Pi-Star DV Dashboard — SVXLink Fork

Fork of the Pi-Star Digital Voice Dashboard with SVXLink support for FM mode.

This adds SVXLink as a network gateway for FM, allowing FM repeaters to connect to SVXReflectors — the same way YSFGateway, P25Gateway, or M17Gateway handle their respective digital modes.

Audio flows via UDP between MMDVMHost and SVXLink — no sound card needed:

Radio RF <-> MMDVM modem <-> MMDVMHost [FM Network] <-> UDP (3810/4810) <-> SVXLink <-> SVXReflector

What's Added

Dashboard integration:

• FM Network status indicator in the network status table
• SVXLink info panel in the sidebar (reflector host, callsign, process status)
• SVXLink config editor at /admin/expert/edit_svxlink.php

Deployment tooling (deploy/):

• pistar-svxlink-installer.sh — installs everything on an existing Pi-Star
• svxlink_ctrl — helper script for reflector connect/disconnect

Prerequisites

Your MMDVM board must support FM mode. If FM doesn't work on your hardware (modem firmware too old, board doesn't support analog FM), SVXLink won't work either — it depends on MMDVMHost's FM Network for audio.

Installation on Pi-Star

SSH into your Pi-Star and run:

rpi-rw
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/audric/Pi-Star_DV_Dash.git
cd Pi-Star_DV_Dash/deploy
sudo ./pistar-svxlink-installer.sh --dashboard-repo https://github.com/audric/Pi-Star_DV_Dash

The installer will:

1. Install the svxlink-server package
2. Update the dashboard to this fork (future updates via /admin/update.php)
3. Deploy svxlink_ctrl to /usr/local/sbin/
4. Create a default SVXLink config at /etc/svxlink/svxlink.conf with UDP audio (auto-reads callsign from MMDVMHost)
5. Enable [FM] and [FM Network] in /etc/mmdvmhost
6. Configure sudoers for web-based control
7. Restart MMDVMHost and start SVXLink

Post-install

1. Open /admin/expert/edit_svxlink.php in your browser
2. Set AUTH_KEY and reflector HOST in the [ReflectorLogic] section

Uninstall

sudo /tmp/Pi-Star_DV_Dash/deploy/pistar-svxlink-installer.sh --uninstall

This restores the original upstream dashboard and removes the helper scripts.

Upstream

Based on Pi-Star DV Dashboard by Andy Taylor (MW0MWZ), Hans-J. Barthen (DL5DI), and Kim Huebel (DG9VH).

• Upstream repo: https://github.com/AndyTaylorTweet/Pi-Star_DV_Dash
• Pi-Star project: https://www.pistar.uk
• SVXLink project: https://github.com/sm0svx/svxlink