[arm-allstar] Fail over upon loss of internet

[David McGough]

Chris,

I'm suspecting you are you wanting to send DTMF commands to another 
controller??

You'll need a utility that always runs on each RPi, testing the 
quality of the Internet connection. I use smokeping (pacman -S smokeping).

You can setup smokeping to perform certain actions, based on link 
performance, etc. Note that you'll also want to configure smokeping to 
place its event database over in /tmp or another tmpfs (RAM drive) 
filesystem.

Sending DTMF with asterisk/app_rpt is the easy part, of course. Just 
something like:  rpt cmd 1999 cop 48 1,2,3,A,4,5,6,B,7,8,9,C,*,0,#,D


73, David KB4FXC


On Sun, 22 Jul 2018, "chris novara via arm-allstar" wrote:

> I’ve been asked to change our club repeater that has a noisy RF link to Allstar as internet is available at our far end tower site. 

But, a fail over auto option upon loss of internet is desired. 

Can I set up the Pi to send a DTMF command if the internet is lost for more then 30 mins? 

Then the reverse - when internet is restored for 30 mins, the Pi sends dtmf to tell the controller to switch back to the Allstar feed.

Since we are using the *73xxxx I know there is some issues with auto retry confusing the LED that Doug helped me
With. Generally it works great though. 

Can this be done reliable? 

Thank you,

Chris Novara, AB7BS
Eugene Oregon
Cell: 541-778-1175


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