[arm-allstar] Playing Newsline on Allstar Pi3

Sat Jan 20 22:16:18 EST 2018

Steve,

 I have no idea what is going on but I suspect some setting on one the
other nodes. I doubt it has anything to do with playnews itself. Try this

Enter the client -  asterisk -rvvv   or admin menu item 12.  At the cli
prompt type:

rpt playback 27065 filename

where filename is a known good sound file. You could use node-id your ID
file

rpt playback 27065 /etc/asterisk/local/node-id

This should play your ID on ALL connected nodes. This is a standard
Asterisk command and the one used by playnews.

Do you somehow have telemetry turned off on the other node?

*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 9:38 PM, "Steve Agee via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> OK, I just tried something different. Instead of running ARN from the
> command line NOW I ran it as follows (remember I am one hour behind you):
>
> 15 20 * * 6 /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11  ARN 20:30 27065 G
> &> /dev/null 2>&1
>
> It played just fine on node 27065 (on the Pi) but node 2430 was connected
> to node 27065 and it never played there.
>
> N5ZUA
>
> On 1/20/2018 3:24 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
>  Case does not matter. Here is a run I did with your command line. It
> obviously would not play anything with your node number but this is what
> you should see. I aborted with CntrlC.
>
>  /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARN now 27065
> Starting Download of ARN Audio News @ 16:19:29
> --2018-01-20 16:19:29--  https://www.arnewsline.org/s/news.mp3
> Resolving www.arnewsline.org (www.arnewsline.org)... 198.49.23.145,
> 198.49.23.144, 198.185.159.145, ...
> Connecting to www.arnewsline.org (www.arnewsline.org)|198.49.23.145|:443...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302
> Location: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/
> 58b08985be65947bf171e05e/t/5a61dac4e4966b802cbba1c3/1516362443633/news.mp3
> [following]
> --2018-01-20 16:19:29--  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/
> 58b08985be65947bf171e05e/t/5a61dac4e4966b802cbba1c3/1516362443633/news.mp3
> Resolving static1.squarespace.com (static1.squarespace.com)...
> 151.101.208.238
> Connecting to static1.squarespace.com (static1.squarespace.com)|151.101.208.238|:443...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 4814678 (4.6M) [audio/mp3]
> Saving to: '/tmp/news.mp3'
>
> /tmp/news.mp3             100%[==================================>]
> 4.59M  3.53MB/s    in 1.3s
>
> 2018-01-20 16:19:31 (3.53 MB/s) - '/tmp/news.mp3' saved [4814678/4814678]
>
> Download complete @ 16:19:31
> Converting from MP3 to wav and normalizing
> Creating /tmp/news.part1.wav
> Creating /tmp/news.part2.wav
> Creating /tmp/news.part3.wav
> Creating /tmp/news.part4.wav
> Creating /tmp/news.part5.wav
> Creating /tmp/news.part6.wav
> Creating /tmp/news.part7.wav
> Creating /tmp/news.part8.wav
> Creating /tmp/news.part9.wav
> Converting to individual ulaw format files
> Converting to /tmp/news.part1.ul
> Converting to /tmp/news.part2.ul
> Converting to /tmp/news.part3.ul
> Converting to /tmp/news.part4.ul
> Converting to /tmp/news.part5.ul
> Converting to /tmp/news.part6.ul
> Converting to /tmp/news.part7.ul
> Converting to /tmp/news.part8.ul
> Converting to /tmp/news.part9.ul
> ARN news will start now and use playback (global) mode on node - 27065
> Press any key to start news...^C
>
>
>
> *73 Doug *
>
> *WA3DSP *
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio> *
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 3:30 PM, "Steve Agee via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
>> Doug,
>>
>> I'll play with this later today when I have more time. I was invoking it
>> from the command line, and there could be a syntax issue. For example, I
>> was using "now" instead of "NOW" per the instructions given at
>> http://www.qsl.net/w2ymm/news_script.html so not sure if that was it or
>> not. From the command line, I was sending:
>> /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARN now 27065 G
>> and also
