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alcahuete

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Interesting. I just did a quick and dirty set up of this, and the radio won't transmit. I can ping the local radio (of course), but not the target radio.

You're actually seeing the red transmit light on the radio that is doing the pinging?
 

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You're hammering the radio with pings, let's slow them down. Ping defaults to 1 sec unless otherwise told (or configured).
ping -i 5 12.0.3.233
Let's give the radio 5 seconds (or more) and see if the timing report stabilizes.

Thanks and today is my lucky day.......

PING 12.0.3.233 (12.0.3.233) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=1480 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=1658 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=1477 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=4 ttl=63 time=1477 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=5 ttl=63 time=1476 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=6 ttl=63 time=1476 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=7 ttl=63 time=1476 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=8 ttl=63 time=1471 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=9 ttl=63 time=1469 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=10 ttl=63 time=1468 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=11 ttl=63 time=1472 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=12 ttl=63 time=1466 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=13 ttl=63 time=1467 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=14 ttl=63 time=1470 ms
 

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Thanks and today is my lucky day.......

PING 12.0.3.233 (12.0.3.233) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=1480 ms
64 bytes from 12.0.7.210: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=1658 ms
nice.
 

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Interesting. I just did a quick and dirty set up of this, and the radio won't transmit. I can ping the local radio (of course), but not the target radio.

You're actually seeing the red transmit light on the radio that is doing the pinging?

Yes. Tx activated by the ping command.
 

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Yes. Tx activated by the ping command.
eh....sorta/kinda but it's not the command directly, it's the result. Yes, in this instance the ping command is sending data down a pipe and the radio is TXing as a result, but any command that sends data to that IP should cause the radio to TX.
 

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I saw that video a few months ago. Pretty crude but it works. I think it was only 9600 baud. Good enough for messaging. Curious if you could do ping over BT via PC? I can ping my radio over the BT connection. That would eliminate the serial cable. Also with my radio connected to my PC over BT there is a COM7 assigned as well. Wonder about using something like PUTTY and doing a terminal over the COM port?
 

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I saw that video a few months ago. Pretty crude but it works. I think it was only 9600 baud. Good enough for messaging. Curious if you could do ping over BT via PC? I can ping my radio over the BT connection. That would eliminate the serial cable. Also with my radio connected to my PC over BT there is a COM7 assigned as well. Wonder about using something like PUTTY and doing a terminal over the COM port?
What IP address do you use to PING through BT?
 

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IP networking via a Mototrbo network is a little unconventional and is somewhat esoteric to say the very least. However, there is an excellent document entitled "Extended IP Network Using Mototrbo Radio" that fully explains IP addressing over the Mototrbo USB Peripheral, Radio, and Bluetooth Networks. This document includes Network Address Translation (NAT) across these network elements and can be easily located
with a simple internet search for the above title.
 

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Has there been any improvement on the latency and overall bandwidth?

MotoTrbo has a way to link sites using a dedicated repeater at each site, I would imagine it requires more than 9600kbps and lower latency for the system to work better. My guess is the full duplex in the repeater would lower latency and increase bandwidth...
 

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What models of MotoTRBO can create network like on this video? Only those who supports IP Site Connect technology?

Can I connect MotoTRBO via Bluetooth to my Android and do the same things(ping radios)?

If you don't know the answer, can you please give me the author's e-mail? I shall be very grateful to you.
That is a great source of information. Thank you very much.

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What models of MotoTRBO can create network like on this video? Only those who supports IP Site Connect technology?

Can I connect MotoTRBO via Bluetooth to my Android and do the same things(ping radios)?

If you don't know the answer, can you please give me the author's e-mail? I shall be very grateful to you.


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Hello, as I know, your MotoTrbo works as a router and provides the connectivity through USB, WIFI and BT to his slave devices. My guess is YES, you can connect to your MotoTrbo through BT and get the same Ping going on cross. But you might have to ping a different address other than the USB connected IP.
 
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