[arm-allstar] dtmf macros for repeater control

[David McGough]

Rob, *sigh* ...Yes, you are correct!

On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Robert Conklin wrote:

> Thanks everyone for your thoughtful and informative inputs, excellent stuff.
> 
> As reliable and agile as the AllStar system may for repeater control, there
> is a multitude of legacy hardware based systems out there that are are
> owned by municipalities and large repeater associations. These systems are
> not going to be replaced anytime soon with more modern systems, regardless
> of the validity of any argument that could be brought up to do so.
> 
> The reasons for this stodginess are fodder for much debate, perhaps in
> another thread.
> 
> During that interim it would powerful to be able to propagate dtmf thru
> allstar to control the behaviors of those legacy controllers. The agility
> to work reliably alongside and with legacy repeater controllers would make
> a real and present argument to eventually replace those older controllers
> with these more reliable and agile tools.
> 
> Rob Conklin
> *N4WGY* <http://qrz.com/db/N4WGY>
> 
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 4:49 PM, David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > Ah. DTMF propagation. Hum. Well, there are a some areas of AllStar that
> > are weak in performance when compared to typical analog controllers, and
> > IMO, this is one of them.  I agree with Willem's and Rob's comments about
> > propagate_dtmf and related functionality--I've had less than satisfactory
> > results as well, for several reasons (that I won't elaborate on just now).
> >
> > My solution has been to add several hacks to the app_rpt source code, but,
> > even this still has rough edges, partly due to imperfect muting of the
> > source DTMF signaling.
> >
> > Another possibility might be to add DTMF generation macros in the dialplan
> > (extensions.conf file).
> >
> > I'll investigate this further. It has been been on my to-do list a long
> > time.  I've got an SCOM 7330 and Link-Comm club sitting on the shelf I can
> > experiment with--both of these controllers got replaced by AllStar
> > controllers and honestly, I've never looked back!
> >
> >
> > 73, David KB4FXC
> >
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