[arm-allstar] Playnews pest

[Doug Crompton]

Robert,

  Having things like broadcastify, echolink, playnews, and other
applications on their own nodes or servers is not a bad idea. It also gives
the flexibility of being able to connect them to different places as
needed. Even putting playnews on a second pseudo node on your Allstar
repeater node would probably solve the problem. The pseudo node could then
be setup as duplex 0 with no CT and holdofftelem=0 and the repeater node
could be setup with the default holdofftelem=1.

Give it a try and let me know how you make out.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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


On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:11 AM, "Robert Conklin via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
> --
> 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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