August 2010 - App_rpt-users - lists.keekles.org

Jim Dixon is in the hospital again
by Stephen Rodgers 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Jim Dixon is in the hospital again. It's very serious, he's had a heart attack, and, in his own words, "is seriously messed up." Because of his dire situation, please refrain from calling on the phone to talk to him for now. His mother would appreciate any thoughts or prayers for her son. If you want to send a card or flowers, you may contact: Saint Agnes Medical Center 1201 E. Herndon Ave., Suite 107 (Behind the West Wing) Fresno, CA 93720 Room 240 550-450-3000 Steve WA6ZFT

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Backup machine
by keith handscombe 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Good evening all, New at this so sorry if a stupid question. I run node 2498 (Echolink 5503 and IRLP 5503). I wanted to create a backup pc of my fully working node and as I have a spare PIV 2Ghz Pc. I did the following. 1. Installed the Centos 5.5 CD onto the new pc with USB Sound fob in USB port.( This device I have already tested and know this works) 2. Followed and all updates were completed in about 40 minutes 3. I was prompted for an IP address and I selected DHCP 4. When asked my password I selected a high encryption password 5. Then finally asked to insert my node number...2498 6. Password as supplied by All star on some months ago I then typed in. I was then at the logon prompt so Logon with root Password used and I was at the console I then deleted the asterisk folder on this fresh build and contents and copied (using winscp) the asterisk folder and contents that I had backup off my working but powered off main node. When I finally ifconfig and made sure the private IP was identical to my main All star node that I had firstly copied the complete Asterisk contents over was already turned off( No IP conflicts) I then telinit 6 and thus a reboot On power up the IP was the same. I copied the IRLP backup into temp Then tried irlpsetup.sh ( Was unable to run) All worked ok 3 weeks ago when I ran the identical command. I was then unable to connect to no links be it Echolink or All Star. ( I was unable to resolve Echolink by a ping Europe.echolink.org. path unknown) Any ideas I have made sure the Asterisk contents match size for size of my working node and is in the correct place. I have made sure the A was not in the iax configuration I have put this backup Pc under the bench as work in progress and turned my main All Star back on. After 10 minutes all now is fine and working has anyone any idea on what I missed please? Many thanks Keith Handscombe G7DNT

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Some newbie questions
by Nils Prause 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hi to everyone, I'm trying to set up two nodes here in Germany with a static connection and the ability to connect to Allstar and EchoLink. I'm already familiar with Asterisk as professional pbx but new to app_rpt. Right now I have some issues with the configuration and hope that I can get help on this list. I've already read a lot of messages in the archive and also took a look at the source code but - as Bono said - I still haven't found what I'm looking for. :-) 1. I bought a URI board from DMK, assembled the cable and connected it to two Motorola GM 900 transceivers (1x rx, 1x tx). As described in the Motorola schematics I used pin 24 on rx and 25 on tx to get flat audio and give full audio to tx. If I look for the signals coming from the rx on a spectrum analyzer I can see flat audio with a potential of about 500 MV. But as I start the analyzing procedure with "radio tune rxnoise" I always get the error message that the audio is "too loose". "radio tune rxvoice" seems to work correctly but detecting of CTCSS tones as described on the website also fails without any additional error messages. I adjusted the squelch manually to a value of about 800 but I'm not sure if this is the right direction to go. Is anyone else using Motorola GM transceivers and can report the same issues? I think that 500 MV should be enough for an URI board. Am I wrong with that? 2. My test repeater has an audio delay of about 200 ms. Some guys told me that this is much longer than it seems to be on their systems. So, is there a way to reduce or manipulate the delay produced by dsp? Which parameters can affect this? app_rpt runs under Debian on a Core2 Duo machine with 4Gig of memory and a fast SATA hdd. 3. Most of repeaters in Germany are opened using 1750 Hz burst tone. To activate this I set the desired parameters in rpt.conf as described on the website <http://app-rpt.qrvc.com/node/156>. ----- Tearline begin rxburstfreq=1750 rxbursttime=500 rxburstthreshold=10 ----- Tearline end I also played around with the values but every time I activate rxburstfreq=1750 the repeater just doesn't do anything. If I enable debugging I can see ptt keying in the CLI but every time I press the 1750 call tone the CLI shows exactly nothing. On the spectrum I can see the 1750 hz tone very well so I know that there is a strength signal on the input. On the archive I saw that this error was already reported some weeks ago but it seems that no one did have a solution for it. I'm not sure what to do now because without this feature the whole software is just useless for me. :-( 4. In Germany nearly 90% or more of the repeaters work like the following scheme: - Repeater is opened using 1750 Hz burst tone. - When the repeater opens it first plays its id (regardless of its last id). - Now the user makes his call. After the user releases ptt the repeater stays open for a while (maybe 20 or 30 seconds). - At the moment the repeater opens a timer starts. If this timer exceeds the id is played again (beaconing). Usually this happens every 10 minutes (the timer is set to 600 seconds). - If the qso ends before the timer has exceeded the repeater closes and that's it. - Some operators like to have an id every 10 minutes regardless if the repeater is open or not. But most of them only want to have an id played if the repeater is still open. - Some repeaters have the ability to be opened using ptt only (carrier-detect) some seconds after the repeater has been used. For example, if the repeater closes a timer of 30 seconds starts. If the user presses the ptt within these 30 seconds the repeater opens again (usually without playing his id). If the timer exceeds and no one had pressed the ptt the repeater goes back to "normal operation mode" and reacts only on 1750 burst tone as described above. Setting the id timer to 10 minutes is no big deal and setting the hang timer to 30 seconds is also done easily. But I can't see how to be sure that the id is played every time the repeater opens? If not implemented yet, this could be a good moment to test out the facilities of Mantis. :-) Thanks for any help in advance. -- 73s, Nils, DO6NP

