September 2015 - App_rpt-users

Detect local RX signal
by Skyler F 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

I run a half-duplex AllStar system that is linked on the same frequency of the remote repeater. I had to enable linktolink=yes for particular reasons so if the node wants to it will just double with the repeater while somebody is talking. I have some particular announcements that I want the repeater to play from my node, but only if there is no traffic on the repeater. I would like to use a script to wait 5 minutes RX signal, and reset if there is and wait another 5 minutes, so basically wait for 5 minutes of silence on the repeater before announcing and playing the audio file. I know there is a file "/dev/shm/~pttstate" which activates when it transmits. Is there something similar for local receive? Thanks Skyler KDØWHB -- Skyler Fennell amsatnet.info KDØWHB electricity440(a)gmail.com

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Allstar activity
by Skyler F 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

I use a script to find people who are talking but it does not seem like there is much activity on the AllStar link system. And its a saturday night! It claims there are nodes that keyed up 2 seconds ago but when I connect to them nothing is there, and it was just a kerchunk or something. http://kd0whb.duckdns.org/activity.php Has the general activity of AllStar been on an increase or decrease ? kd0whb Skyler -- Skyler Fennell amsatnet.info KDØWHB electricity440(a)gmail.com

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ACID + URIs in new hardware
by Steve Zingman 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

John, Your other option is to keep your new motherboard and URI. Though ACID does not support newer motherboards, Debian should. I have built a Debian bare metal AllStar install image. It will take you from a fresh HD to running AllStar server. You will then have to edit your config files in /etc/asterisk. The link to the image is at: <https://github.com/N4IRS/AllStar/wiki/X86-Debian-Bare-Metal-Install> I will be happy to answer any questions you have. This is built from the current source on the SVN. 73, Steve N4IRS > Hi, > We have used URIs in some radio projects, its a great product. > But we can't make it work on "new" PCs. We are using the Centos (ACID) ISO > image with Asterisk. > In the new PCs there are some problems with the audio. > David Kramer from DMK Engineering Inc. Told me that "You are correct in > that some newer PCs have very poor hardware support under Linux. > Specifically the USB drivers are buggy. The only suggestions we can offer > are to 1) try using a different motherboard or 2) use an older PC that as > you noted seem to work better." > - Which kind of new motherboards work OK with ACID + URIs? > - Is there some alternative to the URIs that don't use USB? > Thanks in advance > Best Regards > John -- "Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about." 1st Law of Logic

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ACID + URIs in new hardware
by John Locke 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Hi, We have used URIs in some radio projects, its a great product. But we can't make it work on "new" PCs. We are using the Centos (ACID) ISO image with Asterisk. In the new PCs there are some problems with the audio. David Kramer from DMK Engineering Inc. Told me that "You are correct in that some newer PCs have very poor hardware support under Linux. Specifically the USB drivers are buggy. The only suggestions we can offer are to 1) try using a different motherboard or 2) use an older PC that as you noted seem to work better." - Which kind of new motherboards work OK with ACID + URIs? - Is there some alternative to the URIs that don't use USB? Thanks in advance Best Regards John

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Stats Server Follow Up
by Keith Goobie 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

A follow up to my message regarding trying to update the stats servers. I would suggest that for node 2425 and 27499, there will be similar entries.. 2425=radio@104.247.241.75:4569/2425,104.247.241.75 27499=radio@99.243.133.111:4569/27499,99.243.133.111 Keith VE3RTR-AllStar.47553 > cyclonus.mozone.net.http: Flags [.], cksum 0x8cd3 (incorrect -> 0x99e1), seq 224, ack 258, win 237, options [nop,nop,TS val 997713 ecr 3108775738], length 0 09:25:12.128425 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 5042, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 52) VE3RTR-AllStar.47553 > cyclonus.mozone.net.http: Flags [F.], cksum 0x8cd3 (incorrect -> 0x99df), seq 224, ack 258, win 237, options [nop,nop,TS val 997714 ecr 3108775738], length 0 09:25:12.204495 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 57, id 30949, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 304) cyclonus.mozone.net.http > VE3RTR-AllStar.47554: Flags [P.], cksum 0x52fb (correct), seq 1:253, ack 334, win 54, options [nop,nop,TS val 3108775758 ecr 997383], length 252: HTTP, length: 252 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:25:12 GMT Server: Apache Pragma: no-cache Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/plain 2e Error! Not Authorized from IP 216.168.118.153 09:25:12.204931 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 58550, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 52) -- keith(a)goobie.org Keith Goobie Richmond Hill, ON, CANADA

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Problem with Stats and Mapping Servers.
by Keith Goobie 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

