BMtoAPRS keeps a live picture of DMR repeaters on APRS: every known repeater is beaconed as an APRS object (visible on aprs.fi and APRS clients) and listed on a web dashboard, with real-time ONLINE/OFFLINE status. This page explains what you'll see and how it works, for two audiences: people looking up repeaters, and sysops/admins of the repeaters themselves.
For users — finding repeaters
On aprs.fi / APRS clients: each repeater appears as an APRS object named after its callsign. The comment line looks like:
DMR Lisca 439.0750 -7.6 CC1
That's DMR <city> <TX frequency> <offset> CC<color code>. If the repeater isn't currently linked to its network, OFFLINE is appended; linked repeaters show no extra text (online is the assumed default — it's not announced).
On the web dashboard (/ on this deployment): a read-only, auto-refreshing page showing the same repeaters in a table — callsign, city, TX, RX, offset, color code (shown as CC1 etc., matching the beacon comment), status, current uptime, % up over the last 30 days, and last-seen time. Click any column header to sort by it. Status badges:
| Badge | Meaning |
|---|
| ONLINE | Currently linked to the network |
| OFFLINE | Known, but not currently linked |
| UNKNOWN | Link status couldn't be checked this cycle |
| NO POS | No known location — see "no position" below. Shown for visibility, not beaconed to APRS |
A repeater that is both offline and has no known position shows a blank status instead of stacking both badges - it's the expected state for a brand-new registration that has never linked up yet, not a fault.
Uptime columns: the link status is sampled every minute and kept for 30 days. "Uptime" is the length of the current online streak (measured since the repeater was last observed offline — for one never observed offline it means "at least this long"). "Up 30d" is the share of observed samples where the repeater was online; periods where the monitoring itself wasn't running count neither for nor against. In short: "Uptime" = how long since the last hiccup; "Up 30d" = how often it hiccups overall.
The page polls for fresh data in the background (every 30s by default) — no need to reload. The color scheme (light/dark) and language can be switched with the buttons at the top; both are remembered in your browser.
For repeater sysops/admins
How your repeater gets listed at all: the roster comes from radioid.net's DMR repeater registry, filtered to the configured country and callsign prefix, keeping entries with a 6-digit-or-shorter repeater ID (this is what separates real repeaters from personal hotspots in the convention both BrandMeister and radioid.net use). If your repeater isn't registered on radioid.net under the right country/callsign, it won't show up here at all.
City, frequency, offset, and color code all come from your radioid.net registration. If any of these look wrong on the map or dashboard, the fix is to update your registration there — this system no longer reads those fields from BrandMeister.
Position (lat/lon) still comes from BrandMeister, because radioid.net's registry doesn't include coordinates. This means:
- Your repeater needs to have linked to the configured BrandMeister master at least once so its position can be captured.
- Once captured, the position is cached and reused even if BrandMeister later drops your repeater from its list (which it does after roughly a week of being disconnected) — so a temporary outage won't make your repeater disappear from the map.
- If your repeater has never linked to the configured master, there's no position to use yet — it'll appear in the dashboard table (so you can confirm it's at least registered correctly) with a NO POS badge, but it won't be beaconed to APRS until it links up at least once.
ONLINE/OFFLINE is real-time, not "last heard." It's read from the master's live connection status each beacon cycle, checking whether your repeater is actively linked (not just whether it's recently carried traffic) — so a quiet repeater that's still linked correctly shows ONLINE, not OFFLINE.
Duplicate callsign registrations: if radioid.net has more than one entry under your callsign (e.g. after a site move where the old registration wasn't cleaned up), only one is used at a time — whichever currently has a live BrandMeister position match is preferred. If this affects you, removing the stale registration on radioid.net is the fix.
Data sources at a glance
| Field | Source |
|---|
| Roster (which repeaters exist), callsign, city, frequency, offset, color code | radioid.net |
| Latitude/longitude, last-seen timestamp | BrandMeister API (merged in by repeater ID) |
| ONLINE/OFFLINE | The network master's live connection status dashboard |
Troubleshooting
- My repeater doesn't appear at all → check it's registered on radioid.net for the correct country, with a callsign matching the configured prefix.
