2020 BrandMeister Network Users Discussion Group

2020 BrandMeister Network Users Discussion Group

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BrandMeister Network Users Support Group

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BrandMeister User Group (BUG)
Amateur Radio
Help Improve the Experiences for Users at the BrandMeister Network.

Brandmeister, Reflectors, and DMR+

OK, so I get my MD-380 and a JumboSpot sitting on a PiZero. I connect to BM_United_States_3101 and I am rocking it! Then, a friend ask me if I can help him program his radio. The no-good-deed-goes-unpunished spiral starts when I say "Sure"!

Rather than giving me a list of talkgroups that he wanted to have programed in, he said he needed '4401, 4402, and 4403' along with a repeater. So I go snooping and realize that these are reflectors. I set up a TS2-TG9 channel, connect to REF4401 and pretty soon hear nothing. Well, it turns out that reflectors are not longer supported by the BM_United_States servers.

Who we are

We are NOT the support Brandmeister team, however maybe at some point the team may join this group.

We have heard it all,  this group is a user discussion group, we discuss subjects about BrandMeister.

Many Reports as follows :: 

I am getting VERY frustrated. I registered for an account almost (time ago) and have never received an activation email. 

Consider asking for a refund ?   (Silly humour)
Maybe consider what can we do to make this better ???

Brandmeister Top Activity

Brandmeister Top Activity

Created by Alex Gladd, K3HEX

Brandmeister is a worldwide network of interconnected digital mobile radio (DMR) repeaters

Brandmeister is a worldwide network of interconnected digital mobile radio (DMR) repeaters that allow amateur radio operators to make contacts across the globe using only HTs.

What Is The Brandmeister Network?

BrandMeister Development Team

BrandMeister Development Team

The development team for BrandMeister and the area of specialty

Forum discussion:
https://groups.io/g/BrandMeister

Brandmeister New Philippines Master Server 5151

2020-01-25

New Philippines Master Server 5151

The BM team is delighted to announce a new Master Server 5151 deployed in the Philippines, hosted on the island in the Eastern Telecoms datacenter. With the server physically located in the country, hams from the Philippines and nearby regions can enjoy lower latency, fewer hops, and thus better performance during QSOs.

The server address is at BM5151.hamradio.com.ph; Fixed IP address at 120.89.61.77. It should already be present in the BM Masters list for all hotspots that auto-update their master server list.

Brandmeister hoseline Last Heard SHUTDOWN

Brandmeister hoseline Last Heard SHUTDOWN

2019-01-14
BY RUDY PD0ZRY

Update (11:24 UTC): All services report up and running.

The cause of the outage was a problem while migrating one of the 4 lastheard storage servers to there new datastore. The machine is recovered and back in to service.

Update (10:12 UTC): The broken machine is back online and the LH is recovering.

Currently we are experiencing some issues with the storage backends of the lastheard this means that history searches don’t work and also graphs using data from the history will have some issues.

We are working on a solution bare with us - 2019-01-14 

Brandmeister Hotspot Configure a personalized security password for your hotspots !

2019-04-28
Configure a personalized security password for your hotspots !

What are hotspot passwords ?

As you may know, hotspots connecting to a BrandMeister master server using homebrew or MMDVM protocol require a password to connect. Currently most of you use the “master server password” which is typically published on the corresponding country’s BrandMeister wiki page. Some software packages include those default passwords, relieving the users from needing to research and input this password.

It is also possible, and now strongly recommended for each user to setup their own personalized password from within the BrandMeister Selfcare.

Why setting up a personalized hotspot password for your own callsign ?

If you did not setup a personalized password for your hotspot, anyone can configure their hotspot with your personal DMR ID and connect with the master’s publicly documented default password, and start using the hotspot with your callsign ! 

Unfortunately this is happening more and more, thus our recommendation for everyone to setup a personalized password. By creating your own password, you ensure that you are the only one able to use your DMR ID to setup a hotspot.

Also setting up your own password will prevent your hotspot connection to stop working when the password is changed on the master you are connecting to.

How to proceed ? 

Brandmeister DMR talkgroup activity aggregator

Brandmeister DMR talkgroup activity aggregator

I recently got into DMR by getting myself an MD-380 and a hotspot (ZUMSpot) to get access to the Brandmeister network. I would often watch Brandmeister's last heard page or hoseline app to figure out which talkgroups were in use, but found that I wasn't able to easily see which talkgroups were most active. I figured that was a problem I could solve.

DMR Brandmeister CCS7 | DMR USER REPEATER Registration

Callsign Communication System 7 - DMR USER REPEATER Registration
DMR Brandmeister | CCS7

CCS7 - what's that?

Explained :

"CCS" stands for "Callsign Communication System". It was developed several years ago as an optimized alternative to the G2 callsign routing system.
CCS routing may be initiated based on callsigns, but also based on a numeric ID which may easily be entered by DTMF.
Using DTMF codes very quickly became the most common way.
When the CCS-Code was introduced for DSTAR callsign routing, nobody expected that the acceptance would be as high as we see it today.
At the beginning many people brought up arguments like "we have callsigns in amateur radio and do not need numbers", "the current G2 callsign routing is good enough" etc..
However, the system was setup first in the German language area where the DCS reflector system grew very fast and became the leading system.
DCS and CCS are closely connected, the callsign routing system CCS uses the DCS reflector mechanism to connect repeaters together for callsign routing.
CCS Callsign Routing basically connects 2 repeaters transparent together through a virtual reflector.
The DTMF system uses 4-digit numeric codes which provides about 9,000 CCS-IDs.
Users and repeaters share the same address space.
Towards end of 2014 it became visible that this address space wont be large enough for future development.