Good day all! Over the past few days, I heard from node sysops that the stats / reporting server was beginning to show signs of illness. I investigated (confirmed) and additionally it is now showing incorrect map displays. So far for us based on the stats from node 2248 (a hub), we are seeing problems for nodes 2257/2258 and 2425 and 27499. Node Mode Callsign Channel CTCSS Location 2258 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 2344 Transceive VE3YYZ 443.050+ 103.5 Toronto, ON 2359 Transceive VE3RQQ 146.550 156.7 Little Current ON 2377 Transceive VE3SNM 442.850+ 136.5 Ballantrae ON 2416 Transceive VE3SUE 444.400+ 114.8 London ON 2417 Transceive VA3NEG 444.425+ 103.5 Oakville ON 2425 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 27211 Transceive VE3LSR 442.575+ 103.5 Edgar, Ontario 27285 Transceive VE3DSX 442.625+ 131.8 Hamilton ON 27499 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 28708 Transceive VE3CKL 444.650+ 162.2 Lindsay, ON 29373 Transceive VE3ORC 444.550+ 156.7 Orillia, ON >From the allstarlink.org node listings, if I drill in on 2257 or 2258 I get: Node 2258 The information related to the node for which you wish to get statistics (2258) is currently unavailable. There are potentially many reasons for this. It DOES NOT mean (necessarily) that there is a problem with the node itself, or its status on the Allstar Link Network. There may be a problem with this statistics server (which is likely if the node's statistics were available in the past, and are no longer available), or the node may be improperly configured (which is likely if it has never had it's statistics properly displayed). About ten weeks ago, we had a similar problem, which was remedied when Jim WB6NIL (or a proxy) intervened. Looks to be a similar problem. Thanks in advance to the guys that will diagnose and correct the issue. Keith -- keith(a)goobie.org Keith Goobie Richmond Hill, ON, CANADA

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USB Radio
by Robert Newberry 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

Did a ham on this list write the code for the DSP in USB Radio? I have a couple of specific questions on it. I've asked those questions on this list in the past and haven't gotten any response. I'm thinking maybe writting the person directly would be a better course of action. Thank you N1XBM Apparare Scientor Paratus Communicare Allstar Node # 27086, 41540, 41812, 42086

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ACID (Centos 6.7)
by Steve Zingman 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

> Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 21:37:20 -0400 > From: Doug Crompton <doug(a)crompton.com> > To: "app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org" <app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org> > Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] ACID (Centos 6.7) > Message-ID: <BLU171-W90523528449024752B2322BA510(a)phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > It would be a whole lot easier to just use an RPi2! > 73 Doug > WA3DSP I guess if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The RPi is a nice board and lots of projects have been built using that platform. But not every AllStar install is suited to the RPi. I have one of the QRV quad boards running 3 repeaters and a IC-706 remote base. The QRV board is a PCI bus, where do I plug that into a RPi? The Intel, AMD and VIA are still viable platforms and have their place today and years to come. Yes, I've heard the refrain, "The RPi is cheap, just add a second RPi" Well, for some applications that's fine. You get 2 IP address to maintain, 2 configuration files to maintain and 2 SDcards. There are times we want everything in one box. I did create scripts for the RPi1, RPi2, BBB, X86, and the APC VIA to run AllStar on Debian. No image needed. No waiting for someone else to build and bless a image. It's very easy to build a image for a platform like the RPi since the hardware is written in stone. Quite a few people are running The Debian scripts to build nodes on everything from a hub in a data center running on a Virtual Machine to the RPi1 running simplex nodes and everything in between. I did help one user build his hub on Ubuntu because that's what he had. The scripts are built for Debian, but there is nothing stopping anyone from using the concepts to build AllStar on Centos or any other Linux platform for that matter. I am not a Centos guy. I prefer Debian and have been running AllStar on Debian for the last 8 years. ACID is fine for some hardware as is Limey Linux for that matter. I just prefer doing it on Debian. To that end, I have built a Debian X86 bare metal installer. It will take someone from nothing to a running AllStar node with a single key press. See: <https://github.com/N4IRS/AllStar/wiki/X86-Debian-Bare-Metal-Install> We all have been told over and over that things we have made work, could not work. Well, they do. Are there problems and bugs in AllStar? Sure there are. Anything over 10 lines of code has a bug. Jim has proved over and over through the years that he will find and squash them. Some with our help, and lots on his own. 73, Steve N4IRS < https://github.com/N4IRS/AllStar>

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ACID (Centos 6.7)
by kk6ecm 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

