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