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Install questions
by jeff millar 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Does Acid run in a virtualbox well enough to learn and test? I have it partially installed and partially working, including a USB Radio Interface dongle. But if it's known not to work, I'll get some other hardware. About the URI, sometimes the green LED blink cleanly on/off about 3 Hz, but with Acid in a vbox, it sort of flickers randomly. What does that mean? I installed Acid before my Allstar node got approved and it didn't seem to prompt or download configuration and setup like some documentation suggests. How do I trigger that part of the installation without starting over? thanks, jeff

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Computer/server name
by Doug Hutchison 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

During the install should the script not ask for a name for the computer/server...... I now have several boxes all named 'test' D

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Re: [App_rpt-users] Computer/server name
by Doug Hutchison 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Thank you Jon. Fixed and noted. Regards, Doug On 27/08/2010 14:28:17, Jon Rorke (jrorke(a)cogeco.ca) wrote: > You can change that by editing the host name in the network file in > /etc/sysconfig directory. > > I change the name "test" to "AST_Node num_Call" format. > > I do this for all my servers. > > That way when I login via ssh it shows up in the prompts. > > Jon > > On 8/27/2010 7:28 AM, Doug Hutchison wrote: > > During the install should the script not ask for a name for the > > computer/server...... I now have several boxes all named 'test' > > > > D > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > App_rpt-users mailing list > > App_rpt-users(a)qrvc.com > > http://qrvc.com/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users > > > _______________________________________________ > App_rpt-users mailing list > App_rpt-users(a)qrvc.com > http://qrvc.com/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users

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Re: [App_rpt-users] Install question
by Doug Hutchison 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

OK Ken, TU...yes something else. None of these chars used. Regards, Doug On 27/08/2010 12:36:36, Ken (ke2n(a)cs.com) wrote: > usually it refers to !@#$%^&*"':;{}[]\|()_+=- > > For example, I have used the underscore character in some of my passwords in the past... > of course, your problem could be something else altogether ...! > > > > 73 > - Ken > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Hutchison <specialq.que(a)ntlworld.com> > To: app_rpt mailing list <app_rpt-users(a)qrvc.com> > Sent: Fri, Aug 27, 2010 7:22 am > Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Install question > > > Forgive my ignorance...what defines a 'special' character...just using > lain text (I think)! > TU D

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Re: [App_rpt-users] Install question
by Doug Hutchison 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Forgive my ignorance...what defines a 'special' character...just using plain text (I think)! TU D On 27/08/2010 12:09:37, Ken (ke2n(a)cs.com) wrote: > did you see the recent posting? > seems any "special" characters in these fields cause the install to fail... > > Ken > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Hutchison <specialq.que(a)ntlworld.com> > To: app_rpt mailing list <app_rpt-users(a)qrvc.com> > Sent: Fri, Aug 27, 2010 6:32 am > Subject: [App_rpt-users] Install question > > > Hi, > Just tried to install - get to point where script asks for portal user > ame and password. Enter required information and script terminates > aying that the name or password is invalid..or something to that effect. > Any ideas? > Doug - GM7SVK > ______________________________________________ > pp_rpt-users mailing list > pp_rpt-users(a)qrvc.com > ttp://qrvc.com/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users

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Install question
by Doug Hutchison 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Hi, Just tried to install - get to point where script asks for portal user name and password. Enter required information and script terminates saying that the name or password is invalid..or something to that effect. Any ideas? Doug - GM7SVK

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install script
by Greg Thornwall 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Hi, I decided to reinstall the whole thing since I couldn't get it to work properly. I couldn't get through the install script, it was asking for my user id and password for the portal towards the end. It would not take the password so it said something about failed and went to the login prompt. What script runs the install part towards the end of the install? I tried the portal but no luck. I tried running asterisk but it goes into an endless loop with an error "asterisk ended with a exit 1 status". How do I proceed from here? tnx, Greg

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