[arm-allstar] Strange EchoLink Connection Problem

[David McGough]

Chris,

Not sure what's happening, I haven't heard other reports of this?
I would be worth trying splitting the linking command into to parts---not 
sure that this will change anything, but something to try:

/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 542490 *33993792"
sleep 5
/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 542490 *a8"


73, David K4FXC


On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, Chris via ARM-allstar wrote:

> 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.
> 
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> 
> #! /bin/bash
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> 
> 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
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