Asterisk and Echolink no direct connected radio

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Fellow Hams and PBX tinkerer’s

I want to provide a auto-patch and a repeater dial-in for our club repeater using my existing home Asterisk PBX in a Flash setup.

Our club repeater is connected to Echolink so I was thinking about creating a Echolink node on my server that users could link to then I would allow an outbound call.

On the reverse I would like to provide a repeater dial-in number that would route through my Asterisk server to our club’s node via Echolink. Keeping in mind at no time does my Asterisk server actually communicates with a radio directly it is just acting as a Echolink gateway.

I have been experimenting with ACID but it appears the radio/usb driver is preventing Asterisk from loading without a actual usb radio connected. If I noload=chan_usbradio in the modules.conf file then Asterisk appears to load but I am still having problems with refrence to it in my rpt.config file.

I have been able to configure a Echolink connection but I cant send audio to the connected node when the remote station connects but the Asterisk debug indicates it is.

Does anybody have a working Echolink node that they would like to share their iax,echolink,rpt and extensions config file with me.

Thanks for your help.

73

Todd Birkenholtz W0IOU

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Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Fellow Hams and PBX tinkerer's
I want to provide a auto-patch and a repeater dial-in for our club repeater using my existing home Asterisk PBX in a Flash setup.
Our club repeater is connected to Echolink so I was thinking about creating a Echolink node on my server that users could link to then I would allow an outbound call.
On the reverse I would like to provide a repeater dial-in number that would route through my Asterisk server to our club's node via Echolink. Keeping in mind at no time does my Asterisk server actually communicates with a radio directly it is just acting as a Echolink gateway.
I have been experimenting with ACID but it appears the radio/usb driver is preventing Asterisk from loading without a actual usb radio connected. If I noload=chan_usbradio in the modules.conf file then Asterisk appears to load but I am still having problems with refrence to it in my rpt.config file.
I have been able to configure a Echolink connection but I cant send audio to the connected node when the remote station connects but the Asterisk debug indicates it is. Does anybody have a working Echolink node that they would like to share their iax,echolink,rpt and extensions config file with me.

Todd,
Set rxchannel = Zap/pseudo in place chan_usb in rpt.conf You will not need the hardware.

73, Steve N4IRS

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Thanks Jim I will change my rpt.conf to rxchannel = Zap/pseudo

Any Idea on why no audio in my inbound Echolink connections?

My echolink inbound connection looks like this.

In extensions.conf

[radio-secure]
exten => 2345,1,Answer
exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)
exten => 2345,n,Hangup

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd
– Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer(“echolink/el0-12”, “”) in new stack

-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback("echolink/el0-12", "tt-weasels|skip") in new stack
-- <echolink/el0-12> Playing 'tt-weasels' (language '')
-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack

== Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on ‘echolink/el0-12’

Thanks

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On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Steve Zingman szingman@msgstor.com wrote:

Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Fellow Hams and PBX tinkerer’s

I want to provide a auto-patch and a repeater dial-in for our club
repeater using my existing home Asterisk PBX in a Flash setup.

Our club repeater is connected to Echolink so I was thinking about
creating a Echolink node on my server that users could link to then I
would allow an outbound call.
On the reverse I would like to provide a repeater dial-in number that

would route through my Asterisk server to our club’s node via
Echolink. Keeping in mind at no time does my Asterisk server actually
communicates with a radio directly it is just acting as a Echolink

gateway.

I have been experimenting with ACID but it appears the radio/usb
driver is preventing Asterisk from loading without a actual usb radio
connected. If I noload=chan_usbradio in the modules.conf file then

Asterisk appears to load but I am still having problems with refrence
to it in my rpt.config file.

I have been able to configure a Echolink connection but I
cant send audio to the connected node when the remote station connects

but the Asterisk debug indicates it is.
Does anybody have a working Echolink node that they would like to
share their iax,echolink,rpt and extensions config file with me.

Todd,
Set rxchannel = Zap/pseudo in place chan_usb in rpt.conf You will not
need the hardware.

