[arm-allstar] Mute or attenuate link audio during repeater conversation

[David McGough]

That's a core feature in app_rpt, so, it's present in the BBB / RPI2 
releases....How well does it work??? I don't know.


On Sun, 12 Jul 2015, Sam Nabkey wrote:

> This might be what you want... Although, I am not sure if its in the BBB /
> Rpi2 code..  If Doug doesn't know about it, it probably was removed.
> 
> 
> http://docs.allstarlink.org/drupal/node/71 states:
> 
> 
> linkmongain=
> 
> Link Monitor Gain adjusts the audio level of monitored nodes when a signal
> from another node or the local receiver is received.
> 
> If linkmongain is set to a negative number the monitored audio will
> decrease by the set amount in db.
> 
> If linkmongain set to a positive number monitored audio will increase by
> the set amount in db.
> 
> The value of linkmongain is in db. The default value is 0 db.
> 
> linkmongain=-20   ; reduce link volume 20dB
> 
> requires app_rpt version 0.323 06/07/2014 or newer
> 
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Doug Crompton <doug at crompton.com> wrote:
> 
> > Eric,
> >
> >  I think that comes under the category of something that could be done in
> > SW but is not there now. But the question is would it really be practical?
> > When your local RF quit the other audio would come back. I think that would
> > be very confusing to the locals. They would not know who they could talk to
> > and who they couldn't.
> >
> > Also be careful of receive only connections. If you were to connect
> > transceive somewhere else while that receive only connection was in place
> > the nodes on the transceive side would hear the audio but not be able to
> > respond. It would be confusing to them as they would not know they were
> > going through a node that had a receive only connection. For that reason I
> > never use receive only (monitor) mode. I suppose it has uses but not when
> > others are connected transceive.
> >
> >
> >
> > *73 DougWA3DSPhttp://www.crompton.com/hamradio
> > <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > From: eric at efratnetworks.com
> > To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> > Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 03:50:13 -0400
> > Subject: [arm-allstar] Mute or attenuate link audio during repeater
> > conversation
> >
> >
> > I have a UHF repeater running on a BBB.  We are often connected in receive
> > only to one of the busy nodes in the USA.
> >
> > When the local users have a conversation on the UHF repeater, locally, the
> > link audio is as loud as the repeat audio.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have a way to mute or attenuate the link audio when the local
> > repeater is in use?
> >
> >
> >
> > 73,
> >
> >
> >
> > Eric
> >
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