PiStar Digital Hotspot
Its been a year since I got sucked down the ham radio rabbit hole. There seems to be no end in sight. As proof I recently bought a ZUMspot digital hostpot kit with nextion 3.5 display. This is a Raspberry PI based MMDVM - multi-mode-digital-voice-modem. The hotspot connects to the internet via wi-fi, and acts as a personal repeater that you can use to talk to other amateur stations all over the world with your handy-talkie. I mostly have this set to AmericaLink (Yaesu System Fusion) but I also registered for a DMR-ID thru RadioID.Net . Configuration was pretty straight forward, and the hotspot is fun to play with. Open pi-star.local in a browser. Depending on the OS (I'm using linux) you might have a different URL. Connect to the local pstar-setup SSID on the hotspot using the default userid and password. Also, let the pi-star run thru as many updates as needed to get to current. I'm at v4.1.4. Once you have configured the hotspot to connect to your local wifi,