[arm-allstar] New and connections

[David McGough]

No, don't check the remote base selection!

Remote Base mode is a special setting which tells nodes that the simplex 
radio has special properties---like being frequency agile, allowing only 
ONE connection at a time, etc. On top of this, remote base mode is still 
very buggy and crash-prone and has been since the first time I used 
AllStar, over a decade ago.

In an forthcoming software release, I have entirely removes all this old 
code from HamVoIP. It is being replaced by upgraded tools that use hamlib.

So, again DO NOT check the remote base check box on the
www.allstarlink.org website for your node!


73, David KB4FXC



On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, "Tad Danley K3TD via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> Hi Doug, can you clarify the remote base issue please?  I have a simplex
> radio on 927.500 MHz with a Pi 3B on node 29869 and will soon have a simplex
> radio on 446.050 MHz with another Pi 3B on node 29868.  Should I check the
> remote base selection for these nodes or not?
> 
> Thanks and 73,
> 
> Tad Danley, K3TD
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ARM-allstar <arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org> On Behalf Of "Doug
> Crompton via ARM-allstar"
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 12:43 PM
> To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Cc: Doug Crompton <wa3dsp at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] New and connections
> 
> John,
> 
>  First of all I see you are using 6 digit node numbers. This is fine but be
> aware and others be aware that you will NOT be able to connect to or from
> any nodes in the system that either have not updated or are using older
> systems that cannot be updated. This is a significant number of nodes, maybe
> 10% to as much as 20% of nodes out there.
> 
> Another factor is the remote base problem. IN YOUR CASE THIS IS YOUR
> PROBLEM! You are not a remote base and should not have that item checked at
> allstarlink.org  Go there and uncheck that. Make sure it has cleared. This
> is indicated by a 'y' on the end of domain lookup. Here is what yours looks
> like right now -
> 
> # dns-query 513960
> +OK|radio at 192.81.87.244:4569/513960,192.81.87.244,y
> # dns-query 513961
> +OK|radio at 192.81.87.244:4569/513961,192.81.87.244,y
> 
> Do a dns-query at your end once you have removed the checkbox at
> allstarlink.org and things update and you should see no 'y' at the end.
> This should fix your problem.
> 
> This is important for anyone else reading this. In most every case you
> should NOT check remote base at allstarlink.org.  This is a very special
> case and when checked things work very differently. Unfortunately this is
> not explained at the site so people think it is something they should check.
> 
> 
> *73 Doug*
> 
> *WA3DSP*
> 
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:32 PM "John W. Springman III via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> > I am a new person on hamvoip all-star with a pi2.  I have 513960 and 
> > 513961.  Is there a way to see if something is missing.  I have done 
> > the port forwarding.  I can connect out but some do time out but 
> > some.cant connect in also.  I also have echolink on 277377 which 
> > doesn't seem to connect either except maybe out and I have the port 
> > forwarding with that to.  When I use dvswitch app it says unregistered 
> > and I can't seem to get that going either.  When I look at the tx and 
> > Rx section on the app the Rx says 0 bytes and the tx does going up maybe
> to 8 bytes.
> >
> >
> > John Springman
> > KB3AWQ/WQGU515
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
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