Jumbospot w/ SVC, D*, and DMR led's blinking

MMDVM_HS Hat hardware
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Jumbospot w/ SVC, D*, and DMR led's blinking

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Have single-band jumbospot connected to a RPi Zero W. The device boots and both the modem and the display function. I have updated both the modem firmware and the pi-star to the current version.

I've been connecting to REF001C, for testing. Whenever someone is transmitting from REF001C, the LED's for PTT and D* are solidly illuminated. However, once a user stops transmitting on the reflector, all three led's begin to blink.

Of note: I tried a "sudo pistar-mmdvmhshatreset" with the Modem setting set to: STM32-DVM / MMDVM_HS - Raspberry Pi Hat (GPIO). This process fails with the message "Compatible modem not configured." When set to MMDVM_HS_Hat (DB9MAT & DF2ET) for Pi (GPIO), the process succeeds with the message "Modem reset complete." I don't know if that is helpful, from a diagnostic standpoint.

What would cause these three led's to blink? Is this a STM issue or something in the MMDVM code? What's it trying to tell me?

Is there any documentation for LED blink conditions etc?

Thanks,

Marc Verdi W6MGV
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Re: Jumbospot w/ SVC, D*, and DMR led's blinking

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For what it's worth :)

pi-star@pi-star(ro):~$ sudo pistar-findmodem
Detected MMDVM_HS (GPIO): /dev/ttyAMA0 (MMDVM_HS_Hat-v1.5.2 20201108 14.7456MHz ADF7021 FW by CA6JAU GitID #89daa20FF37066F3833544157115030)
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Re: Jumbospot w/ SVC, D*, and DMR led's blinking

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And some more interesting data. I turned up logging (Gee I wish someone would document the logging levels in their remarks in the code :D). Here's what a "tail -f /var/log/pi-star/MMDVM-[TODAY's DATE].log shows:

M: 2021-02-18 01:01:53.622 D-Star, received network end of transmission from KE4IQR / to CQCQCQ , 19.7 seconds, 0% packet loss, BER: 0.0%
M: 2021-02-18 01:01:58.209 D-Star, received network header from VA3PDW /74A to CQCQCQ via REF001 C
E: 2021-02-18 01:02:01.795 DMR, Login to the master has failed, retrying network ...
M: 2021-02-18 01:02:01.796 DMR, Closing DMR Network
M: 2021-02-18 01:02:01.796 DMR, Opening DMR Network
E: 2021-02-18 01:02:11.871 DMR, Login to the master has failed, retrying network ...
M: 2021-02-18 01:02:11.871 DMR, Closing DMR Network
M: 2021-02-18 01:02:11.872 DMR, Opening DMR Network

Clearly I must be (at least) making a noob mistake w/ regard to my DMR config (below)?

[General]
RptAddress=127.0.0.1
RptPort=62032
LocalAddress=127.0.0.1
LocalPort=62031
RuleTrace=0
Daemon=1
Debug=1
RFTimeout=20
NetTimeout=20

[Log]
DisplayLevel=1
FileLevel=1
FilePath=/var/log/pi-star
FileRoot=DMRGateway

[Voice]
Enabled=1
Language=en_US
Directory=/usr/local/etc/DMR_Audio

[Info]
Enabled=1
RXFrequency=438500000
TXFrequency=438500000
Power=1
Latitude=42.357460
Longitude=-73.81148
Height=0
Location=Coxsackie, NY
Description=USA
URL=https://www.qrz.com/db/W6MGV

[XLX Network]
Startup=950
Enabled=0
File=/usr/local/etc/XLXHosts.txt
Port=62030
Password=passw0rd
ReloadTime=60
Slot=2
TG=6
Base=64000
Relink=60
Debug=0
Id=3152573
UserControl=1

[DMR Network 1]
Enabled=0
Address=137.226.79.121
Port=62031
TGRewrite0=2,9,2,9,1
PCRewrite0=2,94000,2,4000,1001
TypeRewrite0=2,9990,2,9990
SrcRewrite0=2,4000,2,9,1001
PassAllPC0=1
PassAllTG0=1
PassAllPC1=2
PassAllTG1=2
Password="cegf76q9rs"
Debug=0
Id=315257301
Name=BM_Europe_2001

[DMR Network 2]
Enabled=0
Address=44.48.48.20
Port=55555
TGRewrite0=2,8,2,9,1
PCRewrite0=2,84000,2,4000,1001
Password="PASSWORD"
Debug=0
Id=315257301
Name=DMR+_IPSC2-Indiana-HAMNET

[DMR Network 3]
Enabled=0
Name=HBLink
Address=1.2.3.4
Port=5555
TGRewrite=2,11,2,11,1
Password=PASSWORD
Location=0
Debug=0
TGRewrite0=2,11,2,11,1
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Re: Jumbospot w/ SVC, D*, and DMR led's blinking

Post by KG6RUT »

Well, none of the Networks are enabled...
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Re: Jumbospot w/ SVC, D*, and DMR led's blinking

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Disabling the DMR feature has stopped the alternating D* / SVC leds. Apparently it's something about my config. If someone is willing to help debug my config, it's worth a couple of pints ;)
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Re: Jumbospot w/ SVC, D*, and DMR led's blinking

Post by KG6RUT »

Again, none of the networks are enabled, usually one is set to a 1....
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Re: Jumbospot w/ SVC, D*, and DMR led's blinking

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Thanks, ke7fns. I will give those a try.
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Still stuck, DMR mode enabled, cannot login to DM server

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Still getting log entries for "attempt / failure" to login to the DM central server. This is accompanied by the alternating blink of D* and DMR LED's.

Anyone have any thoughts?
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Re: Jumbospot w/ SVC, D*, and DMR led's blinking

Post by w6mgv »

Can't tell what happened. BM was having authentication issue (their service, not me). Could have also been a password mismatch on my part.

I switched to BM US server 002 and changed my BM password. Also, turned on "Hotspot Security" via the BM self care interface and set the password. Then updated my password in the pi-star interface.

My hotspot has successfully logged-into the BM network:

E: 2021-02-18 19:57:00.205 DMR, Login to the master has failed, retrying network ...
M: 2021-02-18 19:57:00.205 DMR, Closing DMR Network
M: 2021-02-18 19:57:00.205 DMR, Opening DMR Network
M: 2021-02-18 19:57:10.406 DMR, Logged into the master successfully
M: 2021-02-18 19:58:26.541 D-Star, received network header from G0SMJ /MICK to CQCQCQ via REF001 C
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Correction

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I switched to BM US 3102
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