I was interested to see this comment on the output lines. Inputs would be nice too.

I have mentioned in some previous correspondence that it would be GREAT to have some digital I/O control – for example: the weather radio application. You could sense when the “alert” or “warning” LED’s were on with the inputs (and change the courtesy tone or tail message, perhaps) and hit the “play” button with the output, to catch the latest warning message details  (warning messages are not sent out on the internet as mpeg podcasts, for obvious reasons).  

This kind of functionality is standard on commercial repeater controllers (previously used here RLC and CAT WX200 – RLC Club deluxe had 5 input lines and 8 output lines, its successor - the DSP404 - has 16 of each and 15 analog channels).

The mind boggles at the things you could do if there were some user-useable I/O and a simple way to read/write these under the control of app_rpt macros and/or external programs.

73

Ken

KE2n

From: app_rpt-users-bounces@qrvc.com [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@qrvc.com] On Behalf Of Jim Duuuude
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:12 PM
To: n3fe@repeater.net; 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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