I remember past discussions on this, but I don’t know what the best way to do it is. Does anybody here have a good solution for airing AR newsline / do you have the code to download it, play it etc.?
The repeater someone asked the possibility of airing news-line does have a hardware timeout timer, so AllStar would have to somehow manually un-key every few minutes and then continue playing.
I wrote a script to do this with proper timing etc. Currently it is setup for ARRLnews, which I prefer, but can easily be changed for ARN. Examples in the script as well as comments on use. This is a link on hamvoip.org how-to’s Direct link -
http://hamvoip.org/downloads/ARRL-News-for-Allstar.zip
Note this will NOT work on Acid. Too many old SW versions. I suspect it could be made to work but you would probably have to download and compile a later version of sox and possibly lame. It works fine on the RPi2 and Odroid which is where I use it.
I run this script weekly with a cron to play ARRL news on my hub.
73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 07:28:30 -0600
From: electricity440@gmail.com
To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: [App_rpt-users] ARnewsline over repeater
I remember past discussions on this, but I don’t know what the best way to do it is. Does anybody here have a good solution for airing AR newsline / do you have the code to download it, play it etc.?
The repeater someone asked the possibility of airing news-line does have a hardware timeout timer, so AllStar would have to somehow manually un-key every few minutes and then continue playing.
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Thanks Doug and Kennith. The repeater requested to have AR newsline is rasberry pi. It also has echolink. I will try both.
What intervals does the Echolink newsline let the repeater reset?
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:27 AM, kenneth Grimard n1dot1@gmail.com wrote:
hi skyler
if you have echolink on your system. you can use the *NEWSLINE*conference on echolink.
it has been there for years and it has pauses in for links andrepeaters.
it is provided by skip wb6myh also. it is also available via irlpexp0016 experimental reflector also.
ken n1dotOn 8/21/2015 9:28 AM, Skyler F wrote:
I remember past discussions on this, but I don'tknow what the best way to do it is. Does anybody here have a
good solution for airing AR newsline / do you have the code to
download it, play it etc.?
The repeater someone asked the possibility of airingnews-line does have a hardware timeout timer, so AllStar would
have to somehow manually un-key every few minutes and then
continue playing.
–
Skyler Fennell
amsatnet.info
KDØWHB
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it does it at about 2 1/2 minute intervals skyler.
ken n1dot
On 8/21/2015 12:08 PM, Skyler F wrote:
Thanks Doug and Kennith. The repeater requested tohave AR newsline is rasberry pi. It also has echolink. I will
try both.
What intervals does the Echolink newsline let the repeaterreset?
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:27 AM,kenneth Grimard n1dot1@gmail.com
wrote:hi skyler
if you have echolink on your system. you can use theNEWSLINE conference on echolink.
it has been there for years and it has pauses in for linksand repeaters.
it is provided by skip wb6myh also. it is also availablevia irlp exp0016 experimental reflector also.
ken n1dotOn 8/21/2015 9:28 AM, Skyler F wrote:
I remember past discussions on this,but I don’t know what the best way to do it is.
Does anybody here have a good solution for airing
AR newsline / do you have the code to download it,
play it etc.?
The repeater someone asked the possibility ofairing news-line does have a hardware timeout
timer, so AllStar would have to somehow manually
un-key every few minutes and then continue
playing.
–
Skyler
Fennell
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Yes, as mentioned it divides the downloaded file into 2.5 minute segments and adds a pause message. The next segment is backed up about 10 seconds for continuity.
While the echolink method would work it would suffer from the typical echolink audio quality and also possible connection problems. I would avoid putting echolink audio on Allstar if at all possible.
73 Doug
WA3DSP
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 10:08:52 -0600
From: electricity440@gmail.com
To: n1dot1@gmail.com; app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] ARnewsline over repeater
Thanks Doug and Kennith. The repeater requested to have AR newsline is rasberry pi. It also has echolink. I will try both.
What intervals does the Echolink newsline let the repeater reset?
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:27 AM, kenneth Grimard n1dot1@gmail.com wrote:
hi skyler
if you have echolink on your system. you can use the *NEWSLINE*conference on echolink.
it has been there for years and it has pauses in for links andrepeaters.
it is provided by skip wb6myh also. it is also available via irlpexp0016 experimental reflector also.
ken n1dotOn 8/21/2015 9:28 AM, Skyler F wrote:
I remember past discussions on this, but I don'tknow what the best way to do it is. Does anybody here have a
good solution for airing AR newsline / do you have the code to
download it, play it etc.?
The repeater someone asked the possibility of airingnews-line does have a hardware timeout timer, so AllStar would
have to somehow manually un-key every few minutes and then
continue playing.
–
Skyler Fennell
amsatnet.info
KDØWHB
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One other note about running the script. You should have holdofftelem=0 on the node it is run on in rpt.conf
The reason is that timing is precise in the script. It sends a portion of the file to Allstar then waits the expected amount of time it takes to play that file. If someone keys up just before the file or one of the messages is suppose to start it would delay the start but the scripts internal timing would not know that.
If you normally run holdofftelem=1 you could run the script on a pseudo node by itself connected to the radio node with the parms setup properly for that node.
73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
***deletia***
Note this will NOT work on Acid. Too many old SW versions. I suspect it could be made to work but you would probably have to download and compile a later version of sox and possibly lame. It works fine on the RPi2 and Odroid which is where I use it.
Update to the latest version of sox to get the soxi executable, and the
latest version of lame, and it works just fine on my admittedly older
version (about 6 mos out) of ACID asterisk.
Nice work, doug. Like the way it splits the files.
Running it as a test on my 27294 node to debug; will move to my PI node.
BB
WB0YLE
On 8/21/2015 10:55 AM, Doug Crompton wrote:
Brandon could you elaborate on this? I tried it on a BBB and it failed miserably. Although my RF hub node is acid. I’d be very interested in this!
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