73, Steve N4IRS

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If your node is behind a firewall, it sounds like you don't have ports 5198 and 5199 udp forwarded into your node. If your node sits out on a public IP, make sure your upstream ISP doesn't filter on those ports.

Jim / K6JWN

···

On Aug 14, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Thanks Jim I will change my rpt.conf to rxchannel = Zap/pseudo

Any Idea on why no audio in my inbound Echolink connections?

My echolink inbound connection looks like this.

In extensions.conf

[radio-secure]
exten => 2345,1,Answer
exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)
exten => 2345,n,Hangup

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd
    -- Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack
    -- Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback("echolink/el0-12", "tt-weasels|skip") in new stack
    -- <echolink/el0-12> Playing 'tt-weasels' (language '')
    -- Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack
  == Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on 'echolink/el0-12'

Thanks

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Steve Zingman > <szingman@msgstor.com> wrote:
Todd Birkenholtz wrote:
> Fellow Hams and PBX tinkerer's
>
> I want to provide a auto-patch and a repeater dial-in for our club
> repeater using my existing home Asterisk PBX in a Flash setup.
> Our club repeater is connected to Echolink so I was thinking about
> creating a Echolink node on my server that users could link to then I
> would allow an outbound call.
> On the reverse I would like to provide a repeater dial-in number that
> would route through my Asterisk server to our club's node via
> Echolink. Keeping in mind at no time does my Asterisk server actually
> communicates with a radio directly it is just acting as a Echolink
> gateway.
>
> I have been experimenting with ACID but it appears the radio/usb
> driver is preventing Asterisk from loading without a actual usb radio
> connected. If I noload=chan_usbradio in the modules.conf file then
> Asterisk appears to load but I am still having problems with refrence
> to it in my rpt.config file.
>
> I have been able to configure a Echolink connection but I
> cant send audio to the connected node when the remote station connects
> but the Asterisk debug indicates it is.
> Does anybody have a working Echolink node that they would like to
> share their iax,echolink,rpt and extensions config file with me.
>
Todd,
Set rxchannel = Zap/pseudo in place chan_usb in rpt.conf You will not
need the hardware.

73, Steve N4IRS
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Thanks James.

Unfortunately this is not the case. I have verified both UDP ports are sent from my router to my internal server 192.168.2.110.
I also have run the windows Echolink and ran the test firewall function and I can verify my ISP does not filter the ports.

The following is a tcpdump of the inbound connection to my Asterisk box on a connect to verify the conversation makes it to my Asterisk box.

[root@test ~]# tcpdump host 204.13.148.174
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode

listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
14:37:49.056574 IP 204.13.148.174.5199 > 192.168.2.110.5199: UDP, length 96
14:37:49.056869 IP 204.13.148.174.5198 > 192.168.2.110.5198: UDP, length 36

14:37:49.057182 IP 192.168.2.110.5198 > 204.13.148.174.5198: UDP, length 74
14:37:49.057785 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 76
14:37:49.585296 IP 204.13.148.174.5199 > 192.168.2.110.5199: UDP, length 96

14:37:49.585602 IP 204.13.148.174.5198 > 192.168.2.110.5198: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637508 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637515 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637521 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637526 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637532 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637537 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637542 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637547 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637552 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637558 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637563 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637568 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637573 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637578 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637583 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637588 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637592 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637597 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637602 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637607 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

Thanks again… I really appreciate the help

Todd

···

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, James Nessen nessenj@jimsoffice.org wrote:

If your node is behind a firewall, it sounds like you don’t have ports 5198 and 5199 udp forwarded into your node. If your node sits out on a public IP, make sure your upstream ISP doesn’t filter on those ports.

Jim / K6JWN

On Aug 14, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Thanks Jim I will change my rpt.conf to rxchannel = Zap/pseudo

Any Idea on why no audio in my inbound Echolink connections?

My echolink inbound connection looks like this.

