Needed: SMS how-to guide...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 7:30 pm
Folks,
There are plenty of previous posts on the subject of SMS functionality including several by me - but I still cannot get anything reliable.
My radio is a Retevis RT82 (also have a Retevis RT84 which displays identical symptoms). I have a RPi based MMDVM hot-spot. I connect to the "BM 2721 Ireland" Master.
When out and about I can often (but not 100% reliably) send an SMS message to 262993 with the contents "echo" and receive an affirmative reply. Similarly the weather reports can be obtained.
Though my pi-star hot-spot I cannot get any response from 262993 to an "echo" message let alone anything else.
On one or two occasions in the past I have been able to send SMS messages to other amateurs directly but this has only been via a repeater - nothing seems to get past the pi-star hot-spot.
I can also not get GPS reporting to work (actually with pi-star or direct via a repeater).
So clearly there is a setup issue with either my radio(s) or with the pi-star or both.
What I need is some sort of simple how-to guide to set this up. I cannot for the life of me fathom how to do it. There doesn't seem to be anything in the radio CMS to switch SMS on or off or to any different mode. In Brandeister Dashboard I have the radios both set as "chinese radio" which I understand to be correct.
Any help gratefully received.
Ian
PS - my tests have failed both using my UK callsign (G8OGJ) and my Irish call (EI6IGB).
There are plenty of previous posts on the subject of SMS functionality including several by me - but I still cannot get anything reliable.
My radio is a Retevis RT82 (also have a Retevis RT84 which displays identical symptoms). I have a RPi based MMDVM hot-spot. I connect to the "BM 2721 Ireland" Master.
When out and about I can often (but not 100% reliably) send an SMS message to 262993 with the contents "echo" and receive an affirmative reply. Similarly the weather reports can be obtained.
Though my pi-star hot-spot I cannot get any response from 262993 to an "echo" message let alone anything else.
On one or two occasions in the past I have been able to send SMS messages to other amateurs directly but this has only been via a repeater - nothing seems to get past the pi-star hot-spot.
I can also not get GPS reporting to work (actually with pi-star or direct via a repeater).
So clearly there is a setup issue with either my radio(s) or with the pi-star or both.
What I need is some sort of simple how-to guide to set this up. I cannot for the life of me fathom how to do it. There doesn't seem to be anything in the radio CMS to switch SMS on or off or to any different mode. In Brandeister Dashboard I have the radios both set as "chinese radio" which I understand to be correct.
Any help gratefully received.
Ian
PS - my tests have failed both using my UK callsign (G8OGJ) and my Irish call (EI6IGB).