[App_rpt-users] How to 'flip' RF nodes via DTMF

[K&R Yoksh]

Here's a feature I haven't heard anything about yet..

Do you have multiple RF nodes connected to Asterisk, and ever wanted to 
'flip' them? For example, you have a VHF and UHF node, and occasionally 
would like to put the VHF traffic on UHF and vice-versa?

I've actually wanted to have this capability before, and it occurred to me 
tonight how to easily achieve this. Here are the DTMF commands for rpt.conf:

950=cmd,/home/kyle/astflip 0        ; unflip nodes - normal
951=cmd,/home/kyle/astflip 1        ; flipVHF and UHF nodes

What needs to happen to completely 'flip' two nodes is incredibly simple, 
the more I thought about it.

Here's a normal node stanza:

[2211]

rxchannel=SimpleUSB/usb2211

and here's a 'flipped' node stanza:

[2211]

rxchannel=SimpleUSB/usb2212

All I had to do was to automate the process! There are two copies of 
rpt.conf. One is the normal setup, and the other has the rxchannels flipped 
as above.


Here is my script:

#!/bin/bash

#

# Script to flip Allstar Nodes, by K0KN 7/2012

#

# Usage = astflip [1] [0] 0=normal 1=flipped

#

ASTERISK=/etc/asterisk

NORMAL=/etc/asterisk/rpt.normal

FLIPPED=/etc/asterisk/rpt.flipped

if [ "$1" == "" ] ; then

echo "Missing Argument(s)" ; exit

fi

# Flip configs

if [ $1 == 1 ] ; then

cp "$FLIPPED" "$ASTERISK/rpt.conf"

fi

if [ $1 == 0 ] ; then

cp "$NORMAL" "$ASTERISK/rpt.conf"

fi

# Restart Asterisk

asterisk -rx "restart now"

# done

exit 0

fi