Well, I have a script for you to test. This is quite a bit different than most scripts. It is totally a Bash Script that needs to be run from start-up or from a command line (should do for testing beforehand). Made/Tested with ACID. It will copy one of two voice files to your voice id file based on the internal parameter of ider_state. This allows for a long id when the repeater is woke-up from sleep. Most of us that are use to these initial id's use it to state location info and id and use a short voice id for in active use (awake). So you need to have those recorded and ready. I use idmsg1.wav and idmsg2.wav and my id file is idmsg.wav I'll call the script init-id.sh If running multi-node on a machine, you might want to make a new filename like: init-id-29283.sh init-id-29284.sh so you can have separate id's for each node if you do this, change the /tmp/init-id.txt located in "two places" in the file to the same unique format. In rpt.conf You need to give it a command:ex 909804=cmd,/etc/asterisk/myscripts/init-id-29283.sh Use the startup macro to call it:ex startup_macro=*9401,*9410,*909804 You need to edit before running: Node number files and locations of your 2 id files and the name of you voice-id file (idrecording =/etc/asterisk/msg/idmsg) in both locations in the script. Pay close attention to spaces when editing as it will change things in error. make the script 775 ownership After any error fixes i'll offer a revision with a pid that can be killed by command. "DO" RUN THIS FROM A COMMAND LINE FOR TEST BEFORE LOADING FROM rpt.conf and you can use <ctrl>c to break and stop it from command line running it. change sleep number to 20 for command line testing and 200 when auto loading to limit file accesses. Assuming a better than 5m id interval. FYI it takes much longer to write a "how-to" than a script and is why many of us don't post more. I would like to hear someone try this on a BBB or rpi2. Let me know... Here it is... #!/bin/bash # init-id.sh - mike/kb8jnm # overwrite id files to create initial id & regular id # based on ider_state variable. # clean up, use your diectory,file names, node numbers etc. # # make a command for calling the script and put that command # in your start-up macro in rpt.conf. # # make ownership of this file 775 # # -See sleep ### at the bottom is in seconds. # Lower the value to 20 for testing live from a command line. # You will see the updates faster. # # you may remove all lines that contain echo # after testing from command line. # # It is my hope that this will introduce/better you to bash programming # and get you creating useful stuff for all. # preset some parms idis='wakeid' # this is a infinate loop while : do # read our parms for node - put in text file - (edit node number) asterisk -rx "rpt xnode 29283" > /tmp/init-id-29283.txt # evaluate our parms from that file and only rewrite id if it needs it while read line do echo $line idsleep='ider_state=2' idwake='ider_state=1' if [ "$line" = "$idsleep" ] && [ "$idis" = "wakeid" ]; then # edit locations and names next line cp /etc/asterisk/msg/idmsg1.wav /etc/asterisk/msg/idmsg.wav echo " ** " $line $idsleep "-init ID" idis='sleepid' fi if [ "$line" = "$idwake" ] && [ "$idis" = "sleepid" ]; then # edit locations and names next line cp /etc/asterisk/msg/idmsg2.wav /etc/asterisk/msg/idmsg.wav echo " ** " $line $idwake "-normal ID" idis='wakeid' fi done </tmp/init-id-29283.txt # show status if running from a command line for test echo "ID IS " $idis # wait a bit to limit file access (in seconds) sleep 200 done 73, ...mike/kb8jnm