[App_rpt-users] Repeater Controller Information

[Jim W7RY]

Perfect!  Thanks Bryan!  I'll get to reading...

73

Jim W7RY



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From: "Bryan D. Boyle" <bdboyle at bdboyle.com>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 4:59 PM
To: <app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org>
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Repeater Controller Information

> On 12/9/2011 7:30 PM, Jim W7RY wrote:
>> Perhaps I misunderstand....
>>
>> I was under the impression that you could use the computer and
>> the URI as a repeater controller as well as an Allstar node.
>
> Yup.  Good start.  Asterisk runs the app_rpt module inside as a means
> to control the functionality of the URI, which is connected as a USB
> audio device.
>
> Minimally and ideally from the radio to the URI, you need:
>
> 1. Discriminator audio from the receiver, from which will be developed:
> - presence of signal (COR)
> - deemphasized audio
> - the CTCSS value that will cause the COR to 'go high' in software that
> will:
> 2. key the radio via the PTT pin
> 3. provide flat (or mic, depending on whether you're bashing a couple
> mobiles together or actually have a repeater set up.
>
> So...you have a number of things to configure:
>
> 1. The /etc/asterisk/usbradio.conf file which contains all the
> parameters, per node, concerning what type of node, what the ctcss
> values are, how the signals are derived or read, etc.
>
> 2. The /etc/asterisk/usbradio_tune_usbXXXXX.conf which contains the
> tuning parameters for node XXXXX which are developed with the
> /usr/sbin/radio-tune-menu progam
>
> 3. The /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf file which contains such things as the
> timeouts, functions, id strings or pointers to the audio file with the
> station id, macros, etc.
>
> The system is extremely flexible and powerful, way beyond what irlp,
> echolink (there's a module for echolink, by the by...) or a hardware
> controller will give you.
>
> I do suggest getting the O'Reilly book 'Asterisk' which, though it's for
> a later version, has a lot of good information in there that is useful
> for our systems.
>>
>> I see from the Allstar site, that it handles all of the audio
>> and CTCSS decode and encode functions. I was looking for the
>> information on the timer functions of the repeater controller
>> portion.
>
> The timer code is in rpt.conf.  You're looking for values in the node
> stanza for your node of:
>
> hangtime=1000
> althangtime=1000
> totime=170000
> idtime=540000
> politeid=3000
>
> do a google on rpt.conf, and what these mean will be explained a lot
> more succinctly than I can here.  And these are just a few of the values
> you can fiddle with.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> 73
>> Jim W7RY
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Bryan D. Boyle
>> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 4:13 PM
>> To: Jim W7RY
>> Cc: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
>> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Repeater Controller Information
>>
>>
>> ok...to help you...
>>
>>
>> 1.  what kind of radio?
>> 2. have you downloaded and built the computer?
>> 3. have you connected the uri and is it blinking?
>>
>>
>> iow, you've proposed a pretty open-ended question...to begin to help, 
>> need to know where on the continuum of goodness and mind meld with 
>> allstar you are.
>>
>>
>> welcome to the collective es 73
>>
>>
>>
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