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Eureka! That was it. I was in the wrong section.

Default value is 100. When i changed it 50 it changed the radio to 500mW.

I learned something new today!

Many thanks Daniel!

Chuck

I enabled the logging from pi-star and noticed the power value set in MMDVMHost is actually in watts and not a percentage. Power=1 is 1Watt, Power=15 is 15 Watts. Anything under 1 is 0 Watts. I: 2020-04-09 15:07:35.682 MMDVM protocol version: 1, description: OpenGD77 Hotspot v0.1.0 GitID #bc46565 I:...

Cool. Thank you!

I'm familiar with digital mode and trying to measure power.

Just for a sanity check I'm going to switch the radio to FM mode and see what my watt meter shows.

By chance is there a way to turn off the backlight in Hotspot mode?

In my case the default in pi-star is 1 which would be ignored by the DM1801 Hotspot since it apparently ignores anything below 10 as we've learned. Any value I put in doesn't change the value displayed on the radio. It appears there is a bit of a disconnect between pi-star and Hotspot mode. I manual...

So the value is percentage. If I set a value of say 15 in pi-star that results in 1.25. Which is also a percentage?

I wasn't measuring the power. Just hoping the power level displayed by the radio is at least in the ballpark.

Ah ha! So I'm *not* crazy!

The current default is power=1 in pi-star so that should have set it to 50mW.

No worries though. Not what I'd call a big deal. Easily remedied.

Well, I got it. I need to set the power *before* going into hotspot mode. The OpenDM1801 docs are is a little hazy on that and I interpreted it as the pi-star would set the power. Looks like I'm good to go.Running at 50mW. Sorry about the username foul up. I usually use my call. Missed that one too ...

Good evening Roger!

Well the default value in the pi-star is Power=1 and I've tried .5, 50 ,50% etc..

As for the radio. The menu isn't available in hotspot mode but I have a feeling I should have set the power *before* putting it into Hotspot mode.

Chuck
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