Unfortunately for me Cor didn’t want to part with one of his hotspots, but luckily I had already bought my own DV4mini. With a tiny 3.5 inch TFT screen you can make a very portable hotspot. The computer can be your laptop, PC, but also one of those mini computers, like the Raspberry Pi. For the DV4mini to work you need to hook it up to a computer, install the software, configure it and off you go. Yes, setups, because Cor is a man with a lot of radio equipment, especially in his trusty Volvo. Still in Holland Cor (PD0GHF) was again very helpful and invited me into his shack for me to check out his DV4mini setups.

Ham radio purists will undoubtedly cringe at the thought of RF being routed via the internet, but this is 2016 and everything is connected to the internet, so let’s get over it. Basically it is a router for your DMR transceiver. The DV4mini is a tiny USB stick that can turn any PC into a hotspot for all the amateur digital modes: C4FM, D-Star and of course DMR. Luckily there are little devices called “hotspots” and one of the most popular one right now is the DV4mini, designed by DG8FAC (Stefan Reimann), DG1HT (Torsten Schultze) and DJ0ABR (Kurt Moraw). There is no DMR activity here (yet) and up till recently I was the first and only ham in Taiwan with a DMR ID (4661001). But back in Taiwan my brand new Tytera MD-390 would be totally useless. /etc/asterisk/manager.Playing around with DMR in Holland was fun.run radio-tune-menu (for nf) or simpleusb-tune-menu (for nf).

/etc/asterisk/iax.conf – change node registration from 1999.

User pi password (for DV4Mini) is raspberry.Įdit the following files for Allstarlink setup:.

It was added with the PIXEL desktop GUI, and incorporated with the DV4Mini-Compact Software by DL5KV.Īllstarlink is the standard installation under /etc/asterisk directory.To use ssh or winscp to this running image, use port 222. The Allstarlink is based on the DIAL Distribution Raspberry Pi 2/3 systems based on Raspian Jesse Lite by N4IRS and Allstarlink team. So now you can run your DV4Mini USB stick, and also run Allstarlink on the same Raspberry Pi! We have spent a few nights developing this specialized Raspberry PI image incorporating Allstarlink and the DV4Mini Compact TFT software. Bug fix: Please edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_nf and only leave 1st 2 lines if Wifi doesnt work.

Dv4mini pi image