f1rmb/pi-star_dv_dash

Pi-Star DV Dashboard (Based on works by Hans-J. Barthen (DL5DI) and Kim Huebel (DG9VH)).

BIG FAT WARNING

This, and other required Pi-Star modules, are my personal forks, DO NOT report bugs, request features or anything like that, to the official Pi-Star developer, Andy Taylor (MW0MWZ), on the Pi-Star's Facebook page or on the forum.

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How to install it

Two possible options are:

• Prepare an SDCard using the disk image available here.

• An easy manual installation, over a pristine running Pi-Star system, following the below procedure:

  • you need a working Pi-Star, from here. Only Pi-Star v4.1.x are supported.

  • MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR Pi-Star CONFIGURATION

  • connect your Pi-Star

  ssh [email protected]

  • grab the script that permits you to toggle between official repositories and my personnal ones.

  sudo su
  rpi-rw
  cd
  wget http://tinyurl.com/f1rmb-pistar-ng -O f1rmb-pistar
  chmod +x f1rmb-pistar

  • now you can execute this script with some arguments. For a complete list, use '-h' or '--help' The easiest way:
    • to install these forks repositories:

    ./f1rmb-pistar -ia

    • to switch back to the official ones:

    ./f1rmb-pistar -ra

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  1. Once you have installed this fork, you need to go in menu "Configuration" -> "Expert" -> "Tools" and select "CSS Tool" This will reset all the colors to their default value.
  2. You will need to launch "pistar-upgrade" multiple times, until it displays the "You are already running the latest version.." message.

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What features this fork offers

• An enhanced POCSAG support. A service and network status indicators are there, You can send pages from the Admin web page. When you receive personnal pages, they are extracted from the Activity and displayed in a dedicated table. You can send a page to multiple callsigns and/or transmitter groups, separated with comma:

• A new menu system, cleaner, nicer:

• An easy and extended way to change the color theme (using the farbtastic plugin):

• Code optimization and cleanups.

• Gateway and DAPNet Activity (last heard) tables are extended to the 40 last entries, fitted in a scrolling window.

• Integration of Tiny File Manager.

• GPSd support.

• Full integration of NextionDriver.

• Complete support of configuration files edition.

• Support of latest G4KLX software suite (one gateway per mode, DMR Master connections handled by DMRGateway only, etc...).

• Pi-Star services management integrated in the web interface

• pistar-cli and pistar-services scripts added

  • it's possible to use pistar-cli with Raspi Check (Google Play) to switch the hostpot's configuration on the fly.

• Continuous backport of upstream's relevant fixes and improvements.

• Tons of small modifications and tweaks that can't be enumerated here.

pi-star_dv_dash's Issues

Upgrade not work

Versioning on Pi-Star F1RMB

It seems you have a bug in your versioning of your custom release of Pi-Star. Every time I run the upgrade from the Web interface the version number increments even though it didn't do anything.

Correct handling of that would be to only increment when there was an update applied.

XLX Module missing on main page.

The module for a XLX link is not showing on the main screen, as it does on the regular pi-star version.