[arm-allstar] Allstar Node Scheduler

Sun Nov 11 21:47:52 EST 2018

Ok, I made one change and now saytime.pl works correctly. What I did to get it working was that from the simpleusb-time-menu, I changed COSFROM mode from “usb” to “usbinvert”. 

Now, the reason I originally changed COSFROM to “usb” (it originally was “usbinvert” when I initially brought up the node for the first time) is because with it as “usbinvert”, audio wasn’t coming thru on the node. And, consequently, the V menu item (View COS Telemetry) was also showing KEYED when the repeater was not keyed, and was showing CLEAR when the repeater was keyed. 

When COSFROM is set to “usbinvert”, my voice does not come thru on the allstar node - it’s just a dead carrier. But, when I set COSFROM back to “usb”, my voice comes thru on the node (but then saytime.pl doesn’t work). 

What do you guys think?

Steve 

> On Nov 11, 2018, at 19:23, Steve Thompson <steve.n7tx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Doug,
> 
> Thanks for walking me thru this. When I do a crontab-l, I am seeing exactly what you said I’d see. 
> 
> When I run saytime.pl manually, it does the same thing as I have been seeing at the top of each hour (I’m hearing the repeater deadkey from port 2 - which is where on my external controller I’ve got the allstar node connected). Allstar node times out after 3 mins and sends “TO” in cw, then unkeys. 
> 
> When I echo $NODE1 at a Linux prompt, I do see my primary node number. 
> 
> I also checked to confirm that it’s not COR hanging up. When I use “v” on the simple-usb-tune menu, it is “CLEAR” when the repeater is not in use. When I transmit on the repeater, COS shows “KEYED”. 
> 
> So, whether saytime.pl is executed manually or on schedule, it is not working. Any other thoughts on what could be causing this? 
> 
> It’s as if there is some sort of dependency that saytime.pl has, and that dependency isn’t there or isn’t working as expected. 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
>> On Nov 9, 2018, at 18:32, Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Steve,
>> 
>> The hourly time is a cron process.  At the Linux prompt do  -  crontab
>> -l   You should see this -
>> 
>> # Do not remove the following line
>> # required for lsnodes and allmon
>> 15 03 * * * cd /usr/local/sbin; ./astdb.php cron
>> 00 0-23 * * * (source /usr/local/etc/allstar.env ; /usr/bin/nice -19
>> /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/sbin/saytime.pl $NODE1 > /dev/null)
>> 
>> There may be other lines if you added them but the forth line showing  00
>> 0-23 .......      is the one that does the time on the hour. Goggle cron to
>> see all the parameters.  The first 00 means the 0 minute and then 0-23
>> means each of the hours of the day.  Apparently something is wrong when
>> this happens. I cannot determine what without more input. You can run this
>> manually by typing  saytime.pl <node> at the Linux prompt and you should
>> hear the current time.  If your node was 40000 then the command would be
>> saytime.pl 40000   The $NODE1 variable should be set to your first node.
>> Check that by typing  'echo $NODE1' at the Linux prompt. It should be your
>> primary node number on the server.  It sounds like you do not have a radio
>> connected if you are using the pseudo node. Is that correct?
>> 
>> The time should just work on the hour and certainly should not tie things
>> up for 4 minutes. If you want to disable the hourly time do
>> crontab -e     then edit that like by placing a # at the beginning. This
>> makes the line a comment and you can always remove it in the future to
>> reinstate.  Save the file and it will turn off the hourly time.
>> 
>> It does seem like something else is going on here. Possibly a bad image
>> load. Have you messed with anything other than doing thte normal setup?
>> 
>> 
>> *73 Doug*
>> 
>> *WA3DSP*
>> 
>> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:19 PM "Steve Thompson via ARM-allstar" <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I’ve recently created a new Allstar node from the latest hamvoip image for
>>> RPi, and I’m working my way through some issues. One issue is that every
>>> hour, on the hour, the node transmits a dead carrier for 3 minutes, then
>>> there’s a CW message telling me it’s a timeout. Then the node unkeys.
>>> 
>>> Very early on in the process of bringing my new node alive, the node was
>>> transmitting the time (in voice) at the top of the hour. So I have to
>>> believe this was the same process which is now working incorrectly. And
>>> perhaps I did something at some point to cause it to error out.
>>> 
>>> When this issue occurs, I get this logged:
>>> 
>>> <DAHDI ...> playing /tmp/current-time
>>> 
>>> Then I get two separate lines logged that say:
>>> Hungup ‘DAHDI pseudo...’
>>> 
>>> There IS a file in /tmp named “current-time.gsm”. I don’t know what the
>>> .gsm extension means though. The file is not a text file.
>>> 
>>> I’ve searched through all the conf files in /etc/asterisk and the only
>>> reference to any sort of schedule is in rpt.conf.  In the [schedule...]
>>> section, the only two lines (which reference a macro to be run on the hour)
>>> are both commented out with semi-colons. I did not comment them out. I
>>> would think since they are commented out, they’d not be running .. unless
>>> there’s something somewhere else triggering this behavior.
>>> 
>>> What is “DAHDI”?
>>> Any thoughts on how this is scheduled?
>>> And why it’s erroring out?
>>> Where else can I see what is going on with a schedule? Any thoughts on how
>>> to (1) in the short term, disable this scheduled event, and (2) in the long
>>> term, fix it so that it works properly?
>>> 
>>> I have an extensive IT background but not much familiarity with Linux OS,
>>> so go easy on me.
>>> 
>>> Steve N7TX
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