[arm-allstar] hamvoip as a repeater controller

[Doug Crompton]

Jed,

 Hamvoip makes an excellent controller. It has some things that are lacking
compared to the commercial products but nothing you cannot work around. On
the other hand Hamvoip has many features and ease of operation that some of
the controllers do not possess. I just brought up a new Kenwood 2 meter
repeater with Hamvoip and it works extremely well. I documented the
controller I built in the howto section at hamvoip.org. While you can build
a controller with just the Pi and a FOB you may want to have other I/O. In
the example I build I added analog input for temperature and voltage
measurements, GPIO with buffering, and relay control. It is mounted in a
19" rack chassis. I know you can't see it but maybe the text would be
helpful.

Basically all of what you asked is possible. Some would require a simple
script and others just configuration parameters. One thing that is very
easy to do is present voice messages and other timing related things via
cron jobs. The bottom line is there are many using the SW as repeater
controllers so any questions you may have can certainly be answered here.

*73 Doug, WA3DSP*
*http://wa3dsp.org <http://wa3dsp.org>*

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 4:21 AM "Jed Barton via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> OK, so i'm working on a new 220 repeater.  As much as i love my scoms,
> i thought i would look at hamvoip as a repeater controller. I'd like
> some feedback.  Here are some of the things that i need to do.
>
> be able to turn the repeater on and off with some sort of confirmation
> that it happened.
> mute dtmf tones, so all the tones don't go out of the repeater transmitter
> set timers so you can change things like when the courtesy tone plays
> after you unkey, and a hang time after the courtesy tone until the
> repeater drops.
> do custom commands to turn the repeater transmitter on and off
>
>
> I'm sure i'll think of more, but these are the basics.
> I was just thinking rather than spend 500 on an scom 7330, i might try
> this.
> Where would i make a lot of these changes?
> If anyone can help, or has done this sort of thing with hamvoip, that
> would be awesome.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jed
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