<div dir="ltr">I channel steer a GM300 with an arduino uno, i trigger a 2n3904 transistor with a logic high from the gpio pin to the base, emitter to ground and collector to the gm300 steering pin, no diodes in line.  <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Ed Wilhelm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vacuumtubesforever@gmail.com" target="_blank">vacuumtubesforever@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div>Just saw the Repeater Builder link.
      None of that stuff exists. Will be going from the rpi gpio to
      probably a ULN2803 and then to the 4 pins on the accessory
      connector.<br>
      <br>
      If nothing is pulled low the radio will operate normally.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
      <br>
      Ed</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
      <br>
      <br>
      On 01/20/2016 10:09 PM, Doug Crompton wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">OK, So am I to assume the external diode BCD
          steering does not exist and the RPi2 just controls the 4 bits
          (or 5) bits straight into the radio? If all are high the front
          panel works?<br>
          <br>
        </font><b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
          </font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
          </font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</a></font></b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
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          <hr>Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:33:27 -0800<br>
          From: <a href="mailto:kg6uyz@gmail.com" target="_blank">kg6uyz@gmail.com</a><br>
          To: <a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" target="_blank">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br>
          Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Remote Base BCD Channel Steering<br>
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            <div>For a GM300 you supply a GND trigger to one or more of
              the 4 channel steering pins.  The pins have to stay
              grounded to stay on the channel you selected, if you
              release the triggers the radio reverts back to whatever
              channel you last manually selected with the channel
              up/down button.<br>
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            Example in this link:   <a href="http://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/maxtrac/remote-channel-select.html" target="_blank">http://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/maxtrac/remote-channel-select.html</a><br>
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            <div>On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:04 PM,
              Doug Crompton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@crompton.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:doug@crompton.com" target="_blank">doug@crompton.com</a>></span>
              wrote:<br>
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                  <div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Ed,<br>
                      <br>
                       OK fine. I can supply an example if you want but
                      I was wondering what they wanted to see. Do you
                      set the four lines BCD and then strobe another pin
                      to load it? That is often the way it is done or
                      maybe it just monitors the lines for them being
                      stable and switches?<br>
                    </font><span><br>
                      <b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
                        </font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
                        </font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</a></font></b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
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                        From: <a href="mailto:vacuumtubesforever@gmail.com" target="_blank">vacuumtubesforever@gmail.com</a><br>
                      </span>Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:44:27 -0500
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                          Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Remote Base BCD
                          Channel Steering<br>
                          <br>
                          <div>Doug,<br>
                            <br>
                            Nothing fancy, just 16 channel stuff. 
                            GM300, Maxtracs, Kenwood 90 series stuff.
                            Just got to yank the lines low. <br>
                            <br>
                            Ed<br>
                            <br>
                            On 1/20/2016 11:14 AM, Doug Crompton wrote:<br>
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                            <div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Ed,<br>
                                <br>
                                 What is the format of the BCD control
                                you are wanting? 16 channels - 0001 -
                                1111 ??</font> <font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"> Does the radio
                                take TTL  levels? Is there a strobe bit
                                once the other bits are setup?</font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
                              </font><br>
                              <b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">73
                                  Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
                                </font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
                                </font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</a></font></b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
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                                <hr>To: <a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" target="_blank">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br>
                                From: <a href="mailto:vacuumtubesforever@gmail.com" target="_blank">vacuumtubesforever@gmail.com</a><br>
                                Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 06:31:55 -0500<br>
                                Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Remote Base
                                BCD Channel Steering<br>
                                <br>
                                <div>Hi Doug,<br>
                                  <br>
                                  Never did get a response. Was trying
                                  to avoid reinventing the wheel.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  Never thought of using the patch
                                  command to do DTMF stuff. Will do some
                                  investigating.<br>
                                  That's the cool thing about
                                  Allstar/Asterisk, if you can think of
                                  something, there's usually a way to do
                                  it.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  All your efforts are really
                                  appreciated.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  Ed W8VT<br>
                                  <br>
                                  On 1/19/2016 9:21 PM, Doug Crompton
                                  wrote:<br>
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                                  <div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Ed,<br>
                                      <br>
                                      In researching I saw you asked the
                                      same question years ago and I did
                                      not see an answer then. Did you
                                      ever get one?<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <a href="http://lists.allstarlink.org/pipermail/app_rpt-users/2013-February/005962.html" target="_blank">http://lists.allstarlink.org/pipermail/app_rpt-users/2013-February/005962.html</a><br>
                                      <br>
                                      Using the GPIO on the Pi to BCD
                                      control a radio would not be hard.
                                      In fact a user has already done
                                      that using function codes and an
                                      external script I wrote to control
                                      the bits. It is in use
                                      commercially.  <br>
                                      <br>
                                      The idea for the future code we
                                      are writing is to get specific
                                      stuff out of the base code and put
                                      it where users can create their
                                      own interfaces to whatever
                                      hardware they want.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      Here are the basics of how I would
                                      do it....<br>
                                      <br>
                                      Use the patch command (with a
                                      different code) to pass DTMF to a
                                      Linux script via an
                                      extensions.conf dial plan.<br>
                                      Then the script would take the
                                      number sent, convert it to BCD or
                                      any other format the radio
                                      requires<br>
                                      and send it to the GPIO bits. Of
                                      course you would have to interface
                                      those bits to the actual hardware.<br>
                                    </font><br>
                                    <font face="Tahoma,sans-serif">If
                                      you needed to pass a code to a
                                      remote node you would use the
                                      standard codes to pass the command
                                      to the remote nodes dial plan.</font><br>
                                    <br>
                                    <b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
                                      </font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
                                      </font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</a></font></b><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
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                                      > From: <a href="mailto:vacuumtubesforever@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:vacuumtubesforever@gmail.com" target="_blank">vacuumtubesforever@gmail.com</a><br>
                                      > Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016
                                      20:04:16 -0500<br>
                                      > Subject: [arm-allstar] Remote
                                      Base BCD Channel Steering<br>
                                      > <br>
                                      > Is this supported with the
                                      current image? If so, anyone know
                                      the <br>
                                      > details, what gpio pins, etc?<br>
                                      > <br>
                                      > Tnx<br>
                                      > <br>
                                      > Ed W8VT<br>
                                      > Beckley WV<br>
                                      > Nodes 27849, 29496, 29982<br>
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