Changes to autoupdate Russian callsigns by pi-star

[RC3C]

LIFE-HACK:

As everyone knows, Pi-star automatically updates the Callsign database by downloading whole list from the British server (http://www.pistar.uk/downloads/DMRIds.dat). But this database often lacks many Russian callsigns. All the more new.

By address http://registry.dstar.su/dmr/DMRIds2.php there is a more adequate database of Russian callsigns, which are updated for Russia and Europe in real time, and for the States once a day.

Changing the auto-update of the PI-star Callsign database from the British site to the base with dstar.su
In the Pi-star file /usr/local/sbin/HostFilesUpdate.sh change the following line:

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curl --fail -o ${DMRIDFILE} -s http://www.pistar.uk/downloads/DMRIds.dat

to

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wget -O ${DMRIDFILE} http://registry.dstar.su/dmr/DMRIds2.php

in fact, in file /usr/local/sbin/HostFilesUpdate.sh I have these change like this:


In the file name DMRIds2.php it is important to specify the correct case of all letters. The letter "I" is in uppercase. If you write "i" by mistake, the link will not work.

By default, auto-updates are occured after 3:25 of Your local time. If you disable your hotspot for the night, and therefore you do not receive an updated Callsign database, you can change the time when the database is updated:

To change the update time, change the line in the /etc/crontab file-

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25 3 * * * root mount-o remount, rw / & & cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron. daily

25 is minutes. 3 is the clock = 3:25 am your local time

If you want to receive callsign updates, for example, at 17:30 (5:30pm), the line should look like this:

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30 17 * * * root mount -o remount,rw / && cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

When you update the Pi-star version (from 3 to 4), you will have to do everything described above again.

This life hack invented, implemented and tested by UN7ZB, UA6LQP, UA0LMC and R2ARZ and me, of course.

P.S. Copy russian Instruction is here https://www.dstar.su/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=1218

[f1rmb]

Hi,

A better way is to merge both sources:

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## Get DMRIds from two different sources, then merge them
curl --fail -o /tmp/DMRIds_1.dat -s http://www.pistar.uk/downloads/DMRIds.dat
curl --fail -o /tmp/DMRIds_2.dat -s http://registry.dstar.su/dmr/DMRIds2.php
cat /tmp/DMRIds_1.dat /tmp/DMRIds_2.dat | grep -v ^# | awk '$1 > 9999 { print $0 }' | sort -un -k1n -o ${DMRIDFILE}
rm -f /tmp/DMRIds_1.dat /tmp/DMRIds_2.dat

Cheers.
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Daniel

[RC3C]

Hi,

A better way is to merge both sources:

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## Get DMRIds from two different sources, then merge them
curl --fail -o /tmp/DMRIds_1.dat -s http://www.pistar.uk/downloads/DMRIds.dat
curl --fail -o /tmp/DMRIds_2.dat -s http://registry.dstar.su/dmr/DMRIds2.php
cat /tmp/DMRIds_1.dat /tmp/DMRIds_2.dat | grep -v ^# | awk '$1 > 9999 { print $0 }' | sort -un -k1n -o ${DMRIDFILE}
rm -f /tmp/DMRIds_1.dat /tmp/DMRIds_2.dat

Cheers.
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Daniel

Thank you for other method to get automatically updated complete callsign database on pi-star.

IMO it is not needed to merge both files. I just using what I described above and it is enough to have cause of this

...database of Russian callsigns, which are updated for Russia and Europe in real time, and for the States once a day.

[f1rmb]

IMO it is not needed to merge both files. I just using what I described in 1st posted message cause of this

...database of Russian callsigns, which are updated for Russia and Europe in real time, and for the States once a day.

The one day delay is the key point here

Merging both get rid of this, and maintains a complete list.
Also, some entries are extraneous is the list from registry.dstar.su, so filtering them out is way better.

But it's just my 2cents.

73
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Daniel

[RC3C]

IMO it is not needed to merge both files. I just using what I described in 1st posted message cause of this

...database of Russian callsigns, which are updated for Russia and Europe in real time, and for the States once a day.

The one day delay is the key point here

Merging both get rid of this, and maintains a complete list.
Also, some entries are extraneous is the list from registry.dstar.su, so filtering them out is way better.

But it's just my 2cents.

73
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Daniel

Merci, Daniel.
I got your 2 cents of this
Appreciated.

[RC3C]

Daniel,

...filtering them out is way better

Is that your filtering works good on your side?
Have you check it?
I'd like to try this here

[f1rmb]

Hi Anton,

Daniel,

...filtering them out is way better

Is that your filtering works good on your side?
Have you check it?
I'd like to try this here

Yes, it works, it's running on many systems for few days now, without a problem.
The list from www.pistar.uk is 179967 entries right now, the merged list is 182693.

Cheers.
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Daniel

[RC3C]

Hi Anton,

Daniel,

...filtering them out is way better

Is that your filtering works good on your side?
Have you check it?
I'd like to try this here

Yes, it works, it's running on many systems for few days now, without a problem.
The list from www.pistar.uk is 179967 entries right now, the merged list is 182693.

Cheers.
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Daniel

Cool. TNX for confirmation.