On 5/17/2010 1:51 PM, John Hays wrote:
On 5/17/2010 11:57 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote:
And while you indicate that the G2 and DPlus protocols aren’t open
source, they definitely have been reversed engineered and we have
third party solutions talking to them now.
Which ones? Where can one find information on them?
There are several projects, the most promising right now is G4ULF's
working D-STAR repeater and G2 protocol compliant software. Runs on
Linux, uses Satoshi (and hopefully soon Fred's) firmware, and a very
modest CPU/Memory footprint (the actual repeater and gateway are only
about 80k compiled). David is very careful about QA of his code and
has worked extensively with K5TIT trust team in a test and production
environment. G4ULF code based repeater/gateways can connect to K5TIT
trust, but generally availability is probably at least a couple of
months out.
That wasn't an answer to my question, John.
Forgive me for being a hard-ass about it, but the point of the original
poster's sincere query was whether or not D-STAR is "too closed".
Dropping the "too" and just answering whether it's closed or open, the
answer is, and has always been: "Yes, it is closed to mere mortals".
Naming things "open" is just a head-fake. Lots of people fall for it, too.
Icom Gateway - Closed.
D-PLUS - Closed.
Add-Ons that are talking to D-PLUS - Closed.
I am making no judgment about it, I'm simply answering the original
poster's question, which was avoided.
When we all grow up and learn to just say it:
"Yes, Virginia. There is a Santa Claus. And D-STAR is closed/proprietary."
Life is easier.
If you want a value/judgment statement; or a scoreboard -- I can also
provide that:
"The data/off-air interfaces in D-STAR are as closed as MotoTRBO, and
eventually more closed than P25 once they publish their interop
interface. Right now, they're all tied for closed-ness."
And...
"The on-air interfaces, D-STAR and P25 are tied for openness, MotoTRBO
is closed."
Nate WY0X
