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show more rows in Dashboard Gateway Activity window

Post by KV0J »

It would be useful to show perhaps as many as 100 rows of data versus 20, even if it would scroll off of the screen.

Thanks.
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Re: show more rows in Dashboard Gateway Activity window

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If we did that users of lower end hardware would see their system run to a standstill.
The most heavily processed task within pistar is displaying the dashboard. There is a reason why its set the way it is so pistar works over all Rasp. Pi foundation hardware. If we do as you ask we'd see thousands of pi zero driven devices (jumbo spots) literally die overnight.

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I get around that limitation in two ways
1) monitor the MMDVMHost file with
tail -f -n100 /var/log/MMDVMHost-2022*

2) I wrote a short script that will record the following until stopped (days if you wish)
My DMRGateway translates 14031665 to 31665, and I run the script in an ssh terminal and it has very little impact on the processor
2022-08-23 14:59:26 N-DMR K4WZV Robert, Springhill, Florida, USA Dur:24.2 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 14:59:29 R-DMR VE3RD Phil, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Dur:0.1 Secs PL:BER: TG:14031665
2022-08-23 14:59:34 N-DMR N4RJJ Robert, Youngstown, Florida, USA Dur:0.1 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:00:11 N-DMR K4WZV Robert, Springhill, Florida, USA Dur:26.8 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:00:16 R-DMR VE3RD Phil, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Dur: Secs PL: TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:00:35 N-DMR K4WZV Robert, Springhill, Florida, USA Dur:3.0 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:01:35 N-DMR KO4JHG Jonathan, THOMASVILLE, NC, USA Dur:0.5 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:05:51 N-DMR KB4SGA John, Alapaha, Georgia, USA Dur:7.0 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:06:01 N-DMR K0NOC David, Maple Grove, Minnesota, USA Dur:0.5 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:09:48 R-DMR W2RFA Bob, North Massapequa, New York, USA Dur:0.1 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:12:56 N-DMR N4RJJ Robert, Youngstown, Florida, USA Dur:0.1 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:15:08 N-DMR W4FH Douglas M, Plano, Texas, USA Dur:1.2 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:22:27 N-DMR EA7KDO Mitch, Motril, Granada, Spain Dur:0.8 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:27:38 R-P25 VE3RD Phil, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Dur: Secs PL: TG:10230
2022-08-23 15:34:24 N-DMR VE3GTX John, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada Dur:0.5 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:36:07 N-DMR EA7KDO Mitch, Motril, Granada, Spain Dur:0.5 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:37:27 N-DMR EA7KDO Mitch, Motril, Granada, Spain Dur:0.8 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:47:13 R-DMR W2RFA Bob, North Massapequa, New York, USA Dur:0.1 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 15:54:12 N-DMR W4KCY Fred, Lakeland, Florida, USA Dur:0.5 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 16:01:25 N-DMR KB4SGA John, Alapaha, Georgia, USA Dur:6.6 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 16:02:25 N-DMR KD0CIV Dolores I, St Louis, Missouri, USA Dur:19.2 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 16:02:55 N-DMR KB4SGA John, Alapaha, Georgia, USA Dur:24.6 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
2022-08-23 16:04:17 N-DMR KD0CIV Dolores I, St Louis, Missouri, USA Dur:74.6 Secs PL:0% TG:14031665
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Re: show more rows in Dashboard Gateway Activity window

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M1DNS wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 7:34 am If we did that users of lower end hardware would see their system run to a standstill.
The most heavily processed task within pistar is displaying the dashboard. There is a reason why its set the way it is so pistar works over all Rasp. Pi foundation hardware. If we do as you ask we'd see thousands of pi zero driven devices (jumbo spots) literally die overnight.
There are thousands upon thousands Pi-Star users who are being held hostage to just a few hundred of these low-end Pi's?!

If such users are of so much a concern, why can't code be developed to limit them to the default 20 rows while allowing the better equipped users the freedom to adjust the count as they continually request?

