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Scheduler / COP
by Kevin Babich 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

All, I am endeavoring to create a schedule which performs the following functions: 1. Change courtesy tone 2. Send 2-Tone Sequence (2x) 3. Shorten hang time 4. Change recorded voice announcement 5. Change ID to Morse I would like to call this either manually by DTMF or via Scheduler… has anyone successfully done this? This is a pretty standard feature in most modern repeater controllers, however, since the configuration file needs to be changed in order to accomplish the same, I am uncertain how to make this happen… Thoughts anyone?? Kindest Regards, Kevin Babich | N9IAA Valparaiso, IN 46383 Mobile: 219.406.9707 Cessna 421 Cesssna Conquest I/II Beechcraft King Air 90/200 “…It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat...” -Theodore Roosevelt

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phone patch audio
by Greg 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

I have very low phone patch audio when I access via sip and use *99 to PTT. Audio the other way is fine. Seems like it changed recently.. Where do I find tuning settings for this? Thanks Greg

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cat 200b controller
by Wayne 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

HI All, Anyone out there has done an interface between the cat 200b controller and DMK URI. Thanks Wayne --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Raspberry Pi3
by Kevin Custer 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

A friend of mine asked me to help him with replacing two of his older Dell PC installations with Raspberry Pi 2's. I've ordered several Raspberry Pi2's in the past from Amazon. When I ordered his two, I used the "Reorder" button from a previous Pi2 order. When they arrived, they were the latest model Pi3. <sigh> Anyway - has anyone here tried installing the DIAL image for the Pi2 on a Pi3, and if so, what were your results? I've already asked the developers and the answer is - "it should work". I'm going to try it, but I wondered if anyone had already and what they experienced. Thanks, Kevin Custer - W3KKC

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usbradio.conf
by Kevin Babich 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

All, When after adding an EEPROM to the RIM, does the usb stanza require eprom = 1 or 0 to enable EEPROM? Kindest Regards, Kevin Babich | N9IAA Valparaiso, IN 46383 Mobile: 219.406.9707 Cessna 421 Cesssna Conquest I/II Beechcraft King Air 90/200 “…It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat...” -Theodore Roosevelt

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RTCM and BBB or RAS PI
by Fran 20 Mar '16

20 Mar '16

Hello, Im currently using a BBB as an Allstar node and would like to have a friends RTCM unit connect to me, which files do I need to modify/add to get him connected. Thx FrankKB2AYS

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RTCM and Quantar Interfacing
by Brett Woollum 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

Hi Everyone! I wanted to share my experiencing setting up DIAL with RTCM's in hopes it will help the next person who searches for similar information. I have a Motorola Quantar (Quantro technically) repeater that has been set up for in-cabinet repeat. We've been having issues with handhelds not being able to talk into the system very well, especially in certain areas such as inside buildings. Our solution to this is to add remote voting receivers and feed them back to the repeater for transmission. I thought about doing it the traditional way using RF links and a central voter, but found app_rpt and RTCM's to be a more flexible solution. Plus, we already have an IP network to use as the transport between sites. At the moment I have an RTCM connected to the Quantar's 50-pin telco connector. The Quantar has a 4-wire wireline board installed, though I've configured the Quantar for an enhanced 8-wire card using the drop-down option in the software. We have one remote RTCM for testing. This is currently connected to a Motorola CDM1250 which is configured for receive-only. Some things I learned that I would like to share: Use the right pins on the Quantar! My first mistake was connecting the RTCM's audio to pins 1 and 2 on the 50-pin telco connector, thinking I would just go into the software and configure the repeater to put audio on those pins. Of course this didn't work. Use pins 5 and 30 on the 50-pin connector for your RTCM audio! The other pins for COR/PL and TX were easy (don't forget to add the wildcard entries as necessary to make these work!). Set up a VoIP Phone Setting up a remote SIP phone to listen in is a must! I would have continued to struggle if I hadn't set up a VoIP phone reverse-autopatch style. It was super easy using the instructions found in another thread on this list. Being able to call in and listen directly to the server was immensely helpful in diagnosing issues. I was able to figure out if the audio problems were on the receive or transmit side. I have a physical VoIP phone and a iPhone VoIP phone app connected. Recording is a must! I've configured app_rpt to record sound files on the server's hard drive. This allows me to re-play audio files and hear what the audio sounded like from the server's perspective. Again, this has been extremely helpful in allowing me to diagnose where in the system audio problems are coming from. A recent example of this was choppy transmit audio. I was able to go back and listen to the audio files, which sounded fine. This helped me narrow down on the problem, which turned out to be an issue between the server and the RTCM at the transmitter site (lack of QoS on a network link feeding the RTCM at the transmitter site). Crappy Transmit Audio I ran into an issue where the repeated audio sounded really bassy, muffled, and not very understandable. Compared to a typical simplex radio-to-radio transmission, the audio through the repeater (RTCM and Dial) was unacceptable. What I discovered was that the RTCM has an internal pre-emphasis function that was disabled. See, I had intentionally disabled "txctsss" and "txctcsslevel" in voter.conf because I didn't want the RTCM transmitting CTCSS (the Quantar was doing that for me already). I ultimately found a post online that said enabling txctcss = some valid tone (114.8 in our case) and setting txctcsslevel = 0 would turn on the pre-emphasis function in the RTCM without transmitting CTCSS tones. I did, and it worked like a charm! Audio now had more treble and was less bassy/muffled. So, future RTCM users, be sure not to comment out txctcss and txctcsslevel in voter.conf! Just enable and set the level to 0. You'll thank me later. Network Quality Your IP Network quality is important here. In our case I had to manually ensure we had a rule in our routers to prioritize traffic on UDP port 667 so that RTCM audio was given priority over other traffic. I recommend the same. RX/TX Buffers are NOT Both Millisecond Values I assumed an RX buffer (in voter.conf) of 120ms would be equivalent of a TX buffer (in the RTCM) of 120ms. Even though I followed the directions and set the buffers correctly, I only later realized the TX buffer was the number of 125 microsecond intervals, where the RX buffer is in milliseconds. I ended with an RX buffer of 160ms and TX buffer of 900 (high just to be safe). Don't Disable COR on the RTCM At one point I tried to disable COR on the RTCM since I was feeding it a PL signal from the Quantar. While it worked, it seemed to have disabled the RTCM's ability to measure RSSI, and therefore always reported a full 255 RSSI. Not good when trying to vote. Hopefully future RTCM's will have softpots for adjustments instead of physical adjustment screws. This would be great because the pots could be adjusted remotely without a trip to the remote site. So far the system seems to be working well! I need to make some minor adjustments to audio and squelch levels, but other than that everything is working. I'll probably end up picking up another 1-3 RTCM's and setting them up at remote sites to enhance our coverage even further. I hope someone finds this useful down the road! PS: For those of you interested in MDC1200, check out my MDC1200 paging system which works through this Dial/RTCM/Quantar system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QQa4krAxQI Brett Woollum

