[arm-allstar] ARRL NewsLine - Allstar Automated Script

[Roselito de los Reyes]

Hi Doug,

I would like to use the script for our local club, but I would like to chop up the recording into 3 min segments and insert the station ID in between for repeater reset. Is this currently being implemented or does it just play the whole file?

Best regards,

Roselito De Los Reyes


> On May 15, 2017, at 8:54 AM, Doug Crompton via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> 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)
>> 
>> tx_timeout=240000
>> 
>> 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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