[App_rpt-users] New in the Asterisk world - D-Star gateway ?

[Toussaint OTTAVI]

Hi,

I'm new on this list, so here's a quick presentation. My callsign is 
TK1BI, I'm living in Corsica, and I've got some experience about 
building and maintaining analog repeaters and interconnects all around 
our small island in the Mediterranean sea. I'm now doing my first 
experiments in the digital world. Working with Open Source software, and 
with "open" systems, seems obvious to me ;-)

I built my first Asterisk/app_rpt from source on a HummingBoard (a 
Raspberry Pi clone, powered by an ARM7 quad-core Freescale iMX6). The 
operating system is Debian.

The next step will be to order some low-cost USB soundcards, and connect 
them to a pair of radios, to create a test repeater. In the meantime, we 
are reactivating and old project of HamNet WiFi network, to carry TCP/IP 
to the mountains where our VHF/UNF repeaters are located.

Anyway, there is some interest here for D-Star. Lots of people are 
buying rigs, and having fun with it. Even if D-Star does not match my 
idea of an "open" system, I'm thinking about the possibilities to make a 
gateway between analog, AllStar and D-Star world. But I didn't find much 
information about that. What I understood is that I need to use the 
additional software "RptDir" with a hardware AMBE codec. There are some 
web sites about that, but it's unclear for me if these are currently 
supported projects or not.

Then, here are some questions :
- About RptDir, it seems I also need a piece of software called 
"dstar2analog", but I didn't find it anywhere
- About the hardware codec : the "DV Dongle" seems expensive to me, and 
I didn't find any reseller in Europe. The DV3000 card for Raspberry Pi 
seems more interesting to me, but is it supported for what I want to do ?
- Are there already some attempts to interconnect Asterisk routing with 
D-Star routing (ie, more than just sending the audio between each other) ?

Thank you in advance for your answers, and for pointing out some 
interesting ressources about that.

Hope to be QRV soon :-)
73 de TK1BI
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