M6KFR wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2019 4:31 pm
As advised I have removed completely the existing code plug, set up a private call for 9990 keyed it up, although it shows up, I got no reply.
Where TG1 comes from I don’t know as I’ve never entered it to any code plug I’ve tried to use.
I have noticed the DMR drops out on my admin page, I’m on WiFi and not “hard wired” in, if I reboot it comes back in ? Is this anything to do with my selection of “radio type”? As you know Chinese hats all come with the usual lack of instructions.
"Radio type" should have nothing to do with WiFi behavior -- it identifies the board handling the amateur band transmissions (and is the concern of MMDVM part of the software). WiFi is handled by the R-Pi running the Pi-Star software.
"DMR drops out" is vague... Do you mean "DMR Net" changes from green to red under "Network Status"? Or "DMR" under "Modes Enabled" is going red? Or "Trx" under "Radio Info" is going to just plain "Listening" instead of "Listening DMR"?
Note: if your hotspot is using WiFi for connections, a lost WiFi connection would also mean you would lose access to the dashboard. If "DMR Net" goes red, but you still have dashboard access, your problem is likely somewhere in your WiFi ROUTER or external path to the server dropping or blocking internet packets. Firewall settings on the router perhaps... I presume you aren't using some "public WiFi" node (anything goes with those -- traffic limiting, need to log-in to a web page to activate outgoing traffic connection, etc.)
An MD-380 shouldn't be that difficult to set up (and should be similar to my MD-390). I have some 20+ channels defined for my hotspot. All channels are identical except for the field "Channel Name" and "Contact Name".
- TOT 180
- Power Low
- Admit Criteria Color Code
- Color Code 1
- Time Slot 2
- Privacy None
- In Call Criteria Always
{Of course, the hotspot is set to the same color code, and frequency is the same for all}
Channel name, obviously, is whatever serves to identify the channel.
Contact name is drawn from the list defined in "Digital Contacts" -- Primarily they are all "Group Call" with (first) the Mi5 (Michigan DMR repeater group) talk groups, followed by a collection of Brandmeister talk groups for use with the hotspot (Mi5 repeaters do not link out to Brandmeister, but Brandmeister does have a pair of talk groups that route to Mi5's Statewide 1 and 2). I also define an RX Group list which has all these hotspot/BrandMeister contacts -- each channel then is configured to that group list. This allows inbound traffic on any of the configured BM talkgroups (if static, or not a timed out dynamic) to be heard, with the group identified. To talk on that group does require one to dial up the proper channel.
Your very first post states that the radio used to work with the hotspot -- then after a gap of non-use, stopped functioning. If you hadn't made changes to the radio configuration, that means something in either the hotspot, the router, or downstream changed.