DIAL sending audio to another DIAL when it shouldn't be - need some assistance please!
Hi folks, I have a unique problem I am hoping someone on the list can help me uncover where to look next. The situation is this: I have repeaters are 2 mountain tops. Mountain 1 and Mountain 2. On Mountain 1 are (2) repeaters, a VHF (repeater A) and UHF (Repeater B). On Mountain 2 is a VHF (Repeater C) and UHF (Repeater D). On mountain 1, there are also voted receivers for Repeaters C & D. There are DIAL boxes on both mountains. Repeaters A&B using DIAL on Mountain 1 (non-voting config, just basic repeater), and Repeaters C,D and both voters using DIAL box on Mountain 2 (microwave links between mountain 1 & 2). Everything has it's own RTCM (so there are 6 RTCMs in this situation). Everything is private (no public allstar nodes) Looking at allmon2 (running on each of the DIAL servers) I can see that there are NO links established and the RSSI bars respond to each of the voted receivers appropriately. I have checked each RTCM and DIAL box and verified that everything is logging in to where it is supposed to, and no where else. The problem I have is that when you transmit on Repeater A, the audio is being transmitted on both Repeaters A & C. If you transmit on repeater C, the audio is only retransmitted on Repeater C (as it should be). Looking at allmon, even during a transmission, there are NO links established. Verbose output on asterisk (asterisk -rvvvvvvvvv) shows no links established on either DIAL box. I can't figure out why DIAL on mountain 1 is sending the audio over to Mountain 2 DIAL (and only on the VHF set of repeaters even though the UHF set has an identical config). Any thoughts on where I might go looking would be much appreciated... I have been tearing my hair out on this one for a while! Happy to share any requested config. Thanks in advance for any thoughts/comments/insights/etc! james KI0KN
You setup is difficult to envision, being the visual sort of guy that I am. I'd have to see a drawing to understand the picture. :-) But maybe this will help. RTCMs, or more correctly stated, chan_voter is picky about site names and passwords. You have to be sure no site names or passwords are duplicated. Also, you must not have a password that the is the same as any site name including it's own site. Otherwise chan_voter gets very confused. Give you voter.conf a good going over and let us know how you make out. 73, Allstar Admin http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:38 PM, James Cizek <james.m.cizek@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a unique problem I am hoping someone on the list can help me uncover where to look next. The situation is this:
I have repeaters are 2 mountain tops. Mountain 1 and Mountain 2. On Mountain 1 are (2) repeaters, a VHF (repeater A) and UHF (Repeater B). On Mountain 2 is a VHF (Repeater C) and UHF (Repeater D).
On mountain 1, there are also voted receivers for Repeaters C & D.
There are DIAL boxes on both mountains. Repeaters A&B using DIAL on Mountain 1 (non-voting config, just basic repeater), and Repeaters C,D and both voters using DIAL box on Mountain 2 (microwave links between mountain 1 & 2).
Everything has it's own RTCM (so there are 6 RTCMs in this situation). Everything is private (no public allstar nodes)
Looking at allmon2 (running on each of the DIAL servers) I can see that there are NO links established and the RSSI bars respond to each of the voted receivers appropriately.
I have checked each RTCM and DIAL box and verified that everything is logging in to where it is supposed to, and no where else.
The problem I have is that when you transmit on Repeater A, the audio is being transmitted on both Repeaters A & C. If you transmit on repeater C, the audio is only retransmitted on Repeater C (as it should be).
Looking at allmon, even during a transmission, there are NO links established.
Verbose output on asterisk (asterisk -rvvvvvvvvv) shows no links established on either DIAL box.
I can't figure out why DIAL on mountain 1 is sending the audio over to Mountain 2 DIAL (and only on the VHF set of repeaters even though the UHF set has an identical config). Any thoughts on where I might go looking would be much appreciated... I have been tearing my hair out on this one for a while!
Happy to share any requested config. Thanks in advance for any thoughts/comments/insights/etc!
james KI0KN
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Are you using the alternate IP in the RTCM? Check the RTCM status (98) make 100% sure the voters are logged into the appropriate server. (Going off of memory) in asterisk CLI you can do a voter display [channel name] and itll show you all the connected RTCM's and the current RSSI. Make sure that matches what you expect. Voted receiver C on mountain 1, which server is it logged into, mountain 1's or mountain 2's? Kinda need to see RTCM configs, voter.conf and rpt.conf Cheers, Jesse
On Feb 2, 2017, at 5:08 PM, Allstar Admin <allstarlinks@gmail.com> wrote:
You setup is difficult to envision, being the visual sort of guy that I am. I'd have to see a drawing to understand the picture. :-)
But maybe this will help. RTCMs, or more correctly stated, chan_voter is picky about site names and passwords. You have to be sure no site names or passwords are duplicated. Also, you must not have a password that the is the same as any site name including it's own site. Otherwise chan_voter gets very confused. Give you voter.conf a good going over and let us know how you make out.
73, Allstar Admin http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:38 PM, James Cizek <james.m.cizek@gmail.com> wrote: Hi folks,
I have a unique problem I am hoping someone on the list can help me uncover where to look next. The situation is this:
I have repeaters are 2 mountain tops. Mountain 1 and Mountain 2. On Mountain 1 are (2) repeaters, a VHF (repeater A) and UHF (Repeater B). On Mountain 2 is a VHF (Repeater C) and UHF (Repeater D).
On mountain 1, there are also voted receivers for Repeaters C & D.
There are DIAL boxes on both mountains. Repeaters A&B using DIAL on Mountain 1 (non-voting config, just basic repeater), and Repeaters C,D and both voters using DIAL box on Mountain 2 (microwave links between mountain 1 & 2).
Everything has it's own RTCM (so there are 6 RTCMs in this situation). Everything is private (no public allstar nodes)
Looking at allmon2 (running on each of the DIAL servers) I can see that there are NO links established and the RSSI bars respond to each of the voted receivers appropriately.
I have checked each RTCM and DIAL box and verified that everything is logging in to where it is supposed to, and no where else.
The problem I have is that when you transmit on Repeater A, the audio is being transmitted on both Repeaters A & C. If you transmit on repeater C, the audio is only retransmitted on Repeater C (as it should be).
Looking at allmon, even during a transmission, there are NO links established.
Verbose output on asterisk (asterisk -rvvvvvvvvv) shows no links established on either DIAL box.
I can't figure out why DIAL on mountain 1 is sending the audio over to Mountain 2 DIAL (and only on the VHF set of repeaters even though the UHF set has an identical config). Any thoughts on where I might go looking would be much appreciated... I have been tearing my hair out on this one for a while!
Happy to share any requested config. Thanks in advance for any thoughts/comments/insights/etc!
james KI0KN
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Jesse Lloyd