In extensions.conf

[radio-secure]

exten => 2345,1,Answer

exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)

exten => 2345,n,Hangup

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd

-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack

-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback("echolink/el0-12", "tt-weasels|skip") in new stack

-- <echolink/el0-12> Playing 'tt-weasels' (language '')

-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack

== Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on ‘echolink/el0-12’

Thanks

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Steve Zingman szingman@msgstor.com wrote:

Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Fellow Hams and PBX tinkerer’s

I want to provide a auto-patch and a repeater dial-in for our club

repeater using my existing home Asterisk PBX in a Flash setup.

Our club repeater is connected to Echolink so I was thinking about

creating a Echolink node on my server that users could link to then I

would allow an outbound call.

On the reverse I would like to provide a repeater dial-in number that

would route through my Asterisk server to our club’s node via

Echolink. Keeping in mind at no time does my Asterisk server actually

communicates with a radio directly it is just acting as a Echolink

gateway.

I have been experimenting with ACID but it appears the radio/usb

driver is preventing Asterisk from loading without a actual usb radio

connected. If I noload=chan_usbradio in the modules.conf file then

Asterisk appears to load but I am still having problems with refrence

to it in my rpt.config file.

I have been able to configure a Echolink connection but I

cant send audio to the connected node when the remote station connects

but the Asterisk debug indicates it is.

Does anybody have a working Echolink node that they would like to

share their iax,echolink,rpt and extensions config file with me.

Todd,

Set rxchannel = Zap/pseudo in place chan_usb in rpt.conf You will not

need the hardware.

73, Steve N4IRS

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What does your echolink.conf file look like??

(please remember to omit your echolink password)

Jim

···

On Aug 14, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Thanks James.

Unfortunately this is not the case. I have verified both UDP ports are sent from my router to my internal server 192.168.2.110.
I also have run the windows Echolink and ran the test firewall function and I can verify my ISP does not filter the ports.

The following is a tcpdump of the inbound connection to my Asterisk box on a connect to verify the conversation makes it to my Asterisk box.

[root@test ~]# tcpdump host 204.13.148.174
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
14:37:49.056574 IP 204.13.148.174.5199 > 192.168.2.110.5199: UDP, length 96
14:37:49.056869 IP 204.13.148.174.5198 > 192.168.2.110.5198: UDP, length 36
14:37:49.057182 IP 192.168.2.110.5198 > 204.13.148.174.5198: UDP, length 74
14:37:49.057785 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 76
14:37:49.585296 IP 204.13.148.174.5199 > 192.168.2.110.5199: UDP, length 96
14:37:49.585602 IP 204.13.148.174.5198 > 192.168.2.110.5198: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637508 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637515 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637521 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637526 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637532 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637537 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637542 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637547 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637552 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637558 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637563 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637568 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637573 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637578 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637583 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637588 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637592 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637597 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637602 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637607 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

Thanks again.. I really appreciate the help

Todd

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, James Nessen > <nessenj@jimsoffice.org> wrote:
If your node is behind a firewall, it sounds like you don't have ports 5198 and 5199 udp forwarded into your node. If your node sits out on a public IP, make sure your upstream ISP doesn't filter on those ports.

Jim / K6JWN

On Aug 14, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Thanks Jim I will change my rpt.conf to rxchannel = Zap/pseudo

Any Idea on why no audio in my inbound Echolink connections?

My echolink inbound connection looks like this.

In extensions.conf

[radio-secure]
exten => 2345,1,Answer
exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)
exten => 2345,n,Hangup

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd
   -- Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack
   -- Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback("echolink/el0-12", "tt-weasels|skip") in new stack
   -- <echolink/el0-12> Playing 'tt-weasels' (language '')
   -- Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack
== Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on 'echolink/el0-12'

