Made a mistake in the video. Make sure to point your domain/subdomain at your IP using an A Record, not a CNAME.

Many thanks. Made the setup really easy to follow.

Im hammered in a hot tub in florida and im just watching this vid enjoying people like you exist

Great video and great article. Just what I was looking for. Many thanks!

I have been using DMR since the beginning of 2020. I bought a Tyt uv380 with mmdvm hotspot. Got them packaged together for $200. It was a great deal at that time. I used the radio to listen most of the time and I just idled on the America Link and Worldwide brandmeister TGs. I just didn't really do much with it. It was pretty boring and basic to me. A few months ago I just happened to come across a video about the WPSD dashboard for Raspberry Pi. I was amazed. It was very cool looking and very active development going on almost daily. The regular Pi-star dashboard was archaic and seemed forgotten about to me. The WPSD dashboard got me excited and interested in DMR again. Then I discovered the TGIF network. It was very different than BM from my perspective. It just seems more alive and more various active TGs. BM has many, many people talking all the time but most are talking in regional TGs and others that I just had no interest in. TGIF has also really revived my interest in DMR. I find myself talking a lot on DMR now. It just took me finding a new flavor of it I guess.

Wow this content is over my head haha! You clearly are very handy with IT stuff. I watched another video of yours that said you were born in 1995 - I graduated HS and got licensed in 1995 😅 I've been in and out of the hobby over the years (more out than in) so i'm by no means proficient in any aspect of amateur radio. I am a General Class and working on my Extra. I found your channel because I'm interested in YSF and looking into getting a hotspot. The closest YSF repeater to me is 28 miles (per Repeater Book) so I doubt I can hit that with my FT5D. I'm also in Kentucky and a veteran (Navy). Looking forward to learning from you! Happy New Year! 73 - Jeremy KF4CHW

Hey sick video! Do you have any advice on re-compiling? My reflector is up and running, but i Need to make changes to my main.h file, but not sure how i’ll recompile

Great video and should get me easily up & running with an XLX reflector. What I really want to do is have it connect to an existing YSF or XLX reflector/server. I also want it to bridge to a Brandmeister DMR talkgroup. Will it do this/ is it capable of doing this? I have a Brandmeister connected DMR repeater and from that Repeater I'd like to be able to "bring up" this connection to YSF and talk to my friends that are on a given YSF room that is always up. Is XLX reflector/server a good choice for doing this or do I need to find a different bridging server option? I know there are a few out there including XLX/REF but I am not familiar with any of them. I'm a pro with this server, networking and DNS stuff but no experience bridging DMR and Fusion myself yet. Thanks!!! -Steve N8LBV

That's the best and clearest explanation of how to do this I've ever seen. Thank you! 73 de G0TVJ

try to follow the instructions and when you get to the "sudo make install" part it says command not found. any suggestions?

I had two users on my xlx reflector today, one direct with radio?? other through openspot. they could not here each other. do I need to change a setting?

How about a video on add transcoding capabilities

your video suggest editing the ip address for a transcoder service. where can I find such a service? w/o transcoding, Im really struggling with the value of a reflector hosted on a remote server.

A CNAME points to another (DNS-)name, not an IP :-)

I tried running through the installation scripts several more times. I still have just one error in the Starting the Server section. When trying to run the line: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/log/xlxd.xml I get the error: chown: cannot access '/var/log/xlxd.xml' : No such file or directory. I searched for xlxd.xml on the Debian 12.4.0 computer, and it does not exist. I get the Apache2 Debian Default Web Page with my fully qualified domain name on a web browser, not the XLX Multiprotocol Gateway Reflector web page.

The XLX Reflector server is built on Debian 12.4.0. All the commands seemed to run normally with no errors, until the Start Server section. I ran into two errors, one in the Start Server section, one in the XLX web page. ky0l@XLX-Reflector:~/xlxd/src$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/log/xlxd.xml chown: cannot access '/var/log/xlxd.xml': No such file or directory The other error is when I enter my domain name on a web browser, I do not get the XLX Reflector page, I get an Apache2 Debian Default Web Page, that says the Apache2 is working.