Episode 77: Using a Raspberry Pi and DVMega as a DMR Hotspot for Remote Users
Raspberry Pi with DVMega as a DMR Hotspot
This forum was recorded at the Cowtown Hamfest in January of 2017, and was presented by Mark – KD5RXT. He 
goes over setting up a Raspberry Pi, connecting a DVMega board, and using this configuration as a DMR Hotspot. This is useful to users who don’t have a DMR repeater near their location. Also Mark shows us the MD380Tools firmware, which allows the radio user to load the entire DMR-MARC database of users into the radio so you can see who is talking. It also shows many more features than the stock firmware from TYT.
In an upcoming episode, I am going to perform an MD380Tools update to one of my radios, but this is a good demonstration of how to setup that firmware, to which I will go into more depth in a later episode.
There are many options for DMR/DSTAR/Fusion hotspots today. Among them are the SharkRF Openspot, the Bluestack, and then the RPi/DVMega combo. This last one takes longer to setup than the others, but it also provides some features that the others do not. Let’s watch and see how it is done.
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Wish there was a link to google drive here
Its too small to read on youtube
The video on YouTube is in HD, so you can expand it. Also on YouTube, the author puts a link to the presentation documents.
Jason:
Thank you for posting my presentation on the DVmega+RPi3+hotspot remote operations. If anyone wishes to download either the presentation slides, or the detailed walk-thru document that is referenced in the presentation, both can be found at the following Google Drive share: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5VgF0NYq64nVHBGZUlHZHNFSEk
Mark J Culross
KD5RXT
Has somebody a working URL to the speaker-notes?
The one in the screen report 404 error, tried it multiple times/