[App_rpt-users] RPi w/DIAL Repeater Stuck In Transmit Mode

Sat Mar 11 05:45:48 UTC 2017

The Masters Communications RA-35 has 'watchdog' timer on it. It watches 
for the heartbeat of the CM119, and should it stop through asterisk 
failure or host failure, transmit is disabled.

I've witnessed this happen a handful count of times when I was tinkering 
around with things I should not have, haha.

Sounds to me you may have had other issues if Asterisk did not respond 
to DTMF commands. Steve is the Master, so I'll be interested to know 
what the cause, if made know, and the resolution.

~Benjamin, KB9LFZ

On 03/08/2017 08:41 AM, Steve Zingman wrote:
> No, it would not matter.
> I would want to know:
>     Is there a courtesy beep?
>      Any DTMF command work?
>     ssh access?
>
> Going forward, use the release candidate, there are significant 
> improvements in starting and stopping ASL. It can be downloaded at 
> <http://dvswitch.org/files/DIAL/RAT_RC1.tar.gz>
> A software based watchdog might help, but if I were to go in that 
> direction I would go for a hardware based watchdog. as I said I do not 
> know of any other instance of it hanging.
> Another option would be a external DTMF decoder.
>
> Steve N4IRS
>
> On 3/8/2017 8:31 AM, Bob Pyke wrote:
>> No response. I was not aware of it, so didn't engage, I have it setup 
>> so the repeater monitor can reboot using DTMF from his radio, but it 
>> did not work. If they had contacted me, I would have tried via iaxrpt.
>>
>> I'm not finding any logs with data from before the crash. Do you 
>> still want to see them?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>> k6ecm
>> 73
>>
>> Sent from iPad
>>
>>
>>> On Mar 8, 2017, at 5:13 AM, Steve Zingman <szingman at msgstor.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> /var/log/syslog
>>> /var/log/asterisk/messages
>>> Did the system respond to any DTMF commands?
>>>
>>>> On 3/8/2017 8:11 AM, Bob Pyke wrote:
>>>> Steve,
>>>>
>>>> What are the file names for these logs?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bob
>>>> k6ecm
>>>> 73
>>>>
>>>> Sent from iPad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 8, 2017, at 2:41 AM, Steve Zingman <szingman at msgstor.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob,
>>>>> I would like to see the system and asterisk logs, to try determine 
>>>>> the nature of the  failure. Did the system respond to any DTMF 
>>>>> commands? I don't know of this happening to someone else. I would 
>>>>> also suggest using the "release candidate" version of DIAL for the 
>>>>> RPi. It can be downloaded at 
>>>>> <http://dvswitch.org/files/DIAL/RAT_RC1.tar.gz>
>>>>>
>>>>> 73, Steve N4IRS
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 03/08/2017 02:04 AM, Bob Pyke wrote:
>>>>>> Our repeater hung up in transmit mode, and would not respond to 
>>>>>> radio DTMF commands to restart Asterisk or reboot. We had to 
>>>>>> manually reset the power. We don't understand why. If this should 
>>>>>> be a reoccurring issue, perhaps we need an external watchdog 
>>>>>> timer to reset power after x minutes of constant PTT activation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking for suggestions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We are planning to setup a remote (no internet) repeater that is 
>>>>>> not easily accessible, so want to make sure we have a solution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Bob
>>>>>> k6ecm
>>>>>> 73
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from iPad
>>>>>>
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