Configuration Guides

Pi-Star & WPSD Custom Hosts

Digital Voice DMR is not yet listed in the Pi-Star hosts file; to be able to select it from the Pi-star menu you will need to add some custom local hosts.

Modifying Pi-Star & WPSD DMR_Hosts.txt file for the DVDU servers.

1) SSH into you Pi-Star 2) Make the filesystem read/write for Pi-Star. (This step not needed for WPSD)

rpi-rw

3) Edit the DMR_Hosts.txt file:

sudo nano /root/DMR_Hosts.txt

Scroll to the end the file and added the following server info between the two lines of hashes like below

##############################################################################################
#
#                               Custom DMR Hosts
#
##############################################################################################
# Name                          DMR-ID  IP/Hostname                     Password        Port #
##############################################################################################
FD_DVDU_DV-AU                   5053    dmr.dvau.au                     passw0rd        62031
FD_DVDU_DV-NZ                   5300    dmr.dvnz.nz                     passw0rd        62031
FD_DVDU_VKRadio-AU              5052    dmr.vkradio.com                 passw0rd        62031
##############################################################################################

Use ctrl-o to save and ctrl-x to exit.

4) Update the Pi Star hosts

sudo bash /usr/local/sbin/HostFilesUpdate.sh

Now you should be able to select one the DVDU servers from the drop down menu on the Configuration page for single host mode aka MMDVMHost.

TNX to Dale (VK5TUX) for the instructions for Pi-Star, and Dan (ZL4ER) for comfirming this Howto also works on WPSD.

Pi-Star / DMR Gateway

DMR Gateway allows you to run multiple simultanious DMR networks and have custom talkgroup rewriting rules.

If you are using DMR Gateway on your Pi-Star you can run multiple simultanious DMR networks. Log into the web gui of you Pi-Star in you web browser and go to [Configuration] => [Expert] => Full Edit: [DMR GW].

If you are running DMR Gateway outside of Pi-Star or with DMR Only Hotspot update your DMRGateway.ini configuration file with a block for Digital Voice DMR.

Please don’t just copy and paste what below, it just sample. Scroll down the file to the following and change what is mentioned to change.

[DMR Network 2]
Enabled=1
Address=dmr.dvnz.nz
Port=62031 # CHANGE TO THIS
TGRewrite0=2,1,2,1,999998
SrcRewrite0=2,1,2,1,999998
PCRewrite0=2,1,2,1,999998
Password="passw0rd"
Debug=0
Id=1234567 # CHANGE THIS TO YOUR DMRID
Name=DVNZ_DMR-NZ
Location=0
Options="TS2=90,91,92,530,5301,5302,5303,5304,5304,5305,50500;VOICE=0;LANG=en_GB;TIMER=15" # CHANGE OPTIONS TO YOUR NEEDS

press [Apply] and should be ready to go

Notes: The sample above has DVAU DMR routing all it’s traffic over TS2 with the way the Rewrite rules are configured on a duplex HS. Read more about rewrite rules.

TNX to Dale (VK5TUX) for the instructions for Pi-Star & DMR Gateway and VK2WAY for additional information around DMR Only Hotspot.