I have been thinking about this for a long but have yet to start building out a system. My need is for three commercial, frequency agile (pre programmed is fine) radios on a mountain top site connected back civilization via a long haul wifi connection. I looked at the Maxtrac due to it's cost and 16 pin connector. For commercial service it is wideband only and does not have what I call a good method of changing channel. If you move up to a GM300 or CDM you get the same 16 or 20 pin connector but 4 of those pins will switch frequency based on logic levels on those 4 pins. I think the URI has 3 pins available so I could switch to 8 channels on the radio. There are other radios that have this as well like Icom repeaters and Kenwood tk-X90 (6 low 7 VHF 8 UHF) I had always assumed that this functionality was available in app_rpt. Brian Kassa On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:18 AM, "Corey Dean N3FE" <n3fe@repeater.net> wrote:
Thanks Jim! I know of two others that are VERY interested in this as well. They want to use theirs for the same thing as well as latching the outputs for fans.
If this is doable I may just plan to put my RVS8 voter on the app_rpt machine as well. That would give me the option of remotely disabling a receiver.
Corey N3FE
From: Jim Duuuude [mailto:telesistant@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:12 PM To: Corey Dean N3FE; app_rpt mailing list Subject: RE: [App_rpt-users] Maxtrac as a remote base
That's an interesting question. Obviously the USB device has a couple of outputs on it that certainly could be accessed by the chan_usbradio and/or chan_simpleusb modules and controlled through app_rpt. The URI was also designed with this in mind, being that we brought all the outputs out to the connector.
In nearly 10 years that this project has been going on, you are the FIRST person to even ask this question or show any interest in using these outputs. This is the main reason why I never bothered to implement this functionality.
Sure, it can be done. Yeah, Ill work on this. Heck, even if you're the only person that ever uses it, at least you can benefit from the work involved.
JIM WB6NIL
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:05:21 -0400 From: n3fe@repeater.net To: app_rpt-users@qrvc.com Subject: [App_rpt-users] Maxtrac as a remote base
I have been up and running now for about a month. I have added a maxtrac radio to use as a remote base. On my other controllers I would pulse a line to ground momentarily to move the channel up or down. I have done some reading and I haven't seen anything that talks about app_rpt doing this.
Does asterisk/app_rpt have the ability to work with outputs? What would need to be done to be able to do something like this if something isn't already in place for it?
Corey N3FE
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