- My repeater shows NO POS → it's registered on radioid.net but has never linked to the configured BrandMeister master, so there's no position on record yet.
- City/frequency/offset/color code is wrong → update it on radioid.net; this system reads those fields from there, not from BrandMeister.
- Shows OFFLINE but I know it's linked → status reflects the configured master's live dashboard specifically; if your repeater is linked to a different master, it won't be reflected here.
- Two entries for my callsign → there's a duplicate registration on radioid.net; the one without a live position match is being suppressed automatically, but cleaning it up on radioid.net is the permanent fix.
BMtoAPRS skrbi za sprotno (živo) sliko DMR repetitorjev na APRS: vsak znan repetitor je oddan kot APRS objekt (viden na aprs.fi in APRS odjemalcih) in prikazan na spletni nadzorni plošči, s statusom ONLINE/OFFLINE v realnem času. Ta stran razloži, kaj boste videli in kako stvari delujejo, za dve skupini: uporabnike, ki iščejo repetitorje, ter sysope/skrbnike repetitorjev.
Za uporabnike — iskanje repetitorjev
Na aprs.fi / APRS odjemalcih: vsak repetitor se prikaže kot APRS objekt, poimenovan po svojem klicnem znaku. Vrstica s komentarjem je videti takole:
DMR Lisca 439.0750 -7.6 CC1
To pomeni DMR <kraj> <TX frekvenca> <odmik> CC<barvna koda>. Če repetitor trenutno ni povezan v omrežje, se na koncu dopiše OFFLINE; povezani repetitorji nimajo dodatnega besedila (privzeto se šteje, da je repetitor online — to se posebej ne naznanja).
Na spletni nadzorni plošči (/ na tej namestitvi): stran samo za branje, ki se samodejno posodablja in prikazuje iste repetitorje v tabeli — klicni znak, kraj, TX, RX, odmik, barvna koda (prikazana kot CC1 ipd., enako kot v komentarju bake), status, trenutni čas neprekinjenega delovanja, odstotek dosegljivosti v zadnjih 30 dneh in čas zadnje zaznave. S klikom na glavo stolpca lahko tabelo razvrstite po tem stolpcu. Statusne značke:
| Značka | Pomen |
|---|
| ONLINE | Trenutno povezan v omrežje |
| OFFLINE | Znan, vendar trenutno ni povezan |
| UNKNOWN | Stanja povezave v tem ciklu ni bilo mogoče preveriti |
| NO POS | Lokacija ni znana — glejte "brez lokacije" spodaj. Prikazan zaradi preglednosti, ni pa oddan na APRS |
Repetitor, ki je hkrati brez povezave in brez znane lokacije, prikazuje prazen status namesto obeh značk skupaj - to je pričakovano stanje za povsem novo registracijo, ki se še ni nikoli povezala, ne napaka.
Stolpca o dosegljivosti: stanje povezave se vzorči vsako minuto in hrani 30 dni. "Uptime" je dolžina trenutnega neprekinjenega delovanja (merjeno od trenutka, ko je bil repetitor nazadnje zaznan kot nepovezan — za repetitor, ki še nikoli ni bil zaznan kot nepovezan, pomeni "vsaj toliko"). "Up 30d" je delež opazovanih vzorcev, v katerih je bil repetitor povezan; obdobja, ko samo spremljanje ni delovalo, ne štejejo ne v prid ne v škodo. Na kratko: "Uptime" = koliko časa je minilo od zadnjega izpada; "Up 30d" = kako pogosto ima izpade nasploh.
Stran v ozadju periodično preverja sveže podatke (privzeto vsakih 30 s) — osveževanje strani ni potrebno. Barvno shemo (svetlo/temno) in jezik lahko preklopite z gumboma na vrhu; oboje se shrani v vašem brskalniku.
