Repeater Controller Information
Gang... I'm looking for the repeater controller information for the astrek software. I'm not sure I have my terminology correct. I have and received the USB URI and am about ready to convert my IRLP box to Allstar. Please set me straight.! 73 and thanks! Jim W7RY
ok...to help you... 1. what kind of radio? 2. have you downloaded and built the computer? 3. have you connected the uri and is it blinking? iow, you've proposed a pretty open-ended question...to begin to help, need to know where on the continuum of goodness and mind meld with allstar you are. welcome to the collective es 73 -- Bryan WB0YLE allstar 27294 27295 27673 27774 90102 Sent from my iPhone please forgive misspellings... On Dec 9, 2011, at 18:48, "Jim W7RY" <w7ry@centurytel.net> wrote:
Gang...
I'm looking for the repeater controller information for the astrek software. I'm not sure I have my terminology correct. I have and received the USB URI and am about ready to convert my IRLP box to Allstar.
Please set me straight.!
73 and thanks!
Jim W7RY
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Perhaps I misunderstand.... I was under the impression that you could use the computer and the URI as a repeater controller as well as an Allstar node. I see from the Allstar site, that it handles all of the audio and CTCSS decode and encode functions. I was looking for the information on the timer functions of the repeater controller portion. Thanks! 73 Jim W7RY From: Bryan D. Boyle Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 4:13 PM To: Jim W7RY Cc: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Repeater Controller Information ok...to help you... 1. what kind of radio? 2. have you downloaded and built the computer? 3. have you connected the uri and is it blinking? iow, you've proposed a pretty open-ended question...to begin to help, need to know where on the continuum of goodness and mind meld with allstar you are. welcome to the collective es 73 -- Bryan WB0YLE allstar 27294 27295 27673 27774 90102 Sent from my iPhone please forgive misspellings... On Dec 9, 2011, at 18:48, "Jim W7RY" <w7ry@centurytel.net> wrote: Gang... I'm looking for the repeater controller information for the astrek software. I'm not sure I have my terminology correct. I have and received the USB URI and am about ready to convert my IRLP box to Allstar. Please set me straight.! 73 and thanks! Jim W7RY _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1873 / Virus Database: 2102/4669 - Release Date: 12/09/11
On 12/9/2011 7:30 PM, Jim W7RY wrote:
Perhaps I misunderstand....
I was under the impression that you could use the computer and the URI as a repeater controller as well as an Allstar node.
Yup. Good start. Asterisk runs the app_rpt module inside as a means to control the functionality of the URI, which is connected as a USB audio device. Minimally and ideally from the radio to the URI, you need: 1. Discriminator audio from the receiver, from which will be developed: - presence of signal (COR) - deemphasized audio - the CTCSS value that will cause the COR to 'go high' in software that will: 2. key the radio via the PTT pin 3. provide flat (or mic, depending on whether you're bashing a couple mobiles together or actually have a repeater set up. So...you have a number of things to configure: 1. The /etc/asterisk/usbradio.conf file which contains all the parameters, per node, concerning what type of node, what the ctcss values are, how the signals are derived or read, etc. 2. The /etc/asterisk/usbradio_tune_usbXXXXX.conf which contains the tuning parameters for node XXXXX which are developed with the /usr/sbin/radio-tune-menu progam 3. The /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf file which contains such things as the timeouts, functions, id strings or pointers to the audio file with the station id, macros, etc. The system is extremely flexible and powerful, way beyond what irlp, echolink (there's a module for echolink, by the by...) or a hardware controller will give you. I do suggest getting the O'Reilly book 'Asterisk' which, though it's for a later version, has a lot of good information in there that is useful for our systems.
I see from the Allstar site, that it handles all of the audio and CTCSS decode and encode functions. I was looking for the information on the timer functions of the repeater controller portion.
The timer code is in rpt.conf. You're looking for values in the node stanza for your node of: hangtime=1000 althangtime=1000 totime=170000 idtime=540000 politeid=3000 do a google on rpt.conf, and what these mean will be explained a lot more succinctly than I can here. And these are just a few of the values you can fiddle with. Hope this helps.
Thanks! 73 Jim W7RY
From: Bryan D. Boyle Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 4:13 PM To: Jim W7RY Cc: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Repeater Controller Information
ok...to help you...
1. what kind of radio? 2. have you downloaded and built the computer? 3. have you connected the uri and is it blinking?
iow, you've proposed a pretty open-ended question...to begin to help, need to know where on the continuum of goodness and mind meld with allstar you are.
welcome to the collective es 73
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Perfect! Thanks Bryan! I'll get to reading... 73 Jim W7RY -------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan D. Boyle" <bdboyle@bdboyle.com> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 4:59 PM To: <app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Repeater Controller Information
On 12/9/2011 7:30 PM, Jim W7RY wrote:
Perhaps I misunderstand....
I was under the impression that you could use the computer and the URI as a repeater controller as well as an Allstar node.
Yup. Good start. Asterisk runs the app_rpt module inside as a means to control the functionality of the URI, which is connected as a USB audio device.
Minimally and ideally from the radio to the URI, you need:
1. Discriminator audio from the receiver, from which will be developed: - presence of signal (COR) - deemphasized audio - the CTCSS value that will cause the COR to 'go high' in software that will: 2. key the radio via the PTT pin 3. provide flat (or mic, depending on whether you're bashing a couple mobiles together or actually have a repeater set up.
So...you have a number of things to configure:
1. The /etc/asterisk/usbradio.conf file which contains all the parameters, per node, concerning what type of node, what the ctcss values are, how the signals are derived or read, etc.
2. The /etc/asterisk/usbradio_tune_usbXXXXX.conf which contains the tuning parameters for node XXXXX which are developed with the /usr/sbin/radio-tune-menu progam
3. The /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf file which contains such things as the timeouts, functions, id strings or pointers to the audio file with the station id, macros, etc.
The system is extremely flexible and powerful, way beyond what irlp, echolink (there's a module for echolink, by the by...) or a hardware controller will give you.
I do suggest getting the O'Reilly book 'Asterisk' which, though it's for a later version, has a lot of good information in there that is useful for our systems.
I see from the Allstar site, that it handles all of the audio and CTCSS decode and encode functions. I was looking for the information on the timer functions of the repeater controller portion.
The timer code is in rpt.conf. You're looking for values in the node stanza for your node of:
hangtime=1000 althangtime=1000 totime=170000 idtime=540000 politeid=3000
do a google on rpt.conf, and what these mean will be explained a lot more succinctly than I can here. And these are just a few of the values you can fiddle with.
Hope this helps.
Thanks! 73 Jim W7RY
From: Bryan D. Boyle Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 4:13 PM To: Jim W7RY Cc: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Repeater Controller Information
ok...to help you...
1. what kind of radio? 2. have you downloaded and built the computer? 3. have you connected the uri and is it blinking?
iow, you've proposed a pretty open-ended question...to begin to help, need to know where on the continuum of goodness and mind meld with allstar you are.
welcome to the collective es 73
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