I already use polite id and it works fine, the ID never goes on top of anyone.  But that is not the problem.
And to incorporate the club reminders with every ID would be very annoying to everyone listening to the repeater.
What I need is the function of tailmessage, this feature allows a set of messages to be played at unkeys, a different message at each interval, and have those recorded messages not step on users.
It should be just like the polite ID,, and it was before.  but now it is not.

I intend to set the interval to something like 60 to 120 minutes.  and the messages will change at different times of the day.  Like I said it worked great before.  now it doesn't work on any of 3 repeaters I am trying to implement it on.
The only reason I currently have the timers so short is for debugging.  I am still digging in the source code and am getting closer.  
I think it is very closely related to "tailtimer -= elap" in the code.  I am still trying to track down "elap" and if anyone can explain it to me before I figure it out, that would be very helpful.
Before long I will have the entire program memorized like Jim does.  (not going to happen in my lifetime :)

Chuck,  CCIE2285(retired),  WB9UUS



On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Bob <kk6ecm@gmail.com> wrote:

You may want to consider politeid and its function

 

http://ohnosec.org/drupal/search/node/politeid

 

Bob

kk6ecm

 

From: app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Henderson
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:35 PM
To: app_rpt mailing list
Subject: [App_rpt-users] tailmessage not working correctly???

 

I put these 3 lines in my rpt.conf file expecting to have a tail message on unkey every 60 seconds or more.

 

tailmessagetime=60000

tailsquashedtime=70000

tailmessagelist=tailmessage

 

 

So if someone makes a 2 minute transmission, then I expect a tail message when they unkey.  

 

If someone makes a 10 second transmission than I would not expect a tail message unless 60 seconds have passed since the last tail message.

 

Unfortunately what I get is not what I expect.

 

When the repeater has not been used for a long time.... the first person to key down gets the tail message right on top of the beginning of their transmission.  

The repeater can be in use with various people each making random length transmissions from 10 seconds to 2 minutes long and there is never a tail message after the first one that tromps on top of the first person talking.

 

I remember using tailmessage long ago back when I was using the USB fob and I think it worked fine back then.

Now I am using only RTCM's and I can not get the tailmessage feature to work properly.

 

Has anyone else been successfully using tail messages with RTCM's or USB fobs?