The way that I understand this is done and tested with a simplex hotspot is to turn on D-RATS server by using ircddbgateway. ?Then, it should create a port that you can tell D-RATS as a radio to connect as localhost and then that port number. ?My observations (may not be entirely correctly) were that with a station on RF could see the transmissions from the hotspot's D-RATS client connected to this port. Any activity from a gateway would be receiviable here
I think this functionality is already built into ircDDBGateway, but I don't think it works (either that or I'm not finding documentation that I can understand). ? I enabled the DRATS option on ircDDBGateway. ?I connected ?a DRATS client instance to the ircDDBGateway DRATS port. ?Finally, I linked up to REF030D where there is another ratflector linked by RF. ? ? I don't remember which way this worked, but I was only able to get one-way communication. ?I believe it worked outbound from the ircDDB side to REF030D, but nothing sent from the REF030D side made it back to the ircDDB side.
If it worked it would add much needed functionality to a really good tool. ? I don't think it would even require a switch from DPlus to ircDDBGateway. ? Could be as simple as putting DRATS and ircDDBGateway on a Raspberry Pi.
As for running a ratflector on a DSTAR gateway, I have been doing that for several months now. ?Works great - depending on the bandwidth to the repeater site. ? But, the ratflector isn't in any way linked to the repeater. ?It's merely running on the same box.?
I posted my experience with ircDDBGateway and DRATS on the ircDDBGateway forum, but never got any advice except something like "I tried that too and didn't have much success". ? ?If we could generate interest with the developer I would be happy to participate in testing.
Dan
W4DTO
Dan Ozment