[arm-allstar] Strange issues with ASL

Chris chood73 at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 26 16:18:45 EDT 2019


I have had my node do very bizarre things after a brown out on many occasions. 
My lesson learned, was to ALWAYS have my nodes on a UPS.

I have had a node running at my repeater site for 2 yrs now with no more issues after spending 40 bucks on a UPS.

Chris

> On Jun 26, 2019, at 3:04 PM, David McGough via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Benjamin,
> 
> SD cards are used in a LOT of places, these days---including a multitude 
> of commercial hardware, both radio and otherwise.
> 
> In this situation, the OS and Asterisk/AllStar is loading and running on 
> the RPi board. This is why I doubt there is some type of filesystem 
> corruption causing this problem.  Unfortunately, I find it more likely 
> that a surge during the power issue caused hardware failure.
> 
> However, we all anxiously await more info.
> 
> 
> 73, David KB4FXC
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, "Benjamin Naber via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>> 
>> Rachid,
> 
> I'm curious of your results.
> 
> While I have no doubts of the hamvoip software reliability, I do have my 
> doubts of *any* software/firmware survive-ability on an SD card during 
> abnormal power events. All it takes is one non expected power 
> interruption.  Some folks have a little better luck than that, but 
> sometimes we are not that fortunate.
> 
> 
> Benjamin, KB9LFZ
> 
> 
>> On 6/26/2019 12:43 PM, "Rachid Karroo via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>> Hi David
>> 
>> Thank you for replying back.
>> Yes I will definitely rule out every possibility.
>> But I find it very strange that both RIM have issues at the same time.
>> 
>> Ah anyway, more experience to be gained from this
>> 
>> 73s
>> 
>> Rachid
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 9:22 PM "David McGough via ARM-allstar" <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Rachid,
>>> 
>>> I'm doubting this is software related.
>>> 
>>> As a simple test, you could unplug the radio from the RIM and manually
>>> pull the COS/CTCSS signals from low to hi and then back to low and watch
>>> real-time telemetry state in the simpleusb-tune-menu software.  If you see
>>> no signal change, it's likely a hardware problem with the RIM....You could
>>> try a fresh firmware load as well, at that point, just to try to rule out
>>> every possibility.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 73, David KB4FXC
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, "Rachid Karroo via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Doug
>>>> I understand. Both radio were working before and out of a sudden, this
>>>> issue showed up with the same symptom.
>>>> 
>>>> Should I reformat and re-install ?
>>>> 
>>>> 73s
>>>> 
>>>> Rachid
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 6:08 PM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" <
>>>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Rachid,
>>>>> 
>>>>>  In most radios you ONLY use COS for RX keying.  I realize it is a
>>> little
>>>>> confusing but the COS and CTCSS pins are just logic input pins to the
>>> FOB.
>>>>> On the DMK-URI pin 8 is COS.  Unless you have some special application
>>> I
>>>>> would use the COS input pin on whatever FOB you are using and leave the
>>>>> CTCSS pin unconnected and In the SW set
>>>>> CTCSSFROM= no. Set the COSFROM appropriately for the logic level from
>>> the
>>>>> radio. If it is going low on RX then USBINVERT. If it is going high
>>> then
>>>>> USB.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> *73 Doug*
>>>>> 
>>>>> *WA3DSP*
>>>>> 
>>>>> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 1:57 AM "Rachid Karroo via ARM-allstar" <
>>>>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>> I ran into a strange issue with my ASL Node this morning. My setup
>>> USB
>>>>> RIM
>>>>>> Lite with Yaesu FT857D (UHF) and USB Maxtrac with Motorola GM300
>>> (VHF). I
>>>>>> have no issues to connect to any other Node and signal is
>>> retransmitted
>>>>>> locally on frequency.
>>>>>> The issue :-
>>>>>> - Both radios would not detect activity on frequency. In Supermon,
>>> both
>>>>>> Nodes remain idle. On Simple USB application, COS status shows "
>>> keyed".
>>>>>> ASL Settings :-
>>>>>> - Simple USB setting for Yaesu - COS from USB and CTCSS from USB
>>>>>> - Simple USB setting for Motorola - COS No and CTCSS from USB
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There was some intermittent power cut yesterday and I am suspecting
>>> that
>>>>>> may be the issue is software that is issue with the SD card.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Has anybody got SD card issues and related?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 73s
>>>>>> Rachid
>>>>>> 3B8FP
>>>>>> Node : 40248
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