[arm-allstar] Choppy audio

[tony dinkel]

I think I may be having this same effect. Intermittent chopping up of the audio in short bursts, varying in duration and repetitive in occurrence. Sometimes several in a minute, sometimes only one or two every few minutes. For a while I thought it was the Pi overheating and throttling itself but I do not think that is it.

td
wb6mie

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   1. Choppy Audio - don't think it is packet loss (Keynon Lannom)
   2. Re: Choppy Audio - don't think it is packet loss (Steve Agee)


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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 09:19:09 -0500
From: Keynon Lannom <keynon at lannom.net>
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Subject: [arm-allstar] Choppy Audio - don't think it is packet loss
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I am having an issue at times where audio from one node gets very
choppy...can't think of another way to describe it. I thought it was packet
loss - but if I connect to the same node via echolink - I have clear audio.
If I disconnect this node from the primary hub I stay connected to and
connect to say East Coast Reflector - the audio is clear. Disconnect and
reconnect to the hub I use to connect all my other repeaters too and it is
choppy. I can ping from the node to the hub and have zero dropped pings.
What is strange is I can reboot the local node and the issue goes away and
things will be clear again for a few days/weeks and then it starts up again.

Node is a pi4 - 2GB
DMK URI
Currently it is connected wirelessly to my home WiFi - I have thought about
hard wiring it to see if that resolves the issue...just have not got
around to testing it.

Local repeat, etc. all works fine. Any ideas? Would it be a good idea to
set a scheduled reboot job on hamvoip nodes to reboot every few days?

Thanks - Keynon
KB5GLC


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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 14:26:08 -0500
From: Steve Agee <irlp8720 at yahoo.com>
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Choppy Audio - don't think it is packet
        loss
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*Are you only having issues with certain hub(s) you connect to, or
randomly everywhere you connect?

N5ZUA
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On 4/17/2021 9:19 AM, "Keynon Lannom via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> I am having an issue at times where audio from one node gets very
> choppy...can't think of another way to describe it. I thought it was packet
> loss - but if I connect to the same node via echolink - I have clear audio.
> If I disconnect this node from the primary hub I stay connected to and
> connect to say East Coast Reflector - the audio is clear. Disconnect and
> reconnect to the hub I use to connect all my other repeaters too and it is
> choppy. I can ping from the node to the hub and have zero dropped pings.
> What is strange is I can reboot the local node and the issue goes away and
> things will be clear again for a few days/weeks and then it starts up again.
>
> Node is a pi4 - 2GB
> DMK URI
> Currently it is connected wirelessly to my home WiFi - I have thought about
> hard wiring it to see if that resolves the issue...just have not got
> around to testing it.
>
> Local repeat, etc. all works fine. Any ideas? Would it be a good idea to
> set a scheduled reboot job on hamvoip nodes to reboot every few days?
>
> Thanks - Keynon
> KB5GLC
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