Is there any information about the release schedule? At the moment only analog wires linking is working with the dr1-x repeater. And the repeater does not announce the connection even though everything else works very well.
Depending on who you talk to (or read), yes and no.
I've been waiting for direct digital repeater support via direct connection for over a year and a half since it was an announced feature. It has simply been re-announced over and over with the most recent being documentation only holding up the feature to be out in November, then on December 1st. Of 2015 BTW, never mind 2014.
Now with V1.00d being shipped in repeaters now, it may or may not be beyond WishWare, promiseWare or VaporWare. Don't know. But if documentation was the reason not to put it up on the web, then how can they no ship it in the latest repeaters. It sounds simply to be a hollow excuse to me.
But it surely has been a disappointment in the way it has been handled, Japan's secrecy on this and the repeater PA detonations, the mobile PA's/relay failure and more. On the upside, the cost of the repeaters are low (for another week anyway), the Fusion implementation is great and the user radios are reasonably mid-range priced for the APRS, dual receive, the digital support and the folks in Commerce CA who have really tried to bridge the gap between Japan and it's USA customers. I'm sure they are privately disgusted with Japan's intransigence to the wishes of the their USA market.
The efforts on the DV4mini side as well as other gateway projects will likely eclipse the "need" for WIRES-X and their very closed implementation, Japan only based server, and poor handling of feature requests. While I have 2 WIRES-X boxes, I don't use them and see little improvement in how Japan will handle a better implementation for the USA. WIRES-X is likely to falter the same as WIRES-II and WIRES before it, at least here in the USA. If Japan were to release/allow/enable USA based WIRES-X servers, then the latency and stodgy admin issues would go away and drive more of use to truly embrace WIRES-X.
But for all my moaning, I'm solidly behind Fusion owning 2 repeaters, 2 HTs and 3 400's and a couple of HRI-200's, one still on the network as a simplex node idling for a year.
