[arm-allstar] dtmf macros for repeater control

[Doug Crompton]

I asked Dave to comment on this as he has many repeaters and he probably has an answer. 

I might add though that Allsar makes an excellent repeater controller and migrating to using it rather than the expensive dedicated controllers might be something to look at. 

Many controllers have limited ports and when you run out you either have to add more if you can or live with it. With Allstar you have unlimited ports. They are called nodes! Say you had 5 repeaters at one location plus echolink and maybe IRLP, etc.  Each repeater would be a node and in the case of the Pi's probably a separate server or board. The series of boards would be connected via a local Ethernet (LAN). There would be no need for an Internet connection although it would be desirable to have one if possible. Each board would control the repeater it was connected to and if you wanted to interconnect you would do that by connecting nodes. Redundancy would be good as you would not have one computer or controller running multiple repeaters. Many group use a single computer (PC) controlling multiple repeaters but this is a poor idea from a redundancy standpoint.

Doing it this also makes it very easy to control either via radio or a remote link via the Internet.

Just a thought. It is a lot cheaper to do it with Pi's than an expensive controller. Allstar will do everything the expensive controller will do and then some.
73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:52:55 -0700
> From: willem at prinmath.com
> To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] dtmf macros for repeater control
> 
> Doug I have a similar situation that I was never able to solve.  I have an 
> SCOM controller on the far side of an AllStar link.  The only way to 
> program the SCOM is to send it DTMF tones.  What I would like to do is key 
> in the tones over RF, transmit them along the allstar link, and have the 
> remote node put them out to the SCOM which is connected to the URIx.  I 
> fooled with propagate_dtmf but never could make it work.  Is there a way 
> to just pass the tones all the way through?
> 
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