[arm-allstar] Another IMPORTANT update

[Doug Crompton]

Justin,

 Thank you for your comments. I suspect this method will remain but the
proposed method if adopted will work in a much better way. Using this
dtmf_dsp method you would need to change the setting and restart Asterisk
for it to take effect. You would NOT want to leave DTMF pass thru on other
than in the control situation. Currently All DTMF is muted and if people
started to use pass thru as a regular mode of operation it would not be a
good thing.

The proposal is this...  When you see an Allstar lead in character (usually
*) followed but a termination character (usually #) the remaining command
would be sent as pass thru until the end of the current command (drop of
COS or newline etc.)  So for instance  *#12345   would send 12345 as pass
thru.  *81#12345 would say the time and pass thru 12345. Not that you would
ever do that but it is an example. This is a proposal and NOT yet
implemented but you can see how this would make it easy to mix pass thru
and no pass thru in the current command structure.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*


On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 1:18 PM, "Justin Reed via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> 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*
> >
> > *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
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