[arm-allstar] ARRL NewsLine - Allstar Automated Script

[Roselito de los Reyes]

Thanks Doug for the quick response.

Best regards,

Roselito De Los Reyes


> On May 15, 2017, at 9:33 AM, Doug Crompton via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> Roselito,
> 
> It already does this. It breaks the file up into about 2.5 minute segments
> then breaks for about 20 seconds. The next segment repeats a few seconds of
> the tail of the previous for continuity. There are canned voice files that
> announce this. ID's are automatic and don't need to be inserted. They will
> happen during the 15 -20 second downtime in between segments if the 10
> minute period has passed. When nodes are connected it is determined by
> their ID timer. This delay is also a window for those who want to
> disconnect etc.
> 
> Make sure you have holdofftelem=0 on the node you play it on. Otherwise if
> someone keys up it will get out of sync. The best thing to do is download
> it and play it locally so you can see what it does.
> 
> 
> *73 Doug*
> 
> *WA3DSP*
> 
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:04 PM, "Roselito de los Reyes via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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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