[arm-allstar] Need some troubleshooting help with Allstar/RPi2/888 w/ FOB

[Jason Frisbee]

Thank you Doug - I'll set it usb, and invertptt to 1 as noted. The radio
was one of the last from Devon before he stopped (understandably).

I also saw the thread with Nathaniel, and will check the rx transmit once
we get back to hearing audio - this is likely the reason we couldn't talk
back (had no idea how that menu option worked - I poked in it before but
was lost).

Being new to ham radio (been listening for months, but just got my ticket
earlier this month) it's like jumping into ice water - really no idea what
to expect. I guess dad figured I've been in IT for over 20 years, this
should be a piece of cake, but until today it was like being blind and
trying to drive a car.

Tonight was massive progress (in that we know the hardware works) - it's
down to getting the right settings and we're good :)

Jason

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Doug Crompton via arm-allstar <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Jason,
>
>   Sorry for all your problems. I am not sure what Devon did in that radio
> but the mods on the web page and all the mods I have made on 888's use usb
> and not usbinvert.  Maybe he picked up the signal from a different place. I
> know that at least on his first batch of radios the PTT was inverted from
> the default setting.
>
> My offer of a phone chat still stands if you can't figure it out. I would
> refrain from testing on a large system like wan until you get it right.
>
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Jason Frisbee via arm-allstar <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > Dad got to talking with a gent about the issue while I was at work, and
> we
> > went over the 888 again, to test it out (hadn't had audio from it since
> the
> > initial setup). After settings squelch to 0, and turning on the voice, we
> > confirmed the radio worked, and dad/I am able to work the 888 with our
> HTs.
> >
> > With that working correctly, we booted back up and tried commands via
> > lsnodes - no change. Asterisk was showing rpt/connection_failed when
> trying
> > the WIN System hub.
> >
> > As a "what if", I flipped invertptt to 0, rebooted, and dad could hear
> the
> > messages from dadhi - IP call out, etc. I then joined up with the WIN
> > System hub, and we both got audio on our HT's from the node. Dad tried to
> > reply, but no audio was sent to to the system (the 888 indicated it
> > received the audio though).
> >
> > I got your email by this time, so I tried setting carrierfrom to usb, and
> > then we lost audio in both direction, and I found I could only hear the
> > node info messages when I held down the PTT button on the 888.
> >
> > Tomorrow I'm going to set carrierfrom back to usbinvert, and try moving
> the
> > Pi/radio to another location - in the house, when the node is up and we
> get
> > audio to our HTs, the local repeater for WIN System (Loma Prieta) gets
> > overrun with RF. I also started getting issues with wifi, so there
> > definitely is an issue with where the radio is at.
> >
> > Dad and I really appreciate all the help - I've been bashing my head on
> > this for about a month, and was getting really frustrated.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Doug Crompton via arm-allstar <
> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Jason,
> > >
> > >   Carrierfrom should be usb for the 888.  carrierfrom=usb
> > >
> > > Try that.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *73 Doug*
> > >
> > > *WA3DSP*
> > >
> > > *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Jason Frisbee via arm-allstar <
> > > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Doug, I checked and confirmed invertptt=1. Here's the
> > simpleusb.conf:
> > > >
> > > > ; simple usb configration added by simpleusb-config.sh
> > > > ;  2016.10.30.1729
> > > >
> > > > [general]
> > > >
> > > > [usb]
> > > > ; Generic Default Settings
> > > > eeprom=0
> > > > hdwtype=0
> > > > rxboost=1
> > > > carrierfrom=usbinvert
> > > > ctcssfrom=no
> > > > txmixa=voice
> > > > txmixb=no
> > > > invertptt=1
> > > > duplex=1
> > > > plfilter=yes
> > > > deemphasis=no
> > > > preemphasis=no
> > > > rxaudiodelay=0
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