[App_rpt-users] Echolink, anyone else having this?

[Stephen Rodgers]

Buddy Brannan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just wondering if anyone else is having this issue or may have some  
> idea what's going on?
> 
> Running the latest SVN build of the app_rpt and the asterisk 1.4.23- 
> pre from the SVN repository, with chan_echolink and chan_irlp.  
> Everything seems to work OK for the most part; occasionally get random  
> DTMF tones thrown out over the transmitter from Echolink, but not as  
> much as in earlier incarnations. Audio levels also seem consistent  
> across the board. The one issue I seem to be having, though, is that  
> connecting and disconnecting from Echolink nodes seems to take a  
> really, really long time, sometimes well over a minute. During this  
> time, no audio is repeated, and the transmitter stays keyed. I  
> couldn't say whether DTMF decoding still occurs and is tied up in a  
> queue somewhere, but I don't think so.
> 
> Also, possibly related: I was connected to another Allstar node on  
> Saturday. This node was connected to a bunch of Echolink nodes through  
> rptdir, and I was connected to one Echolink node using chan_echolink.  
> At some point several times, the Echolink node I was connected to  
> would drop. When it dropped, I had the same issues as above: it took  
> an age to actually drop, and during this period, no audio was  
> transmitted. This would happen when someone was talking from the  
> ASterisk link; I'd hear the linked station, then the transmitter would  
> drop all audio (dead carrier), until I got an indication that my  
> Echolink station had dropped. If I'm at a console, doing a reload  
> wakes the system up, but doesn't necessarily prevent the disconnect  
> (or continue the connection if connecting to Echolink).
> 
> This behavior only appears to be present with Echolink. IRLP and  
> Asterisk connections seem to have no trouble at all.
> 
> Anyone else, or anyone have an idea what's happening here?
> 
> Buddy, KB5ELV
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I've seen connects take a few seconds, but not a minute.

Have you tried looking at the Asterisk console for clues as to why your
connect times are so long? You might see error or retry information
which could help you determine where the problems are.

Steve
WA6ZFT