Posts by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
(DIR) Post #ANjT14KkZyrfa9OA3E by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2022-09-19T19:47:56Z
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@chrichri @PINE64 gnaaaa! Danke - ich wollte was zuverlässiges was viele Stunden am Tag einfach (mechanisch) funktioniert. Und was eine perfekte Ersatzteilversorgung für zig Jahre hat. Aaaaaber…. Du hast da einen Punkt und ich schaue nun da mal sehr genau hin! Danke für den Tip - klingt gut!
(DIR) Post #AObZ290QL8ZFthUFuK by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2022-10-15T22:09:52Z
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@stux yes :)
(DIR) Post #AUYDb4fTmCQm4l4HE8 by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-04-11T15:41:21Z
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Something that bothers me - we are using many application in #hamradio which are not open-source, therefore there is a danger of them disappearing if the OM decides to stop with the hobby or goes silent key. In case you have software released, think of putting it under an open source license and publish it somewhere. Please. #hamradio #cqcqcq #floss
(DIR) Post #AUuZswxmlX7MoPAHiK by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-04-22T13:31:40Z
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@penguin42 Love it! Brilliant!
(DIR) Post #AZmqn5oGturwEnFk5w by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-15T09:21:46Z
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Why does my Raspberry Hotspot running on pi-star needs to have a Samba Server running? Yes, it's possible but it can also run a LDAP server. #hamradio #pistar
(DIR) Post #AZmsonsgjLSb7VGK3c by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-15T09:46:39Z
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@PA0ETE I think complaining is highly unfair to MW0MWZ. He did all the best to make it a working product. There are several vendors that entirely rely on his distribution and it's very well supported. So all the kudos to them. But it's also a common pattern that we see here - sacrificing for comfort/ease of use. Let me check what's in there.
(DIR) Post #AZmtUuD9aMeAumuWJc by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-15T09:54:13Z
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@PA0ETE So, he is doing a great job. I am just wondering about a few topics: Pistar repositories have no license files in it. So - I consider it in a grey area - and I am not really comfortable with that. It's also part of the forum and has never been closed. Reference: https://forum.pistar.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2271
(DIR) Post #AZmuygPzX1oYmKg7IO by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-15T10:10:51Z
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@PA0ETE I entirely agree - I also highlight that pistar is working excellent. Now it's on me to decide if I want to go that route or if I want to be on my own. Use mmdvmhost and @DG9VH dashboard. (And probably live with some quirks)
(DIR) Post #AZmuztQGfPbDOuNtdg by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-15T10:11:06Z
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@PA0ETE Brilliant! Thanks!
(DIR) Post #AaE2PA3fjnXkSiDgMi by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-28T12:10:51Z
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@stux stux? I scrolled all The way down - there are no cat pictures. Is The Site broken? BTW The preview of The Site Looks way different than The real page (on The iPhone)
(DIR) Post #AaEhxwTmJP1QbV8NIu by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-28T16:18:08Z
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MMDVM hotspots? I am tired. I was looking into pistars, I am contributed to W0CHP PiStar Dash - I get their use-cases. Give a ham without any clue about Linux a distribution which they can just use - tracking included. My Raspberry is busy rending PHP scripts without any overarcing architecture - and deals with high temperatures. #pistar #hotspot #dmr #hamradio
(DIR) Post #AaEhxyFJk8dw5ENr2e by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-28T16:20:57Z
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The initial dashboard of @DG9VH was a great start and allowed the usage of separated controls as he provided web sockets. Brilliant - I really appreciate the design. I've decided to go a different route.
(DIR) Post #AaEhy03h0KX5hkxbCS by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-28T16:33:51Z
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Allmost all pi-dashboard distrubution rely on parsing the logfile of the MMDVM daemon to provide the information. Chipster (maintainer of W0CHP PiStar Dash) is doing a great job to make the user experience even better, the core concept however stays untouched for now: Reading (tailing) files, run exec to get system information, parse them and display in the dashboard. That causes high fork rates and the intelligent display ("dashboard") becomes slow and that Raspberry gets busy and hot.
(DIR) Post #AaEhy1gMy144k0407k by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-28T16:44:40Z
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In my "new" attempt, I want to try things different. I use a Event Reactor that acts on file change events and get the change lines from the MMDVM logfile and pushed it to a MQTT queue. The MQTT server is Mosquitto running on the Raspberry. The "display" devices can then subscribe to the topics and get the information - if desired. As soon as I have something "releasable" I will post it here :-). As an intermediate step I rely on the MMDVM logfile; however, the plan is to switch to dvmhost from the dvm project (https://github.com/DVMProject/dvmhost) as they provide a REST interface (which might replace the MQTT section then). However, I like the idea of mqtt for now #mqtt #hamradio #dmr #hotspot
(DIR) Post #AaEhy3TKJTouI7yc4W by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-28T16:49:33Z
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By publishing to certain (authorized) MQTT queues, I am able to contol the hotspot aka: Shutdown/Reboot/Restart as well as subscribe to talkgroups, etc. #hamradio #dmr #hotspot
(DIR) Post #AaIxvpBCr9ElHhIbRY by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-09-30T21:10:48Z
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Right from a QSO on DMR. So, voila - so far have we gone with the MMDVM external display using M5Stack, Blockly and MQTT. The Mosquitto server doesn't harm the Raspberry Pi at all - so CPU stays very low (same as temperature at ~ 52° C). The load stays at 0.02 with me still experimenting. So I guess this setup should even work without any challenges on the Raspberry Pi Zero. Code is still a mess and it looks like someone is prototyping ;) - however; we are getting somewhere. Some of the field are still static. #mmdvm #hotspot #dmr #m5stack #mosquitto #mqtt #hamradio #pistar
(DIR) Post #AalzrGB94sFyq1DDCy by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-10-14T20:26:01Z
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Dear Hamradio community, now it's in a working state. May I present: An Ansible Role for managing MMDVMHost on your Raspberry Pi hotspot.If you ever wanted to manage your hotspot the automation way, I got you covered. Ansible is an automation/orchestration tool to roll out and configure software and systems remotely.With ansible-mmdvm you can set up a hotspot from a second compute (or local) on your Raspberry. Update and roll out configuration changes. It doesn't feature DMRGateway so far, that's next on the list. Please note, this is a very early release that may have rough edges.Dear hamradio YL and OM - please boost this for more reach so that we can build a reliable and open-sourced way to run our Raspberry MMDVM based hotspots or repeater.https://codeberg.org/rhaen/ansible-mmdvm#hamradio #mmdvm #raspberrypi #dmr #ysf #dstar #ansible #radio
(DIR) Post #Ad5IykkyvXOjViezoG by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2023-12-23T00:40:48Z
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@stux is that Washy or George?
(DIR) Post #AvzqfbPbEWxlBM1cXo by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2025-07-10T16:59:54Z
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@stux is there also plenty of room for meow? Will there be a washy picture?
(DIR) Post #AyN6IHeJJYtqtvhDCC by rhaen@digitalcourage.social
2025-09-12T10:49:34Z
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You might have heard that I'm looking into building Pandoc/Weasyprint templates to make nice-looking PDF documents. It's nothing super serious, just a project I'm exploring. I'm wondering: would blind or visually impaired people be interested in talking about this? Are there any specific headers you think would make these documents easier to read? What about particular fonts? This isn't a big project, I'm just curious and want to understand more.#pandoc #orgmode #pdf #blind #visually_impaired