[arm-allstar] Echoing issue like the Parrot function.

[Doug Crompton]

Mark,

 You did not mention if you were using the simpleusb-tune-menu parrot or
the parrot in rpt.conf. In any event if you are sure this is turned off in
simpleusb-tune-menu and in rpt.conf I doubt that is the problem.

I have heard what you mention occasionally happen and it usually has to do
with a connection loop. Allstar has good protection for that among Allstar
nodes but there is no similar mechanism for Echolink or IRLP.  That is if
an Echolink node connects directly to you and then connects to a node
connected to you via Allstar a loop would exist. This can become quite
complex on a multi-connection hub.

If this is the case there is really not much you can do about it beyond
education and if that does not work better management of your connected
nodes such as the blacklisting of offending Echolink nodes.

If you run a management script like Supermon you should be able to see the
connections and what is keyed when this is happening. Check the bubble map
to see who and how they are connected.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 4:33 AM "Mark Johnston via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> First off I have updated to the latest version as of this week, I do use
> echolink, with the raspi / hamvoip distro, I have Parrot enabled using the
> one time option, which works as expected, however, for some unknown reason
> it seems the system randomly will just start parroting/echoing back
> everything it hears, (much as the parrot does, but keeps going)
>
> As far as the logs show in /var/log/asterisk/messages, no commands are
> issued.
>
> I do not have supermon or whatnot setup -
> Have not added anything to the node - no new scripts in the past 6
> months...
>
> These are the crons I have set
>
> *15 03 * * * cd /usr/local/sbin; ./astdb.php cron*
>
> *00 0-23 * * * (source /usr/local/etc/allstar.env ; /usr/bin/nice -19
> /usr/bin/perl > /dev/null)*
>
> **/30 0-23 * * * (/usr/bin/ddclient > /dev/null 2>&1)*
>
> *00 03 * * 1 (/usr/bin/shutdown -r now > /dev/null 2>&1)*
>
> *# 00 0-23 * * * (source /usr/local/etc/allstar.env ; /usr/bin/nice -19
> /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/sbin/saytime.pl <http://saytime.pl> $NODE1 >
> /dev/null)*
>
> *# */30 * * * * (/root/killezstream > /dev/null 2>&1)*
>
>
> *last logins show just me for ssh*
>
>
> As far as I know no one is connecting to the node, in any other way.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> I plan to bring the link home to do some testing/monitoring more closely...
> until then, the radio is off, so i'm just trying to figure out what it
> could be.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
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