[arm-allstar] simpleusb realtime RX telemetry

[Richard Bateman]

Oh believe me, I'd much rather do that =] This will work until then --
but again, if you'll tell me where to start looking I'm happy to try
to figure out a more elegant solution.

Richard

On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 1:16 PM, "David McGough via arm-allstar"
<arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Well, yes, via hackery telemetry results can be obtained.
>
> THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED! That internal interface was designed for
> simpleusb-tune-menu, not other applications, and may change at any time! I
> can almost guarantee it will change!
>
> The better solution is to get results from the Asterisk Manager interface,
> similar to the mechanisms used by AllMon and Supermon.
>
> As the old sports car adage goes: Your mileage will vary between the
> required tune-ups!
>
> 73, David KB4FXC
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, "Tony Ross via arm-allstar" wrote:
>
>> On 10/01/2017 12:14 AM, "Richard Bateman via arm-allstar" wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if there is a way from a script (or the asterisk
>> console) to get the simpleusb RX telemetry like in the "V" option of
>> simpleusb-tune-menu?
>>
>> REALTIME RX TELEMETRY DISPLAY:
>>      COS     |   COS   |  COS   |  CTCSS  |   CTCSS    |  PTT
>> (composite) | (input) | (test) | (input) | (override) |
>> ^C CLEAR    |  KEYED  | CLEAR  |  CLEAR  |   CLEAR    | CLEAR
>>
>> I just want to get the status of those 6 items for use in a monitoring script.
>
> Use "expect" after installing it via "pacman -S expect". Then build the
> script:
>
> autoexpect /usr/bin/simpleusb-tune-menu
>
> and after entering the desired inputs "V" etc., run the resultant script
> from the command line or via cron, and parse its output to get what you
> want, e.g.:
>
> # ./script.exp | grep -A3 "^REAL"
> REALTIME RX TELEMETRY DISPLAY:
>  Â Â Â  COSÂ Â Â Â  |Â Â  COSÂ Â  |Â  COSÂ Â  |Â  CTCSSÂ  |Â Â  CTCSSÂ Â Â  | PTT
> (composite) | (input) | (test) | (input) | (override) |
>  Â Â  CLEARÂ Â Â  |Â  CLEARÂ  | CLEARÂ  | IGNOREÂ  |Â Â  CLEARÂ Â Â  | CLEAR
>
> The man pages for expect and autoexpect are of course more informative,
> but this simple example should pique your interest as it meets your request.
>
> .
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