[arm-allstar] How to Set Up a Kenwood TS-2000 as a Remote Base

[wb4bxo at mindspring.com]

I have one that I use for an Icom IC-7000 and one I use for a Kenwood 
TM-V71A. Here's a link to a zip file and copy of the email describing it 
that I sent to another ham interested in it while back.

You'll notice in some of the places I have the call to SayFreq commented 
out, you may want to uncomment them. I'm not completely satisfied with the 
frequency read back yet, it reads back when I'm using iaxrpt or zoiper 
directly to the node that has this, but I think it may also go out the radio 
port, so I want to play with that some more, just haven't had a chance. I 
want to be able to connect to the node this is on from my 220 repeater, do a 
*4xxxxx to control this "remote" node and set the frequency with it reading 
back to me, but it does not. I'm thinking of putting the radios on private 
ports like 1999 and 1998 set for no telemetry of any kind and then let the 
public node have the commands to control the radio and do the frequency read 
back and see if that would let me send it to remote connections but not out 
the remote controlled radio.

Hope this helps. If you make any additions or improvements please pass them 
back to me to use too.
Here's a link to them in a zip file on my DropBox since I don't think this 
mailing lists passes attachments. If you have problems getting it let me 
know and I'll put it somewhere else too.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ee99zi7d1aefsxo/WB4BXO-Remote.zip?dl=1

73's
Steve - WB4BXO


-----Original Message----- 
From: "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar"
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 11:02 PM
To: ARM Allstar
Cc: Doug Crompton
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] How to Set Up a Kenwood TS-2000 as a Remote Base

John,

Hamlib is the way to go. Get it working with it first. hamlib is already
in the SW so you can test it on your server via USB.

Once all is working then you will have to create the commands in a script.
This is something I have on my list to do but if anyone wants to tackle it
please do. Basically a script that has all the pertinent hamlib commands.
This would be mapped to DTMF commands. Then there would be a standard set
of commands for any rig.

Right now the best way to do this is the autopatch interface as describe in
this howto at hamvoip.org -

https://www.hamvoip.org/Allstar_extended_functions_using_autopatch.pdf

This allows you to create a dialplan through the extensions file to pass to
a script. So something like -

*6201147030   would change a rig frequency to 147.03

*62 indicates DTMF pass through to the extensions file.  01147030  is
passed to the script.
the first two digits are stripped in the script and become the command thus
giving the option of 100 commands - 00-99. Here the command 01 indicates a
frequency change command (F in hamlib) and 147030 is the frequency.

For commands that return a response you would use the Allstar localplay
command. So again as an example if you DTMF'ed the following -

*6202

The 02 command could be hamlib (rigctl) lowercase f  which would playback
the frequency of the radio when you unkeyed.

To test in a very simple form you could directly call a script from a
function line in rpt.conf but this would have to to be a separate function
for each frequency or command. A way to test but not a long term solution.

This of course is just an example. The idea is to get all of the outdated
and buggy remote stuff out of the Allstar code which we will be doing soon.
Having it in a user script makes it much more flexible.

If you have any questions about this don't hesitate to ask.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:42 PM "John via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Greetings to the group,
>
> I am using a RPi2 running Hamvoip 1.5rc19, and attempting to configure a
> Kenwood TS-2000 as a remote base, but am not sure how Allstar is 
> configured
> to control the radio itself through its TTY port.
>
> I am able to control the radio using Hamlib rigctld, bit not sure the best
> way to translate DTMF commands from the Allstar user to set the various
> parameters on the TS2000.
>
> Is there an organic way to do this from within Allstar, using its
> remote-base function, or do I need to write DTMF function macros to 
> execute
> shell commands to rigctld to change parameters, and then use the URi
> interface for audio and PTT? But then isn't it the same as a regular (non
> remote-base) node?
>
> So I believe my basic question is: in remote-base mode, how do the various
> incoming DTMF control codes get translated to the rig control data stream
> and where does that present itself on the node?
>
> Any theory of operation for the remote base functionality would be most
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> John N1CTF
>
> John R. Chartkoff
> Columbus, Ohio
> Cell: 850-902-1147
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