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I did not like the small screen and the small housing of my last Hotspot so I decided to make a bigger housing where I needed a bigger screen. Look what I got myself up and running, with some major options to control the hotspot just right off the screen itself. Make sure to install the NextionDrivers when you use this layout – it offers way more possibilities.

An overview of how to mount your Pi-Star sdcard on a mac machine.

I created a simple last-heard-dashboard for my small Nextion screen. It currently shows the used slot, its origin (like Network or RF) , the callsign and the used talkgroup.

This is a quick workaround to retrieve a DMRID on console or terminal.

This article is based on the Firmware v9.

This is a MMDVM_HS_Dual_Hat hotspot in duplex mode with DMRGateway and an actual Pi-Star image.

A quick notice about three very handy tools to optimize PNG images on the command line. They work on linux and macOS. Use jpegtran for JPG images.

This is a short story from my life that explains how I came to my amateur radio license.