[arm-allstar] usbradio

[john]

 Of course your mileage will vary, but I had an ACID set up running USB radio for years. I struggled with a number of COS based scenerios for equipment I had on hand in order to switch to Raspberry Pi. Each time, something would be wrong, usually squelch tail issues.     

  
The two receivers I have on hand weren't quite right for the job.    I reached out to a Ham I knew that is better than I on the configuration files,    and he was able to get USB radio working on my Crompton Pi 1.5 setup. I told him that I didn't think it was going to have as good audio quality as simple USB, but after we got it working, we did some testing and found that the audio was very clean, with no pops or distortion at all.   
  

  
I dialed in the squelch and threshold settings for PL level like I had with the previous set up, and it's been working perfectly. For me and my installation, DSP works so much better than COR coming out of my radio. Also USB radio tune seems to work just fine, but of course I have to enter it manually from the Linux prompt.   
  

  
In no way does this mean I disagree with the statements about simple USB being more reliable are sounding better than DSP based scenarios. I'm told ( admittedly not having listened to it myself) it sounds great.
  

  
Doug, I would be happy for you to listen to see if you can tell just by listening that I am running DSP. My repeater is connected to the WIN system, but of course I can dial to anywhere.
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
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> On Jan 7, 2018 at 2:44 PM,  <David McGough via arm-allstar>  wrote:
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>  Hi Tom, We don't have the usbradio tools accessible via the admin menu or menu driven setup, however everything required is present, usbradio will work. To enable usbradio, just setup the various files in /etc/asterisk and you should be good-to-go. You'll have to manually edit these files, of course. I do want to mention that you may experience more "clicks and pops," in the audio when using usbradio, particularly with various DSP processing enabled. However, it does work. The limitations are with the single-threaded processing power of the RPi3 CPU. I'll also mention that obtaining hardware COS from a MastrII is easy. If you've already got hardware CTCSS decode, that signaling would be easy to access, too. Then, you could run simpleusb, which gives outstanding audio quality results. As a case in point, I recently retired my last ACID "derivative" controller. This controller was used with 2 wide coverage repeaters in SE North Carolina. I was running usbradio drivers, which included all patches up thru perhaps 18 months ago. The box was powerful, including a dual-core 3.5GHz CPU---I had no pops and clicks, I had plenty of CPU horsepower. I replaced that box with 2 RPi3 controllers running the V1.5 software, switched to simpleusb, and linked to the network via WiFi. EVERYTHING else remained the same--same repeaters, URIs, etc. The improvement is audio quality is incredible; everyone has noticed this and commented positively about it! ....Anyway, just something to consider. 73, David KB4FXC On Sun, 7 Jan 2018, "Tom Bicket - AEØTB via arm-allstar" wrote:  >  Have been running AllStar on a Centos ACID version until the Dell Desktop  >  died. I decided to move to a RPi3 as a controller for my MastrII using s  >  URIx. Thought I saw something in the list regarding using usbradio rather  >  than simple USB. I was previously only using TX, RX, PTT and GND in my  >  cable and knew if I used simpleusb I would have to get into the repeater and  >  make changes to get either COS and/or CTCSS out to the URI. I cannot seem  >  to find out how to change the configuration in the new 1.5 release to use  >  usbradio and if s/w has been updated to allow that usage. Help is  >  appreciated!  >   >   >   >  Thanks,  >   >  Tom Bicket  >   >  AEØTB  >   >   >   >  _______________________________________________  >   >  arm-allstar mailing list  >  arm-allstar at hamvoip.org  >  http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar  >   >  Visit the BBB and RPi2/3 web page - http://hamvoip.org  >  _______________________________________________ arm-allstar mailing list arm-allstar at hamvoip.org http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar Visit the BBB and RPi2/3 web page - http://hamvoip.org  
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