[arm-allstar] Fail over upon loss of internet

[David McGough]

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On Sun, 22 Jul 2018, "David McGough via arm-allstar" wrote:

> 
> 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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