VPN option and custom billboard on dashboard.

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N7GWA
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VPN option and custom billboard on dashboard.

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Would love to se a simple way of setting up VPN configuration.

One other useful option would be to add a billboard on the pi-star dashboard. I use this as a hilltop multimode repeater, and the ability to add a message like "Please be sure to disconnect from reflector when youre done using it" would be gold.

Adding an option for a custom message when the Dstar "information" command is sent would be very nice too.

One other option: The ability to keep people from accessing talk groups and reflectors unless they're added to a list. This way i can have them read and accept the repeater etiquette page before i add their callsign into the system.

I'd literally pay for these options!
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Re: VPN option and custom billboard on dashboard.

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Ist point. The dashboard was never intended to be the landing page of a website. Theres actually features written in that you can use to embed parts of the dashboard into a seperate webpage.
Also...
If its an issue your users not dropping a reflector when they're done, as owner / sysop you have the ability to make it so the setup drops a reflector after a predefined time after the last seen local keyup.

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N7GWA
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Re: VPN option and custom billboard on dashboard.

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M1DNS wrote: Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:38 am Ist point. The dashboard was never intended to be the landing page of a website. Theres actually features written in that you can use to embed parts of the dashboard into a seperate webpage.
Also...
If its an issue your users not dropping a reflector when they're done, as owner / sysop you have the ability to make it so the setup drops a reflector after a predefined time after the last seen local keyup.

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i realize this was never "intended to be", but being as this is a "feature request" forum, i figured id make a suggestion.

It's currently setup to drop DMR talkgroups after 10 minutes. I have searched many forums, and am yet to find anything that'll drop Dstar connections after a set time without having to program a default reflector to connect to. The alternative way results in the system giving a "connecting to:"... followed by a "not linked" message constantly every 10 minutes.

If you know of an alternative way of handling this, by all means, educate me.

If not, lets consider this another feature request.
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Re: VPN option and custom billboard on dashboard.

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N7GWA wrote:.

lets consider this another feature request.
Yeah, total missed the fact you were posting in feature request section.

As to unlinking a reflector connection, I've posted that quite a few times here in the forum, a search should find it. To save me writing it all out agn Image

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Re: VPN option and custom billboard on dashboard.

Post by N6MIK »

Theres actually features written in that you can use to embed parts of the dashboard into a seperate webpage.
I am trying to do this currently - can you share details on this? Thank you!
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Re: VPN option and custom billboard on dashboard.

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I’d like more information on this as well
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