[drats_users] D-Rats and Hotspot

[Mark Phillips]

Who's hotspot board is it?

The only boards/firmware known to support D-RATS are the earlier Satoshi 
4.xx and all the DutchSTAR code. That's not to say any other firmware 
will not work; it's just not been tested and therefore known to work.



On 08/29/2011 08:20 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:
> Hi All, I want to pass d-rats through my hotspot, I have configured the
> network, the Hotspot software is on a different PC to D-Rats.
> Here’s my dilemma, when I send the message the HT radio (monitoring the
> hotspot) receives a TX Blip similar to if I were hard wired to the radio
> as a port, so I know it’s going somewhere. I have another radio (mobile)
> connected to the same Gateway via a different node, this also gets the
> TX Blip but no text appears, same in the reverse.
> Neither station can ping the other.
> My hotspot uses DPRS and this works fine, I see my node and mobile
> stations on aprs.fi , in D-rats the network address is correct (an
> internal network IP), the port 20003 is correct.
> If I place the Mobile radio on the simplex frequency of the node (the
> same as the HT) the message pops up when sent. But I guess this is then
> direct not through the gateway or hotspot software.
> When my hotspot sends my periodic station position to Aprs.fi the map
> feature shows it up in D-Rats mapping and my hotspot shows up in the
> stations list to the right of the chat window.
> What am I doing wrong, it’s baffling me?
> DAVE
>
> Keeper MB6BA D-Star Gateway
> Member South Glamorgan RAYNET
> www.2w0ruh.me.uk
>
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