[arm-allstar] simpleusb realtime RX telemetry

[Doug Crompton]

I am not sure what your goal is here but these signals or status points are
available from the Asterisk manager and/or the archive log. I would not
recommend running the simpleusb-tune-menu script on a continual basis.

I extract log information using a perl script here to log all rxkeys and
rxunkeys indicating a nodes keying up and down. All status information is
available in the log. You can do the same thing with the manager. This is
the way it is done in allmon or supermon.

If you want to use the log you can log all Asterisk activity using the
archivedir command. I save ALL log info to a 64G USB stick. On a very busy
hub it has about .5G used in a year. Here are the commands -

archivedir=/media/MS1
archiveaudio=0          ; Disable saving .wav files

I labelled the Stick MS1 and formatted it ext4. It is also important to
turn off audio archiving as that takes a lot of space and would not be
necessary for status updating.

Here is an example of some of the data you would see. It shows links and
linkdisc. This is a hub so the rxkey is incoming key from a particular node
then it txkeys all the connected nodes. The same happens on unkey in the
opposite direction. The idea is to filter what you want and use it as
status.

0171001000050,LINK,46210
20171001000125,TXKEY,MAIN
20171001000130,TXUNKEY,MAIN
20171001000514,LINK,43659
20171001000830,LINKDISC,43659
20171001002140,RXKEY,44036
20171001002140,TXKEY,MAIN
20171001002140,TXKEY,40961
20171001002140,TXKEY,46277
20171001002140,TXKEY,40561
20171001002140,TXKEY,46210
20171001002140,TXKEY,44006
20171001002140,TXKEY,45512
20171001002140,TXKEY,43542
20171001002140,TXKEY,43855
20171001002140,TXKEY,46421
20171001002140,TXKEY,45619
20171001002140,TXKEY,27034
20171001002140,TXKEY,46138
20171001002140,TXKEY,28258
20171001002140,TXKEY,29299
20171001002140,TXKEY,42532
20171001002140,TXKEY,46252
20171001002140,TXKEY,41750
20171001002140,TXKEY,41814
20171001002140,TXKEY,42064
20171001002140,TXKEY,42291
20171001002140,TXKEY,28325
20171001002140,TXKEY,42593
20171001002140,TXKEY,45763
20171001002140,TXKEY,40879
20171001002140,TXKEY,45609
20171001002140,TXKEY,46343
20171001002140,TXKEY,40532
20171001002140,TXKEY,41791
20171001002140,TXKEY,41139
20171001002140,TXKEY,43963
20171001002140,TXKEY,28796
20171001002140,TXKEY,41253
20171001002140,TXKEY,29980
20171001002140,TXKEY,29971
20171001002140,TXKEY,46415
20171001002140,TXKEY,44178
20171001002140,TXKEY,42119
20171001002140,TXKEY,29272
20171001002140,TXKEY,41195
20171001002141,RXUNKEY,44036
20171001002141,TXUNKEY,44178
20171001002141,TXUNKEY,40961
20171001002141,TXUNKEY,40561
20171001002141,TXUNKEY,44006
20171001002141,TXUNKEY,45512
20171001002141,TXUNKEY,43542


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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


On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 2:16 PM, "Tony Ross via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> 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:
>     COS     |   COS   |  COS   |  CTCSS  |   CTCSS    | PTT
> (composite) | (input) | (test) | (input) | (override) |
>    CLEAR    |  CLEAR  | CLEAR  | IGNORE  |   CLEAR    | 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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