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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorDevan,
Sorry to hear about your friend Andrew. My thoughts and prayers to you and his family. What a great way to commemorate him and thanks for your interest in OpenRepeater. I will definitely guide you however I can. We are getting ready to release new images of version 1.1.0. I almost have things ready. Maybe I can finish that over the weekend while snowed in…provided the power and internet don’t go down. In additional to an easy digi, you will also need a basic circuit to interface the COS line to the GPIO. We have a basic schematic you and build upon on our getting started guide for hardware. Let me know if you have any questions in your quest.73,
Aaron (N3MBH)73,
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January 15, 2016 at 12:42 pm in reply to: Can you run in simplex, until you get another transceiver? #1569Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorGreetings and welcome to the forum. Unfortunately, you cannot run ORP as a simplex repeater. As a record and replay controller that is not an option. As a simplex node, the SVXLink core supports that but ORP project doesn’t have that implemented yet in the UI and code. That will be down the road we plan to add that. You are welcome to hack it if you’d like.
Hopefully we will drop builds of the device images soon. I a running a little behind with the holidays and a death in the family. 1.1.0 is pretty much done, we just have to build and test our images before making them live. You can certainly build your own as you stated. Instructions can be found in the readme here: https://github.com/OpenRepeater/scripts/tree/1.1.x/RasPi-B%2B-RasPi-2
Good luck and thanks for your interest and support.
73,
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorGreetings Steve,
There is no reason why the controller wouldn’t work with GMRS. It is just a matter of the radios used. However that being said you CANNOT do this under normal circumstances. FRS is illegal to have repeaters in the US. These are unlicensed low power frequencies (except for a few shared frequencies). GMRS is licensed channels as the type that you have. You can have repeaters on these channel however, I am not up on all the regulation. I do know that the Wouxon type radios are not FCC Type certified for GMRS so it is technically illegal to use those type radios. You would have to use radios intended for GMRS. There are also issues with using TX and RX radios within the same band without running through a duplexer.The rules are out the window in emergency situations so in a SHTF case, non-hams could use the ham bands. You’d be better off going that route and doing a one-way cross-band repeater and programing some dual band radios to work with it.
Hope that helps and Merry Christmas.
73,
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorNot a problem and drop us a line if you have any questions. Thanks.
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorHello Steve and welcome to the forums.
Initially a see two issues and have a couple notes. The script you are using is for our upcoming 1.1.0 release. Which at this time should work but we don’t have our Image files made and release on the site at the writing of this message. If you want to just stay tuned for a week or two we hope to have these release soon. Then you would be able to just download the IMG file and write it to your card.
The scripts are for more advanced users and for our team to build the IMG files for end users. You are welcome to try it if you’d like. Any issue with the scripts would also be best addressed in the scripts repo on GitHub via the issues tracking system.
I notice 2 things you appear to be doing incorrect:
- First the script needs to be run the root user and not as the default pi users
- Second it looks like you wget the wrong url for the script. One of your errors says ‘<!DOCTYPE html>’. You are not going to find this in our script. Looks like you just copied the github page where the script is located. so you got the website with all the wrapping code. You should copy the RAW url from the button on that page.
MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE FOLLOWING THE README FILE THAT IS IN THE SAME FOLDER ON GITHUB
Here are some other things you need to know.
- The install is only tested/supported on the Raspberry Pi 2 (multi core cpu), results with older RPI boards is unknown at this time.
- You must be running a version of Debian Jessie for the installer to work correctly. We reference a preferred base IMG of this in the Readme that is known to work.
- As stated, the ReadMe file must be followed step by step.
Hope this is of help and again if you’d like to wait, the 1.1.0 image should be available from the downloads page soon. 1.0.0 is the currently available image. But there are some nice improvements in this upcoming version. Just make sure you are on the mailing and follow our social accounts. We will send out notice that way.
73 and good luck,
Aaron – N3MBH73,
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorGreetings Allan,
Correct we do not currently have that feature built in; however, svxlink which we use for our logic core does support that. So with some modification, it should in theory be possible.Check out this documentation for svxlink and see if it is what you are referring to: http://svxlink.sourceforge.net/man/man1/remotetrx.1.html
We are getting ready to release our next build 1.1.0, but it won’t have this feature as a built in option just yet. We have discussed adding it and it will probably be eventually. We just have to do some tests and build a UI for the feature after we work on some more pressing things.
If you can, hang on for 1.1.0
73,
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorNot a problem. Glad to help. Stay tune, we hope to announce the next software release in the near future.
73,
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorJoe,
I am closing out old post and ran across this one. Stay tuned because the code we are working on already address most of your requests. It will be release in the near future as version 1.1.0.73,
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorYou can add your self to the waiting list using the form at the bottom of this blog article.
The main difference in this board vs the other one we are developing for OpenRepeater is that this one has some relay controls on it (the orange components and gray terminal blocks). These would allow for controlling other items at the repeater site via these relays. We would have to write the code for the relays, so at the moment they wouldn’t do anything with OpenRepeater software.
The main thing that is identical to the other board we are working on is the TX, RX, TRX link ports and the audio isolation. As mentioned before, the sound card is an external USB on this board (separate). Both boards also have an integrated voltage regulator to step the voltage down from say 13.8V to the 5 volts required to run the RPI2.
Juan is working on figuring out how and when these will be available. We will update folks via the hardware waiting list first and post a blog article and updates via social media. If for any reason demand is too high initially we will give those on the waiting list priority.
You can also build the basic interface with a EasyDigi which will handle your audio isolation and PTT control. You’d just need to supply a simple COS circuit to isolate the GPIO from the COS from the receiver. We have a general overview of that here.
Hope that helps.
73,
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorHello Justin,
Thanks for following the project. The small board with SMD components that we have previously show a concept of, they were having some issues with the audio chip. That has been delayed for a bit. Juan has finished his large board and testing looks good on that.
He just finished that up this week. It uses through hole components. It would require an external USB audio card. I will have to find out the details of how he plans to offer it, kit or fully assembled. More than likely a kit. And the availability. If you are not on the hardware waiting list, please be sure to add yourself as we plan to update folks there.We are working on the next release of the software which have some improvements. Stay tuned.
Aaron,
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