Pi-Star Updates June 2015

Many updates going into Pi-Star at the moment, the dashboard has had many new additions, it is now possible to choose your linked reflector from the dashboard, its also possible to set the prefered reflector that ircDDBGateway connects to on start.

Next up, pistar-keeper has had a substantial update, it now has its own config file, seperate from the script - that makes adminisration more pleasent. Pistar-keeper also now checks the conected REF and then re-connects to that one when the keeper's presence (or lack of) causes pistar-keeper to flip flop. Very nice feature if I do say so myself.

New on the (extensive) feature list is pistar-watchdog - this is a service watchdog, a simple idea, that I hope will cure the issues with the ircDDBGateway process. Somthing and I am yet to work out what yet, causes the process to flop, the watchdog monitors a number of system services and restarts them if (when) they fail.

The dashboard has also had some service monitors added, this allows a simple view of the D-Star related services at a glance.

Finally, the configuration pannel has had some major overhauls with firewall control to configure the uPNP firewall control module. The hardware is now also configurable on the configuration portal.

In short there has been a LARGE amount of upgrades added in the last 2 months, I think I'm almost ready for a public release!