RepeaterPhone

App randomly closes, most likely due to my use of beta iOS. I’ve discussed this with the developer and feel that it’s not the app.

I rated this as 4 stars, even though it is the BEST allstar app for iOS it is missing one important feature that would be highly welcomed; Apple CarPlay integration.

I tried to set up my account and i always get “authentification failed”.

This is an excellent program and special
thanks to WES for making this happen!
Important note for those beta testing, 26.2 has broken this app. Do not update your phone to beta versions until they get this resolved.
KA4EPS

iPhone 12 no issues but iPhone 16 pro will not connect

Seems Repeaterphone uses node-less, unauthenticated access to hub nodes. Seems large hubs disable “allstar-public” access to block abuse. This prevents me from accessing the large southcoastreflector network I’m interested in. I confirmed with the network admin. that he has disabled “allstar-public”.

Several forum posters reported these issues with this app., and the only alternative is Android based DVswitch. Appears the developer is also aware of the issue for a couple of years now, and has no resolution.

So, before spending your money- validate the access requirements of your favorite node network hubs.

Love this app great work.

I really enjoy this app and love the fact that it is very stable, you can talk directly with people on the radio on the other end. And while you have the ability to talk with everyone anywhere in the world, I wish they would at least orginize in some way an optimal way to orginize the nodes at least by location or perhaps group chat. I am not dinging them for that though, it just makes it more difficult to get going. With that being said, I'm not techie enough to even attempt a node, I'ld never be able to get it going. Fabulous tool.

I am just blown away by the fact that there is absolutely no options to differentiate conference or location within the RepeaterPhone app for All-Star or EchoLink

I wish I could see the total number of people connected to the node even before I connect. Thanks for the app.

Takes amateur radio to a new level.

This is a really nice value alternative that does not require any expensive special hardware other than a phone. Just set your credentials and you are on the air.

This app will occasionally crash, disconnecting you from the call you're in. It also failed to load the list of stations for the first several times I tried to load that.

It also sometimes randomly disconnects (possibly correlated to network changes) without crashing, and is silent for several seconds before indicating that it's disconnected.

Audio quality is good when it does work, but it's too unreliable, so I'm back to using EchoLink for now.

Also the ability to search for nodes by location like the EchoLink app has would be very useful, the list of nodes tends to be too long to be useful to scroll through if you don't already know exactly which one you want.

I really appreciate what the dev has done here. Until this, only the one (beta, buggy) app allows for a direct allstar node connection. Anyway, this one works! Some wants in a perfect world: The watch app lacks the ability to hear through its speaker, and is merely a simple one-way PTT for the phone(Apple restriction). It'd be cool have more sorting for the large repeater list, and a last heard map/list which would be really useful. Another feature would be listen-only mode or just a dialer where I can connect to ASL nodes with allstar's codes like *72 etc... most of the nodes I regularly connect to like WinSys and hubnet error out with "Rejected: No authority found". I think the hub owners have blocked this type of client (and not DVSwitch which is weird). In any case, great effort by the dev and looking forward to seeing what it can become.

Update after reading dev response: most of the issues here are Apple's restrictions. Oh, Apple.

I want to like this app but I can't seem to use it without it crashing. Going back to the old free Echolink app.

This is the best app as of right now! So happy on how it performs on both EchoLink and on Allstar. It’s so amazing how smooth and easy this app cooperates like a simple walk in the park! Thank you for releasing such a well thought out application.

I love to listen to different NODES and Conferences, BUT when you lock the screen it will close the connection and ends everything. Both Echolink and Allstarlink will NOT run while screen is off. Lame.. Rather go back to the Original Echolink APP and Zoiper.

Unfortunately after using this app on my iPhone for the last two months I cannot solve the constant crashing. The app has been unreliable for me.

This amazing app has worked flawlessly for me and I LOVE it! After all the amateur radio enjoyment RepeaterPhone has given me and continues to give me, I would pay 10 times the price and still consider it a good value.

I was away from home and wanted to connect to my local repeaters via AllStarLink, this is absolutely perfect when you are not in range of another linked repeater.