[arm-allstar] Next gen architecture questions

[Doug Crompton]

Alessio,

  Courtesy tones are local only. They do not propagate the Allstar network.
Hamvoip instituted a distinct courtesy tone capability where you can assign
different courtesy tones for different nodes. See the howto on distinct
courtesy tones at hamvoip.org. Courtesy tones can be tones, CW, or actual
sound files. Of course you would not want it to be long in duration.

Things have changed greatly in the last few years and as long as you have
Internet availability and bandwidth the Pi, especially the Pi4 in turbo
mode should handle anything you throw at it. There is a PC version in alpha
but I would not count on it being released any time soon or at all. There
is also a "Pi farm" in the works which would allow users to lease a Pi4 on
a high bandwidth connection remotely with Hamvoip SW installed. This would
primarily be for users who do not have the Internet available or who have
limited bandwidth access.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:07 PM "Alessio Sacchi via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Hi - working on the next gen architecture for my nodes at the moment. Two
> questions
>
> - Currently, courtesy tones only propagate for 1 hop. Any plan or
> technical impediments for multi-hop courtesy tones? Use case: multiple
> nodes connected though a central hub.
>
> - I may have to run a hub in the public cloud. Any non RPi software
> available/planned?
>
> Thank you
> Alessio IZ4EFN
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