DMRoIP

• BM TG 98 is a test Talk Group. Download the Brandmeister Hoseline app or use the web interface to listen to yourself for your adjustments.
• TG 9990 Parrot will only work on RF on a repeater.
• If you want to check your microphone's audio, go to the Brandmeister Hoseline, click on PLAYER (upper right corner), enter TG 98 in the PLAYER and on the RFinder, watch/listen to your audio and adjust RED to GREEN.

Color Codes and Time Slots are used for repeaters. DMRoIP does not require a Color Code or Time Slot, though requires a Talk Group to be entered.

DroidStar app - connects to Fusion/YSF, M17 and other digital modes: DroidStar on Google Play
DroidStar Vocoder URL (copy/paste into DroidStar|Settings): http://pizzanbeer.net/plugins/vocoder_plugin.android.arm64

How is a hotspot relevant to being more reliable than DMROIP?

“I'm referring to DMRoIP as relates to the RFinder app. The audio stream using the app can be poor quality (garbled) at times and require refreshing the stream in the app options which sometimes causes the audio drop out completely for a short time.

Do you need a hotspot for BrandMeister? No, but transmitting/receiving using the RF module into a hotspot works much better than using DMRoIP in the RFinder app. I'm not bashing RFinder, it's just the way it is for now. The last update has improved the stability and the developers continue to improve the app and add features.
When using the stable version of the RFinder app it does not have the DMRoIP options so you will need a hotspot if you want to use BrandMeister without going through a repeater.”

Instead of putting in a TG number, enter in the DMR ID of the individual to make a private call using DMRoIP.

• You could try creating a Brandmeister temporary TG using your DMR ID number; not really private though.
• Unfortunately, you cannot private call to another brand of radio right now. You can call RFinder to RFinder but it works differently than traditional DMR private.

Long press area under –Last Heard– to refresh/sync the DMR database

• Most repeaters use TG 9 for the local Talk Group. TG 9 is not on Brandmeister and not accessible via Brandmeister.
• TG 9 is also used for local status announcements from an OpenSpot 4 Pro (cross-mode hotspot) from SharkRF.com