether you released it or not, you helped test 4.1.0 if you were running any version with "RC" in the version name).
73,
-JeffH