I just successfully installed Doug's (WA3DSP) Beagle Bone Black installation on a two node repeater system using two URI's and a Belkin 4 port USB hub in an attempt to remove my power hungry old P4 rack server from All Star service. Everything seems to be running well on the BBB with only 14% CPU usage on stand by (2 nodes) and little to no audio distortion while testing. I am having a heck of a time getting either node to reliably decode DTMF especially when using Motorola transceivers. (On the old P4 server, the DTMF decoded remarkably well using any radio...) I have been looking at the old P4 config files and comparing them to the BBB config in an attempt to see what has changed... Doug has "radio relax" turned off by default (normally on by default in the acid release). Is this relevant? Thanks! -Eric (KB6BZZ)
My thinking is your problem is either levels or maybe you are running non deemphasized audio with simpleusb causing unequal tome levels. If so you need to program the Motorola for deemphasized audio out OR set the deemphasis=yes in simpleusb.conf. You should also run plfilter=on which is the default. Skewed equalization can definitely cause poor or no DTMF decoding. The radio relaxed should have nothing to do with it. The BBB DTMF decoding works fine if the levels and equalization are correct out of the radio. YHou also need to use preemphasis going into the Motorola with simpleusb or your audio will sound flat (lacking high-end) at the other rx end. There is no SW setting for this. 73 Doug WA3DSP http://www.crompton.com/hamradio From: EUglum@aol.com Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:57:29 -0500 To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: [App_rpt-users] Beagle Bone DTMF issues I just successfully installed Doug's (WA3DSP) Beagle Bone Black installation on a two node repeater system using two URI's and a Belkin 4 port USB hub in an attempt to remove my power hungry old P4 rack server from All Star service. Everything seems to be running well on the BBB with only 14% CPU usage on stand by (2 nodes) and little to no audio distortion while testing. I am having a heck of a time getting either node to reliably decode DTMF especially when using Motorola transceivers. (On the old P4 server, the DTMF decoded remarkably well using any radio...) I have been looking at the old P4 config files and comparing them to the BBB config in an attempt to see what has changed... Doug has "radio relax" turned off by default (normally on by default in the acid release). Is this relevant? Thanks! -Eric (KB6BZZ) _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users To unsubscribe from this list please visit http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Enter your email address and press the "Unsubscribe or edit options button" You do not need a password to unsubscribe, you can do it via email confirmation. If you have trouble unsubscribing, please send a message to the list detailing the problem.
I normally turn off radio-relax on all my systems because certain users key up a lot of false dtmf's and I find that annoying. The price you pay for that is, when you do want dtmf to work, you have to have a clean signal into the repeater and hold each tone something like a half a second to get decodes. Your speed-dialer is not going to work without radio relax enabled. Not sure if this has anything to do with BBB, since the program is the same on both (I think!) 73 Ken From: EUglum@aol.com [mailto:EUglum@aol.com] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 11:57 AM To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: [App_rpt-users] Beagle Bone DTMF issues I just successfully installed Doug's (WA3DSP) Beagle Bone Black installation on a two node repeater system using two URI's and a Belkin 4 port USB hub in an attempt to remove my power hungry old P4 rack server from All Star service. Everything seems to be running well on the BBB with only 14% CPU usage on stand by (2 nodes) and little to no audio distortion while testing. I am having a heck of a time getting either node to reliably decode DTMF especially when using Motorola transceivers. (On the old P4 server, the DTMF decoded remarkably well using any radio...) I have been looking at the old P4 config files and comparing them to the BBB config in an attempt to see what has changed... Doug has "radio relax" turned off by default (normally on by default in the acid release). Is this relevant? Thanks! -Eric (KB6BZZ)
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