[arm-allstar] Playnews pest

[Robert Conklin]

Holdofftelem is and has been set to 0 for couple of years. Perhaps someone
keying up the node from RF side at the wrong moment? Or an Autosky
announcement?  Am thinking I should move the Playnews from a repeater
controller node to a radioless node. Thoughts?


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Robert Conklin
*N4WGY <http://qrz.com/db/N4WGY>*

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:25 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> 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
> > *N4WGY <http://qrz.com/db/N4WGY>*
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