[arm-allstar] Strange EchoLink Connection Problem

[ve3rwj at winsystem.org]

Hi.

 

Have any of you ever had a situation where you connect your Hamvoip node to
an EchoLink -L node via a script, and don't hear audio come from the
EchoLink side until you click your PTT once?

 

I oversee my local club's Allstar node.

Each morning, we connect via EchoLink to carry a net. If I connect manually
with *33<Node> everything works fine.

 

If I use a script, copied below, I have the above problem. No audio passes
to us via EchoLink, until someone clicks their mic from our side, waking the
connection up as it were.

We don't get a "connection failed" message on our side, and the EchoLink end
says they can see us connected.

 

Here is my script. It plays a short warning "about to connect" message, then
connects, and also turns off and on a local activity timer with DTMF *A8 and
*A9.

 

All ideas welcome. I'm stumped.

 

#! /bin/bash

 

asterisk -rx "rpt localplay 542490
/etc/asterisk/local/warning_ERC_MorningNet"

sleep 2m

/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 542490 *33993792*a8"

sleep 65m

/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 542490 *13993792*a9"

 

I've tried swapping the order of the connect and timer messages, putting
them on their own lines, adding a short delay between them, etc. That didn't
help, so I went back to combining them on one line.

 

Chris