wa4cqz
I just bought two OpenSTAR2s. I put one on DMR and the other on D-Star. The DMR one seems to be working great. I believe my problem with the D-Star one is probably router settings. Here's why.
My ID-51A Plus kept announcing, at irregular intervals, "disconnected" and then "connected to REF030 Charlie" or what ever reflector I was using. I looked through the 14 pages of this community and found a lot of information. I tried most if not all of the suggestions. Nothing seemed to make it quit disconnecting and reconnecting. I unplugged the DMR OoenSpot2 and rebooted the router. I finally did a factory reset and Quick Setup. That didn't fix my problem either.
I then connected it to a 4G to WiFi router. Problem solved. This leads me to believe that the problem is in a router setting.
My original router is a Netgear Orbi. My "portable" router is a Verizon Wireless MiFi hotspot.
My goal is to get the OpenSPOT2 working on my home/Orbi router so that I can just leave it running.
Does anyone have any suggestions why it doesn't work on one router and does work on the other? Are there any settings to change? Ports?
Thank you!
HA2NON
Make sure UDP port 20001 is not blocked on the router. Also try using other connectors to find out if it is really an UDP port blocking problem.
wa4cqz
Thanks for your quick response. I have followed your suggestions and still have the same problem.
I checked my home router and have no ports blocked.
I tried two reflectors, REF030C and REF001C. They both worked fine on my mobile/portable router, but had the disconnected/connected problem on my home router.
I also tried the DMR connector. It also has the same problem. As a matter of fact when I am listening to radios hooked to each of my OpenSPOT2s, one on DMR and one one on D-Star, they both disconnect and reconnect at the same time as each other on my home router only. Both work fine on my portable/mobile router.
What do you suggest I should try next?
HA2NON
What LED color do you see when these disconnects happen?
wa4cqz
It happens very quickly so it's difficult to tell, but here's what I saw. I tested on the OpenSPOT2 I have configured for D-Star.
When it's not receiving a signal it goes green to red. It may be going through other colors, but it's to fast to see. Once I thought I saw a blue in there, buy can't be sure.
When it is receiving a signal, it does the following.
1. Audio from the received signal mutes.
2. The "Disconnected" message plays in conjunction with the LED color changes. The colors are, as best I can tell, are yellow, blue, red, blue, yellow sometime followed by another blue yellow, continuous red. All of this takes literally about a second.
3. When the LED turns red a "Connected to REF3101C" message plays followed immediately by return of the radio audio.
The entire process takes seconds. The LED changing takes a second or less.
Thank you again for helping me!
HA2NON
Please do a factory reset on the unit and set it up again to make sure all settings are correct.
wa4cqz
I have 2 and they are both doing the same thing. I did a factory reset on the one I had setup for D-Star. I then did only the Quick S|yup and it does the same problem. Both of the OpenSPOT2s are doing the disconnect/connect problem.
Thanks!
HA2NON
Does the web interface disconnect when this happens? What do you see in the device log? (not the call log, I mean the device log on the Status page which you can see if you turn on Advanced mode at the bottom right of the web interface)
wa4cqz
The web interface doesn't even blink, but this all happens quickly. I tried to attach a log excerpt, but it said I was using an invalid file extension... even when I rename the file to have no extension so here it is pasted in..
21:57:47 ccs: sending pong
21:57:59 ref: got ccs ping
21:57:59 ccs: sending pong
21:58:04 ref: rx timeout
21:58:04 ref: init reconnect
21:58:04 spk: starting voice announcement
21:58:04 spk: playing locally: OSDC
21:58:04 spk: loading code pair OS
21:58:04 nvmm-csd: looking up callsign CQCQCQ
21:58:04 nvmm-csd: ignoring special callsign CQCQCQ
21:58:04 ref: uninitialized
21:58:04 nvmm: net check
21:58:04 nvmm: net check ok (16 ms)
21:58:04 ref: initializing
21:58:04 ref: waiting for connect ack
21:58:04 ref: sending config
21:58:04 ref: waiting for config ack
21:58:04 ref: connected
21:58:04 ccs: sending connect packet
21:58:04 ccs: sending pong
21:58:04 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:07 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:07 spk: loading code pair DC
21:58:07 spk: sending terminator
21:58:07 nvmm-csd: looking up callsign CQCQCQ
21:58:07 nvmm-csd: ignoring special callsign CQCQCQ
21:58:07 spk: starting voice announcement
21:58:07 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:07 spk: requesting remote play: OSCTARAEAF000300PC
21:58:07 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:07 spk-remote: got first packet
21:58:07 nvmm-csd: looking up callsign CQCQCQ
21:58:07 nvmm-csd: ignoring special callsign CQCQCQ
21:58:08 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:09 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:09 ref: got ccs ping
21:58:09 ccs: sending pong
21:58:10 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:11 spk-remote: invalid seqnum received, got 55 expected 54, missing 1 packets
21:58:11 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:12 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:13 spk: sending terminator
21:58:13 spk: remote disconnected
21:58:13 nvmm-csd: looking up callsign CQCQCQ
21:58:13 nvmm-csd: ignoring special callsign CQCQCQ
21:58:13 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:14 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:15 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:16 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:17 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:17 dstarcalltracker: got decoded header data from net
21:58:17 dstarcalltracker: voice call started, dst: CQCQCQ src: KG5UFR /IC80 from modem: 0 id: c2fa82b2ace4d4ce
21:58:17 nvmm-csd: looking up callsign CQCQCQ
21:58:17 nvmm-csd: ignoring special callsign CQCQCQ
21:58:17 nvmm-csd: looking up callsign KG5UFR
21:58:17 nvmm-csd: dmr ids 1148976 call "KG5UFR" name "Jacob L" city "" state "" country "us"
21:58:17 ref: new call started
21:58:17 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:17 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:17 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:17 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:17 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:17 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:17 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:18 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:18 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:18 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:18 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:19 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:19 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:19 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:20 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:20 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:20 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:20 ref: got ccs ping
21:58:20 ccs: sending pong
21:58:21 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:21 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:21 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:21 ref: got d-star header, module C
21:58:22 ref: got last frame
21:58:22 dstarcalltracker: call ended, dur 4.6s ber 0.0% loss 0.0% rssi 0
21:58:22 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:23 ref: got ping, replying
21:58:24 ref: got ping, replying
HA2NON
21:58:04 ref: rx timeout indicates an RX timeout from the server. What you can try is to increase the RX timeout setting at the REF connector settings.
wa4cqz
Thanks. I had already upped it to 120 on both OS2s so I went to 200. There is no difference. I put them back on 60 and still the same.
Any other ideas?
Thanks again!
wa4cqz
Ok, the bandwidth is fine. The channel was set to Auto so I tried all three suggested channels. They still disconnect. There is no specific interval. It happens at odd intervals. When I first switched from Auto I set it to channel six. It took a while for it to mess up so I had hope
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. Then it started and disconnected on whatever channel I tried.
It still works perfectly on my MiFi 4G hotspot/router. I just don't know why.
Thanks for sticking with me.
HA2NON
If your Wi-Fi router has any automatic firewall setting then try turning it off temporarily.
wa4cqz
Firewalls are off and still disconnecting.
wa4cqz
I should have posted this sooner.
Although I did not fix my problem, I did come up with a work-around and it is simple. I created an access point using a Raspberry Pi and connected the openSpot2s to the Pi hotspot. I have had zero problems with disconnects.
Thanks for the help and suggestions.
Larry