[arm-allstar] dtmf macros for repeater control

[Robert Conklin]

Thank you Larry, this is helpful. Can you advise me where I would find
 Steve's nifty dialer friendly android application?

My node's radio is tuned to a UHF link radio which is connected to one of
the local wide coverage VHF repeaters in North Alabama.
The repeater's link radio port can be connected or disconnected via dtmf
tones from either the repeater's VHF input frequency OR the UHF link radio
frequency.
Let's say I am on a business trip and I want to dial into my allstar node
via the allstar telephone access portal and connect the wide area repeaters
link radio port to the wide coverage VHF repeater. I cannot do it because I
cannot push out the necessary dtmf tones to the wide coverage repeater over
the link radio frequency. At this time I must call or text someone that can
transmit the tones to the repeater locally. would be awesome if I could
execute a *5xx macro and my node Rpi would take care of sending out the
necessary codes to link or unlink the wide coverage link radio port.

The dtmf pulses from my smart phone get forwarded out to the RF side of my
node but the latency is to short to be useful. I have tried speaker/mic
coupling dtmf tones thru the telephone access portal but it is very
unreliable (of course).

Bonus if the latency of each tone and the time between them could also be
defined by milliseconds.

-Rob Conklin
N4WGY <https://www.qrz.com/db/N4WGY>


On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Larry <larry at thunderbolt.net> wrote:

> Rob,
>
> Have you tried connecting to your node using www.xelatec.com iaxRpt?
> You can send random DTMF tones via your node radio using its keypad.
> If you program the macro keys in iaxRpt you can make all sorts of DTMF
> combinations for one touch transmissions.
>
> Steve Zingman also made an app for Androids which is more dialer friendly
> as it has a 16 key keypad.
>
> Food for thought...
>
> Larry - N7FM
>
>
> On 12/27/2015 11:36 AM, Robert Conklin wrote:
>
> Thanks Doug, that was valuable information which I will put to use.
> However my current need is similar to that which what Dr. Schreuder
> described. I did not adequately explain, will try again. Thanks a million
> for your patience!
> I wish to transmit DTMF thru RF from my node Rpi and radio to our local
> repeater's Arcom controller, commands which will alter the repeater's
> behavior.
> What I think would be ideal is a capability to execute a macro command
> from say the telephone access portal or a ""rpt fun node *xx" thru ssh that
> would initiate a macro that would make my node key its radio and output
> predetermined dtmf commands via RF. For instance commands telling the local
> VHF repeater controller to connect/disconnect or monitor one of it's UHF
> link radio ports to the main VHF repeater port.
> The link radio I am using on my node is not capable of storing or
> executing dtmf macros.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Rob Conklin
> N4WGY
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Willem Schreuder < <willem at prinmath.com>
> willem at prinmath.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>> Tel: (303) 716-3573   Fax: (303) 716-3575
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