D-Spot use overseas in hotel
One of several of my international trips (Adelaide, Australia) where I setup D-Spot tethered by USB to my iPad mini (t-mobile with unlimited international roaming @ edge speeds). Since D-Star requires very little bandwidth, edge speeds were perfect and D-Spot performed awesomely. Here you can see D-Spot and the iPad mini sitting in the window. The following LEDs are lit:
- Network ‘OK’ status (amber)
- MMDVMHost ‘OK’ (blue)
- DV Gateway ‘OK’ (red)
(click for larger view)
You can see a video demo and buy D-Spot direct on this website! D-Spot is $435.00
BUT WAIT! What about the range performance? Here’s how this D-Spot did from the window of the hotel when I was out on the town on foot, almost a MILE away from the hotel on the far left! (click for larger view)
WOW I may be in the market for the DSpot, but want to know how one sets up Fusion, or DMR, I have not yet bought a Dstar radio. any chance of looking over the manual?
Thanks
Richard,
For Fusion or DMR you will need radios for those modes. D-Spot does not do cross-mode. ie. if you want to talk on d-star, use a d-star radio with D-Spot in d-star mode, etc. NOTE that dspot does not connect to WIRES-X rooms (they are proprietary), but DOES connect to the open source YSF rooms (they work just like wires-x). DMR is via the Brandmeister DMR network.
Using each mode is as simple as running a “setup” script via SSH and selecting the mode you wish to use. D-Spot will then operate in that mode. D-Spot uses the common MMDVMHost software with ircddbgateway & YSFGateway. In future firmware revisions, mode change will be possible via the WebUI and by hardware control on the device.
For more information, please join the D-Spot user’s group at http://facebook.com/groups/dspotusers All documentation is located in the FILES section there.
Cheers!