AMBEserver can be accessed remotely. An iPhone or Android app that opened a UDP stream to AMBEserver over the network would enable such an application. I do it with other programs now. http://nwdigitalradio.com/putting-ambeserver-on-the-internet It's better than trying to hang a device off a phone :) On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Mike Zingman <mike.zingman@gmail.com> wrote:
I am an iPhone and Android developer. There are issues on the iPhone side. This all requires the ThumbDV. Apple requires any hardware connected to the iPhone be approved by the MFI (Made For iPhone) program. This is an exclusive club and is not something easily done (I have already have apps in the store with MFI approval).
Android is far easier, but still presents some challenges. For one, you would need an Android device that supports USB OTG. Not too bad as many (if not most) modern Android devices now support it. Second you would need Android FTDI drivers. FTDI does in fact support Android, but in pure java. I have concerns that a pure Java solution on a small device would be able to keep up with the frame rate.
Now some alternatives: - ASL. There is already iaxRPT apps for Android and Zoiper for iOS that can help you connect to ASL. Once connected you can use USRP and DMRGateway to bridge the gap. - Wifi. Remote the ThumbDV with AMBEServer and use it that way. It works for DMRGateway already so I see no issues from a mobile device.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Robert Newberry <N1XBM@amsat.org> wrote:
Real cool, I do not know how to write code or software, but it seems that it's not hard to imagine an iPhone or Android app connected to dmrlink as a peer...or something similar along those lines such as iaxrpt app.
If I understand things right, there is a guy on YouTube by the name of Budd Churchward who did something similar.
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On Feb 10, 2016 10:43 AM, "Mike Zingman" <mike.zingman@gmail.com> wrote:
Since this is an ASL list, this is off topic, but may interest some members. So here goes.
Yesterday I decided to try a simple experiment and it worked better than I had expected. I conducted my first QSO on DMR without any RF hardware at all. Basically just like the DVDongle/ThumbDV for DStar is used (WinDV or DummyRepeater). It looks like:
Mic/Speaker on PC <---> DMRGateway <---> DMRlink <--- BM or SANDBOX
DMRGateway talks directly with the ThumbDV to both encode and decode the AMBE data. The audio and data paths look like:
TX - Mic audio is pulled from the sound card as 8KHZ PCM and feeds the encoder. PTT is controlled by either VOX or a keyboard toggle. The AMBE is then encapsulated in IPSC frames and passed on to DMRlink to send to the network.
RX - DMRlink sends us AMBE frames. AMBE audio is decoded by the ThumbDV and the 8KHZ PCM is sent to the sound hardware.
This is the same as the ASL solution with USRP except that there is no ASL and no USRP ;-)
And it works! The sound is clean.
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