[arm-allstar] Kenwood TM-D700A as remote base from app.rpt or Hamlib

[Patrick Perdue]

Hi:

I am about to try setting up my Kenwood TM-D700A as an agile remote 
base. Previously, someone on this list sent me a nice set of scripts 
made for a few radios to control things with Hamlib, which is very 
easily adapted to the TM-D700A. However, doing some more searching, I 
found some old posts suggesting that app.rpt directly supports the 
TM-V700A with it's remote functions, but with possible issues. This 
relates to ASL. So, my questions are:

1. Should I try implementing app.rpt's TM-V700A support, or use Hamlib 
to drive it instead?

2. A common reported issue is that, with old versions of app.rpt, the 
Kenwood would apparently not pass audio until Asterisk was restarted if 
using iaxrpt. I plan to use iaxrpt and other full duplex methods locally 
to use the remote base. Is this still an issue with current HamVoIP 
versions of app.rpt with these radios if using the built-in remote 
functions?

I must say, I like the idea of not relying on the radio's memories and 
programming everything directly using rpt.conf, but not sure if I should 
rely on the built-in functionality or not. This just happens to be one 
of the few radios it supports, as I understand it.

Thanks for any advice.