[arm-allstar] Radioless hub telemetry

[Patrick Perdue]

To my knowledge, nothing you can change on an ASL pseudo node will stop 
voiced telemetry from being sent out to nodes, including repeaters, 
connected to the hub. That's up to the individual nodes. HamVoIP as a 
dahdi/pseudo hub has this ability, at least in pre-release code. Here's 
hoping for that x86 release so we can one day run HamVoIP on VPSs.

The only thing you can really do if using ASL as a hub is suppress 
telemetry on the connected repeaters and nodes themselves.

telemdefault=0 on the repeater side, not the hub, should suppress that 
nicely. telemdefault=2 is a reasonable choice for a repeater in most 
cases, since you get telemetry for a couple of minutes after issuing a 
command from the node-side, then it goes silent, unless someone issues 
one of the status commands, ilink 5 or ilink 15, which can get really 
annoying really fast. I've seen this on networks with over 100 nodes 
connected.

You could try connecting your repeater(s) to the hub through USRP 
instead of IAX, which won't pass telemetry, using something like 
Analog_Reflector from DVSwitch, but that has it's own set of complications.


On 11/19/2021 1:54 PM, "Jeff Karpinski via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> Apologies in advance for talking about AllStarLink but I'm hoping some of you have crossed this bridge before.
>
> We've got a VPS based hub node, (running AllStarLink, obviously) that's used to aggregate connections from our repeaters. We also allow members to link their own personal nodes to the hub. Majority of the members (and repeaters) are running HamVoIP with zero issues.
>
> Problem is, for the life of me, I cannot get the hub to shut up. It voice announces every single connect and disconnect into it back out to all nodes. As AllStar's popularity has grown in the club, the number of nodes has exploded and it's hugely annoying to the repeater users hearing connect / disconnect messages constantly.
>
> Soo, anyone been down this path before? Here's the pertinent bits from the hub rpt.conf. I could also post the whole damn thing to pasebin if it helps.
>
> duplex = 2
> linktolink = no
> hangtime = 0
> althangtime = 0
> telemdefault = 0
> holdofftelem = 1
> telemdefault = 0
> telemdynamic = 0
> nounkeyct = 1
> ; idrecording = |ie
> ; idtalkover = |ie
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