Za sysope/skrbnike repetitorjev
Kako se vaš repetitor sploh znajde na seznamu: seznam repetitorjev prihaja iz registra DMR repetitorjev na radioid.net, filtriranega glede na nastavljeno državo in predpono klicnega znaka, pri čemer se obdržijo le vnosi s največ 6-mestnim ID-jem repetitorja (to je konvencija, ki jo uporabljata tako BrandMeister kot radioid.net za ločevanje pravih repetitorjev od osebnih hotspotov). Če vaš repetitor ni registriran na radioid.net z ustrezno državo/klicnim znakom, se tukaj sploh ne bo prikazal.
Kraj, frekvenca, odmik in barvna koda prihajajo iz vaše registracije na radioid.net. Če je kateri od teh podatkov na zemljevidu ali nadzorni plošči napačen, je rešitev posodobitev registracije tam — ta sistem teh podatkov ne bere več iz BrandMeistra.
Lokacija (zemljepisna širina/dolžina) še vedno prihaja iz BrandMeistra, ker register na radioid.net ne vsebuje koordinat. To pomeni:
- Vaš repetitor se mora vsaj enkrat povezati v nastavljeni BrandMeister master, da se lahko zajame njegova lokacija.
- Ko je lokacija enkrat zajeta, se shrani v predpomnilnik in se uporablja naprej, tudi če BrandMeister vaš repetitor pozneje izbriše s seznama (kar stori po približno tednu dni nepovezanosti) — tako začasen izpad ne bo povzročil, da repetitor izgine z zemljevida.
- Če se vaš repetitor še nikoli ni povezal v nastavljeni master, lokacije še ni na voljo — repetitor se bo prikazal v tabeli na nadzorni plošči (tako lahko preverite, da je vsaj pravilno registriran) z značko NO POS, ne bo pa oddan na APRS, dokler se vsaj enkrat ne poveže.
ONLINE/OFFLINE je v realnem času, ne "nazadnje slišan". Podatek se ob vsakem ciklu oddajanja prebere iz stanja žive povezave na masterju in preveri, ali je vaš repetitor dejansko povezan (ne le, ali je v zadnjem času prenašal promet) — zato se tudi tih, a pravilno povezan repetitor prikaže kot ONLINE, ne OFFLINE.
Podvojene registracije klicnega znaka: če ima radioid.net pod vašim klicnim znakom več kot en vnos (npr. po selitvi lokacije, kjer stara registracija ni bila počiščena), se vedno uporabi samo eden — prednost ima tisti, ki ima trenutno veljavno ujemanje lokacije iz BrandMeistra. Če vas to zadeva, je dokončna rešitev odstranitev zastarele registracije na radioid.net.
Viri podatkov na hitro
| Podatek | Vir |
|---|
| Seznam repetitorjev (kateri obstajajo), klicni znak, kraj, frekvenca, odmik, barvna koda | radioid.net |
| Zemljepisna širina/dolžina, čas zadnje zaznave | BrandMeister API (združeno glede na ID repetitorja) |
| ONLINE/OFFLINE | Nadzorna plošča žive povezave omrežnega masterja |
Odpravljanje težav
- Moj repetitor se sploh ne prikaže → preverite, da je registriran na radioid.net za pravilno državo, s klicnim znakom, ki ustreza nastavljeni predponi.
- Moj repetitor prikazuje NO POS → registriran je na radioid.net, vendar se še nikoli ni povezal v nastavljeni BrandMeister master, zato lokacija še ni zabeležena.
- Kraj/frekvenca/odmik/barvna koda so napačni → posodobite jih na radioid.net; ta sistem te podatke bere od tam, ne iz BrandMeistra.
- Prikazuje OFFLINE, čeprav vem, da je povezan → status odraža točno določeno nadzorno ploščo nastavljenega masterja; če je vaš repetitor povezan v drug master, se to tukaj ne bo odražalo.
- Dva vnosa za moj klicni znak → na radioid.net obstaja podvojena registracija; tista brez veljavnega ujemanja lokacije se samodejno prezre, dokončna rešitev pa je čiščenje na radioid.net.