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Importing an Anytone AT-D878UV codeplug into AT-D578UV or AT-D168UV

May 8, 2025/0 Comments/in Amateur radio, Radio/by Stefan Helander

To import a codeplug for Anytone AT-D878UV into the CPS for AT-D578UV or AT-D168UV, the only way is to export it to CSV from the AT-D878UV CPS and then import it. But for some strange reason, Anytone has decided to make the CSV formats slightly incompatible… Come on, Anytone. Why??? This bug/feature seems to be related to splitting Color Codes into RX and TX that was implemented in the 3.06 release of the CPS.

The import into the CPS for AT-D578UV or AT-D168UV will silently fail. No error message is displayed but upon investigation I discovered that the Color Codes for the DMR Channels were wrong (set to CC1 in all cases). I maintain a codeplug for AT-D878UV with almost 900 channels, so fixing this manually is not an option.

I use the latest CPS for all models, that is for AT-D878UV version 3.07, for AT-D578UV version 1.21 and for AT-D168UV version 1.06.

A workaround is to edit one of the column headers in the CSV file before importing. Which column depends if you are importing to AT-D578UV or AT-D168UV.

AT-D878UV -> AT-D578UV	Change “RX Color Code” to “Color Code”
AT-D878UV -> AT-D168UV	Change “TxCC” to “TxCc”

If you have found more incompabilities that needs to be handled, please let me know and I will add it to the article.

FreePBX/Asterisk missing DID; how to force DID on trunk

April 16, 2025/0 Comments/in SIP/by Stefan Helander

If you get a SIP account from a provider which isn’t really a trunk it can be configured as a trunk in FreePBX but DID on incoming calls is set to “s” so it is impossible to get an inbound route working.

The trunk in this case will only have one DID so a workaround is to set the DID “hardcoded” on the trunk in order to get the inbound route working.

Edit extensions_custom.conf and add something like this, but replace “123456789” with the DID you wish to set:

[custom-123456789]
exten => s,1,Noop(Setting DID to 123456789)
exten => s,n,Goto(from-trunk,123456789,1)

Now edit the trunk and go to the pjsip tab and enter custom-123456789 (replacing “123456789” with your DID) in the Context field.

Now all incoming calls in this trunk will get your desired DID and your inbound route will be able to catch them by the DID.

FreePBX extension receives call from wrong queue

April 11, 2025/0 Comments/in SIP/by Stefan Helander

It turned out that the extension earlier had been a dynamic agent for the queue, and it was logged in as an active agent for the queue when the extension was removed from the queue. This caused calls in the queue being sent to the extension still.

Solution: Edit the Queue, add the extension as a dynamic agent, call *45 from the extension (“agent logged off”), dial *45 again (“agent logged in”) and finally dial *45 one more time (“agent logged off”). Now edit the Queue again and remove the extension from dynamic agents.

osTicket “Excessive errors processing emails for” reported by Mail Fetcher

November 23, 2024/0 Comments/in Linux/FreeBSD/by Stefan Helander

The email account was set up as an IMAP account.

The reason turned out to be the fact that the Inbox of the account contained many emails (>18.000) so I just moved all emails from the Inbox to an Archive folder and the problem was resolved.

JA Simpli featured articles blog layout not working after upgrade from Joomla! 3 to 4 or 5

November 3, 2024/0 Comments/in Joomla/by Stefan Helander

Using the template JA Simpli with a menu item displaying featured articles in a blog layout. I had set up a 3 column layout but after upgrade to Joomla! 4 and 5 the featured articles was displayed full width stacked on eachother.

Solution:

Rename the current menu item, espcially the alias field.
Create a new menu item of the type Featured articles and set it up exactly as the old one. Use the old alias.

The blog layout now displays correctly and the old menu item can be deleted.

Contact Form 7 and All in one WP security and firewall

October 24, 2024/0 Comments/in WordPress/by Stefan Helander

If you unable to submit forms through Contact Form 7 while not logged in (i.e. test in incognito mode) and All in one WP security and firewall is used, make sure that the Disallow unauthorized REST requests is NOT enabled in AIOWP Security and Firewall. (It is mentioned in the yellow info box *hint* *hint*.)

The settings are found in WP Security -> Firewall -> WP REST API tab

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How to do a SharePoint PnPonline connect with PowerShell 7

September 21, 2024/0 Comments/in Microsoft, Windows/by Erik Svensson

If you want to do a connection to SharePoint Online with a PowerShell script. You will need to make a connecting user and a certificate for logon. The legacy function with plain text user/password does not work anymore.

The PowerShell CMD-let SharePoint Online PnP has been beprecated and is replaced with PnP PowerShell. Do the following to confirm right installed CMD-let

To check if you have the right version of PowerShell. You will need at least PowerShell 7.3

1 $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Get all installed SharePoint Online PnP PowerShell Modules

1 Get-module -ListAvailable *pnp*

If both or PnP Classic is installed

1 Uninstall-Module PnP.PowerShell -AllVersions -Confirm:$False

2 Uninstall-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline -AllVersions -Confirm:$False

Some versions of PowerShell need to change the TLS to version 1.2 for uninstall and install to work

1 [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

Install the latest version of PnP.PowerShell. Choose install option Yes to All

1 Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

2 Install-Module PnP.PowerShell

You have now installed the new Module

To make a connection to SharePoint Online you will need a global account to your Tenant and some information.

Make a folder for your certs at the local computer “c:\mycertificates”. Do not use spaces or local characters for the folder name. Register the account.

$result = Register-PnPEntraIDApp -ApplicationName “[MySharePointAppName]” -Tenant [TenantName].onmicrosoft.com -OutPath c:\mycertificates -Interactive
$result

Sign in with your Admin account and the script will return a client ID on success. Store the client ID for feature use. You will receive two certificates in your certificate folder.

To make a connection to SharePoint

Connect-PnPOnline [TenantName].sharepoint.com/sites/[folder] -ClientId [ClientIDNo] -Tenant [TenantName].onmicrosoft.com -CertificatePath “C:\mycertificates\[MySharePointAppName].pfx”

Doro PMR walkie talkie key lock

July 16, 2024/0 Comments/in Radio/by Stefan Helander

How to lock and unlock the key lock on a Doro PMR walkie talkie:

Press and hold the power button
Press UP button

This way the locked symbol is toggled.

Stefan Helander

Anytone AT-D878UV not displaying roaming channel – fixed!

March 23, 2024/0 Comments/in Amateur radio, Radio/by Stefan Helander

When I got my first Anytone AT-D878UV in 2019 the roaming function used to display which channel it had roamed onto but later on, probably after a firmware upgrade this disappeared rendering the roaming function rather useless.

This continued even though I switched to the latest AT-D878UVII Plus. I recently asked a friend who also got the latest model if he had the same problem – which he hadn’t.

This made me suspect that this is an error that had occurred in my codeplug and continued to exist even though I’ve switching models (since the RDT-files are upward compatible I didn’t bother to make a new codeplug for the new radio, so I just opened the RDT-file from the old one).

So I exported everyting on my current codeplug to CSV-files, went into the CPS and made a new codeplug, imported the CSV files and walked through Optional settings to set up everyting as I wanted. Then wrote the new codeplug to the radio and guess what – now it displays the channel it is roaming on!