[arm-allstar] Feature request: Mute DTMF after * received

[Dave Petrie]

Consider muting any dtmf tone, i often hear clear tones using iaxrpt on my
laptop into my node for control and sometimes
the star isn't selected on the iaxrpt keypad, just thinking that if someone
isn't using the star to command, which is a choice
in rpt.conf, then you really want all dtmf tones muted. There are lines in
the rpt.conf but I haven't played.
I am still trying to figure out why I am getting a clicking noise on the
sound card output to my repeater transmitter.
I am sure David will jump in here soon with a suggestion or comment.
Dave

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 9:04 AM "Steve Matzura via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> I've wanted this ever since I entered the Allstar ecosystem and was
> quite surprised to find out that it didn't already work this way. In the
> days of autopatch ubiquity and general DTMF control, as soon as the
> attention tone was received by a repeater, audio was cut to the
> transmiter until received carrier was dropped. Now, with networking, as
> soon as the attention tone (in this case, the "*") is received, the
> sending node should drop its network transmission until the RF carrier
> at the head end sending the tone sequence drops. Yes, it would mean that
> the sender can't talk after sending a DTMF sequence, as in the case of
> using local parrot or enabling or disabling something on the local node
> (like NOICE, NOICD, etc.) since the node had dropped its network
> transmission, but I don't see that as a bad consequence. Hear the star,
> end transmission. Problem goes away.
>
>
> On 2/22/2022 10:05 PM, "Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > On my system, lots of folks are using DTMF to control their nodes.
> > This is fine, but sometimes, it can be a real pain during nets when
> > someone tries to disconnect between transmissions, slowly dialing the
> > sequence, getting it wrong, trying again, etc. With almost all nodes
> > on the system being simplex, and with many digital modes connected,
> > this can really slow things down. Aside from having everyone use other
> > methods, such as fast auto-dialers, Node Remote, CLI etc. would it at
> > all be possible to mimic the behavior of echolink and some other
> > systems, in which audio transmission to the network stops after the *
> > character is received by simpleusb, but still allow in-band data to be
> > processed in the normal way? My semi-education suggests that this
> > would need to be done at the module level, if it can even be done at all.
> >
> > I, personally, never issue DTMF commands during nets, either using
> > Node Remote on my phone or some other method to silently control my
> > node. Not everyone can do this.
> >
> > Thanks and 73
> >
> > N2DYI
> >
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