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Net Tonight: Continued Conversation on digital modes and ASL gateways 8:30 pm esdst
by Mike 27 Jun '18

27 Jun '18

I will say with all of this newly added individual personal communication using ASL, it has changed the scope of how we must do things. No longer is the majority of nodes a repeater system. We are going to have to wrap our minds around that fact. The growth of ASL nodes has doubled in the past 3 years. Nobody has had to make _reservations_ for these large connects for nets and putting up 1,2 or even three very large assets is not always going to solve the issues with what we do. But it helps. So, here is a plan for the net tonight... You can make your 'reservation' by connecting early ( see connection list at www.29999.link and may be updated late ) When the connectable nodes start the net or when they fill to a determined capacity, they will be closed to incoming connections. So if you are late, you will need to connect downstream from those already engaged in a solid connection. This insures that those late to the party don't spoil the party. (Use the bubble map link top right side of page www.29999.link) Also, telemetry will be tuned off to avoid other issues and for the enjoyment of the content. *So tonight: Continued conversation on digital modes and ASL Steve N4IRS will be around for a short while for some Q&A on DVswitch Join Us ! Tonight at 8:30 pm esdst* I know that many have began deployment and testing while many also have some issues we need to help-out with. As the net winds down, we shall break it into a roundtable discussion as/when we can. So if you have any announcements etc, be prepared to broadcast those later in the net. Please thank your supporting node of connection for helping make it possible ! The next net will be 3 weeks after to get past the 4th of July holiday and to line-up some new speakers and content. Thanking everyone for the help in making these things possible for the enjoyment of everyone ! I can only hope you gain something from them. ...mike/kb8jnm

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Re: [App_rpt-users] installing allstarlink
by mwbesemer＠cox.net 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

Dale, There are some YouTube videos by K1GMM that are pretty good. I'd give them a look. Mike WM4B On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Dale Day wrote: > Thank you so much for your reply. > I have the latest download of Debian from Allstar link. I have it > installed > on a amd desk top pc and then it linked to pm windows pc with putty. > I have a dmk engineering usb radio interface to a Motorola gm300 type > radio. > I understand this is very difficult to do over email but I have worked > on > this off and on for two years and I am just at wits end. I go through > the > asl-menu and have it configured the static ip address and have signed > up > with Allstar and have my numbers and passwords with server and my pc. > My problem is when I try to go to tune radio menu it comes up with a > message that I don't have rpt file and another one I cant remember > with out > going and firing up pc again and refreshing my memory not configured. > So in other words I just don't know which of the hundreds of lines in > the > files usb radio, simpleusb or other files need to be modified. > I will keep reading the help files and and k5tra's web site but I just > can't seem to get the files configured right. > Thanks so much > Dale > N0INX > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:58 PM, Mike <mm(a)midnighteng.com> wrote: > >> Well, >> >> I am not sure what you are using for hardware and what versions of >> software as you did not say. >> >> SO here is my advise for anyone. >> >> Make the box work 'headless', meaning without the radios in the setup >> fray. >> >> Use this setting by un/commenting the following lines as shown here >> in >> your rpt.cong file so you are using dahdi/pseudo and not radio >> interfaces. >> >> rxchannel = dahdi/pseudo ; No radio (hub) >> ****************** >> ; rxchannel = SimpleUSB/usb_29999 ; SimpleUSB >> ; rxchannel = Pi/1 ; Raspberry Pi PiTA >> ; rxchannel = Radio/usb_29999 ; USBRadio (DSP) >> ; rxchannel = Dahdi/1 ; PCI Quad card >> ; rxchannel = Beagle/1 ; BeagleBoard >> ; rxchannel = USRP/127.0.0.1:34001:32001; GNU Radio interface USRP >> >> duplex = 2 ; 0 = Half duplex with no >> telemetry tones or hang time. >> >> >> Then setup iaxrpt to run with that node so you can check it for >> functionality of a running asterisk install without the radio side of >> the >> equation. >> >> You will have to read some more of the docs most likely to get this >> far, >> but once you do, you are most of the way there. >> >> You should be able to 'command' your node with functionality before >> adding >> radios to your learning curve. >> >> But you will need to ask 'specific questions' to what you do not >> understand to get help. >> >> >> ...mike/kb8jnm >> >> On 6/25/2018 9:38 PM, Dale Day wrote: >> >> Could someone help me with getting allstar link up and running. >> I just can't allstar configured correctly to the point where I can >> tune >> the radios. >> I just don't understand what I am doing wrong. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> App_rpt-users mailing >> listApp_rpt-users@lists.allstarlink.orghttp://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users >> >> To unsubscribe from this list please visit >> http://lists.allstarlink.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. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> App_rpt-users mailing list >> App_rpt-users(a)lists.allstarlink.org >> http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users >> >> To unsubscribe from this list please visit >> http://lists.allstarlink.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. >> > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > App_rpt-users mailing list > App_rpt-users(a)lists.allstarlink.org > http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users > > To unsubscribe from this list please visit > http://lists.allstarlink.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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Allstar Pushover Module
by Justin Harris 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

