(Still waiting on the Apple App Store.)

Here’s what’s new …

• Multiple call signs – for you road (air) warriors that have call signs in other countries, and travel with your node. Let us know about your alternative call sign, we’ll add it to your account and it will become selectable in AllStar Setup.
• The “Your Nodes” screen will now sort your nodes alphabetically by tag – if you’ve defined a tag for your node(s)
• Fixed an issue where status bar items were invisible in Android devices running Android API 35+
• Fixed file name clashes when generating announcements
• Fixed broken timeout in WiFiByLight running on the Pi 5B ASL3 devices
• Fixed a corner case that was preventing Voice ID from functioning properly

73 … Gerry.

We’ve cleared the latest batch of releases from AllStarLink.org for their Version 3 distribution. If you have ASL3 installed on your Pi4 or Pi5 based ClearNode you should get a warning that it’s time to upgrade. Please upgrade as soon as you can.

BE PATIENT ! The upgrade takes several minutes – do not interrupt power or reboot your node.

73 … Gerry.

We’re receiving a large number of enquiries about migrating individual ClearNodes from the HamVoIP AllStar distribution to ASL3.

If you own a Raspberry Pi 4B based node – there is a path to ASL3 – contact Support for details.

If you own a Raspberry Pi 5B based node – you are already running ASL3, since that’s the only option for that device.

If you own a Raspberry Pi 3A, 3B or Zero based node – we DO NOT have an image for those devices – they are restricted to the HamVoIP distribution.

73 … Gerry.

Here’s what’s new …

• Now supporting “linktolink” in AllStar Setup
• Fixed issue with “Search WiFi Neworks” in Android App
• Clearer messaging around WiFi Network setup results in ASL3 versions

73 … Gerry.

There seems to be a problem getting new voicerss.org accounts activated. Some users have had zero success interacting with the folks over there – the activation emails are not being sent out. If you already have an active account you’re good, but new users will not be able to use SkyDescribe until this is resolved. SkywarnPlus have been made aware and they have an active “issue” on their Github page.

One possible solution is that SkyDescribe migrates to a different text to speech provider, but that would have to happen in their software implementation.

We will update here as we find out more …

73 … Gerry.

We’ve cleared the latest batch of releases from AllStarLink.org for their Version 3 distribution. If you have ASL3 installed on your Pi4 or Pi5 based ClearNode you should get a warning that it’s time to upgrade. Please upgrade as soon as you can.

BE PATIENT ! The upgrade takes several minutes – do not interrupt power or reboot your node.

73 … Gerry.

Here’s what’s new …

• Changes to WiFi management in ASL3 to better support unusual SSIDs and Passwords
• Enabling duplex_mode = 3 for ClearNodes – so you can get full duplex operations through your connected SIP phone
• Fixes ilink,6, *76 and “Disconnect before connect” for ASL3
• Now able to correctly disable courtesy tones in ASL3
• New SayTime script for ASL3 – get in touch for the correct script if you want to use it in Timed Events.

73 … Gerry.

Minor bug fixes – most importantly the DTMF command *76 and “Disconnect before connect” has been fixed in the ASL3 distribution. Recommended for all users.

73 … Gerry.

We were able to get a considerable supply of components before the current turmoil in international trade set in. However, we are now having to start ordering under the terms of the current import duties, those components that aren’t available in the US, and inevitably have to come from overseas, primarily China.

Interestingly, one of the more costly components is the PCB and we do source that here in California. That cost has more than doubled in the last few months !

We are currently re-calculating the Bill Of Materials and will shortly determine what are the best prices we can offer for our products, to remain profitable enough to stay in business.

Look out for the new pricing around the middle of June.

73 … Gerry.

We got reports that “Disconnect before connect” is not working in the ASL3 installations. That’s confirmed … some changes in the AllStar management interface mean our existing use of the interface is failing. We are going to make a minor change to compensate in the short term – look out for the next API release. Meanwhile the good folks at AllStarLink are looking at that interface and will be releasing their own update at some point …

73 … Gerry.