[arm-allstar] Special Hardware and Radio Interface to Allstar

[Richard Ames]

On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:47:13 -0800, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar"  
<arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

>> From time to time users ask can this or that hardware work or be  
>> controlled
> with Allstar. In the past there was quite a bit of very specific software
> put into the Allstar code to control devices that had limited  
> distribution
> at the time and now in many cases is totally obsolete. In the future we
> will be removing a lot of this obsolete code as we are moving towards NOT
> have internal code control specific outboard devices. An example of this
> would be the internal radio control code which is obsoleted by hamlib.
> Today many avenues exist to do this externally either writing your own  
> code
> or using existing code.
>
> Many radios can be controlled via the existing hamlib code, pre-installed
> in the images, and scripts  using DTMF commands. There is a howto on the
> web page describing how you can do that using an extension of the
> phonepatch command passing multiple parameters to a script. Utilizing  
> this
> method you have a great deal of interface capability on a standard DTMF
> radio with the outside world.
>
> The GPIO command, also written up in a howto, is a good way to control  
> I/O
> to external devices. There is also a howto on using an Adafruit board via
> USB to control external devices. I use this board controlling relays as a
> demo when I give talks on Allstar.
>
> Our concentration is on making basic Allstar better. It would be a waste  
> of
> resources to cater to every limited use hardware need. That being said we
> welcome input on projects you have done using any of the above methods or
> anything to make Allstar better. We could also host a download site for
> proven and useful third party SW and/or link information on the  
> hamvoip.org
> web page.
>
> Below are some direct links on these topics all of which are available on
> the hamvoip.org web page
>
> https://hamvoip.org/hamradio/USBtoGPIO/
>
> https://www.hamvoip.org/GPIO_how-to.pdf
>
> https://www.hamvoip.org/Allstar_extended_functions_using_autopatch.pdf
>
> http://www.neodux.com/read/HOWTO:_Configure_Hamlib_for_Linux_Hams_-_Part_1
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
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