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Re: [App_rpt] Recording repeater audio
by Steven Henke 05 Oct '08

05 Oct '08

Rodger, The 'locate' command can be used to find it. It's in /usr/src/EVB/ast_base/asterisk-1.4.21.2/configs/rpt.conf.sample You're right that we should make an obvious link to it in the web based documentation 73, Steve On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Roger F. Jordan Sr. <w4rfj(a)comcast.net> wrote: > Hey Steve, > > I did not find rpt.conf.sample in the /etc/asterisk directory of the > network install... We could make it available in the XIPAR downloads... > > VR > Roger W4RFJ > Xipar Application Engineer Extraordinaire > > > -----Original Message----- > From: app_rpt-bounces(a)lists.illiana.net > [mailto:app_rpt-bounces@lists.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Steven Henke > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 5:52 PM > To: Asterisk Repeater Controler > Subject: Re: [App_rpt] Recording repeater audio > > It's already in there. Check out the rpt.conf sample file... > 73, Steve W9SH > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Matt Beasant <g4rky(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Does anyone know a way of recording the traffic (audio) in / out of the >> node and saving it as a file ( MP3 or whatever ) on the node hard drive? >> >> Something along the lines of Scanrec, which is a windows application with >> built in Vox and timestamps, would be ideal but I wanted to avoid having >> another machine involved. >> >> Anyone any ideas or thoughts on how this could be done - I should add that >> I'm a complete newbie! >> >> Thanks in advance for any replies. >> >> 73, >> >> Matt >> G4RKY >> _______________________________________________ >> App_rpt mailing list >> App_rpt(a)lists.illiana.net >> http://lists.illiana.net/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt >> >> > _______________________________________________ > App_rpt mailing list > App_rpt(a)lists.illiana.net > http://lists.illiana.net/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt > > _______________________________________________ > App_rpt mailing list > App_rpt(a)lists.illiana.net > http://lists.illiana.net/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt >

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[App_rpt] Echolink_Channel
by Roger F. Jordan Sr. 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hi. I am looking for info or examples as to how to set up the Echolink_Channel in the rpt.conf file. Thanks, Roger W4RFJ

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Re: [App_rpt] Recording repeater audio
by Steve Zingman 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Matt Beasant <g4rky(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Does anyone know a way of recording the traffic (audio) in / out of the >> node and saving it as a file ( MP3 or whatever ) on the node hard drive? >> >> Something along the lines of Scanrec, which is a windows application with >> built in Vox and timestamps, would be ideal but I wanted to avoid having >> another machine involved. >> >> Anyone any ideas or thoughts on how this could be done - I should add that >> I'm a complete newbie! >> >> Thanks in advance for any replies. >> >> 73, >> >> Matt >> G4RKY >> _______________________________________________ >> App_rpt mailing list >> App_rpt(a)lists.illiana.net >> http://lists.illiana.net/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt >> >> >> Matt, Look at: archivedir = /tmp ; defines and enables activity recording into specified directory (optional) monminblocks = 2048 ; Min 1K blocks to be left on partition (will not save monitor output if disk too full) in rpt.conf

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Re: [App_rpt] hardware choices
by John Yaldwyn 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hi Eric, I'd suggest you consider the option of an upgrade to the PIII CPUs. It's not too hard to find the PIII 1000MHz slot 1 units around, but remember you'll need the 100MHz bus versions to suit your motherboard. These babies run on 1.75V but most motherboards made for the 500MHz PIII only went down to 1.8V. I've an nice IBM Netfinity 5000 server running here that I upgraded from dual 500MHz to dual 1000MHz CPUS running 50mV hot without problems for more than 3 years. YMMV. Is it worth doing? Kinda depends on the qualtity of your hardware, if they're not that well made then it might pay to look for something a bit nnewer. If you've got some nice server boxen then it can be worth while. Cheers, John ZL4JY ________________________________ From: app_rpt-bounces(a)lists.illiana.net [mailto:app_rpt-bounces@lists.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Eric Fort Sent: Saturday, 4 October 2008 18:24 To: Asterisk Repeater Controler Subject: [App_rpt] hardware choices I have 2 identical dual p3-500 boxen on which to run centos/*/app_rpt. Should I expect any problems running centos/*/app_rpt on these dual processor boxen? I'd expect one will support a quad radio port card and a tdm-400 with 3 green modules (possibly an arib board using 2 of those) and the other supporting a tdm400 card with 1 fxo and 1 fxs and sip termination to the pstn. this second box will also likely be the link by wihch the first sees the rest of the world. I do not forsee any other services running on these boxen. What can I expect from these as far as performance? what gotchas await me along the path to making this work? Thanks, Eric

