Updating my Pi-Star MMDVM hotspots as of July 2026

 Updating my Pi-Star MMDVM Hotspots as of  July 2026.

I had to upgrade the Kernel to get the latest image installed.

now Kernel is 6.12.75+rpt-rpi-v6

Pi-Star  version is 4.3.7

Dashboard is 20260501  (1st May 2026)

Once installed I found the  DMR and P25 tabs were not coming up and 

showing RED instead of GREEN so I ran the Update function on each Hotspot, 

while watching I noticed some fixes go in and also a later Dashboard 

which is 20260623, now everything starts up and get the GREEN indicator

and I started receiving traffic from DMR and P25 sources respectively.

I configured the first DMR Hotspot for the new VK-DMR IPSC3 network, 

but after a day or two I noticed I not hearing much activity, just TG505 

traffic, which confirmed from monitoring the VK-DMR IPSC Heard List.

Then I configured another of my Hotspots against the VK-DMR IPSC2 network, 

since then I now receiving the normal TG's that I had configured as STATIC 

on IPSC2. 

Currently I can monitor traffic from IPSC3 and IPSC2 Networks simultaneously.

I also configured two of my Hotspots for P25 TG10400 and TG10700 talkgroups.

P25 TalkGroups Activity as of 29th April, 2024

I showing some of the activity over past week,

TG10100 WW  (M1GEO  UK), - it has a new Dashboard URL  - it has activity

TG10101   WW - some activity

TG10102    WW TAC2  - some activity

TG10103     WW TAC3  - unknown

TG10200 NA TAC

TG10201 NA TAC1 - plenty activity

TG10202 NA TAC2  - some activity

TG10203 NA TAC3 unknown

TG10400 Pacific P25

TG10401  Pacific TAC1/WICEN  - nothing, but it is a WICEN channel

TG10402  Pacific TAC2 - used by stations in China

TG10403 Pacific TAC3 - no response could be gone

TG10700 plenty of activity, a good dozen stations on here.

TG50525  plenty of activity, as it linked to VK3 Allstar network, multimode gateway

Dashboard URL's :

TG10100 - TG10100/Worldwide P25Reflector-Dashboard (m1geo.com)

TG10200 - - P25 North America Reflector (dvswitch.org)

TG10201 - - P25Reflector-Dashboard by DG9VH (dvswitch.org)

TG10400 - TG10400 PACIFIC P25-NXDN Bridge - VK2HK

TG10401 - TG10401 PACIFIC TAC1 (WICEN) P25 - VK2HK

TG10700 - AU P25 NSW - YSFReflector-Dashboard by DG9VH (gustotech.net)

TG50525 -  TG50525 P25 Gateway-Bridge - VK2HK & TG50525 NXDN-DMR-P25-YSF - VK2HK

PiStar for MMDVM Release 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 now available

 I noticed this morning on my PiStar MMDVM Dashboard consoles,  that it was showing an alert message at the top of the PiStar (red) Dashboard page,  advising me there was a new release and that I simply need to click the link to upgrade my two PiStars, one was 4.1.1, the other was 4.1.2.

Clicked the link, it upgraded within  30 seconds or so,  and it ready to go, first my SingleHAT MMDVM went from 4.1.1  to 4.1.2, then clicked the link again from Admin  console view to upgrade it to 4.1.3, then the Alert appeared  again, I then clicked again to go to 4.1.4,  I then followed same procedure to do my  DualHAT MMDVM node, going from 4.1.2 > 4.1.3 > 4.1.4

This was so easy, OMG, that simplification of upgrade by the PiStar Development team was absolutely fantastic.  The manual method of upgrade did not phase me, but I did wonder how non-computer related people would do the upgrades.  But the answer to that dilemma is now right there in the latest dashboard.

Congratulations to the PiStar Development Team for the new automated upgrade process.

As of today, my MMDVM nodes have PiStar 4.1.4  and Dashboard  20210203  (3rdFeb2021)

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