Repeater

[WSIY957]

Newbe question time. Why do some repeaters come with this raspberry pi thing.

[OffRoaderX]

5 minutes ago, WSIY957 said:

Why do some repeaters come with this raspberry pi thing.

Only home-made/rinky-dink type repeaters come with those raspberry pi things.. It operates as the 'controller' between what is probably two radios scotch-taped together to control or coordinate the two radios and/or do things like Auto-ID.

A REAL repeater, has no such rinky-dinkn'ess .

[WSIY957]

Ok so stay away from things like this

[OffRoaderX]

Just now, WSIY957 said:

Ok so stay away from things like this

Not necessarily.. But, usually.

Generally speaking, on average, usually, statistically speaking, most of the time, a purpose-built repeater is going to perform better than a Frankenrepeater.

[SteveShannon]

26 minutes ago, WSIY957 said:

Newbe question time. Why do some repeaters come with this raspberry pi thing.

All repeaters have some kind of repeater controller. There’s an open source repeater controller built on the raspberry pi. 

[OffRoaderX]

6 minutes ago, SteveShannon said:

All repeaters have some kind of repeater controller.

But only the FrankenRepeaters have the controller dangling from the side and have a Rasperry-Pi sticker on it.

[Blaise]

3 hours ago, OffRoaderX said:

It operates as the 'controller' between what is probably two radios scotch-taped together

I believe bubble-gum is the standard...

[nokones]

I believe the Rasberry Pi thing was also used back in the linking days to interface with the Internet.

[WRYZ926]

2 minutes ago, nokones said:

I believe the Rasberry Pi thing was also used back in the linking days to interface with the Internet.

GMRS Live is a variant of AllStar Link. Both use the Asterisk Server.