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Re: [App_rpt] No RX signal detected
by John Yaldwyn 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hold fire that man! I've just done what I should have done first and that is to read back thru most of the reflector archive. Taking on board a tip about commenting out the CTCSS statement in the zaptel.conf file when not using CTCSS, I commented out the rxctcss statement in the usbradio.conf and voilà problem solved, everything is working. Could comment out the txctcss statement if I'm not using CTCSS on transmit to save CPU power? I'm now curious about the [general] context statements: rxcpusaver=0 txcpusaver=0 What do these do? Regards, John ZL4JY -----Original Message----- From: app_rpt-bounces(a)lists.illiana.net [mailto:app_rpt-bounces@lists.illiana.net] On Behalf Of John Yaldwyn Sent: Saturday, 4 October 2008 18:03 To: app_rpt(a)lists.illiana.net Subject: [App_rpt] No RX signal detected Hi All, This will no doubt be one of those blindly obvious problems but .... I'm reasonably familiar with Asterisk in normal IAX/Sip type environments. I've just built my own repeater system basically using ACID to get an idea of the technology. I've removed the Allstar registrations and reg script as it is a single node stand alone system at the moment. A lot works. Morse ID, announcements, and audio (from dialing in on the phone patch) are all transmitted. However try as I might I can't get audio from the receiver input to be passed to the transmitter or to a phone extension and the TX is never keyed from the receiver. The usbradio.conf file is set as I understand for carrier squelch: carrierfrom=usb ctcssfrom=no The radio tune procedure worked pretty much OK (except Asterisk crashed when I ran the radio tune txtone 0 command but all other radio tune commands are fine). DTMF digits are also all received and decoded OK as reported by debug output but no audio to the phone line when the auto patch is up. When the patch is up the TX keys fine. The squelch from the radio is recognized by the USB interface as I get radiochan_usbradio NOTICES showing that rxcarrierdetect is following the radio mute OK. But Rpt stats indicates signal on input = no and doesn't change. The rpt.conf file is the example other than the node number and I've also tried adding duplex=4 to the node context but this doesn't change things. A possibly related question is the purpose of the [radio-secure] context in extensions.conf. What is its purpose and where is it referenced from? I already have a context for incoming telephone calls to the system ie 1234,1,Rpt,1234|D Suggestions appreciated! Regards, John ZL4JY _______________________________________________ App_rpt mailing list App_rpt(a)lists.illiana.net http://lists.illiana.net/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt

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[App_rpt] hardware choices
by Eric Fort 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

I have 2 identical dual p3-500 boxen on which to run centos/*/app_rpt. Should I expect any problems running centos/*/app_rpt on these dual processor boxen? I'd expect one will support a quad radio port card and a tdm-400 with 3 green modules (possibly an arib board using 2 of those) and the other supporting a tdm400 card with 1 fxo and 1 fxs and sip termination to the pstn. this second box will also likely be the link by wihch the first sees the rest of the world. I do not forsee any other services running on these boxen. What can I expect from these as far as performance? what gotchas await me along the path to making this work? Thanks, Eric

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[App_rpt] No RX signal detected
by John Yaldwyn 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hi All, This will no doubt be one of those blindly obvious problems but .... I'm reasonably familiar with Asterisk in normal IAX/Sip type environments. I've just built my own repeater system basically using ACID to get an idea of the technology. I've removed the Allstar registrations and reg script as it is a single node stand alone system at the moment. A lot works. Morse ID, announcements, and audio (from dialing in on the phone patch) are all transmitted. However try as I might I can't get audio from the receiver input to be passed to the transmitter or to a phone extension and the TX is never keyed from the receiver. The usbradio.conf file is set as I understand for carrier squelch: carrierfrom=usb ctcssfrom=no The radio tune procedure worked pretty much OK (except Asterisk crashed when I ran the radio tune txtone 0 command but all other radio tune commands are fine). DTMF digits are also all received and decoded OK as reported by debug output but no audio to the phone line when the auto patch is up. When the patch is up the TX keys fine. The squelch from the radio is recognized by the USB interface as I get radiochan_usbradio NOTICES showing that rxcarrierdetect is following the radio mute OK. But Rpt stats indicates signal on input = no and doesn't change. The rpt.conf file is the example other than the node number and I've also tried adding duplex=4 to the node context but this doesn't change things. A possibly related question is the purpose of the [radio-secure] context in extensions.conf. What is its purpose and where is it referenced from? I already have a context for incoming telephone calls to the system ie 1234,1,Rpt,1234|D Suggestions appreciated! Regards, John ZL4JY

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[App_rpt] hardware choices
by Eric Fort 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

I have 2 identical dual p3-500 boxen on which to run centos/*/app_rpt. Should I expect any problems running centos/*/app_rpt on these dual processor boxen? I'd expect one will support a quad radio port card and a tdm-400 with 3 green modules (possibly an arib board using 2 of those) and the other supporting a tdm400 card with 1 fxo and 1 fxs and sip termination to the pstn. this second box will also likely be the link by wihch the first sees the rest of the world. I do not forsee any other services running on these boxen. What can I expect from these as far as performance? what gotchas await me along the path to making this work? Thanks, Eric

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[App_rpt] asterisk 1.6
by Eric Fort 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

I'm thinking of setting up a server running asterisk 1.6 here in the next few days. Should there be any issues running app-rpt or the irlp/echonet channel drivers under 1.6. Eric

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Re: [App_rpt] Recording repeater audio
by Tony Langdon, VK3JED 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

At 05:57 AM 10/3/2008, you wrote: >Hi everyone, > >Does anyone know a way of recording the traffic (audio) in / out of >the node and saving it as a file ( MP3 or whatever ) on the node hard drive? > >Something along the lines of Scanrec, which is a windows application >with built in Vox and timestamps, would be ideal but I wanted to >avoid having another machine involved. > >Anyone any ideas or thoughts on how this could be done - I should >add that I'm a complete newbie! If there's a soundcard built into the system, you could use that to record the audio from the node, Connect the audio from the Asterisk system to a Y splitter, so you can pick the audio off and feed it to the Line In on the soundcard. Then there's a bunch of commandline programs that could be used to record, or alternatively, setup a streaming audio feed. 73 de VK3JED http://vkradio.com

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