[arm-allstar] Another IMPORTANT update

[Justin Reed]

Doug,

As one of the managers of a 30+ repeater network that uses RF links, Allstar and IRLP, the work you guys have done with the DTMF DSP is awesome. I really appreciate it.

Whatever the future methods are that are being worked on, I hope the current method remains in place.

Thanks!

Regards,
Justin, NV8Q
ks0lnk.net

> On May 21, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Doug Crompton via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> Dave has put up another update today that fixes a couple of long standing
> Allstar problems. One problem that has been particularly troublesome has
> been the inaccuracy of the timers such as the ID timer, tx timout, rx
> timeout, and many others. They were inconsistent and also inaccurate. That
> has now been fixed and they are now very accurate! Users who have adjusted
> their timers to compensate for these inconsistencies should go back to the
> exact timings. Most timers are in milliseconds so as an example 3 minutes
> would be 60*3*1000=180000. Going in the other direction using 300000 -
> (300000/1000)/60=5 minutes.
> 
> Another feature lacking in Allstar that has often been a problem for users
> needing to control systems other than Allstar using DTMF is the inability
> to easily pass DTMF through to the network or the RF side on a duplex node.
> A command called dtmf_dsp has been added to do this when needed. Most users
> will NOT need to use this command.
> 
> dtmf_dsp=0    ; NO allstar command decoding, DTMF pass thru
> dtmf_dsp=1    ; Normal Allstar DTMF decoding and muting - this is the
> default
> dtmf_dsp=2    ; BOTH normal Allstar DTMF decoding AND DTMF pass thru. No
> muting
> 
> This command if needed is inserted in simpleusb.conf. Again most users will
> NOT need to do anything as the default is the same as current operation.
> While this method works fine it is considered a temporary fix for this
> problem. A better approach has been explored and will probably be released
> in a future update.
> 
> VERY IMPORTANT!  For this update you will have to restart Asterisk or
> reboot in order for the changes to take effect but a change has been made
> in the code that will negate that needing to be done in the future.
> 
> Use item 1 in the ADMIN menu to update and then item 13 to restart the
> server. Note that this will probably disconnect any existing Allstar
> connections.
> 
> 
> *73 Doug*
> 
> *WA3DSP*
> 
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