[arm-allstar] Autosky announcment drops PTT?

[David McGough]

I think that strategy should work.....




On Sat, 30 Apr 2022, "Nate Bargmann via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> * On 2022 30 Apr 20:06 -0500, David McGough wrote:
> 
> Hi David.
> 
> > How long do you have the node hangtime parameter set?? ...Very short, I'm
> > guessing?
> 
> Both hangtime and althangtime are set to 100 mS.
> 
> > If you need to keep the typical hangtime short, you could use the 
> > althangtime parameter, set to perhaps a couple seconds (2000)??
> > 
> > Then, enable the althangtime usage with COP,19.  When done with the 
> > announcements, re-enable the "normal" hangtime with COP,20.
> 
> This looks doable.  I need to keep hangtime short as the node is
> connected to the link port of the controller with duplex set to 1.
> 
> Otherwise I was set to start making some changes to the AutoSky script
> where it sleeps between the "Updated weather information" and the tail
> announcements.
> 
> I presume that since the AutoSky script controls the announcements that
> calling the COP macros will need to be added to that script, i.e.
> something on the order of:
> 
> /usr/bin/asterisk -rx "rpt cmd $Ni cop 19"
> .
> . Present code to play the announcements
> .
> /usr/bin/asterisk -rx "rpt cmd $Ni cop 20"
> 
> As that code block includes the "/bin/sleep 3" line, I can set
> althangtime to something like 3300 to provide enough PTT key time.
> 
> Off to test!
> 
> 73, Nate
> 
>