<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">holdofftelem=0 ONLY needs to be in place on the node playing the news. The reason for this is that there is no blocking on playing audio files in Asterisk/Allstar. That is you play it and it goes into a buffer and you have no control over knowing when it ends or even canceling it. The playnews script gets around this by carefully timing the segments and using delay (sleep) statements to ensure that nothing gets out of sync, If telemetry (playing of the audio) was held off at any point due to a keyup from anywhere it would screw up the sync. Having holdofftelem=0 avoids this.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Having holdofftelem=0 on a non-radio hub is not an issue as the only audio heard from the hub to remote nodes would be global playback.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br clear="all"></div><div><div class="m_2457194305343664013gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><font size="4">73 Doug<br></font></b></div><b><font size="4">WA3DSP<br></font></b></div><b><font size="4"><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/<wbr>hamradio</a><br></font></b></div></div></div>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:46 AM, "Steve Agee via arm-allstar" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" target="_blank">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</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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    <p>Thanks, Bill. I was wondering if this is one of those seldom used
      features that nobody has actually tried yet, and I happened to be
      the one that found out that it did not work? I tried it between
      the Pi and an ACID node as well as between the Pi and a DIAL node
      with no luck. I made sure the other node was connected before
      invoking the script, and that all nodes had "holdofftelem=0"<br>
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    <p>N5ZUA<br>
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    <div class="m_-5840458059068388168moz-cite-prefix">On 1/20/2018 4:45 AM, "Mr. Possum
      (Bill) via arm-allstar" wrote:<br>
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        <div id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35610">Hi Steve,</div>
        <div id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35547"><br>
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        <div id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35548">I always thought
          that was a "feature" that was to keep it from propagating
          across a wide area network...  But maybe my impressions are
          inaccurate...</div>
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        <div id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35822">Maybe I will
          diddle with that a bit...  and see what difference it makes
          between "localplay" and "playback"...</div>
        <div id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35823"><br>
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        <div id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35855">I've been wrong
          before - my wife keeps reminding me...  (repeatedly...)<br>
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        <div dir="ltr" id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35978">Bill -
          N5MBM<br>
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                  Steve Agee via arm-allstar
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                  <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
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                  <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b>
                  Steve Agee <a class="m_-5840458059068388168moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:irlp8720@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><irlp8720@yahoo.com></a><br>
                  <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
                  Saturday, January 20, 2018 2:36 AM<br>
                  <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
                  Re: [arm-allstar] Playing Newsline on Allstar Pi3<br>
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                  <div id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35980"> OK
                    well not working for me ... only plays on the
                    originating Pi node for some reason.<br clear="none">
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                    N5ZUA<br clear="none">
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                        1/20/2018 2:34 AM, "Doug Crompton via
                        arm-allstar" wrote:<br clear="none">
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                          <div class="m_-5840458059068388168yiv8813101780gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35982">If
                            set to global it will play to ANY connected
                            node including Echolink.</div>
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                                      <div id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35990"><b id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35989"><font id="m_-5840458059068388168yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516420755136_35988" size="4">73 Doug<br clear="none">
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                          <div class="m_-5840458059068388168yiv8813101780gmail_quote">On Sat,
                            Jan 20, 2018 at 2:41 AM, "Steve Agee via
                            arm-allstar" <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" target="_blank">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a>></span>
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                              <div> If I invoke Playnews with either
                                ARRL or ARN with the flag set to global,
                                will it play on other connected ACID or
                                DIAL nodes, or only on other connected
                                Hamvoip nodes?<br clear="none">
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                                N5ZUA<br clear="none">
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                                <div class="m_-5840458059068388168yiv8813101780m_4027634440424739334moz-cite-prefix">On
                                  1/19/2018 9:28 AM, "Robert Prybyzerski
                                  via arm-allstar" wrote:<br clear="none">
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                                <blockquote type="cite"> Mike, I have a
                                  how to of installing a script for
                                  downloading and playing newsline and
                                  Arrl audio news.  The script comes
                                  from the hamvoip website, I just
                                  documented my steps. 
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                                  <div>Bob W2YMM <br clear="none">
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                                    <div id="m_-5840458059068388168yiv8813101780m_4027634440424739334AppleMailSignature">Sent
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                                      <div>Bob W2YMM </div>
                                      <div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect">631-960-1051</a></div>
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                                      On Jan 19, 2018, at 7:48 AM, Mike
                                      Shelby via arm-allstar <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" target="_blank">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a>>
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                                          <div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Since
                                            I am new to Allstar I
                                            figured I'd ask how hard is
                                            it to play Newsline on my
                                            Allstar node for our nets?
                                            Any advice would be greatly
                                            appreciated. <br clear="none">
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                                              Thanks,<br clear="none">
                                              <div>Mike Shelby - K9MLS</div>
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