[arm-allstar] new allstar parrot node

[Patrick Perdue]

Greetings:

For quite a long while, really, since I started using Allstarlink back 
in September of 2019, I thought it would be cool to have a parrot node 
that not only does the obvious and parrots your audio back to you, but 
also gives you a reasonable idea if your audio level is too high, too 
low, or just about right. To date, I haven't seen anyone do this on 
Allstarlink, though there is a Brandmeister talkgroup (forget what it is 
now) which isn't a parrot, but it will tell you if your audio level is 
good or not with one of several announcements.

There are a couple of Allstar parrot nodes, for example the DVSwitch one 
at 42565. I've never liked it much, though, as the audio that comes back 
from it is pretty choppy, most likely because it's running on a very 
low-end VPS, possibly with some timing issues, so you never know if that 
choppiness is because of your internet connection or something else.

The UK Hubnet parrot (40894) is much more reliable, even for those of us 
who aren't in that part of the world, and, while it is excellent at what 
it does, I wanted to add more functionality to the concept.

So, I've done a version of this, plus audio parrot, for Allstarlink. It 
will first tell you if your audio is very low, low, normal, above normal 
but still reasonable, high, or WO! DUDE! That's way too loud! not 
exactly in those words, and then parrot your audio back to you.

You can find it at node 55553. It's running on a HamVoIP node in Dallas, 
TX. It's on the same Raspberry Pi that is hosting the Blind Hams Dallas 
node at 506315. I figure that putting it in the middle of the country, 
and not on a VPS means that you should get a pretty good idea of 
real-world internet conditions from where you are to that part of the 
world, at the very least, with stable playback from the node.

As this is a version 1.0, and I'm doing some strange stuff to make this 
all function in the first place, there are still some bugs to work out, 
and some small things that I want to change, mostly to make it a little 
cleaner, but for the most part, it does what I want it to do.

Feel free to use it as often as you like. If you notice something 
particularly odd about it's operation, feel free to throw things at me, 
and I'll see what I can do to make things less odd.

73

N2DYI



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73
N2DYI


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