On 3/7/11 2:24 PM, John (WB5NFC) wrote:

Looking for information on configuration and use of an iPhone with softphone to monitor node activity. Has anyone put anything together on the subject?

Do you want to just monitor or interact?

If just for monitoring, I took the speaker output of my micor (which is on a separate board that was installed by the builder...for local monitoring...), padded it down and feed it into a pc that's serving some shoutcast streams for my internet radio network feeds on an oddball port that I listen to with a free iPhone app. Seems to work ok. There's about a 15-30 second buffer lag, but, the quality is pretty good. Oh, yeah, the shoutcast stream is password protected, btw, so, it's pretty much only myself that uses it (and now you all know...;))

If you have your node configured with Echolink, the iPhone echolink app works a treat; if you don't use a proxy, remember to wait for a couple minutes between starting the app up and trying to connect so the app_rpt node gets the updated list of authenticated systems...otherwise, go thru a proxy, which are probably already in the app_rpt echo database, from what I can see.

I'm sure there's other ways...the first came to mind quickly when I was setting up some other things...and I use Echolink on an occasional basis...others may have their own favorite ways of doing so...

HTH

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