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Allstar RPi notes
by Doug Crompton 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

A broke this off into a new thread as it does not apply to the dahdi fix. So carrying on with the last question asked in that thread... The question is often asked, well the RPi works well as an Asterisk PBX so why not Allstar? When running a PBX you generally interface via Ethernet using an FXO/FXS analog adapter, a direct digital phone, or to another PBX. The USB interface is not used except for a keyboard and mouse in not run headless. With Allstar the RPi acts as a server (PBX in phone terms) and also an audio adapater via USB. Therein lies the problem. The interface via USB is flakey. Another question might be that the RPi has a multimedia iso that can stream video and audio to a TV so why can't it do Allstar correctly. Again the answer is that the USB is not being used. The video and audio come out over the RPi HDMI port. The server part of Allstar on the RPi seems to work fine. It works flawlessly with either locally or remotely connected iaxrpt. I also think it would work fine connected to an RTCM. Anyone want to try that? I don't have one. Of course this would be an expensive interface to connect to a Pi but if one had a really scaled down RTCM Ethernet to analog radio adapter it would probably work. Like an FXS for radio. That is what we really need a less than $100 Ethernet radio adapter. It, like the RTCM, could be run locally or remotely interfaced to a radio. Everything would be done over Ethernet. The Chinese could build it for $30. If DMK built it it might cost $150. It might be too much work to finagle all this stuff just to prove an RPi can work since there are already other albeit a little more expensive board choices and more coming in the future. I am writing this to foster your ideas! 73 Doug WA3DSP http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

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Well, it works :)
by John KD8DVR 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

All well and running.. just a few tweaks... thanks to buddy too :)

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How to have Allstar link deleted? Hardware not supported.
by John KD8DVR 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

I set up a Node, but it appears my USB hardware is not supported.. I did some settings changes on the website, but now running the menu config brings up an error it cannot parse the config file.. which was deleted when I changed adapter types. I guess my linux skills have rusted too much with my reliance on GUIs now. http://arsrepeaters.com/USB_EchoLink_Adapter.php 73 John

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Incoming Connection Contention Fixed
by Tim Sawyer 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

If you look at the Allstar blue status pages (i.e. http://stats.allstarlink.org/nodeinfo.cgi?node=2530) and note the Actual Uptime you'll see it’s not more than a couple of weeks in most instances. Note: the *CLI> core show uptime shows the same statistic. Also note: this is not the same as the Linux system uptime which has never been a problem. That uptime will be as long as the box has not lost power or been reset. The fact that Asterisk reboots at an all to frequent rate has always bugged the hell out of me. Just the other day when our group was supporting the Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Race one of the repeaters rebooted during the passing of important traffic. Granted, most of the time you won’t even know this is occurring because Asterisk only takes 20 seconds or less to restart or the restart happens when no one is using the repeater. But it’s really messed up when a hub reboots and drops all the connections. I equate that to Asterisk crashing and dropping all the phone calls causing everyone to have to redial. For many years I’ve been bugging Jim about this and we’ve been trying all sorts of things to isolate the problem. Long story short, we built a new test environment a few months ago and have found a problem. What was happening is that if there was more than one simultaneous permanent connection reconnect there would be a core dump. Jim added code to hold off reconnects such that only one can occur at a time. I don’t know if this is going to fix all the uptime woes but I am optimistic. I’ll be interested to hear what results others have. The fix has been posted in svn and you may apply it via the normal update process. -- Tim :wq

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Re: [App_rpt-users] Debian Allstar
by Bryan Fields 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

On 3/25/14, 11:21 AM, Jim Duuuude wrote: > Thanx for the encouragement Doug, but its not ENTIRELY working yet. Its > awfully close. > I didnt have time to finish my final changes yesterday, and am working on it > currently. > > I should have a "complete" patch set today (maybe). w00t, As a big debian user Thanks! 73's -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice 727-214-2508 - Fax http://bryanfields.net