>> /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARN now 27065
>>
>> N5ZUA
>>
>> On 1/20/2018 2:10 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:
>>
>> holdofftelem=0 ONLY needs to be in place on the node playing the news.
>> The reason for this is that there is no blocking on playing audio files in
>> Asterisk/Allstar. That is you play it and it goes into a buffer and you
>> have no control over knowing when it ends or even canceling it. The
>> playnews script gets around this by carefully timing the segments and using
>> delay (sleep) statements to ensure that nothing gets out of sync, If
>> telemetry (playing of the audio) was held off at any point due to a keyup
>> from anywhere it would screw up the sync. Having holdofftelem=0 avoids this.
>>
>> Having holdofftelem=0 on a non-radio hub is not an issue as the only
>> audio heard from the hub to remote nodes would be global playback.
>>
>>
>> *73 Doug *
>>
>> *WA3DSP *
>>
>> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio> *
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:46 AM, "Steve Agee via arm-allstar" <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Bill. I was wondering if this is one of those seldom used
>>> features that nobody has actually tried yet, and I happened to be the one
>>> that found out that it did not work? I tried it between the Pi and an ACID
>>> node as well as between the Pi and a DIAL node with no luck. I made sure
>>> the other node was connected before invoking the script, and that all nodes
>>> had "holdofftelem=0"
>>>
>>> N5ZUA
>>>
>>> On 1/20/2018 4:45 AM, "Mr. Possum (Bill) via arm-allstar" wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>>
>>> I always thought that was a "feature" that was to keep it from
>>> propagating across a wide area network...  But maybe my impressions are
>>> inaccurate...
>>>
>>> Maybe I will diddle with that a bit...  and see what difference it makes
>>> between "localplay" and "playback"...
>>>
>>> I've been wrong before - my wife keeps reminding me...  (repeatedly...)
>>>
>>> Bill - N5MBM
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Steve Agee via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
>>> <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
>>> *To:* arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
>>> *Cc:* Steve Agee <irlp8720 at yahoo.com> <irlp8720 at yahoo.com>
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, January 20, 2018 2:36 AM
>>> *Subject:* Re: [arm-allstar] Playing Newsline on Allstar Pi3
>>>
>>> OK well not working for me ... only plays on the originating Pi node for
>>> some reason.
>>>
>>> N5ZUA
>>>
>>> On 1/20/2018 2:34 AM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:
>>>
>>> If set to global it will play to ANY connected node including Echolink.
>>>
>>>
>>> *73 Doug *
>>>
>>> *WA3DSP *
>>>
>>> *http://www.crompton.com/ hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio> *
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 2:41 AM, "Steve Agee via arm-allstar" <
>>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> If I invoke Playnews with either ARRL or ARN with the flag set to
>>> global, will it play on other connected ACID or DIAL nodes, or only on
>>> other connected Hamvoip nodes?
>>>
>>> N5ZUA
>>>
>>> On 1/19/2018 9:28 AM, "Robert Prybyzerski via arm-allstar" wrote:
>>>
>>> Mike, I have a how to of installing a script for downloading and playing
>>> newsline and Arrl audio news.  The script comes from the hamvoip website, I
>>> just documented my steps.
>>> http://www.qsl.net/w2ymm/news_ script.html
>>> <http://www.qsl.net/w2ymm/news_script.html>
>>>
>>> Bob W2YMM
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> Bob W2YMM
>>> 631-960-1051
>>>
>>> On Jan 19, 2018, at 7:48 AM, Mike Shelby via arm-allstar <
>>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Since I am new to Allstar I figured I'd ask how hard is it to play
>>> Newsline on my Allstar node for our nets? Any advice would be greatly
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike Shelby - K9MLS
>>> bcham.org
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