[arm-allstar] Echolink Sometimes Not Loading

[David McGough]

Interesting...Our 145.41 repeater / echolink box has static network 
connectivity (no dhcp, etc.).

BUT, agreed, something about lack of immediate network availabilty on
reboot in a likely cause.


On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Jim Kutsch, KY2D via arm-allstar wrote:

> John, David,
> I have experienced this going back 5 years or so on various desktop PCs,
> BBBs, and RPI systems running a variety of Allstar builds. In all cases,
> putting a "sleep 30" at the top of the script that starts Asterisk after
> boot solved the problem.
> 
> I *THINK* it's related to not having the network fully up and available when
> Asterisk tries to start Echolink. I always use DHCP but my router is set to
> assign the same IP to Allstar box.
> 
> That might not be the root cause but regardless, the sleep 30 resolves it.
> 
> 73, Jim, KY2D
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arm-allstar [mailto:arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org] On Behalf Of
> David McGough via arm-allstar
> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2016 10:15 AM
> To: John via arm-allstar
> Cc: David McGough
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Echolink Sometimes Not Loading
> 
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I've noticed this issue with chan_echolink for a long time, even with old
> ACID boxes. I haven't really looked for the cause. On the echolink enabled
> boxes, after reboot, I just have a script to stop/start asterisk once it has
> been running for 1 minute.....I suspected the problem was perhaps caused by
> the lack of an echolink node database having been downloaded???
> Maybe???
> 
> 
> ...Yeah, I know stopping/starting isn't an ideal solution! I'll put this on
> the list to look at.
> 
> 
> 73, David KB4FXC
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, John via arm-allstar wrote:
> 
> > Looking for some guidance on why Echolink might not load after node 
> > reboot (or initial startup). This behavior does not happen all the 
> > time, only sporadically. A "module load chan_echolink.so" starts 
> > echolink without errors if it has not loaded at boot/reboot. I'm using 
> > a VPN on the node with RPi2/RPi2-3_V1.02beta_Allstar.img.zip
> > 
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
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