[App_rpt-users] chan_usbradio.c error

[K5CG]

Same here, brand new DIAL build on all new hardware, GM300, RIM Maxtrac dongle, Pi 3B. 

I didn't even think to look for this error until I read this thread, and sure enough it "died or something" too. 

Danny 
K5CG 

> From: "Bob Pyke" <k6ecm1 at gmail.com>
> To: "Users of Asterisk app_rpt" <app_rpt-users at lists.allstarlink.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 10:55:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] chan_usbradio.c error

> 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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