[arm-allstar] Auto connection if not in use

[Doug Crompton]

Matt,

 Anything is usually possible with some work but what you want to do is
probably not practical. I would think the best approach is to either
educate your users of the connection and time it will connect or you could
as I do here create a cron based announcement at 5 and 10 minutes before
the connect on the RF side that the connection will be taking place.
Something like "Attention the so and so net will connect in 10 minutes"
That way they are aware it is going to happen. If this is done on a regular
basis then it should not be a problem once they get use to it.

Being able to detect usage would be tricky. You could check for PTT at the
time the connection was to take place but how do you know it was really
busy or just Id'ing. I suppose a more elaborate script could be written but
I would try the above approach first.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 3:40 PM "Matthew via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I've been playing with connecting our stand alone repeater up to one of
> the AllStar hubs in the afternoons when the repeater is usually very
> quiet on local RF. I've got all of the cron entries sorted and
> everything works well. Before I make it all live, is there any way I can
> only get the script to run if there are no RF users on the repeater so
> it does not connect them up half way through a QSO? I already have voice
> announcements for 10 minutes, 5 minutes and 1 minute before the
> connection runs but it would be great to only allow the connection once
> the repeater has not been in use for x minutes.
>
> Failing that, is there a way to set up a short code that an RF user can
> dial to abort the auto connect before it runs? I could create a voice
> file that outputs something like 'dial *73 on your DTMF keypad to abort
> the connection'. I know I can do this once the repeater has connected
> but it would be a nice feature to be able to stop the connection.
>
> Is any of that possible?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
> M0LMK
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