[arm-allstar] Connect and Disconnect - Tones only without voice announcement

[Travis French]

Good Morning Dave,

I think you nailed it with that last section “another tone or cw when additional nodes connect and disconnect” without having to key and listen for the unkey tone. I am looking to hear the connect and disconnect in real-time without hearing the detail of the connect or disconnect.

Thank you in advance,

Travis – K2PCB


From: Dave Petrie <wa2kjc at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 8:57 AM
To: Travis French <tfrench at pcb.com>
Cc: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Connect and Disconnect - Tones only without voice announcement


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Hi Travis, I think I got it, just to be sure, there is already a way to have a tone or cw when no other node or connection  is connected to your node, and a different tone or cw character when another node is connected, that node can be distant or on the same raspberry, it's a node connected. So that's the first two choices or I should say
status. Then there is the courtesy tone that is sent when a local connect to the node unkeys, normally the repeater receiver or remote or link radio stops receiving signal, that's a tone or cw and then there is a tone or cw for when the connected node unkeys. So you know when at least one other node is connected or no one is connected and you know who just unkeyed, local access or remote linked access.
I have the "do da loop" melody or tone as you might call it when no other nodes are connected, I have three nodes, Allstar 40039, my repeater 5086, my remote base 5000.
I have the rpt.conf set for 5086 to connect to 40039 on boot up. So when i unkey with my HT i get a cw k and when someone from the allstar linking via 40039 or echolink which is also on 40039 node, unkey's I hear a cw L.
I think you would like to have in addition to what I just described, another tone or cw when additional nodes connect and disconnect. If the distant node connects in Monitor mode to your node you won't get any indication by sound, but if you are watching your supermon screen you will see the connect and disconnect. You mentioned email alerts, which is something I haven't tried yet.
Did I get it right so far? Or would you like the lines in rpt.conf to make the changes I just described.
Dave

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 7:54 AM Travis French <tfrench at pcb.com<mailto:tfrench at pcb.com>> wrote:
Good Morning Dave,

I was thinking of that as well to just disable telemetry on the fly but was really hoping for something more permanent and streamlined.

I was envisioning the following:

Any Connect = a very specific high tone or sequence or maybe a morse code "C"
Any Disconnect = a very specific low tone or sequence or maybe a morse code "D"

I was thinking one of these options were already built in.

The other idea I had, as I do something like this on one of my other nodes, was to turn telemetry off, intercept the connect and disconnect logging scripts, and insert a command before logging to make the appropriate tone announcement. This specific script sends an email so it has nothing to do with telemetry. I am just wondering if turning off telemetry would block this announcement. I think this way could be doable and would need to be validated but didn't want to go that route if there was a more simple option.

Still playing.

Thank you in advance,

Travis - K2PCB




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Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Connect and Disconnect - Tones only without voice announcement



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Hi Travis, I am not sure what you mean by tones, courteous unkey tones ? I use cw k when someone on my node unkeys and cw L when someone on a connected link unkeys. I use dtmf to turn telemetry on and off. During nets that I listen to the telemetry gets in the way.
in /etc/asterisk  rpt.conf  i assigned 984 and 986 to cop commands, but you can use whatever is available to you.

[functions<your node>]

984=cop,33 ;telemetry enable ;turn on voice announcements 986=cop,34;telemetry disable ;tunr off voice announcements

So I send *984 to turn on voice and *986 to turn it off.

Hope that helps.
Dave

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 7:10 PM "Travis French via ARM-allstar" < arm-allstar at hamvoip.org<mailto:arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>> wrote:

> Good Morning,
>
> I am sure I am staring right at it but for the life of me, I am not
> finding the option to reduce the connect and disconnect announcements
> to tones only. I believe I have seen this before but can't seem to
> remember where this option resides. I would prefer not to disable
> external telemetry all together let alone reduce it to 1 minute. I am
> just looking to drop the voice portion of the connect and disconnect
> messages and only hear the tones.
>
> This is an option, correct?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Travis - K2PCB
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