Thanks

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Steve Zingman > <szingman@msgstor.com> wrote:
Todd Birkenholtz wrote:
> Fellow Hams and PBX tinkerer's
>
> I want to provide a auto-patch and a repeater dial-in for our club
> repeater using my existing home Asterisk PBX in a Flash setup.
> Our club repeater is connected to Echolink so I was thinking about
> creating a Echolink node on my server that users could link to then I
> would allow an outbound call.
> On the reverse I would like to provide a repeater dial-in number that
> would route through my Asterisk server to our club's node via
> Echolink. Keeping in mind at no time does my Asterisk server actually
> communicates with a radio directly it is just acting as a Echolink
> gateway.
>
> I have been experimenting with ACID but it appears the radio/usb
> driver is preventing Asterisk from loading without a actual usb radio
> connected. If I noload=chan_usbradio in the modules.conf file then
> Asterisk appears to load but I am still having problems with refrence
> to it in my rpt.config file.
>
> I have been able to configure a Echolink connection but I
> cant send audio to the connected node when the remote station connects
> but the Asterisk debug indicates it is.
> Does anybody have a working Echolink node that they would like to
> share their iax,echolink,rpt and extensions config file with me.
>
Todd,
Set rxchannel = Zap/pseudo in place chan_usb in rpt.conf You will not
need the hardware.

73, Steve N4IRS
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I have also changed the gain and currently it is committed out

am not sure of the version of chan_echolink and app_rpt ( how do you tell ) but this is a fresh copy of Acid downloaded this week

also what is the node??? is it my Echolink node # if it is then I have tried it as well

[el0]
confmode=no
call=W0IOU-R ; Change this!
pwd=mypassword; Change this!
name=TEST Testing Asterisk-EL-channel-driver ; Change this to your real name!
qth=TESTING ; Change this to your actual QTH!

email=myemail@gmail.com; Change this!
maxstns=20
rtcptimeout=10
node=123456 ; Change this!
recfile=/tmp/recorded.gsm
astnode=2345 ; Change this to your active Allstar node number!

context=radio-secure
server1=server1.echolink.org
server2=server2.echolink.org
server3=server3.echolink.org

;erxgain=10.0 ; defaults to -3.0 db
;etxgain=10.0 ; defaults to 3.0 db.

···

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:21 PM, James Nessen nessenj@jimsoffice.org wrote:

What does your echolink.conf file look like??

(please remember to omit your echolink password)

Jim

On Aug 14, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Thanks James.

Unfortunately this is not the case. I have verified both UDP ports are sent from my router to my internal server 192.168.2.110.

I also have run the windows Echolink and ran the test firewall function and I can verify my ISP does not filter the ports.

The following is a tcpdump of the inbound connection to my Asterisk box on a connect to verify the conversation makes it to my Asterisk box.

[root@test ~]# tcpdump host 204.13.148.174
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
14:37:49.056574 IP 204.13.148.174.5199 > 192.168.2.110.5199: UDP, length 96

14:37:49.056869 IP 204.13.148.174.5198 > 192.168.2.110.5198: UDP, length 36
14:37:49.057182 IP 192.168.2.110.5198 > 204.13.148.174.5198: UDP, length 74
14:37:49.057785 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 76

14:37:49.585296 IP 204.13.148.174.5199 > 192.168.2.110.5199: UDP, length 96
14:37:49.585602 IP 204.13.148.174.5198 > 192.168.2.110.5198: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637508 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637515 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637521 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637526 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637532 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637537 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637542 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637547 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637552 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637558 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637563 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637568 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637573 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637578 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637583 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637588 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637592 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637597 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36
14:37:51.637602 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

14:37:51.637607 IP 192.168.2.110.5199 > 204.13.148.174.5199: UDP, length 36

Thanks again… I really appreciate the help

Todd

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, James Nessen nessenj@jimsoffice.org wrote:

If your node is behind a firewall, it sounds like you don’t have ports 5198 and 5199 udp forwarded into your node. If your node sits out on a public IP, make sure your upstream ISP doesn’t filter on those ports.

Jim / K6JWN

On Aug 14, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Thanks Jim I will change my rpt.conf to rxchannel = Zap/pseudo

Any Idea on why no audio in my inbound Echolink connections?

