[arm-allstar] ARRL NewsLine - Allstar Automated Script

[Doug Crompton]

John,

 Yes. 240000 is 4 minutes  -  (240000/1000)/60 - It was stupid to have such
granularity in the timers but that's the way it was done in original
Allstar. It should just be defined in seconds. There is also a problem with
the accuracy of some Allstar timers that we are working on right now. They
are not accurate at this point in any version of Allstar. They tend to run
about 25-30% long. So setting 4 minutes might mean about 5 minutes.
Hopefully we will have a fix for this soon.

The other thing you need to consider is any hardware TX timeout that may be
set. Most radios have a settable TX timeout. I believe many of the Motorola
radios cannot be set higher than about 3-4 minutes. So you might check and
be sure it is not the TX itself causing the timeout. Most repeaters set
timeout to 3 minutes.

The tx_timeout in Allstar was designed around a timeout for repeaters which
actually announces a timeout but It also works on a simplex node. The idea
is to stop people from talking too long but also to protect the transmitter
in the event of a open mic situation. So if you have both software and
hardware timeouts generally the SW timeout is set shorter than the HW
timeout. The HW timeout being the last line of defense in the event of a
failure.


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:57 AM, "John Hoser-Smith via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Thanks Doug.  I suspected the ARRL NewsLine (error?) was at their (ARRL)
> end.After all - your Bash Script worked for weeks....still worked this week
> - but pulled an old file.
> Mother's Day Special (HA!) I guess.
> Doug - I need to increase the Timeout Setting for one of my Allstar Nodes.
> Inside  rpt.conf  (I  found)
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> tx_timeout=240000
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> Is this the setting I need to increase to have my Allstar Radio transmit
> for longer times before a timeout?
> Thanks - 73sN0ECT
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