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Unable to drop link connection
by DuaneVT . 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

I am running DIAL on a fanless computer node. Twice now, my node was somehow connected to a remote hub...say 42000. The Allstarlink bubble screen showed 42996 connected to 42000. I tried : disconnect 42000 Telemetry was 42000 disconnected from 42996 Traffic was still being heard from 42000 Still showing connected on bubble screen disconnect ALL links......no change disconnect last permanent link connection...no change SSH's into node, issued REBOOT. All clear, no connection heard or shown. How is it that somehow a remote connection was made to me at 42996 without any way to disconnect from my side? I did not have SSH/CLI running to see what transactions occurred during setup of this connection. Any ideas? Duane KA1LM 42996

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Audio too much highs and not balanced when connecting to RTCM
by Hayden Honeywood 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

Tim, I thought that setting ctcsslevel to 0 in the RTCM still causes pre-emphasis to happen, aslong as the txtone is set to a value? Does ctcsslevel need to be 1? Hayden

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Audio too much highs and not balanced when connecting to RTCM
by Bradlington 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Hi I am a custodian for our local clubs repeater and have just installed the Allstar unit . Can you please confirm if emphasis settings can be done on the RTCM module for both RX and TX audio chains from and to the Repeater. TKR-750 External accessory as duplex unit . Audio appears to sharp and not enough lows - I am suspecting it is being double emphasised somewhere in the RTCM. There is one setting on the RTCM unit known as "nodeemp"--anyone got more technical details on how these units are designed and what type of audio the unit is expecting ? Regards Bradley Glen ZS5BG South Africa

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transmitter stuck on transmit (rabbit hole)
by Lowell 02 Apr '17

02 Apr '17

I am attempting to run allstar on a raspberry pi 3 occasionally with wifi. I downloaded rpi2_dial_V101.img <http://dvswitch.org/files/DIAL/rpi2_dial_V101.img> but it appears to be based on some version of raspbian that doesn't have wifi support. So, I tried http://dvswitch.org/files/DIAL/RAT_RC1.tar.gz which I thought was a later development release but now I see it has an earlier date than "V101". However, wifi does work. I am having a couple of problems though. Sometimes after the transmitter returns to receive the receive audio is no longer present and the sound fob "mic" input appears to be dead. Worse, though, is when I try to get the node to announce something like status ( *712 = status,12 in rpt.conf) the transmitter starts transmitting but there is no audio. When it stops transmitting (maybe a minute or more later) I see a message " NOTICE[15291]: app_rpt.c:10859 rpt_telemetry: Tracepoint rpt_telemetry() exit chan_simpleusb ACRUK dev=usb TX OFF >>". So, I thought I would look at the source code and see what that might mean. Now I am confused about where to get the official source code. I think it is supposed to be at https://github.com/AllStarLink/DIAL so I started looking at the code there and have decided I might be way down the wrong rabbit hole. Time to reset. Should I go back to V101 or maybe download the source and attempt to build myself or... I saw this message on a resolved issue "feature/serial signaling for USB channel drivers #14" which sound interesting to me because then I could use the same radio interface I use for all my other applications. Any hints would be appreciated. Lowell

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Wifi
by W2rjr 02 Apr '17

02 Apr '17

Hello, Will the RAT software be able to remember more than one wifi connection at a time? I'd like to be able to take my portable node in my truck and then be able to bring it back home without having to run wifi setup. 73 Ray, W2RJR

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Wifi
by W2rjr 02 Apr '17

02 Apr '17

Hello, Will the RAT software be able to remember more than one wifi connection at a time? I'd like to be able to take my portable node in my truck and then be able to bring it back home without having to run wifi setup. 73 Ray, W2RJR

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Allstarlink loop?
by Benjamin L. Naber 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

Uh, I was under the impression this wasn't possible, have a look at a the picture. If I don't break the connection using the almight *4 command, as someone on the 45297 insists on using the permanent link command, have a look-see at my node, 28569

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Re: [App_rpt-users] Simulcasting with RTCM/voter
by Hayden Honeywood 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

Thanks for your thoughts Jesse and Tim. Ah, perhaps that was my issue, I was setting the delay, doing a 99 to save to EEPROM but not rebooting. Perhaps I need to try this next. Basically the test you have described Jesse is what I am doing at home. I believe from what I have read and understand from Joe's messages, Tim that some error in the launch delay is OK at voice. I read somewhere over 110uS it starts to become a problem. I certainly can get away with no PL encoding on the transmitter, I was merely using it as a means of double checking my audio phasing. Voice sounds OK, depending on my frequency offset. It does have a level of distortion however - again maybe due to the launch delay not being set correctly. I suppose a semi bonus is that at 6 metres, normal propagation effects cause noise, crackles, phase cancellations etc so it may just all sound natural anyway. Sporadic E openings will be interesting though :). Currently my main site has a significant overlap of my planned secondary site. I may need to reconsider this to reduce the overlap. 73 Hayden

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"Link prefix" control codes?
by no1pc＠yahoo.com 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

Is anyone familiar with a set of additional function/control codes that can begin with '#' to allow for assigning a link-mode prefix for over-air/linked RF system control? If so, you're probably familiar with the scenario of some multi-site (RF) linked repeater systems. To control a local RF-site/repeater on it's local RF channel you prefix that site's control codes with '*' and all else is muted from going down-stream to other nodes. To control a remote site you prefix commands with '#' then a node address or 'prefix' after which the targeted node's controller accepts commands over the air. When you have an Allstar node connected as a port off a repeater controller you don't want it accepting control codes all the time, so it needs to be configured to accept only '#' then a <prefix/site code> and subsequent commands on that node. Jim Dixon had apparently created that code and implemented it on a few Allstar nodes, including one of mine, but I did not get details of the configuration, nor got a backup of it afterwards, and that node crashed and needed to be re-created. Work lost. I will have 2-3 such Allstar nodes at various radio sites and need to accommodate controlling them uniquely, over-the-air, remotely. Any clues?

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2 nodes from the same ip address.
by W2rjr 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

Hello, I know I've asked this question before, I have one node for my repeater and its a full time connection to a hub and the other node is a portable node to connect to other nodes. They are both on the same Internet connection. I can connect outbound to some nodes and some not but I don't get in bound connections. My nodes are on two separate servers and have two separate ports. Is there something I'm missing? Any help is appreciated! Thank you. 73 Ray, W2RJR

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