My echolink inbound connection looks like this.

In extensions.conf

[radio-secure]
exten => 2345,1,Answer
exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)
exten => 2345,n,Hangup

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd

– Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer(“echolink/el0-12”, “”) in new stack
– Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback(“echolink/el0-12”, “tt-weasels|skip”) in new stack

– <echolink/el0-12> Playing ‘tt-weasels’ (language ‘’)
– Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup(“echolink/el0-12”, “”) in new stack
== Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on ‘echolink/el0-12’

Thanks

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Steve Zingman szingman@msgstor.com wrote:
Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Fellow Hams and PBX tinkerer’s

I want to provide a auto-patch and a repeater dial-in for our club
repeater using my existing home Asterisk PBX in a Flash setup.
Our club repeater is connected to Echolink so I was thinking about

creating a Echolink node on my server that users could link to then I
would allow an outbound call.
On the reverse I would like to provide a repeater dial-in number that
would route through my Asterisk server to our club’s node via

Echolink. Keeping in mind at no time does my Asterisk server actually
communicates with a radio directly it is just acting as a Echolink
gateway.

I have been experimenting with ACID but it appears the radio/usb

driver is preventing Asterisk from loading without a actual usb radio
connected. If I noload=chan_usbradio in the modules.conf file then
Asterisk appears to load but I am still having problems with refrence

to it in my rpt.config file.

I have been able to configure a Echolink connection but I
cant send audio to the connected node when the remote station connects
but the Asterisk debug indicates it is.

Does anybody have a working Echolink node that they would like to
share their iax,echolink,rpt and extensions config file with me.

Todd,
Set rxchannel = Zap/pseudo in place chan_usb in rpt.conf You will not

need the hardware.

73, Steve N4IRS

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my untrained asterisk eye leads me to believe that your issue lies here:

[radio-secure]
exten => 2345,1,Answer
exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)
exten => 2345,n,Hangup

This tells me to answer, playback a sound and then hang up the connection, and your log confirms this:

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd

-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack
-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback("echolink/el0-12", "tt-weasels|skip") in new stack

-- <echolink/el0-12> Playing 'tt-weasels' (language '')
-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack

== Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on ‘echolink/el0-12’

I am running things the old way, but the ACID manual should cover you here as well:

[el0]

confmode=no

call=WU7Q-R

pwd=password

name=WU7Q-Repeater

qth=Sacramento-CA

email=email-addr

maxstns=20

rtcptimeout=10

node=3590

recfile=/tmp/recorded.gsm

astnode=2194

context=echolink-in

server1=server1.echolink.org

server2=server2.echolink.org

server3=server3.echolink.org

extensions.conf

[echolink-in]

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3001083,1,hangup

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3021507,1,hangup

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3111234,1,hangup

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3208345,1,hangup

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3066432,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3009875,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3083598,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3127901,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3009865,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3214691,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3302333,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3005539,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/_3XXXXXX,1,hangup

This was the old way to do access control on echolink nodes, this particular setup only allows connections from known users and then disconnects everyone else. Again, not the preferred method (see the ACID manual), but it works for us.

Jim, K6JWN

···

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Todd Birkenholtz birkey@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks Jim I will change my rpt.conf to rxchannel = Zap/pseudo

Any Idea on why no audio in my inbound Echolink connections?

My echolink inbound connection looks like this.

In extensions.conf

[radio-secure]
exten => 2345,1,Answer
exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)
exten => 2345,n,Hangup

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd
– Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer(“echolink/el0-12”, “”) in new stack

-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback("echolink/el0-12", "tt-weasels|skip") in new stack
-- <echolink/el0-12> Playing 'tt-weasels' (language '')
-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack

== Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on ‘echolink/el0-12’

Thanks

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Steve Zingman szingman@msgstor.com wrote:

Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Fellow Hams and PBX tinkerer’s

I want to provide a auto-patch and a repeater dial-in for our club
repeater using my existing home Asterisk PBX in a Flash setup.

