[arm-allstar] FW: New Guided Parrot Allstarlink Node 55553

[Michael Webb]

That's great!  Thanks!

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 11:31 AM "Chris via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> The following is forwarded from Patrick Purdue, N2DYI.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Greetings:
>
> 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
> repeats 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. I've now done a
> version of this for Allstarlink. You can find it at node 55553. 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.
>
> It's running on a HamVoIP node in Dallas, TX. Putting it in the middle of
> theUS, 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.
>
> Feel free to use it as often as you like. If you notice something
> particularly odd about it's operation, or have any feedback about it, email
> me at borrisinabox at gmail.com, and I'll see what I can do to make things
> less odd.
>
> This is 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. For the
> curious, it is measuring average loudness (dBRMS) not peaks, and the
> feedback you receive is based on the following ranges:
>
> -inf to -60: assumes no audio
> -59 to -39: very low
> -38 to -33: low
> -32 to -25: average
> -24 to -21: above average, still acceptable
> -20 to -18: high
> greater than -17, TURN IT DOWN!
>
>
> 73
>
> N2DYI
>
>
>
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