[arm-allstar] Echolink, Repeater Duplex and Newsline Questions

[Doug Crompton]

Just a quick response. You mentioned V1.5 - we are V1.6 now and a fix to
Echolink regarding not playing telemetry audio was made just several weeks
ago. Make sure all your nodes are upgraded.

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

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 4:52 PM "Kyle Krieg via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> I have an Echolink, Newsline and node to repeater question that I think
> someone here probably knows the answer to as I probably have a setting
> incorrect.  :)
>
> I have two nodes (V1.5 and up to date) connected to one of our local
> repeaters in series.  One public (40105) and one private (1085).  Both
> running on Raspberry Pi 3B+.
>
> Private Note 1085 is connected to port 2 on a CAT800 repeater controller
> via a DMK URI.  We have this node private because I want to do some
> internal linking within our ARDEN network this summer.
>
> Public Node 40105 is a stand alone node, connected full time to node 1085
> via a startup script, is internet facing and provides Echolink and AllStar
> services to the internet, which then is connected to 1085 which provides
> those services to our 146.850 repeater.  Node 40105 also plays Newsline
> during our weekly nets via a DTMF tones that we pass through the 146.850
> repeater to 1085 then to 40105.
>
> Private Node 1085 has the following parameters set in rpt.conf that are
> probably of interest.  On the CAT800 port 2 is set to half duplex.
> duplex=0
> holdofftelem=1
> telemdefault=2
>
> Public Node 40105 has the following parameters set in rpt.conf
> duplex=1
> eannmode=2 ; echolink announces call sign only on connect
> remote_dtmf_allowed=1 ; allows us to pass DTMF tones to 40105
> holdofftelem=1
> telemdefault=2
>
>
> Question #1 - On private node 1085, I'm assuming best practices is to set
> duplex=0 to interface half duplex with a repeater with no telemetry as the
> CAT800 owns the courtesy beeps and ID announcements to be sent out via RF.
>
> Question #2 - Is it good practice on node 40105 to have duplex=1 if this is
> a "permanent" node connected to the private 1085 node that is connected
> directly to a repeater controller?  This question might change once reading
> question #3 and possibly #4 below.
>
> Question #3 - If I'm reading the man page right, on node 40105 if I change
> telemdefault to 1 (voice telemetry on) and and keep duplex=1, that should
> announce any AllStar nodes or Echolink nodes connecting to the 40105 node,
> therefore it should pass it on to the 1085 node which then passes it to the
> repeater controller via RF?
>
> Question #4 - Playing Newsline on the public node has been working for us,
> but Echolink stations connected to 40105 (the node Newsline is playing on)
> has not be hearing the Newsline audio.  I'm not seeing anything in
> echolink.conf that would prevent this.  We call newsline via DTMF tone with
> this command /usr/bin/asterisk -rx "rpt playback 40105 /home/newsline"
>
> 73
> Kyle
> AA0Z
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