Bug or Feature? Private Call on Hotspot

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DO3BOX
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Bug or Feature? Private Call on Hotspot

Post by DO3BOX » Wed Aug 05, 2020 10:02 am

Hi!

I've set up the GD77 (using the OpenGD77 release from August, 1st) as hotspot using MMDVMHost.
I tried to reach the local brandmeister echo parrot (private call 262997) but the parrot was not reachable and in the log of MMDVM the call was not seen.
After changing the setting of Allow PC to "PTT" it works.
Is this the intended behavior?

73 de
Michael
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Re: Bug or Feature? Private Call on Hotspot

Post by YT5HOK » Wed Aug 05, 2020 10:51 am

Depends on perspective... ;)

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But anyway, nice find! :)

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Re: Bug or Feature? Private Call on Hotspot

Post by N1KY » Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:25 pm

The option name is confusing. "Allow PC" actually means "PC Prompt".

http://www.opengd77.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1091

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Re: Bug or Feature? Private Call on Hotspot

Post by DO3BOX » Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:59 pm

N1KY wrote:
Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:25 pm
The option name is confusing. "Allow PC" actually means "PC Prompt".

http://www.opengd77.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1091
Are you sure, that is still correct?

Referring to https://github.com/rogerclarkmelbourne/ ... 2020.08.01 :
Changes to Private Call accept system.
Allow PC now has 3 options
"Off" Private calls will be filtered out.
"On" Private calls will be allowed, but the operator is prompted about whether they want to return the private call.
The text on the private call screen has been changed, to show that there is an incoming private call, and prompts the operator if they want to return the call
"PTT" This mode is identical to the "On" mode, except pressing the PTT has the same effect as pressing YES.

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Re: Bug or Feature? Private Call on Hotspot

Post by N1KY » Wed Aug 05, 2020 3:52 pm

I completely missed that in the release notes. Thanks! :)

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Re: Bug or Feature? Private Call on Hotspot

Post by VK3KYY » Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:42 am

This wasn't an intended feature.

For the moment, setting Allow PC: On should be enough.

I've tested this and Parrot works just fine for me on 9990

Setting Allow PC to Off, does disable the Private calls into the hotspot, and its debatable whether this option should have an effect on the hotspot - probably not. But I think there are some other filtering problems which this bug has highlighted, which also need to be resolved

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Re: Bug or Feature? Private Call on Hotspot

Post by ok3js » Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:56 am

OMG and I thought until now that Enable PC is some feature for Personal Computer connectivity, but it is Private Call, :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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