I have created a relatively simple python application that runs on your Allstar node to send notifications over the pushover service. I'm not sure if anyone has done this already but it was a fun project to work on. Feel free to try it out and let me know if you have any issues as there will likely be bugs. The concept is simple. When your node comes online you a notification. If there are any connects or disconnects you will receive a notification. Multiple nodes on a single device are supported, additionally multiple pushover accounts are supported. https://bitbucket.org/suidnet/allstar-pushover Take care, Justin Harris KG7FKJ

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Echolink Call Drops
by 2E0SIP 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Hi All, I'm currently investigating an issue where echolink users appear to unkey and then rekey in the archive files, but in reality they have remained keyed up. As far as I can tell there's no drop in audio during this event. Here's the output of the text file created by the archivedir option, showing the Echolink user Key and Unkey: 20180625001717,RXKEY,3936347 20180625001717,TXKEY,MAIN 20180625001717,TXKEY,47920 20180625001721,RXUNKEY,3936347 20180625001721,TXUNKEY,47920 20180625001721,RXKEY,3936347 20180625001721,TXKEY,47920 20180625001732,RXUNKEY,3936347 20180625001732,TXUNKEY,47920 20180625001735,TXUNKEY,MAIN During this event the Echolink user remained keyed up. Where should I start looking to troubleshoot this in more detail? Thanks Matthew

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Connectivity issues
by Bryan Fields 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

We've seen some interesting connectivity issues for ATT users recently. The most recent was some sort of ALG proxy on anything destined to udp/4569. This appears to intercept registration traffic and then selectively forward it on. I'm at a loss as to why this is happening. Last weekend ATT stopped allowing one of the subnets for the stats server in their routing table too. That was a bit easier to troubleshoot and easier to reach someone on their backbone with clue. The stats server isn't a critical part of the network either. If you're having any issues, please try registration on port 4566. I'll stress again, this really isn't an AllStar issue, it's a crappy ISP breaking the internet issue. There's not much the admin team can do if your ISP isn't going to route packets properly :( -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net

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DMR Gateway Available for field day weekend.
by Mike 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Good FD Weekend HAM's I am making available for the whole field day weekend, NODE 29999 is connected to DMR Gatway Talk Group 91 WorldWide You may use it on echolink node 155783 / KB8JNM-L and on ASL node 29999 It will be in full transmit as I have time to monitor directly. Be glad to pass that on to someone for the night shift so we can keep it open for the duration. But if not, it will be bumped to rx only while I sleep. Please be on your best behavior to keep a good example going for ASL on these gateways of high traffic DMR channels. This node now supports over 100+ streams.(4core 8gb) But limited to 25 on echolink. So if you want to just connect via echolink to it and listen, GREAT ! You may view the allmon at http://29999.link/allmon/link.php?nodes=29999 Please use it in the best interest of promoting amateur radio. Have a great weekend ! 73, ...mike/kb8jnm

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dadhi_test results.
by Pierre Martel 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

did a test on a vps I have on linode. was wondering if this sounds good for you :[/usr/sbin]: sudo ./dahdi_test Opened pseudo dahdi interface, measuring accuracy... 99.997% 99.993% 99.997% 99.997% 99.984% 99.998% 99.991% 99.607% 99.993% 99.603% 99.608% 99.990% 99.613% 99.995% 99.998% 99.613% 99.992% 99.997% 99.988% 99.995% 99.999% 99.991% 99.985% 99.603% 99.996% 99.995% 99.998% 99.999% 99.995% 99.995% 99.612% 99.999% 99.893% 99.643% 99.525% 99.998% 99.994% 99.594% 99.999% 99.991% 99.998% 99.999% 99.615% 99.995% 99.996% 99.998% 99.996% 99.994% 99.995% 99.997% 99.980% 99.993% 99.999% 99.984% 99.999% 99.993% 99.998% 99.992% 99.985% 99.997% 99.999% 99.603% 100.000% 99.996% 99.996% 99.611% 99.998% 99.994% 99.994% 99.995% 99.996% 99.994% 99.605% 99.998% 99.999% 99.994% 99.997% 99.991% 99.997% 99.992% 99.996% 99.995% 99.999% 99.997% 99.980% 99.996% 99.999% 99.994% 99.996% 99.995% 99.996% 99.604% 99.998% 99.993% ^C --- Results after 94 passes --- Best: 100.000% -- Worst: 99.525% -- Average: 99.931304% Cumulative Accuracy (not per pass): 100.000 this was while connected to another 2 node and some activity on the repeaters. IS this a keeper? I am also planning to use that vps as an xlxD server and running an ambed server at home (got 3 trancoding channel possibility here.) If it is possible to link from allstar dstar and dmr that would make a nice bridge between all those mode.. I just need a second pair of dongle to also get fusion. If anyone have experience in such thing let me know. I will need some hint. Dont need to be taken by the hand...

