Jim, WOW, that was a quick feature update and new firmware addition. Man you work fast. Thanks for this great functional feature to the RTCM. An early Christmas gift! <GRIN> 73 Marshall - ke6pcv _____ From: Jim Duuuude [mailto:telesistant@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 8:34 PM To: Marshall Oldham; conny@tangandjonsson.com Cc: app_rpt mailing list Subject: RE: [App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) is nowavailable I've been really busy (and productive) today. The new version (0.60) of the RTCM/Voter board firmware now supports the following: Notification via CW of host connection failure (with the option of repeating it periodically if still failed, along with option of repeating it after receiver un-key). Notification via CW of host connection restoral after failure. "Offline" repeat mode, where it becomes a "dumb" repeater if host connection is lost. Includes settable hang time. The "Notification via CW of host connection failure" feature also can serve as a CW identifier in this mode (and was designed to do so). The CW speed, CW strings (content of messages), and some other stuff is user-settable from a menu. Speaking of menus, the "big humongous" main menu is now split in to 3 nice, smaller ones. The 2 sub-menus are IP (networking) parameters, and "Offline Mode" parameters. The only thing it does *NOT* do is generate CTCSS tone when transmitting. I doubt it ever will, since we are pretty much out of code space in the processor. This would require the use of floating point trig functions to calculate generation constants (or from a table), neither of which we have room for. The 0.60 version will be available on SVN at 2115 PST tonight. JIM WB6NIL _____ From: ke6pcv@cal-net.org To: telesistant@hotmail.com; conny@tangandjonsson.com CC: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: RE: [App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) is nowavailable Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:42:57 -0800 This would be a good function or to add in the future firmware! _____ From: Jim Duuuude [mailto:telesistant@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:51 PM To: conny@tangandjonsson.com Cc: Marshall Oldham; app_rpt mailing list Subject: RE: [App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) is nowavailable Not at the moment as the firmware currently stands. However, that's not a bad idea. It could simply act as a totally "dumb" controller and just repeat the input back to the output. JIM _____ Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) is nowavailable From: conny@tangandjonsson.com Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:46:17 -0700 CC: ke6pcv@cal-net.org; app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org To: telesistant@hotmail.com If you use RTCM as "generic" radio interface on the hill and a linux box at a remote location connected over an IP connection and you loose the connection can the RTCM failover to be a minimal repeater controller on the hill? 73 de N5HC /Conny On Dec 21, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Jim Duuuude wrote: Yeah, that's the general idea. The location of the Linux server running app_rpt/Asterisk can be more or less anywhere within Internet connectivity of all of the receiver and/or transmitter sites. Of course, "Internet" can mean either some sort of public Internet connection, or a privately-provided Internet connection (low-cost microwave link(s), etc). The only limitation is that an RTCM/Voter module *must* be located on the same LAN as the Linux server, to at least provide a GPS-based timing reference. A system could be set up with a server located in some sort of datacenter "on the ground", and all the radios could have an RTCM "on the hill" with them, and as long as there is Internet connectivity of some sort between each of them and the server, the system will work nicely. That is providing that there is an RTCM located at the server location also (whether or not that particular RTCM has radio hardware connected to it or not). One minimal Linux server can easily support 1 or 2 dozen RTCM's (on 1 or 2 allstar nodes), and a larger server could easily support MANY dozens of them on dozens of allstar nodes. Of course, you REALLY dont want to put too many of them on a single server, being a potential single point of failure. For pretty much any practical purpose, the reasonable limitation is the point of failure/redundancy issue, not technical limitations. I'm not sure if you were clear on this, so I thought I would mention that the RTCM is not just usable as a GPS-timing-based Multi-Receiver Voting system and/or a Simulcast Transmitter system. It can also be used as a "generic" radio interface for a conventional (non-GPS-based) either simplex or full duplex (repeater) radio. The advantage of doing this would be to not have the Linux host "on the hill" with the radio (as mentioned above). In addition, the RTCM allows for portable/mobile operation with a mobile/portable Internet connection in both the GPS-based and non-GPS-based environments. JIM WB6NIL _____ From: ke6pcv@cal-net.org To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:54:18 -0800 Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) is nowavailable I have been looking at the Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) and it really looks like a GREAT product and addition to the already cool Allstar hardware. Among all the other cool features of the RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) like Transmitter Simulcasting and Receiver Voting, if I understand the documentation correctly you can use this very small Radio Thin Client Module at a remote radio site to set up an Allstar repeater node if the site has internet connection without a COMPUTER at the site? Then you can point the node on the hilltop back to a server on the ground somewhere that is easy to get too? How many total sites can you use Radio Thin Client Modules on and point back to a single server on the ground? If this is the case, All I can say is WOW, how cool! 73 Marshall _____ From: app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of Mark Guibord Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:03 AM To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: [App_rpt-users] Allstar RTCM (Radio Thin Client Module) is nowavailable Allstar RTCM Radio Thin-Client Module, an Open-Source VOIP-Based Voting Multi-Receiver and Simulcast Transmit System is now available for purchase. For more information visit http://micro-node.com/thin-m1.html Regards, Mark Guibord Micro-Node International _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users