BIG FAT WARNING

This, and other required Pi-Star modules, are my personal forks, DO NOT report bugs, request features or anything like that, to the official Pi-Star developer, Andy Taylor (MW0MWZ), on the Pi-Star's Facebook page or on the forum.

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How to install it

Two possible options are:

• Prepare an SDCard using the disk image available here.

• An easy manual installation, over a pristine running Pi-Star system, following the below procedure:

  • you need a working Pi-Star, from here. Only Pi-Star v4.1.x are supported.

  • MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR Pi-Star CONFIGURATION

  • connect your Pi-Star

  ssh pi-star@pi-star.local

  • grab the script that permits you to toggle between official repositories and my personnal ones.

  sudo su
  rpi-rw
  cd
  wget http://tinyurl.com/f1rmb-pistar-ng -O f1rmb-pistar
  chmod +x f1rmb-pistar

  • now you can execute this script with some arguments. For a complete list, use '-h' or '--help' The easiest way:
    • to install these forks repositories:

    ./f1rmb-pistar -ia

    • to switch back to the official ones:

    ./f1rmb-pistar -ra

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  1. Once you have installed this fork, you need to go in menu "Configuration" -> "Expert" -> "Tools" and select "CSS Tool" This will reset all the colors to their default value.
  2. You will need to launch "pistar-upgrade" multiple times, until it displays the "You are already running the latest version.." message.

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What features this fork offers

• An enhanced POCSAG support. A service and network status indicators are there, You can send pages from the Admin web page. When you receive personnal pages, they are extracted from the Activity and displayed in a dedicated table. You can send a page to multiple callsigns and/or transmitter groups, separated with comma:

• A new menu system, cleaner, nicer:

• An easy and extended way to change the color theme (using the farbtastic plugin):

• Code optimization and cleanups.

• Gateway and DAPNet Activity (last heard) tables are extended to the 40 last entries, fitted in a scrolling window.

• Integration of Tiny File Manager.

• GPSd support.

• Full integration of NextionDriver.

• Complete support of configuration files edition.

• Support of latest G4KLX software suite (one gateway per mode, DMR Master connections handled by DMRGateway only, etc...).

• Pi-Star services management integrated in the web interface

• pistar-cli and pistar-services scripts added

  • it's possible to use pistar-cli with Raspi Check (Google Play) to switch the hostpot's configuration on the fly.

• Continuous backport of upstream's relevant fixes and improvements.

• Tons of small modifications and tweaks that can't be enumerated here.