[arm-allstar] Playnews pest

[Doug Crompton]

Robert,

    The playback and localplay functions in Allstar  do not block and
therefore you have to be very careful about anything else playing during
the time the playnews runs. Specifically you have to set holdofftelem=0 as
specified in the script. If this is set to the default =1 then any keyup on
the system from anywhere will screw up the sync of the playback which is
carefully timed. No other messages should play during the time you are
playing it.

I play both ARN and ARRL news every week and have been for several years
and I have not seen any problems.  However I run it on a hub without radios
and nothing like Autosky or any other program that would send out messages.
If any other message is sent out during the period it is running it could
screw up order. If you did not have hodofftelem=0 then that could most
certainly cause the problem.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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





On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 8:32 PM, "Robert Conklin via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> On a wide coverage UHF node I have automated the playnews script via a
> cronjob to play the ARRL at 1900 Mondays, and the ARN at 1900 on Wednesdays
> . Have had this setup for about two years now. The issue is that on
> occasion, with no cause I can deduce, the news segments will play out of
> order. Additionally, when this out of order play error happens, the
> segments will play immediately following the 20 second break announcements,
> 20 second delay is truncated to about .5 second.
> I have tried rebuilding the image and changing up the crontab start times.
> Wondering is anyone else who uses the playnews script might have
> encountered this and if they found a cause. All suggestions welcome.
> Thanks!
>
> Here is what the crontab tasks look like:
>
> #RUNS THE ARRL NEWS AT 7:00pm ON MONDAYS
> 40 18 * * 1 /etc/asterisk/local/disconnectall.sh 42754
> 42 18 * * 1 /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARRL 19:00 42754 G
> &> /dev/null 2>&1
> 30 19 * * 1 /etc/asterisk/local/disconnectall.sh 42754
> #RUNS THE ARN NEWS AT 7:00pm ON WEDNESDAYS
> 40 18 * * 3 /etc/asterisk/local/disconnectall.sh 42754
> 42 18 * * 3 /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARN 19:00 42754 G
> &>
> /dev/null 2>&1
> 30 19 * * 3 /ect/asterisk/local/disconnectall.sh 42754
>
> We have two other local repeater nodes that have cronjobs to connect to
> this node at 1845
>
>
>
> --
> Robert Conklin
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