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ACID Error Lockup
by Steve Mahler 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

I have an ACID distribution running. Last night I ran an "astres.sh" after minor change to the rpt.conf file, and everything went away. No radio, no internet, just dead. Details below. Has anyone dealt with this? {This is a Dell PC and an URI.} I went to the repeater site and found the monitor filled with "cannot submit datapipe for urb 0, error -22: internal error" The last line was partially truncated. The keyboard was dead. Pressing the power button did not start a shutdown. Finally holding the power button down to dump the power and then restarting the machine brought things back to life. Any information appreciated. ...STeve - KF5VH

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Verizon & Asterisk/Allstar
by george＠dyb.com 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

Hey folks, looks like I need to drop Comcast (Yankees Network thing) and the only other real option is Verizon. Anybody have any problems with Verizon? Like can I open ports for things like Asterisk, etc? Or do they block stuff like that? Can I ssh in (I use the usual non standard port number) and webmin, etc? If they seem to work on the decision is easy. I already have fiber to the house for phone. GeorgeC W2DB 2360

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Re: [App_rpt-users] USB Sound Dongle Challenges
by Thor Wiegman 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

So I get that we're restricted to the C-Media chips. That's fine, they certainly capable of way better audio than we're using on a 3K communications circuit. It's a fine device for audio, way more excellent than we need. But why limit ourselves to using the audio chip for digital I/O? We already know that the parallel port can be used for this I/O (smoke 'em if you got 'em). So it is possible to use something other than the audio chip. For applications with Raspberry Pi, what about using the GPIO pins? For Pi and all others why not a USB relay board? Something like the IC Station ICSE013A would give us PTT and another relay for things like fans or whatnot for about $5. For a few more bucks you could get the ICSE012A or ICSE014A and have even more output control. I've also seen some USB I/O boards for about $5 that give 16 pins, your choice of input or output on each. If these could be adapted then chan_simpleusb could be used and the radio can provide COR and CTCSS. I'm just trying to think of ways we can use what we already have or to use cheap stuff that's commonly available. I On 03/15/2016 06:51 PM, app_rpt-users-request(a)ohnosec.org wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:05:54 +0000 (UTC) > From: Jim Aspinwall <no1pc(a)yahoo.com> > To: "app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org" <app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org> > Subject: [App_rpt-users] USB Sound Dongle Challenges > Message-ID: > <504928773.650221.1458079554502.JavaMail.yahoo(a)mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > The original CM-108/-109-based products a few have documented mods for are evaporating from common availability.? > A few of us have ordered or tried to order from "known good links" (circa 2014/2015) off Amazon or eBay only to encounter dead/expired/no-longer-available links or "byte the bullet" and opt for a 108/109-claiming look-alike and come up with yet another version of unusable product. > If we can determine the same/similar/equivalent pinout locations between the 108, 109, 119 or whatever different chips we might be able to revise some of the mod docs for alternatives. > However, the latest small batch I acquired came with not pin-exposed chip-on-board (for which there could be more hope) but connection flooded die-on-board implementations and drastically differently layout, no direct access to pins without risking the chip trying to 'uncap' it. > Two recent acquisitions pictured: > http://www.no1pc.org/radio/NewerChip.jpg?- CM119 chip - one such device has already been proven to work with IRLP and Asterisk via Pi - but I'd like to do the PTT/COS tap-offs. > > http://www.no1pc.org/radio/DieOnBoard2.jpg?- not yet sure of the chip, but pinouts are obviously a challenge. > > I can try to poke about and see if the exposed-pin CM119 is viable, if someone familiar with the chips or their layout can advice. ?The die-version - good luck? > Ideas? ?Existing updates? >

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