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I'm trying to get set up with a N5BOC MMDVM duplex hotspot. At the moment, I'm only interested in getting DMR access. I have updated to the latest pi-star and have installed a new API key. My internet is connected without any issues.

A couple of possibly related questions:

In my configuration, am I "Simplex Node" or "Duplex Repeater" ?
If I have never transmitted with an HT, should I, none the less, be able to see gateway activity?
Should I be able to set a talk group? Whenever I try to assign a static talk group I get "BrandMeister APIv2: No Response" and I am not seeing any gateway activity.

I'm sure I have some fundamental misunderstandings and have left out some needed information. Please don't hesitate to correct me and/or ask for more information.

Thanks in advance.

73,
Bob WK2Y

I see now, I should have looked at the N5BOC instructions for setting up the board. I will update this post after looking at that.
Bob

Still no luck. Checked all. Noticed that the DMR Net block is yellow.
Bob

The yellow DMR Net block suggests to me that your hotspot can see whichever BM server you have specified, but is not able to complete the connection/authentication process.

Things to check:

i) Have you correctly entered your callsign, hotspot type, etc into BM self-care page.

ii) Have you set a password in BM self-care and set the same password in your hotspot BM configuration - this password is not the same as your BM API one-time code that BM generates for you.

You won't see any Net activity from BM until you have either set one or more static TGs on BM or manually dialled a TG and it connects as a dynamic TG - but first of all you need to resolve any outstanding config issues and get the DMR icon to turn green.

Cheers,

Mike.

The root cause is the incorrect date/time on the system while SSL certificates do have start/end date thus preventing the connection.