July 2016 - App_rpt-users - lists.keekles.org

Signal strength Bash
by Skyler F 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

I want to do some FM propogation experiments and it would be desirable using DSP to log the current signal strength. I know the radio-tune-menu will turn a value for the signal strength. Is there any way of getting this value directly from a bash script? 73 Skyler KD0WHB

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Different Courtesy Tone depending on Node Keyed
by Joe Moskalski 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

This might be a quick "no" answer but I thought I would ask anyway. I would like to have the courtesy tone change depending on what node has unkeyed. This way one would be able to quickly tell what node unkeyed from simply listening to it on the air identifying where the traffic came from. Another way to describe it would be like this: Node 0001 Unkeys, Plays CT #1 Node 0002 Unkeys, Plays CT #2 Node 0003 Unkeys, Plays CT #4 and so on.... if this is something that can already be done, that's great! if its not, I would like to know if it is a least practically possible. If so I will try to make it a reality and post my results. Of course if this isn't really possible it would be nice to know ahead of time.

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Breaking the keying loop between two half-duplex nodes
by Tom Hayward 23 Jul '16

23 Jul '16

I have two RTCMs. Each are connected to half-duplex link radios tuned to two different repeaters. The goal is to temporarily add Allstar support to these repeaters so they can be linked for a special event. The repeaters each have some audio delay, so when the link radio switches from transmit to receive, it receives about 250ms of the tail end of its own transmission. This gets fed back to the hub, transmitted out the other link, the other link receives its own tail and the loop continues--it's ping-ponging. Looks like there's a setting to fix this: http://docs.allstarlink.org/drupal/node/162 But it's a feature of the URI. How can I do something similar on the RTCM / voter.conf? Tom KD7LXL

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Connection Message
by Steve Mahler 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Connection announcement for AllStar (ACID) ... ALLSTAR Works: In /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/rpt/nodenames/ add a file syntax #####.wav where ##### is the node number. The system will happily play the WAV file instead of reading the individual digits of the connected node. ECHOLINK Fails: Every permutation of the above fails (3######.wav, ######.wav, Callsign.wav, etc.) for EchoLink connections. Has anyone found the format and the directory that needs to be used??? Thanks ...STeve - KF5VH

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Shared repeater tone panel
by Joe Moskalski 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

I have a need to setup a community repeater. This is done easily with a shared repeater tone panel and the like from CSI. I was wondering if this could be accomplished using app_rpt. All it would need to do is allow the use of multiple input and output PL tones. Simply put, when the repeater receives X pl tone it transmits the X pl tone on the output and when the repeater receives Y pl tone it transmits the Y pl tone on the output. If anyone has done this or has any idea on how this would be accomplished it would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Re: [App_rpt-users] Android IAXRPT stuck PTT
by Robert Newberry 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

I've personally found, I had an old samsung galaxy phone, that leaving the app going all of the time in the background would cause things like that to happen. I would normally fire the app up to use it and then shut it down when down. However I just got a new phone yesterday so I will have to reevaluate how it behaves on my new phone. N1XBM Apparare Scientor Paratus Communicare Allstar Node # 27086, 41540, 41812, 42086, 42658, 42657 www.radioguysrepeaternetwork.com

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asterisk crashing in DIAL
by Bryan Fields 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

I've had asterisk crash twice over the past few weeks. I can't see any obvious problems in the logging. I've enabled debug logging and will see what I can find out when/if it happens again. I'd like to know why it's crashing, and I'll update once I have a theory. Right now the only thing I have different than stock is we enabled chan_echolink. It has 3 repeaters using the pciradio card and one using RTCMs. Bigger question here is the DIAL distro doesn't use systemd to manage asterisk, still uses the old init.d script, so I can't use systemd to restart it on failure. Does anyone have a systemd script to manage asterisk on DIAL? -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice 727-214-2508 - Fax http://bryanfields.net

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PTT keyed up
by Ken 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

I think this line: exten => 41702,n,rpt(41702|Pv) means you are using VOX control. That could key up the repeater without the PTT Ken KE2N

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Android IAXRPT stuck PTT
by Tom Hayward 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

All this talk of Android IAXRPT got me interested. I installed it (v1.13). Sometimes when I connect to my node, the PTT on the node will stick on. There is no indication of this in the app and no audio going through, just dead air. (Luckily I had a radio monitoring and discovered this issue quickly.) Other times I connect and it works just fine--PTT follows the PTT button. What's going on here? Why does it transmit without PTT pressed? On IAXRPT for Windows (running in Wine on OS X), PTT behaves correctly. I also have Zopier set up, but I configured this for VOX. I hit the mute button when I don't want to transmit. It works just fine. Relevant configuration stanzas below. (Let me know if you need more.) Tom KD7LXL iax.conf: [iaxrpt] username=iaxrpt type=friend context=radio-gui auth=md5 secret=xxx host=dynamic disallow=all allow=gsm allow=ulaw allow=g726aal2 notransfer=yes [tomsphone] ; Zoiper Setup username=tomsphone type=friend context=tomsphone host=dynamic auth=md5 secret=xxx disallow=all allow=ulaw allow=g726aal2 allow=gsm codecpriority=host transfer=no callerid="KD7LXL" extensions.conf: [radio-gui] exten => 41702,1,rpt(41702|X) exten => 1001,1,rpt(1001|X) [tomsphone] exten => 41702,1,answer() exten => 41702,n,Playback(rpt/connected) exten => 41702,n,rpt(41702|Pv) exten => 1001,1,answer() exten => 1001,n,Playback(rpt/connected) exten => 1001,n,rpt(1001|Pv)

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archivedir permissions
by Tom Hayward 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

I setup archivedir and am successfully getting recordings. I want to allow access to these recordings on a web server. The recordings are in the web root and I can browse them. When I try to download a recording, I get permission denied because the recording files do not have world-read and are owned by root. A chmod solves this, but only for old recordings. New files still get mode 0600. How can I change the mode of new files? Tom KD7LXL

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