[arm-allstar] SOLVED Split-site Repeater Questions

[Chuck Munro]

Hello again, David,

Audio problem solved ... it was indeed the misconfiguration that you 
pointed out.   The TX node announces its repeater callsign now.

The two nodes reliably connect permanently and sending a text message 
works.   Good learning experience :-)

Question ... does playback also trigger the transmitter's PTT ?

Thanks again for your assistance!  Much appreciated.

73,  Chuck     VA7UL

On 2020-12-05 5:23 a.m., David McGough wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> The playback method you're using should work fine, at least when the
> playback (or localplay) commands are run on and directed at the local node
> where the command is bring run.
>
> Note that the node duplex setting will impact the operation of the
> "playback" command.
>
> For example, if node 1900 is set duplex=0, and node 1901 is set duplex=2
> and both nodes are connected together:
>
> ...You will hear playback (or localplay) on node 1900, when the command is
> run locally. However, you won't hear any audio on node 1901.
>
> For the opposite scenario, you run "playback" on 1901. You should hear the
> audio on both 1901 and 1900. With "localplay" the audio will only be heard
> on 1901.
>
> As another example, if both nodes were set duplex=0 and connected
> together, you would only hear playback or localplay on the node the
> command is run from, but never on the network connected node.
>
> For a final comment, all playback or localplay commands MUST be aimed at
> local nodes, not remote network connected nodes. So, you can't be on node
> 1900 and try to send a playback to 1901, which is network connected. To
> determine which nodes are local, from the asterisk CLI run the "rpt
> localnodes" command, like:
>
> testbench*CLI> rpt localnodes
> testbench*CLI>
> Node
> ----
> 1211
> 1212
>
>
> So, in this example, 1211 and 1212 are local and playback or localplay
> should work for either of these nodes, like:
>
> testbench*CLI> rpt playback 1211 systems
>      -- <DAHDI/pseudo-286021843> Playing 'systems' (language 'en')
>      -- Hungup 'DAHDI/pseudo-286021843'
>
>
>
>
> Does this operational explanation help?
>
>
> 73, David KB4FXC
>
>