[App_rpt-users] chan_usbradio.c error

Thu Nov 16 04:55:23 UTC 2017

Yup. Experiencing the same thing with the latest DIAL using usbradio. I may try simpleusb, but am concerned about delays. I sent this forward to the list a few days ago, and have not heard anything. Something is up with the latest DIAL.

Thanks
Bob

Sent from iPad

> On Nov 15, 2017, at 9:41 PM, Benjamin Naber <Benjamin at Project23D.com> wrote:
> 
> I do not recall the error code, but it did have the message verbatim 
> "Died or something!" and I *was* using usbradio.
> 
> Before I swapped the DOM and URi to another machine, I was a bit
> stubborn and reset the box - a lot. It seemed be alive and well for
> what seemed to be able 12 hours. Sometimes it was less. No idea what
> the shortest time was, all I remember is SSH and "reboot now" and
> leaving for work. Getting home eight hours later, sometimes the node
> would be fine, other times the heartbeat LED on the URI was flashing
> *really* fast, or just plain off. And the machine in dmesg said "USB
> blah blah blah, Died or something!"
> 
> Maybe the damn old hardware just had a (kernel) panic attack! pun
> intended.
> 
> ....more thoughts.........
> I would like to make the suggestion, unless extenuating circumstances
> prevent it, is make the transition to simpleusb.
> 
> I did not want to do it either, as I was a stubborn idiot, but I did
> actually like the fact I did not have to perform extra usbradio-tune-
> menu steps, ie getting the RX audio level to precisely-around 27000 to
> make the DSP happy.
> 
> Also, while others may have gotten ctcssfrom=dsp to work, but radio
> hardware just does a better job at CTCSS, and does not require extra
> work to make it... work.
> 
> I figure for that case, and some others, why have a computer do analog
> stuff when analog hardware does it infinitely better?
> 
> ~Benjamin, KB9LFZ
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 21:18 -0700, Bob Pyke wrote:
>> Was it “ERROR[535] chan_usbradio.c: HID process has died or
>> something!!”
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> Sent from iPad
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 15, 2017, at 9:03 PM, Benjamin Naber <Benjamin at Project23D.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Bob,
>>> 
>>> I got the "Died or something" error before in the past. I laughed
>>> for
>>> days after I saw that, programmers got jokes!
>>> 
>>> The issue with mine was the USB hardware in the computer was
>>> failing. I
>>> have no idea what, but something was. It "Died or something!"
>>> 
>>> Not really sure what that error really meant, I took the DOM (flash
>>> memory module with 40 pin header instead of USB, I was using a
>>> neoware
>>> thin client computer with Limey Linux) and put the DOM in another
>>> machine, attached the URi and all was well.
>>> 
>>> Gotta love cryptic errors!
>>> 
>>> ~Benjamin, KB9LFZ
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 2017-11-12 at 14:24 -0800, Bob wrote:
>>>> I periodically experience the following error on the RPi3 with
>>>> DIAL
>>>> (/var/log/asterisk/messages). Any clues? The repeater uses a
>>>> URIx,
>>>> and the
>>>> Linux address for the USB is the same as devstr= in
>>>> usbradio_tune_usb.conf
>>>> ERROR[537] chan_usbradio.c: HID process has died or something!!
>>>> [Nov 12 13:17:07] NOTICE[538] chan_usbradio.c: Assigned USB
>>>> device 1-
>>>> 1.2:1.0
>>>> to usbradio channel usb
>>>> [Nov 12 13:17:07] WARNING[538] chan_usbradio.c: Loaded parameters
>>>> from
>>>> usbradio_tune_usb.conf for device usb .
>>>> [Nov 12 13:17:07] WARNING[537] chan_usbradio.c: Possibly stuck
>>>> USB
>>>> read
>>>> channel. [usb]
>>>> [Nov 12 13:17:07] WARNING[537] chan_usbradio.c: Nope, USB read
>>>> channel [usb]
>>>> wasn't stuck after all.
>>>> [Nov 12 13:38:16] ERROR[537] chan_usbradio.c: HID process has
>>>> died or
>>>> something!!
>>>> [Nov 12 13:38:16] WARNING[520] app_rpt.c: rpt_thread restarted on
>>>> node <#
>>>> redacted>
>>>> The 21 min delay from the prior message is typical. After the
>>>> error,
>>>> it
>>>> restarts asterisk, and the startup macro reconnects the repeater.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bob
>>>> k6ecm
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