[arm-allstar] Time out timer and watchdog functions

[Doug Crompton]

Dave,

 I concur with Dave's response but it would be good to have more info. What happened to you is rare assuming it wasn't a locked up channel - you were connected to someone else that had there COS asserted indefinitely. I have not seen a 1.2.1 version BBB lockup like that. 

Were you connected to anyone else at the time?  If so the first thing to do is disconnect everyone else if it goes away you know it was not your system.

Is the green light on the USB FOB blinking? If you pull the USB out and reinserted does it clear?

Did you transmit on HF or any other band with high power in the vicinity?

If this should happen again log into the system and  enter the client - asterisk -rvvv

See if any errors are coming across the screen.  There are key and unkey command for simpleusb. At the clinet prompt type:

susb key (or unkey)

and see if you have control of the PTT. Of course leave it unkey.
Remember if you are connected to a bunch of nodes and one of them hangs up you will also. The TX timeout is always a good idea. I set mine in the Alincos to 5 minutes but you could go shorter, just not so short you cut off normal transmissions.

Also unrelated but the best way to run the Alinco's is in medium power with a small muffin fan over the heatsink. They will run all day like that. I would never use high power especially on a busy channel. You will eventually lose the final.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:57:53 -0800
From: ve7pke at gmail.com
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
Subject: [arm-allstar] Time out timer and watchdog functions

The node I am testing out went rogue last night.
When I went into the shack the radio was stuck in TX and warm ;-)
I have since enable the built in time out time in the alinco ;-)
lsnodes show the time out time is enabled.
How to do troubleshoot this.
Thanks
Dave
VE7PKE



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