[App_rpt-users] installing allstarlink

[mwbesemer at cox.net]

Dale,

There are some YouTube videos by K1GMM that are pretty good.  I'd give 
them a look.

Mike
WM4B


On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Dale Day wrote:

> Thank you so much for your reply.
> I have the latest download of Debian from Allstar link. I have it 
> installed
> on a amd desk top pc and then it linked to pm windows pc with putty.
> I have a dmk engineering usb radio interface to a Motorola gm300 type
> radio.
> I understand this is very difficult to do over email but I have worked 
> on
> this off and on for two years and I am just at wits end. I go through 
> the
> asl-menu and have it configured the static ip address and have signed 
> up
> with Allstar and have my numbers and passwords with server and my pc.
> My problem is when I try to go to tune radio menu it comes up with a
> message that I don't have rpt file and another one I cant remember 
> with out
> going and firing up pc again and refreshing my memory not configured.
> So in other words I just don't know which of the hundreds of lines in 
> the
> files usb radio, simpleusb or other files need to be modified.
> I will keep reading the help files and and k5tra's web site but I just
> can't seem to get the files configured right.
> Thanks so much
> Dale
> N0INX
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:58 PM, Mike <mm at midnighteng.com> wrote:
>
>> Well,
>>
>> I am not sure what you are using for hardware and what versions of
>> software as you did not say.
>>
>> SO here is my advise for anyone.
>>
>> Make the box work 'headless', meaning without the radios in the setup 
>> fray.
>>
>> Use this setting by un/commenting the following lines as shown here 
>> in
>> your rpt.cong file so you are using dahdi/pseudo and not radio 
>> interfaces.
>>
>> rxchannel = dahdi/pseudo            ; No radio (hub) 
>> ******************
>> ; rxchannel = SimpleUSB/usb_29999    ; SimpleUSB
>> ; rxchannel = Pi/1                      ; Raspberry Pi PiTA
>> ; rxchannel = Radio/usb_29999        ; USBRadio (DSP)
>> ; rxchannel = Dahdi/1            ; PCI Quad card
>> ; rxchannel = Beagle/1            ; BeagleBoard
>> ; rxchannel = USRP/127.0.0.1:34001:32001; GNU Radio interface USRP
>>
>> duplex = 2                              ; 0 = Half duplex with no
>> telemetry tones or hang time.
>>
>>
>> Then setup iaxrpt to run with that node so you can check it for
>> functionality of a running asterisk install without the radio side of 
>> the
>> equation.
>>
>> You will have to read some more of the docs most likely to get this 
>> far,
>> but once you do, you are most of the way there.
>>
>> You should be able to 'command' your node with functionality before 
>> adding
>> radios to your learning curve.
>>
>> But you will need to ask 'specific questions' to what you do not
>> understand to get help.
>>
>>
>> ...mike/kb8jnm
>>
>> On 6/25/2018 9:38 PM, Dale Day wrote:
>>
>> Could someone help me with getting allstar link up and running.
>> I just can't allstar configured correctly to the point where I can 
>> tune
>> the radios.
>> I just don't understand what I am doing wrong.
>>
>>
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