[arm-allstar] CAT800 and AllStar HamVoIP Questions

[Doug Crompton]

Kyle,

 How are you determining the decoding of the digits? Are you looking in the
Asterisk client? If certain tones do not decode it is almost always either
a level or equalization issue. Check Having PRE/DE emphasis on or off when
it should be the opposite or levels out of range.

As for the Echolink, I would put both nodes on one Pi. As long as Echolink
is on a separate node killing it would just be a matter of disconnecting it
from the other node. Usually on a repeater Echolink is only incoming but
yes if you want to control it from another node you would need to pass the
command via the remote method. Better yet you could use ssh or even better
supermon to control all of your nodes from one place.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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


On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:16 AM "Kyle Krieg via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Finally got around to testing an Allstar node with a CAT800 controller and
> got it working!  This stuff is really neat to play around with.  Hopefully
> I can put this into production here soon.
>
> I have a private node (1085) connected to port 2 of the controller.  Node
> 1085 is permanently connected to 40105 (which also runs echolink) which
> will serve as our outside node.  I have the 1085 node directly connected to
> the repeater because we have a wireless IP point to point private network
> that we want to build out our repeater linking ability without the AllStar
> network if it would happen to go down.
>
> A few questions both related to AllStar and if anybody has some CAT 800
> knowledge.
>
> 1) I can't get the CAT 800 to pass some DTMF tones to the 1085 node
> connected to port 2.
>
> DTMF 1 - yes
> DTMF 2 - no
> DTMF 3 - no (this is my question, why?)
> DTMF 4 - yes
> DTMF 5 - yes
> DTMF 6 - no
> DTMF 7 - yes
> DTMF 8 - yes
> DTMF 9 - yes
>
> The DTMF tone lights up on the front of the controller, but is not passed
> to the 1085 node, or the node is just not picking it up?
>
> There has to be a setting in the CAT 800 I'm missing.
>
> 2) If I wanted to change the *3 command to something else, I'm assuming I
> can do that in the rpt.conf file?
>
> 3) I'm now questioning if I should just run 1085 and 40105 on the same
> RaspberryPI, and not split these two nodes up?  Is there a "best practices"
> document for a setup like this?  My concern is if I want to kill Echolink,
> can I do that without killing the asterisk server?
>
> 4) I'm assuming if I want to pass an Echolink command or remote *3 commands
> to the 40105 node, I would need to turn on remote_dtmf_allowed=1 on the
> 1085 node and send *440105*33xxxxxx to connect 40105 to the outside world?
>
> Thanks
> Kyle
> AA0Z
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