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VE2NCK
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Great firmware

Post by VE2NCK » Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:32 am

thx for sharing this great firmware with the community
it's a wonderful replacement from the original one in my RT3s
hope you guys make this Alpha mature enough to someday call to an official V1.0 release
(maybe with the added bonus of sms/ability to tx GPS position to a Digital contact)
keep up the good work and feel free to ask if you need testers
73

VK3KYY
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Re: Great firmware

Post by VK3KYY » Tue Jan 17, 2023 10:09 am

VE2NCK wrote:
Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:32 am
thx for sharing this great firmware with the community
it's a wonderful replacement from the original one in my RT3s
hope you guys make this Alpha mature enough to someday call to an official V1.0 release
(maybe with the added bonus of sms/ability to tx GPS position to a Digital contact)
keep up the good work and feel free to ask if you need testers
73
Unfortunately its unlikely the firmware will ever have SMS support.

The only developer interested in inverstigating SMS, stopped working on it over a year ago due to various technical problems and the time it was taking to develop.

The GD77 source code has been availabe for anyone to add this function, for several years, but AFIK no one has the time or energy etc to add that functionality.

VE2NCK
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Re: Great firmware

Post by VE2NCK » Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:10 pm

VK3KYY wrote:
Tue Jan 17, 2023 10:09 am
VE2NCK wrote:
Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:32 am
thx for sharing this great firmware with the community
it's a wonderful replacement from the original one in my RT3s
hope you guys make this Alpha mature enough to someday call to an official V1.0 release
(maybe with the added bonus of sms/ability to tx GPS position to a Digital contact)
keep up the good work and feel free to ask if you need testers
73
Unfortunately its unlikely the firmware will ever have SMS support.

The only developer interested in inverstigating SMS, stopped working on it over a year ago due to various technical problems and the time it was taking to develop.

The GD77 source code has been availabe for anyone to add this function, for several years, but AFIK no one has the time or energy etc to add that functionality.
SMS tx of GPS position seem to be partially implemented with the talker alias, might not be such a long stretch
to make it work on a "per contact" basis
oh well

VK3KYY
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Re: Great firmware

Post by VK3KYY » Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:24 pm

Talker Alias including the GPS data, is a completely different protocol to SMS data

Talker Alias is uses a few bytes inside each voice data frame.
SMS is a completely different frame type

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