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

Wed Oct 27 12:40:51 EDT 2021

If you truly don't care who connected or disconnected, and just want 
some indication that it happened, there are a couple of ways to do this.

You can use an event in your events stanza for the node... Too early in 
the morning (in the afternoon) for me to come up with that syntax, but 
maybe someone else can.

You can also script something for the "connpgm" and "discpgm" lines in 
your node's stanza in rpt.conf, or add things to any existing script you 
may have, such as the logger for supermon if you have that set up.

Here is an example of that, using cop to generate tones that will only 
be heard on your local node radio. It will not pass to directly 
connected IAX clients, such as IaxRPT or phones, like normal telemetry. 
In this example, I used three rising tones for a connect, three falling 
tones for a disconnect.

***connpgm.sh***

#!/bin/bash
# play a tone on connect
asterisk -rx "rpt cmd 508420 cop 48 
\!440/50,\!0/50,\!654/50,\!0/50,\!880/50"

***discpgm.sh*** same as above, with the tone sequence reversed
#!/bin/bash
# play a tone on disconnect
asterisk -rx "rpt cmd 508420 cop 48 
\!880/50,\!0/50,\!654/50,\!0/50,\!440/50"

Make these executable, then reference them in rpt.conf as discpgm and 
connpgm lines (commented out in default distributions), or add the 
relevant line to an existing script. Replace 508420 with your node 
number, or use the $NODE1 (or higher if exists) variable as defined in 
/usr/local/etc/allstar.env in place of your node number on the command 
line. NOTE; another argument could be added such that this script is 
properly routed to each node even if it is reverenced by multiple nodes 
on the same system. I just didn't think about that until now.

This will work with telemdefault=0, and really should only be used in 
this configuration. Otherwise, you'll get excessive noise.

I'm aware this is very dirty, and there are better ways to do this. It's 
probably better to use an event instead of going through bash.

On 10/27/2021 10:49 AM, "Travis French via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> 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
>
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> From: Dave Petrie <wa2kjc at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 8:57 AM
> To: Travis French <tfrench at pcb.com>
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> 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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> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:47 PM
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> Cc: Dave Petrie <wa2kjc at gmail.com<mailto:wa2kjc at gmail.com>>
> 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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