[arm-allstar] Auto connection if not in use

[Matthew]

That seems to be working well. Thanks Doug.

I have 2 small outstanding issues.

1. I only want the audio announcements to go out over local RF. At the 
moment, they play over the RF and the network side of things. IS there a 
setting I am missing to prevent play out over the network side?

2. Is there a way to get the audio files to play whilst the repeater is 
in use from the RF side?. At the moment, if I try and play an audio file 
whilst someone is using the repeater, it holds off until the user 
finishes and then plays out but I seem to miss the first few seconds of 
audio. I would like to be able to play the announcement over the top.

Thanks,

Matt

"Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" wrote on 14/10/2018 22:19:
> Matt,
>
>   The proper way is   rpt localplay <node> <file>    So if it was node 40000
> and the file was /etc/asterisk/local/test.gsm it would look like this -
>
> rpt localplay 40000 /etc/asterisk/local/test
>
> You do not put the extent on the file name.
>
> If you used playback instead of localplay it would go locally and to all
> connected nodes.
>
> Also the file must be properly formatted for Allstar.   See the Text to
> Speech Howto. At the end of that PDF is a SOX line to convert. I would
> start out with a .wav file. Yoiu can either create it locally in yours or
> others voice or cature one of the demo sites in computer voice.  Then
> convert to a .ul file as shown in the howto.
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 4:25 PM "Matthew via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Doug.
>>
>> That was my initial thought. Play a 10 minute, 5 minute and 1 minute
>> warning and see how the users take to it.
>>
>> I seem to have a problem playing my voice files though. I have them
>> saved as .gsm files in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds but if I try and play
>> them from the Asterisk CLI, I get an error (I've replaced node number
>> with 12345). The repeater keys up but no audio is played..
>>
>> rpt playback 12345 voice_test.gsm
>> [Oct 14 21:14:24] WARNING[1944]: file.c:602 ast_openstream_full: File
>> voice_test.gsm does not exist in any format
>> [Oct 14 21:14:24] WARNING[1944]: file.c:912 ast_streamfile: Unable to
>> open voice_test.gsm (format 0x44 (ulaw|slin)): No such file or directory
>> [Oct 14 21:14:24] WARNING[1944]: app_rpt.c:7937 rpt_tele_thread:
>> ast_streamfile failed on DAHDI/pseudo-1336827494
>>       -- Hungup 'DAHDI/pseudo-1336827494'
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" wrote on 14/10/2018 20:53:
>>> 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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