Node 2424 - Bridgecom 220 Repeater is LIVE!
Hi Guys: Following my recent posts, I am happy to report that node 2424 is on-air again (this time using a pair of Bridgecom BCM220 mobiles / same hardware used in the BCR220 repeater!). The audio out is nice and clean.... the Hum that I reported earlier this week was solved last night, on the suggestion of Jon, VA3RQ. I was testing at home using a RPi (running 3 nodes ;). The Pi is powered from a Walwart and although the USB fob audio ground is connected through to the ground pin on the radio's DB15, there seemed to be a ground loop, which was solved by connecting the RPi ground to the power supply ground! At the repeater site, I am using a HP SFF PC. I am happy to report that after setting audio levels with an AeroFlex test set, the audio is crystal clear - very nice :) I have a couple of issues that I need some help with: 1. My nodes (2182 and 2424) are not showing up on the Allstar stats page - when I switch to CLI and do an 'iax2 reload' they appear to register fine and with the correct IP address. 2. I like a nice quiet repeater, so prefer to use "talk through tone" (cop,58). This is great in that we do not hear courtesy tones, telemetry messages, etc. When the repeater is being used locally, the PL is sent, so we hear that (on a CTCSS enabled radio). However, the PL is NOT sent when the repeater is passing "remote" audio (i.e., audio from remote hosts). Can someone verify this behavior, is this "working as designed" or a bug? Thanks to Jon (VA3RQ), Scott (N3XCC) and Kevin (W3KKC) for all of your help with this project over the past couple of weeks. Cheers! Ramesh, VA3UV
Ramesh, I assume from the asterisk cli prompt iax2 show registry looks something like this: Host dnsmgr Username Perceived Refresh State 67.215.233.178:4569 N 2148 208.35.139.11:4569 60 Registered Exit the CLI cd /etc/asterisk wget https://github.com/N4IRS/AllStar/raw/master/configs/dnsmgr.conf restart asterisk 73, Steve N4IRS On 7/15/2016 12:20 PM, Ramesh Dhami (VA3UV) wrote:
Hi Guys:
Following my recent posts, I am happy to report that node 2424 is on-air again (this time using a pair of Bridgecom BCM220 mobiles / same hardware used in the BCR220 repeater!).
The audio out is nice and clean.... the Hum that I reported earlier this week was solved last night, on the suggestion of Jon, VA3RQ. I was testing at home using a RPi (running 3 nodes ;). The Pi is powered from a Walwart and although the USB fob audio ground is connected through to the ground pin on the radio's DB15, there seemed to be a ground loop, which was solved by connecting the RPi ground to the power supply ground!
At the repeater site, I am using a HP SFF PC. I am happy to report that after setting audio levels with an AeroFlex test set, the audio is crystal clear - very nice :)
I have a couple of issues that I need some help with:
1. My nodes (2182 and 2424) are not showing up on the Allstar stats page - when I switch to CLI and do an 'iax2 reload' they appear to register fine and with the correct IP address.
2. I like a nice quiet repeater, so prefer to use "talk through tone" (cop,58). This is great in that we do not hear courtesy tones, telemetry messages, etc. When the repeater is being used locally, the PL is sent, so we hear that (on a CTCSS enabled radio). However, the PL is NOT sent when the repeater is passing "remote" audio (i.e., audio from remote hosts). Can someone verify this behavior, is this "working as designed" or a bug?
Thanks to Jon (VA3RQ), Scott (N3XCC) and Kevin (W3KKC) for all of your help with this project over the past couple of weeks.
Cheers!
Ramesh, VA3UV
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On 7/15/2016 12:37 PM, Steve Zingman wrote:
Ramesh, I assume from the asterisk cli prompt iax2 show registry looks something like this:
Host dnsmgr Username Perceived Refresh State 67.215.233.178:4569 N 2148 208.35.139.11:4569 60 Registered
Exit the CLI
cd /etc/asterisk wget https://github.com/N4IRS/AllStar/raw/master/configs/dnsmgr.conf
restart asterisk
Hi Steve: Followed your recommendation above; after 5 mins or so, I still do not see my nodes on the status page (or appearing as active via node status in the Portal) iax2 show registry shows: Host dnsmgr Username Perceived Refresh State 67.215.233.178:4569 Y 2424 208.124.214.227:4568 60 Registered 67.215.233.178:4569 Y 2182 208.124.214.227:4568 60 Registered Cheers, Ramesh.
