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Re: [App_rpt-users] toggling power on USB buss
by mike＠midnighteng.com 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

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Re: [App_rpt-users] App_rpt-users Digest, Vol 61, Issue 57
by Steve Wright 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

> > Well, it happened again, this morning. > Both URI's on same usb buss, but this time it was the UHF repeater URI that failed. Previously, it was the vhf simplex node that was 'sensitive'. > > Shutting down and restarting asstorisk doesn't do it, but Hehe, interesting isn't it.. - how it's beaten into us that this cheapo consumer-junk USB interface is better and more reliable than onboard sound devices. When have you ever seen an onboard sound device vanish?

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Re: [App_rpt-users] toggling power on USB buss
by Geoff Edmonson 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Just the 2 URI's... Only USB devices on the machine "Robert A. Poff WB3AWJ" <wb3awj(a)comcast.net> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >App_rpt-users mailing list >App_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org >http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users > >To unsubscribe from this list please visit http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Enter your email address and press the "Unsubscribe or edit options button" >You do not need a password to unsubscribe, you can do it via email confirmation. If you have trouble unsubscribing, please send a message to the list detailing the problem.

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toggling power on USB buss
by Geoff 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

I'm seeing info here and there on whether power cycling a USB device (without shutting down the whole system) is possible or not. On occasion, I have the need to physically walk into the repeater room and check to see if the lights are blinking on the URIx's, because sometimes they -stop-. (Damnit, Jim - I a radio operator, not a URIx heartbeat cardiologist ;->). My quick and dirty thought would be to find a way to discover, via software, whether or not a specific URIx had a green-blinking light and if not, power-cycle that usb device. Anyone have an idea on this? -Geoff/W5OMR 29655

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Allstar RPi notes
by Doug Crompton 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

A broke this off into a new thread as it does not apply to the dahdi fix. So carrying on with the last question asked in that thread... The question is often asked, well the RPi works well as an Asterisk PBX so why not Allstar? When running a PBX you generally interface via Ethernet using an FXO/FXS analog adapter, a direct digital phone, or to another PBX. The USB interface is not used except for a keyboard and mouse in not run headless. With Allstar the RPi acts as a server (PBX in phone terms) and also an audio adapater via USB. Therein lies the problem. The interface via USB is flakey. Another question might be that the RPi has a multimedia iso that can stream video and audio to a TV so why can't it do Allstar correctly. Again the answer is that the USB is not being used. The video and audio come out over the RPi HDMI port. The server part of Allstar on the RPi seems to work fine. It works flawlessly with either locally or remotely connected iaxrpt. I also think it would work fine connected to an RTCM. Anyone want to try that? I don't have one. Of course this would be an expensive interface to connect to a Pi but if one had a really scaled down RTCM Ethernet to analog radio adapter it would probably work. Like an FXS for radio. That is what we really need a less than $100 Ethernet radio adapter. It, like the RTCM, could be run locally or remotely interfaced to a radio. Everything would be done over Ethernet. The Chinese could build it for $30. If DMK built it it might cost $150. It might be too much work to finagle all this stuff just to prove an RPi can work since there are already other albeit a little more expensive board choices and more coming in the future. I am writing this to foster your ideas! 73 Doug WA3DSP http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

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Well, it works :)
by John KD8DVR 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

All well and running.. just a few tweaks... thanks to buddy too :)

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How to have Allstar link deleted? Hardware not supported.
by John KD8DVR 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

I set up a Node, but it appears my USB hardware is not supported.. I did some settings changes on the website, but now running the menu config brings up an error it cannot parse the config file.. which was deleted when I changed adapter types. I guess my linux skills have rusted too much with my reliance on GUIs now. http://arsrepeaters.com/USB_EchoLink_Adapter.php 73 John

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Incoming Connection Contention Fixed
by Tim Sawyer 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

If you look at the Allstar blue status pages (i.e. http://stats.allstarlink.org/nodeinfo.cgi?node=2530) and note the Actual Uptime you'll see it’s not more than a couple of weeks in most instances. Note: the *CLI> core show uptime shows the same statistic. Also note: this is not the same as the Linux system uptime which has never been a problem. That uptime will be as long as the box has not lost power or been reset. The fact that Asterisk reboots at an all to frequent rate has always bugged the hell out of me. Just the other day when our group was supporting the Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Race one of the repeaters rebooted during the passing of important traffic. Granted, most of the time you won’t even know this is occurring because Asterisk only takes 20 seconds or less to restart or the restart happens when no one is using the repeater. But it’s really messed up when a hub reboots and drops all the connections. I equate that to Asterisk crashing and dropping all the phone calls causing everyone to have to redial. For many years I’ve been bugging Jim about this and we’ve been trying all sorts of things to isolate the problem. Long story short, we built a new test environment a few months ago and have found a problem. What was happening is that if there was more than one simultaneous permanent connection reconnect there would be a core dump. Jim added code to hold off reconnects such that only one can occur at a time. I don’t know if this is going to fix all the uptime woes but I am optimistic. I’ll be interested to hear what results others have. The fix has been posted in svn and you may apply it via the normal update process. -- Tim :wq

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Re: [App_rpt-users] Debian Allstar
by Bryan Fields 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

On 3/25/14, 11:21 AM, Jim Duuuude wrote: > Thanx for the encouragement Doug, but its not ENTIRELY working yet. Its > awfully close. > I didnt have time to finish my final changes yesterday, and am working on it > currently. > > I should have a "complete" patch set today (maybe). w00t, As a big debian user Thanks! 73's -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice 727-214-2508 - Fax http://bryanfields.net

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Debian Allstar
by Doug Crompton 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

I patched 2.9 dahdi with the patches supplied by Tim and I can confirm that the autopatch does now work. I can connect to my asterisk PBX (another server) and make calls. So yet another problem fixed. Thanks Jim! I know Jim wants to do more work on this but unless there is some other significant problem I think it should be a go. I do have to force the load of snd-pcm-oss though so if you give it a go you might need to add that to /etc/modules. 73 Doug WA3DSP http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

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