[arm-allstar] AllStar on Local Server

[Doug Crompton]

Dan,

  My first question would be what do you mean by get it on your local
repeater? Are you going to locate the Allstar server at the repeater site?
Are you going to use the  Allstar server to actually be the repeater
controller? It is capable of that and that would be the most ideal
situation.

If you just want to connect Allstar to a repeater from a remote location
(with the repeater owners permission) a simplex node is all you need. It
would key into the repeater just like any other user. The key here though
is setting things up so ID's from the repeater do no appear on the Alltar
circuit. I think you said that repeater ID's are sent without PL. Ideally
you want the input PL (repeater users PL) to key the repeater and assert
output PL. In other words the PL output of the repeater should follow the
input PL. The Allstar node does not see any ID's or repeater tail.

I have given you some thoughts but not knowing exactly what you want to do
I can't be more specific.  I run a remote to my repeater Allstar node in
the way I describe above and it works well. As I said ideally you would
want to have Allstar at the repeater site but if you do not have Internet
access there it would not be possible.




*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:46 PM, "Dan Ozment via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> I had good luck last night getting my node back online, and I was able to
> make it work with a Baofeng 888 and a Yaesu FT8800. The next trick is to
> get it on our local repeater so that others can share in the fun.
>
> I have found a good bit of information on setting it up and making it work
> in simplex mode.  Also, have seen documents talking about using it to
> create a repeater.  But, I'm struggling to find much about how to configure
> it to work with an existing repeater.  I wondered if anyone could help me
> get started by pointing me to some good documentation.
>
> My first approach will (I think) be to use the FT-8800 set up with the
> repeater pair for the local repeater.  The repeater transmits tone, so I
> have the 8800 transmitting and listening for tone. Repeater IDs aren't
> transmitted with tone.
>
> First question, since I'm using COS to tell AllStar there is something
> there will it silence the repeater ID?  Can I make it disregard the
> transmissions that don't have tone?
>
> Second question, what duplex mode do I run it in?  I have it set up with
> duplex=1 now.  Rpt.conf suggest that I should set duplex=2 if I'm using a
> repeater.  Is that what I should do?
>
> Third, how do I tell it to ignore the hang time on the repeater?  I'm
> looking at rxondelay in simpleusb.conf.  Is that the right place to set a
> delay?  What is rxaudiodelay?
>
>
> Thanks to all who contributed to this 1.5 distro.  Getting this going was
> so easy! Excellent job.  And, Doug, thanks for the great documentation on
> your site.
>
> Dan
> W4DTO
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