But after a asterisk restart you do see it on the status page? On 7/15/2016 12:50 PM, Ramesh Dhami (VA3UV) wrote:
On 7/15/2016 12:37 PM, Steve Zingman wrote:
Ramesh, I assume from the asterisk cli prompt iax2 show registry looks something like this:
Host dnsmgr Username Perceived Refresh State 67.215.233.178:4569 N 2148 208.35.139.11:4569 60 Registered
Exit the CLI
cd /etc/asterisk wget https://github.com/N4IRS/AllStar/raw/master/configs/dnsmgr.conf
restart asterisk
Hi Steve:
Followed your recommendation above; after 5 mins or so, I still do not see my nodes on the status page (or appearing as active via node status in the Portal)
iax2 show registry shows:
Host dnsmgr Username Perceived Refresh State 67.215.233.178:4569 Y 2424 208.124.214.227:4568 60 Registered 67.215.233.178:4569 Y 2182 208.124.214.227:4568 60 Registered
Cheers,
Ramesh.
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Sorry, After a iax2 reload it shows on the status page? On 7/15/2016 12:54 PM, Ramesh Dhami (VA3UV) wrote:
On 7/15/2016 12:51 PM, Steve Zingman wrote:
But after a asterisk restart you do see it on the status page?
<-- Sorry Steve, I should have responded to that... the answer is no.
R.
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On 7/15/2016 12:56 PM, Steve Zingman wrote:
Sorry, After a iax2 reload it shows on the status page?
<-- No.... I have restarted Asterisk and just now, for good measure, did an iax2 reload; CLI looks OK: -- Registered IAX2 to '67.215.233.178', who sees us as 208.124.214.227:4568 with no messages waiting -- Registered IAX2 to '67.215.233.178', who sees us as 208.124.214.227:4568 with no messages waiting BUT .. the nodes are *not* showing up on the status page. R.
OK. I re-read your first message. Sorry for the confusion. Please check rpt.conf ;statpost_program = /usr/bin/wget,-q,--timeout=15,--tries=1,--output-document=/dev/null ;statpost_url = http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php ; Status updates Make sure the above lines are uncommented. Steve On 7/15/2016 12:59 PM, Ramesh Dhami (VA3UV) wrote:
On 7/15/2016 12:56 PM, Steve Zingman wrote:
Sorry, After a iax2 reload it shows on the status page?
<-- No.... I have restarted Asterisk and just now, for good measure, did an iax2 reload; CLI looks OK:
-- Registered IAX2 to '67.215.233.178', who sees us as 208.124.214.227:4568 with no messages waiting
-- Registered IAX2 to '67.215.233.178', who sees us as 208.124.214.227:4568 with no messages waiting
BUT .. the nodes are *not* showing up on the status page.
R.
-- "Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about." 1st Law of Logic
On 7/15/2016 1:09 PM, Steve Zingman wrote:
OK. I re-read your first message. Sorry for the confusion. Please check rpt.conf ;statpost_program = /usr/bin/wget,-q,--timeout=15,--tries=1,--output-document=/dev/null ;statpost_url = http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php ; Status updates
<-- Correct - these 2 lines are uncommented: statpost_program=/usr/bin/wget,-q,--timeout=15,--tries=1,--output-document=/dev/null statpost_url=http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php ; Status updates
Hi Ramesh, I'll take a look, try to identify the issue and report back. 73, David KB4FXC On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Ramesh Dhami (VA3UV) wrote:
On 7/15/2016 1:09 PM, Steve Zingman wrote:
OK. I re-read your first message. Sorry for the confusion. Please check rpt.conf ;statpost_program = /usr/bin/wget,-q,--timeout=15,--tries=1,--output-document=/dev/null ;statpost_url = http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php ; Status updates
<-- Correct - these 2 lines are uncommented:
statpost_program=/usr/bin/wget,-q,--timeout=15,--tries=1,--output-document=/dev/null statpost_url=http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php ; Status updates
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Hi Ramesh, I took a look though the server logs and don't see any status post requests at all coming in from nodes 2182 or 2424. As previously mentioned, check your node configuration in rpt.conf and make sure -each- node stanza has statements like: [2182] statpost_program=/usr/bin/wget,-q,--timeout=15,--tries=1,--output-document=/dev/null statpost_url=http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php [2424] statpost_program=/usr/bin/wget,-q,--timeout=15,--tries=1,--output-document=/dev/null statpost_url=http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php After adding these lines, stop and start asterisk or perform an "rpt reload" from the asterisk CLI. If these statements are present in the stanzas for 2182 and 2424, try pinging the stats server from a shell prompt, like: ping stats.allstarlink.org 73, David KB4FXC On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, David McGough wrote:
Hi Ramesh,
I'll take a look, try to identify the issue and report back.
73, David KB4FXC
On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Ramesh Dhami (VA3UV) wrote:
On 7/15/2016 1:09 PM, Steve Zingman wrote:
OK. I re-read your first message. Sorry for the confusion. Please check rpt.conf ;statpost_program = /usr/bin/wget,-q,--timeout=15,--tries=1,--output-document=/dev/null ;statpost_url = http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php ; Status updates
<-- Correct - these 2 lines are uncommented:
statpost_program=/usr/bin/wget,-q,--timeout=15,--tries=1,--output-document=/dev/null statpost_url=http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php ; Status updates
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David McGough -
Ramesh Dhami (VA3UV) -
Steve Zingman