Or better yet, make improvements to the performance of the dashboard overall whereby changing the row limit does not impact the low-end as claimed, so that everyone can employ/enjoy the feature?

I'm sure there are more then a few developers here willing to code AND support such efforts, if only there were a will to let them do so.
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Re: show more rows in Dashboard Gateway Activity window

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Held hostage??

I'st off hotspots that make use of pi zero hardware outway all others 4:1 so its not a few hundred, its multiple of 1000s.

2nd. No one if forced to run pistar on their hotspot. Everything is available online to do similar if anyone chooses.
Mmdvm is an open project as are many of the dashboards given by others and available for you to run with ur install of MMDVMhost. (There's even one available that you can run with pistar, but its creator doesnt offer support on it and expects you to know how to make that work) So you do have these things already if you learn how. So anyone is free to run those if what we currently make available doesn't fit ur needs.

But giving now you're bitching (what is it about hams who moan about free stuff Or bemoan others efforts when they themselves can often do no better and mosttimes even less?) I'll turn your reply back to you...

Feel free to write the code to do what you want above and we'll happily include it.
I learned to code, no one taught me. What i know, (and its still very limited, in what others can do) I persevered as i do with most things im interestes in, i gleened info in books, magazines, online and gathered what i wanted, i sat in front of pc's, ham gear etc. to see how they work, how they interact. Everything associated to me with computing and ham radio digital voice is self learned and YOU can do the same.

So i look forward to what you acheive and hopefully you wont keep the "hundreds of pistar hostages" waiting to long.

Finally. With Regards to allowing others in...
Youve also obviously missed prior posts where we asked others to stepup and join us in developing Pistar to help keep things moving forward, (it seems very few people read pinned or promoted posts) but now ur aware we do, im really looking forward to you joining in with the code you write.


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Very Good Andrew.... I agree one hundred per cent, with what you said.

I have often seen features or issues that I did not like, so took up the keyboard and made my own feature. The most recent example is the last heard sample I posted earlier. I wanted more detail, so I created my own. It is not pretty but it gives me what I want.

Several years ago, I got frustrated with the DMRGateway, so I took the source code and created my own version I called DMRGateway-4, which many on the TGIF Network and others have implemented.

I posted a feature request to have the SRC column in the pi-star dashboard indicate the network that is active in the DMRGateway. I have already started to code it for my version of the lastheard list.

Bottom Line... If you don't like something DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

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Re: show more rows in Dashboard Gateway Activity window

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M1DNS wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 6:48 am
Youve also obviously missed prior posts where we asked others to stepup and join us in developing Pistar to help keep things moving forward
Andrew, do you guys have a list of sub-projects that could be worked on? I don't really know if I have the skillset to do what Pi-Star needs, some idea of what is needed would help people decide on whether they can provide assistance within their technical ability.

Maybe this could be added to a/the Wiki.
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Re: show more rows in Dashboard Gateway Activity window

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G8SEZ wrote:
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Andrew, do you guys have a list of sub-projects that could be worked on? I don't really know if I have the skillset to do what Pi-Star needs, some idea of what is needed would help people decide on whether they can provide assistance within their technical ability.

Best thing to do at this point is to ping Andy an email. Whilst we talk regularly he has a better idea of where hes wanting the project to go and what specific help is needed to get us there.

His contact details are listed on many of the pistar website pages.

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Re: show more rows in Dashboard Gateway Activity window

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In an earlier post I mentioned that I wanted the DMRGateway Number to show in the dashboard Src column.
Not waiting for that to happen , I coded my own version

2022-08-26 16:01:43 R-DMR VE3RD Phil, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Dur:0.4 Secs BER:0.5%, PL:N/A TG:31665 GWNet:5
2022-08-26 16:17:03 R-DMR VE3RD Phil, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Dur:1.4 Secs BER:0.1%, PL:N/A TG:31665 GWNet:4
2022-08-26 16:17:34 N-DMR VE3RD Phil, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Dur:1.9 Secs BER:N/A PL:0% TG:31665 GWNet:4

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