[arm-allstar] Another IMPORTANT update

[David McGough]

Hi Everyone,

We just had a little "hiccup" on our webserver, which means that some 
users may now have been able to download the latest package versions.

Please confirm that you've got the latest version or simply update (admin 
menu option #1) again. The current version can be found using the "pacman 
-Q" command. The latest version is: 0.1.5.3-8

[root at alarmpi tmp]# pacman -Q hamvoip-asterisk
hamvoip-asterisk 0.1.5.3-8

Thanks,

73, David KB4FXC



On Sun, 21 May 2017, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" 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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