[App_rpt-users] Repeater Stuck Locked open for 18 hrs

[Steve Zingman]

Most of the exciters I use in repeater service, or hot spot for matter, 
have a TOT in the firmware. I crank them all the way up. Sometimes that 
is not as long as I would like but I feel better. As Kevin says, there 
are USB radio interfaces available with timers. The rules in the US may 
have changed but I remember a time when a repeater required a control 
channel on 220 MHz and above. But I'm old (licensed in 1969) and things 
change. The "belt and suspenders" approach can be a good thing.

73, Steve N4IRS

On 4/23/2018 12:15 PM, 2E0SIP wrote:
> If its supported, you might want to configure a Timeout Timer (TOT) on 
> the repeater. This way even if the PTT is activated for long periods, 
> the radio will stop transmitting after the timer expires.
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Steve Mahler <kizzy at lusfiber.net 
> <mailto:kizzy at lusfiber.net>> wrote:
>
>     I haven't had a stuck PTT on either AllStar controller.  But, I do
>     have a DTMF command that executes a Linux reboot.   In rpt.conf it
>     looks like ...
>
>     81234=cmd,/sbin/reboot
>
>     It seems to work OK.  It might work on PTT stuck if the receiver
>     is still listening and some of the software is functional.
>
>     ...STeve - KF5VH
>
>
>     On 4/23/2018 10:04 AM, Kevin Custer wrote:
>>     On 4/23/2018 10:47 AM, Loren Tedford wrote:
>>>
>>>     Good point Keven! We are using DmKeng URIx for both repeaters on
>>>     the computer.. At the time of arrival out at the repeater site..
>>>     2 meter repeater was not stuck in the open position but the UHF
>>>     repeater was stuck open with Red light on on the URIx I do not
>>>     believe the green heart beat was flashing we think it was
>>>     solid.. Mark doesn’t remember other than the red led was solid..
>>>
>>
>>     There are no versions of Asterisk/app_rpt along with hardware
>>     that are stable enough to prevent this condition from ever
>>     happening.
>>
>>     You may want to consider a radio adapter that disables the PTT
>>     when the application has crashed or stopped, there's a hardware
>>     malfunction, or a communications issue with the radio adapter. 
>>     The URI doesn't currently have this functionality, but there are
>>     several others that do.
>>
>>     Kevin
>>
>>
>>
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