I decided to try to work on ACID (CentOS 6.7) after several failed attempts in the past. I loaded up the CD, did a yum update, then fixed zapata. I have it running now. It seems to work fine with the URIx, and I can connect to other Allstar nodes. I have the URIx connected to an amplified speaker, and the audio comes through fine. I am using iaxRPT with it. When I tried to get it working before, I could not get any of the audio functions working. The interesting part is I'm running in on a mini-ITX with a newer chipset that I could never get to work with the current (CentOS 5.10) ACID release. The digital (i.e. PTT) worked fine, but none of the audio pieces. Am I missing something? I'm using the acid_centos6.iso file from 9/23/2014. Thanks, Bob kk6ecm

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Re: [App_rpt-users] ACID (Centos 6.7)
by kk6ecm 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

Oops... forgot the URL http://stats.allstarlink.org/dl/installcd/centos6/ -----Original Message----- From: kk6ecm [mailto:kk6ecm@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 6:40 PM To: 'mike(a)midnighteng.com'; 'app_rpt group email' Subject: RE: [App_rpt-users] ACID (Centos 6.7) 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.i686 -----Original Message----- From: app_rpt-users-bounces(a)ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of mike(a)midnighteng.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 5:25 PM To: app_rpt group email Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] ACID (Centos 6.7) Can you manually check kernel version uname -r Where did you get "acid_centos6" image ? I'm just trying to check you did not wipe a centos 6 install with a 5.x install and was a bit confused with some of your terms. ...mike/kb8jnm > > Board - Gigabyte Intel NM70 Chipset HDMI SATA 6Gbps Mini ITX DDR3 1600 > Intel > Motherboards GA-C1007UN-D > > I was never able to get either ACID CentOS 5.10 or 6.7 to work with this > board. The audio did not work. I used uridiag to test the audio at that > time. The digital portion passed, but not the audio. I've not loaded > uridiag > onto th3 ACID CentOS 6.7 build to see if it works. > > On 8-17-2015 I burned a CD using acid_centos6 downloaded 9/23/2014 > Used the CD to perform a fresh install from a USB CDROM drive, following > the > on-screen instructions on 8-17-2015, then left it because I ran out of > time. > > Today I booted it back up, connected to internet and the URIx. > > Then performed a 'yum update' at the command line > > Then fixed Zaptel after the yum update in accordance with > http://docs.allstarlink.org/drupal/node/111 > > Then hooked up the amplified speaker to the URIx as a baseline test to > confirm the audio still did not work, and IT DID! Audio is clear. > > At least that is what my notes say. I don't remember doing anything else. > > Hope this helps, > Bob > kk6ecm > > -----Original Message----- > From: app_rpt-users-bounces(a)ohnosec.org > [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of > mike(a)midnighteng.com > Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 4:16 PM > To: app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org > Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] ACID (Centos 6.7) > > > > Could you say what the chipset and/or board is you installed 0n ? > > And did you upgrade the kernal and software ot a fresh install ? > > ...mike/kb8jnm > > >> What I'm saying is, it's working. I'm running the URIx, with audio out. >> I've not checked the total interface, but the audio that did not work >> before is working now after a him update and the follow-Zapata repair >> per >> the allstarlink instructions. Is it possible something got "fixed" with >> the Tim update? What do I need to do the make sure it is fully >> functional >> besides integrating it with a repeater, which I may have time to do this >> weekend. >> >> Thanks, >> Bob >> kk6ecm >> >> Sent from iPad >> >> >>> On Sep 9, 2015, at 3:39 PM, Jim Duuuude <telesistant(a)hotmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> The USB and/or audio stuff in Centos 6 is broken. >>> >>> That is why we have never released a Centos 6 based version >>> of ACID. >>> >>> > From: kk6ecm(a)gmail.com >>> > To: app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org >>> > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:20:31 -0700 >>> > Subject: [App_rpt-users] ACID (Centos 6.7) >>> > >>> > I decided to try to work on ACID (CentOS 6.7) after several failed >>> attempts >>> > in the past. I loaded up the CD, did a yum update, then fixed zapata. >>> I have >>> > it running now. It seems to work fine with the URIx, and I can >>> connect >>> to >>> > other Allstar nodes. I have the URIx connected to an amplified >>> speaker, and >>> > the audio comes through fine. I am using iaxRPT with it. When I tried >>> to get >>> > it working before, I could not get any of the audio functions >>> working. >>> The >>> > interesting part is I'm running in on a mini-ITX with a newer chipset >>> that I >>> > could never get to work with the current (CentOS 5.10) ACID release. >>> The >>> > digital (i.e. PTT) worked fine, but none of the audio pieces. >>> > >>> > Am I missing something? I'm using the acid_centos6.iso file from >>> 9/23/2014. >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Bob >>> > kk6ecm >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > 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. 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