[arm-allstar] Help For A Newbie???

[Dan Ozment]

Just to close the loop on this, Doug helped me realize that my DIY cable was
a little incorrect.  I failed to bring the COS pin to the URI.   Connecting
COS did the trick, and I'm on Allstar!


As I told you on the phone, Doug, I believe the Allstar documentation on
your website (crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/) is some of the
best-written documentation I've seen on an amateur radio project.  Very
thorough and easy to follow.  If I had made the cable correctly I would have
been Allstar in a matter of minutes.

 

Thanks, again, for your help and 73.

 

Dan

W4DTO

 

 

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[mailto:outlook_97fc649978f54bf0 at outlook.com] On Behalf Of Doug Crompton
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 12:01 PM
To: Dan Ozment <dan at ozment.net>
Cc: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
Subject: RE: [arm-allstar] Help For A Newbie???

 

Dan,

  You sure seem to have some strange problems going on there. Are you using
duplex=1 in rpt.conf? If that was set to 0 you would not get any telemetry
(audio) feedback.

Again use the Asterisk client to troubleshoot. If you watch the screen when
you enter *81 or *80 do you see it decoded? Do you see the response being
sent on the screen? 

You can also enter commands in the client -

rpt fun node *81     - where node is your node number and *81 can be any
command you would normally send DTMF.

Here is what you should see with *81 -

rpt fun 1998 *81
    -- <DAHDI/pseudo-870621363> Playing 'rpt/goodmorning' (language 'en')
    -- <DAHDI/pseudo-870621363> Playing 'rpt/thetimeis' (language 'en')
    -- <DAHDI/pseudo-870621363> Playing 'digits/11' (language 'en')
    -- <DAHDI/pseudo-870621363> Playing 'digits/50' (language 'en')
    -- <DAHDI/pseudo-870621363> Playing 'digits/6' (language 'en')
    -- <DAHDI/pseudo-870621363> Playing 'digits/a-m' (language 'en')
    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/pseudo-870621363'
    -- <DAHDI/pseudo-100706253> Playing '/etc/asterisk/local/node-id'
(language 'en')
    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/pseudo-100706253'

You may not see the ID as that was tacked on because it had not ID'ed in
awhile. You would see the same response using DTMF sending *81 and of course
while you are seeing this it should also key your node radio transmitter and
send the voice.

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



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From: dan at ozment.net <mailto:dan at ozment.net> 
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org <mailto:arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> 
CC: doug at crompton.com <mailto:doug at crompton.com> 
Subject: RE: [arm-allstar] Help For A Newbie???
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:31:13 -0400

Doug, more progress, I think.   I made the change you suggested in
simpleusb.conf and ran simpleusb-tune-menu again.   Things look better
there.   I used the 'F' command to send audio from the Pi out over RF, and
it sounds good.

 

I am able to link and unlink to nodes using *1 and *3.    But, when I'm
sending commands I never get any voice feedback.  It doesn't tell me I've
linked or unlinked.   Commands like *80 and *81 seem to cause the Asterisk
AMI to do something, but I never get a key up on the radio.   I wondered if
it was somehow a configuration issue in getting audio out to the right
device.  But, the 'F' command in simpleusb-tune-menu does give me audio.

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