[arm-allstar] localplay/playback

[Dusty Smith]

Ok that was really my understanding too but just wasn’t certain of it. I will see about syncing it up between the nodes and doing localplay. Thanks. And if anyone else may have some comments or suggestions I’m open to more info or ways to do such tasks as well.


Dusty Smith
—W4MSI—

From: Robert Forest <73dek4vl at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 5:20 PM
To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
Cc: Dusty Smith <w4msi at outlook.com>
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] localplay/playback

It appears to me that global means global and everyone connected would hear it. I would set the same message to play on each node. Amber you could sync them to play at the same time.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 3:03 PM Dusty Smith via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org<mailto:arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>> wrote:
Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to properly setup some announcements. Originally I had one node (my vhf repeater) and I just used the localplay command with my node number and would play announcements that way. Worked great. I have now added a second node (my UHF repeater). The second is hosted at a different / remote location on it's own raspberry pi. Currently I have tested and it's working, using the playback command instead of localplay. It goes out "globally" to both my nodes (I have my vhf and uhf linked together). My concern is this....if one of my systems happens to be connected to some other remote node at the time the announcement queues up to play, will this command cause it to play the announcement in a truly global fashion, out to ALL connected nodes?

For instance, my systems (we'll call them VHF and UHF)...... if VHF is connected to UHF and then a user has connected VHF to the east coast reflector for example....then both my repeaters VHF and UHF are communicating on the reflector as well. The VHF decides to play an announcement with playback command....will everyone connected to the reflector also hear my message or will it just play to "MY NODES?"

If that will cause it to play out to the reflector as well....what would be the proper configuration to not have that happen and have it only play on my personal nodes? My thought would be to setup two entries in my script....one with localplay xxxxx node1    and another with localplay xxxxx node2 and just play them "separately" like that. Regardless, someone with more information please advise, the help will be much appreciated!!!


Dusty Smith
-W4MSI-

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