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I would like to request that a scheduling function be added for YSF Link Manager. This would automatically switch YSF Reflectors at a preset time, and revert back to a default reflector once the scheduled time has expired.

Example: My Default YSF Reflector is YSF-40557 Ohio Link, but there is a net that I like to listen to on Reflector YSF-35010 US Reddit. This net is on Monday's at 9PM EST and last approximately an hour. The scheduler would allow the user to select their Default Reflector, and then add additional reflectors with a Day or Days Of The Week, a Start Time and Ending Time. When the day and time arrive Pi-Star would switch to that reflector. When the time expires the scheduler would switch back to the Default Reflector.

This would be very similar to the Brandmeister Scheduled static function. I'm sure users of other modes (P25, D-Star, DMR, NXDN) would find this function useful as well.

Thank you!
Del N8OFP

As I recall, the Brandmeister scheduled static are handled by the Brandmeister server(s), not by Pi-Star software.

However, if the Pi-Star software supports a command line for changing settings, one could set up a CRON job (make a backup, as Pi-Star updates might reset crontabs) to do the switch-over. The only such I found documented online is for D-STAR reflectors -- however... seems to reveal commands for p25, nxdn, and ysf also

AF6VN wrote:
if the Pi-Star software supports a command line for changing settings, one could set up a CRON job (make a backup, as Pi-Star updates might reset crontabs) to do the switch-over. The only such I found documented online is for D-STAR reflectors -- however...

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pi-star@pi-star-3b(ro):~$ ls /usr/local/sbin/pistar*link*
/usr/local/sbin/pistar-link      /usr/local/sbin/pistar-p25link
/usr/local/sbin/pistar-nxdnlink  /usr/local/sbin/pistar-ysflink
pi-star@pi-star-3b(ro):~$

seems to reveal commands for p25, nxdn, and ysf also

Yep, that's one of the advantages of the link managers, you could use cron hourly, daily or weekly setups.

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Thank you, but for those of us who are not a programmers or don't know Linux, it would be nice to have a way say on the Admin page where the user could select a default reflector, and add scheduled reflectors, days, start time, and end time.
Thanks again,