Difference between revisions of "DVMEGA"

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Auria DVMEGA
Vendor	Auria
Model	DVMEGA
Firmware	3.26
Website	http://dvmega.auria.nl
Retail price	€85 - €135
Modes
DMR		dPMR
C4FM		D-Star
Tetra		APCO P25
Terminal support
Group call		Voice call
SMS		IP
GPS		ARS/RRS

Overview

The DV-MEGA is a family of add-on boards (shields) for Arduino Uno, Arduino MEGA and Raspberry Pi for several digital voice communication standards.
DV-MEGA is produced by Guus van Dooren PE1PLM, http://www.dvmega.auria.nl/

The dualband (VHF/UHF) version

The single band (UHF) version

Currently the following DV modes are supported:

• D-Star
• DMR+
• DMR BrandMeister
• C4FM

To utilize the DVMega hotspot, a transceiver capable of the selected DV mode is necessary to operate as the hotspot only provides a gateway into the selected infrastructure. The DV-MEGA has only one time slot.

Functionality

Private call

• Group call

Soon

• SMS
• GPS
• RRS/ARS

Mode of work

• DVMEGA + RaspberryPI/OrangePi/BananaPi/Cubie + the MMDVMhost application
• DVMEGA + RaspberryPI/OrangePi/BananaPi/Cubie + the BlueDV application for Android via ser2net in a hotspot mode wifi connection
• DVMEGA + Bluestack board + BlueDV Android application that uses Bluetooth to control the DVMega

Configuration

[General]
Callsign=M7WMW (Enter Your Call Sign Here)
Timeout=10 (There are people who tend to talk more than 3 minutes continuous, so do not set this to tight, say 6 minutes.)
Duplex=0 (Set this to zero as this is a simplex device)
ModeHang=10
Display=None
Daemon=0

[Info]
# If frequencies higher than 440 don't work on your board, you need to update the firmware.
RXFrequency=438800000 (Set your receive frequency here in this format.)
TXFrequency=438800000 (Set to the same as your receive frequency in this format.)
Power=1 (THIS VALUE IS REQUIRED FOR DVMega's)
Latitude= 53.5338 (THIS VALUE IS REQUIRED FOR DVMega's)
Longitude=-2.5316 (THIS VALUE IS REQUIRED FOR DVMega's)
Height=60 (THIS VALUE IS REQUIRED FOR DVMega's)
Location=Mobile (Location Varies)
Description=Multi-Mode Hotspot
URL=www.qrz.com/db/yourcallsign

[Log]
# Logging levels, 0=No logging
DisplayLevel=2
FileLevel=2
FilePath=.
FileRoot=MMDVM

[CW Id]
Enable=0
Time=10

[Modem]
Port=/dev/ttyAMA0
TXInvert=1
RXInvert=1
PTTInvert=0
TXDelay=100
DMRDelay=0
RXLevel=50
TXLevel=50
OscOffset=0
Debug=0

[DMR]
Enable=1
Beacons=0
Id=2407229(Set to your DMR ID, a separate ID is NOT required.)
ColorCode=1 (Chose any color code.)
SelfOnly=0
# Prefixes=234,235
LookupFile=DMRIds.dat
TXHang=0 (Set to zero as this is a simplex device.)

[DMR Network]
Enable=1
Address=3102.repeater.net (3101.repeater.net, 3102.repeater.net, 3103.repeater.net, 3108.repeater.net-(experimental server) CHOOSE THE SERVER WITH LOWEST PING
Port=62031
Password=passw0rd
Slot1=0 (YOU MUST DISABLE THIS TIMESLOT AS THIS IS A SIMPLEX DEVICE.)
Slot2=1
Debug=0

Hardware

Three different hardware configurations of DV-MEGA are currently available:

• Dualband radioshield - Arduino UNO based Support for D-Star and DMR
• Dualband radioshield - Arduino MEGA based Support for D-Star and DMR
• RPi radioshield - Raspberry PI based Support for D-Star and DMR
• RPi radioshield - Orange Pi based Support for D-Star and DMR

Software

• Pi-Star - Web Browser UI for DMR,D-Star, YSF [1]
• dmrlib (highly experimental, for developers only)
• BlueDV [2]
• BlueSpot [3]
• MMDVMHost [4]
• ircddbgateway [5]

RaspberryPi Image

This is a list of ready to use SD-Card images. Please append your URL.

• Pi-Star [6] An ALL DV Mode, Ultra Light Weight robust image for the Raspberry Pi Configured ALL from your favourite Web Browser. Fit on a 2GB SD Card. Project monitored by it creator with active user support. Use image to control a NODE, REPEATER or HotSpot

• easyBM [7] A lightweight Image with an webbased configuration tool.
• easy-DVMega [8] is a raspbian Jessie image with a complete configuration to be used on a Raspberry Pi with the DVMEGA shield.

Useful links

• HOW-TO Update DV-MEGA firmware without a programmer or an Arduino [9]
• Link to download a firmware [10]