STM32DV446 MODEM & mmdvmhost communication problem

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STM32DV446 MODEM & mmdvmhost communication problem

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I have a mmdvmhost communications problem. Upgraded my ZUMRadio v 0.9 STM32DV446 (HAT) board compiled on the RPI 3+ without error and uploaded to the processor without error. The date of the previous firmware was 2017 because this was a spare board for the dozen or so repeaters I had built and needed to update it. The firmware needed to be updated.
I don't know if there is a problem with the switches in Config.h file that was used to compile the upload or the mmdvmhost running in Pi-Star. The serial speed of the latest firmware appears to be 406800 verses the standard Pi-Star speed of 115200. There may be other issues as well but the mmdvm/pi-star log indicates that mmdvmhost cannot communicate with the modem. Have tried the UART serial speed of 115200 & 406800 in mmvdvm(.ini) either seem to work.
I have done these upgrades a number of times over the years but never had this problem. Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so how did you fix it.
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Re: STM32DV446 MODEM & mmdvmhost communication problem

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Yep, known issue.
Pistar runs older vers of mmdvmhost that run at the lower speed.

There were several posts here and on the fb group regards updating firmware on rptr boards.

AFAIU. We havnt moved the revision of mmdvmhost up in pistar as many active remote rptrs will fail moments after they pull in the overnight updates if we doso.

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Re: STM32DV446 MODEM & mmdvmhost communication problem

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Hi Andrew,
I kinda figured that might be the issue. I believe I read that you needed to have the faster data rate for FM and that 115200 would not work. So... I guess I must recompile at 115200 verses the 406800 required for FM. Bummah

Is there a migration plan to update mmdvmhost to the latest? I get the auto update issue would break all running versions of Pi-Star in one fell swoop...

I would like to run dual mode FM & DMR... If I want to do that I will need to run the CLI version which I have on a couple repeaters that I only have ssh access to using autossh behind firewalls.

Thank you!
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Re: STM32DV446 MODEM & mmdvmhost communication problem

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There was talk of moving the vers. of mmdvmhost up in pistar, but then Jon made us aware of the baud rate changes, which has held us where we are currently.
Pistar has always remained a revision or so below current as we know they were well tested and proven, but this new change needs time to allow for reason mentioned above.

If you need the latest vers of mmdvmhost, a vanilla install will be your current option.

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Re: STM32DV446 MODEM & mmdvmhost communication problem

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Sorry for my late post, but I've been digging into which version of the firmware is the last one that can run on pi-star. i found that the latest one was build #6d3d903 but i am using the version before build #34cbff4, you can check out the different versions as follows.

Download the sources:

sudo rm -r /home/pi-star/stm32flash/MMDVM
git clone https://github.com/g4klx/MMDVM
cd MMDVM
git checkout 6d3d903f84cb567d305a934520196a7047675187 # 5-May-2021
git checkout 34cbff41c98672e7f795bd719d212bf15e3a1814 # 2-May-2021 used
git checkout 061e10e3958d224fe4703e2c86de4ac422d568d8 # 11-Nov-2020
git submodule init
git submodule update



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