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Debian Allstar
by Doug Crompton 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

I patched 2.9 dahdi with the patches supplied by Tim and I can confirm that the autopatch does now work. I can connect to my asterisk PBX (another server) and make calls. So yet another problem fixed. Thanks Jim! I know Jim wants to do more work on this but unless there is some other significant problem I think it should be a go. I do have to force the load of snd-pcm-oss though so if you give it a go you might need to add that to /etc/modules. 73 Doug WA3DSP http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

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zaptel.conf
by Chris Andrist 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Can someone give me more detail on "exttone" in the zaptel.conf. I am using a Quad PCI Radio card. I am not using CTCSS, because I am having the radio do it and I just use the COR signal. Here is all the documentation I found. # set the external tone mode; yes, no, inverted external {y,n,i} # exttone=y # High true External CTCSS on UIOB # exttone=i # Low true External CTCSS on UIOB # exttone=n # Use internal MX828 decoder on Quad Radio PCI card # # (not recommended) Regards, Chris Andrist, KC7WSU

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Re: [App_rpt-users] Debian Wheezy and RPi update
by Doug Crompton 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Roger, Everyone has the capability to compile! I think you are talking about the PC Debian compile? I believe the ISO would exceed DVD size. I guess you could really trim it down but setting up a system for someone else to use is not a trivial task. If anyone really wants to run on Debian I have some notes on setting it up from scratch but you still need to have a more than basic understanding of Linux and Debian in particular. You would learn a lot doing this though. Patience and persistence are required! For those who want to try it here is the quick list: 1. Have a PC and drive you can dedicate 2. Download the Debian net installation CD (you can do this in windows) 3. Boot on the CD and install Debian (if gets the rest of the stuff via the Internet) 4. Bring up Debian and configure the system for your tastes - DHCP/static, ssh port, etc. 5. Download the kernel header files and other dependencies needed for compiling 6. Get DAHDI complete source and compile and install 7. Get asterisk/allstar source and compile and install 8. Copy over or create and configure the /etc/asterisk configuration files Note that in steps 6 and 7 you will without doubt get errors due to the lack of required dependencies or files in the wrong place. You need to correct the problem and start the compile over. 99.99% of errors you will get are correctable with patience. I would be glad to answer any questions anyone might have along the way. 73 Doug WA3DSP http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

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Re: [App_rpt-users] App_rpt SVN repo
by Steve Zingman 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

< http://svn.ohnosec.org/svn/projects/allstar/astsrc-1.4.23-pre/trunk> On 03/23/2014 10:13 PM, app_rpt-users-request(a)ohnosec.org wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 17:52:48 -0600 > From: Eric Westbrook K5BFC<apprptusers(a)westbrook.com> > To: Jim Duuuude<telesistant(a)hotmail.com> > Cc: app_rpt mailing list<app_rpt-users(a)ohnosec.org> > Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Debian Wheezy and RPi update > Message-ID: > <CAEC9y9GFSL0gYPOs07T_w63aGe6W1vaz93N35yFYtmg0oZ5-Gg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Thanks! But that seems to be just a web interface to the repo itself. It > offers a tarball, but I can't seem to find a link to the repo itself for > use directly by SVN or other tools. > > May I have a cloneable link to the repo itself please? > > Also, are there others, as implied by your original "which one" question? > > Thanks again, > Eric > K5BFC

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Re: [App_rpt-users] USB FOB options
by Steve Wright 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

Ok I can confirm that de-blobbing this CM119 chip is a no-go. Heat gun removed the blob no worries, but removed (or destroyed) everything else as well. Might be a good option if you wanted to desolder the entire board which it did famously, but removing the blob also removed the chip and after that of course the computer wouldn't recognise the device. $3.50 down the flusher, oh well! Steve -- Meshnetworks - Rangitaiki Plains Rural Broadband Internet Providers +64 21 040 5067

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