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EchoLink Timer settings?
by Russell Thomas 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

I've noticed when I connect to my EchoLink node on Allstar from my phone or with IAXRPT android app that both will disconnect after a few minutes if no audio. are there settings to control this? On a computer hosted echolink traditional node this doesn't happen. any ideas? 73, Russell Thomas, KV4S Cell: 205.202.1701 DMR: 3101393 D-Star: KV4S AllStar: 47923 EchoLink: KV4S-L (1003254) HamShackHotline: 614 Web: http://KV4S.com

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Report on Tues's Net - Please read - of interest to everyone
by Mike 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

Thanks for your interest, And your participation last Tues. I am breaking this little report down into sections. This is the first. You have to know that the interest in the topic of discussion is much higher than anyone might have predicted. _What happened During the net last Tues.._ Let me say that this was originally configured for 60-70 nodes to connect. Should not have been_any_ issues. That is what I was expecting with the unknown of personal/Pi nodes that are quite numerous now if you have not looked. Being a repeater or a personal Pi, ...it's a stream of the same size . A guideline for connecting was published. Those that connected in advance adhered to it. I made one balancing move in the beginning before the net and nobody even knew it happened. This was to keep nodes on par with their potential bandwidth. I had some options to balance even further. At some point near the beginning of the net, about the time Steve/N4IRS was having issues with the digital input and time-out on his own node, ...well...some took that as a node drop-out and began to switch connections from the planed path. At this same time, we had a influx of connections (while net was ongoing) LATE COMERS ! Expected some, but there were many. And most were not adhering to the connection plans. Within that part of the mess, a node had been connected up who came with 50+ nodes in a private network. I could not identify this node for the duration of the net. No way to see who is spewing large chucks of iax data on our network. It's not going to show in your allmon. This unidentified network normally runs with all their elemetry "OFF" (found out later) Most of you know how telemetry works in the iax2 and know your connected brings that data to your network. Same as they will receive yours. But this one node had telemetry data beyond belief and in loop. They don't know it, it's turned off on their systems. With most of our nodes are using telemetry, it became a additional overload load for Allison just trying to speak it. And the telemetry list stacked-up beyond comprehension. And very quickly. With all of the cpu activity and iax activity, I could not get a command in edge-wise. At this point I don't know where the iax data is coming from or that it is a major factor in the eventual overload of 29999. I had figured that much of it was coming from one node because it was the same stuff over and over. It's a funny story how I discovered the who but I'll save that for some other dicussion. I have some very strong feelings about this - 'running a large network without any telemetry and connecting to other large networks"you better be sure your network is clean, but I'll keep that under control for now. Everyone should realize that when you connect to others, you bring any problems your system has to the network you connect to. Even if it is not noticeable to you when connected to anything. I take full responsibility for this failure. But I want to share some of the blame on some others. Those that will not get with the plan,_especially when late._ And those that will not stick to the plan making matters worse. Contingency's were in place but you can not make changes when everyone is moving to who knows where. And that iax data stream kept me from changing anything anyway. I needed some direct communication with Mike and Steve to make them aware of things during the net process and pause them until we made adjustments. But this came about very suddenly and snowballed. . Normally we would account for some of these late connections but there was a large number of them. -- Most of you can match that from what you seen and heard to understand this better. But on my next note to group, I will post my plans for the next net. They are very strong. I will post by Saturday/Sun. _Then some new thoughts for discussion going forward in this new age of personal connectable network systems_. We have twice as many nodes now as just 3-4 years ago. It's still growing at that rate++. The older days when repeater systems were the dominate bunch are over. Repeater nodes were pretty much predictable. Personal nodes are not. _We need to have this discussion before we grow to big for it and things get to messy to keep the good perception we recieve from others at this point.._ Watch for my next post on this issue and you will see clearly how I am going to deal with these issues going forward. It may be just one example of many to follow of how to avoid these problems in the future. And know that every one of these issues will be fully addressed in the next net. Since we can no longer judge the size of interest and participation with any real degree of accuracy anymore. Thanks for reading the whole thing ! I welcome responsible comments at this time. But I would ask you to wait and see the plan going forward. These nets that 'anyone produces' are going to get larger and we need a plan. It is my desire to involve as many going forward as we can. Because others will need the practice of knowing how to properly configure and run such a net structure that continues to grow. And it is growing rapidly. The more that have a feel for this, the better we all are. Myself included. ...mike/kb8jnm

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No kernel in install
by Ross Boulet 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

I downloaded the iso from http://dvswitch.org/files/ASL_Images/Intel-AMD/Stretch/ASL_1.01-20180417-am… When I try to run the install, I eventually get an error saying "No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources. Am I missing something? -- Ross Boulet AG5RB (formerly K5BOU) -

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