Our club repeater is connected to Echolink so I was thinking about
creating a Echolink node on my server that users could link to then I
would allow an outbound call.
On the reverse I would like to provide a repeater dial-in number that

would route through my Asterisk server to our club’s node via
Echolink. Keeping in mind at no time does my Asterisk server actually
communicates with a radio directly it is just acting as a Echolink

gateway.

I have been experimenting with ACID but it appears the radio/usb
driver is preventing Asterisk from loading without a actual usb radio
connected. If I noload=chan_usbradio in the modules.conf file then

Asterisk appears to load but I am still having problems with refrence
to it in my rpt.config file.

I have been able to configure a Echolink connection but I
cant send audio to the connected node when the remote station connects

but the Asterisk debug indicates it is.
Does anybody have a working Echolink node that they would like to
share their iax,echolink,rpt and extensions config file with me.

Todd,
Set rxchannel = Zap/pseudo in place chan_usb in rpt.conf You will not
need the hardware.

73, Steve N4IRS

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9

Group

Thanks for the help thus far.

In this simple example All I want to do is be able to connect to my Echolink node and have my Asterisk server playback audio.

A connection is made but audio is not played back through Echolink but my Asterisk logs indicate it is.

Todd Birkenholtz W0IOU

···

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:27 PM, James Nessen nessenj@jimsoffice.org wrote:

my untrained asterisk eye leads me to believe that your issue lies here:

[radio-secure]
exten => 2345,1,Answer
exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)
exten => 2345,n,Hangup

This tells me to answer, playback a sound and then hang up the connection, and your log confirms this:

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd
– Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer(“echolink/el0-12”, “”) in new stack

-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback("echolink/el0-12", "tt-weasels|skip") in new stack
-- <echolink/el0-12> Playing 'tt-weasels' (language '')
-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack

== Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on ‘echolink/el0-12’

I am running things the old way, but the ACID manual should cover you here as well:

[el0]

confmode=no

call=WU7Q-R

pwd=password

name=WU7Q-Repeater

qth=Sacramento-CA

email=email-addr

maxstns=20

rtcptimeout=10

node=3590

recfile=/tmp/recorded.gsm

astnode=2194

context=echolink-in

server1=server1.echolink.org

server2=server2.echolink.org

server3=server3.echolink.org

extensions.conf

[echolink-in]

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3001083,1,hangup

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3021507,1,hangup

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3111234,1,hangup

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3208345,1,hangup

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3066432,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3009875,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3083598,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3127901,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3009865,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3214691,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3302333,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3005539,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/_3XXXXXX,1,hangup

This was the old way to do access control on echolink nodes, this particular setup only allows connections from known users and then disconnects everyone else. Again, not the preferred method (see the ACID manual), but it works for us.

Jim, K6JWN

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Todd Birkenholtz birkey@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks Jim I will change my rpt.conf to rxchannel = Zap/pseudo

Any Idea on why no audio in my inbound Echolink connections?

My echolink inbound connection looks like this.

In extensions.conf

[radio-secure]
exten => 2345,1,Answer
exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)
exten => 2345,n,Hangup

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd
– Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer(“echolink/el0-12”, “”) in new stack

-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback("echolink/el0-12", "tt-weasels|skip") in new stack
-- <echolink/el0-12> Playing 'tt-weasels' (language '')
-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack

== Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on ‘echolink/el0-12’

Thanks

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Steve Zingman szingman@msgstor.com wrote:

Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Fellow Hams and PBX tinkerer’s

I want to provide a auto-patch and a repeater dial-in for our club
repeater using my existing home Asterisk PBX in a Flash setup.

Our club repeater is connected to Echolink so I was thinking about
creating a Echolink node on my server that users could link to then I
would allow an outbound call.
On the reverse I would like to provide a repeater dial-in number that

would route through my Asterisk server to our club’s node via
Echolink. Keeping in mind at no time does my Asterisk server actually
communicates with a radio directly it is just acting as a Echolink

gateway.

I have been experimenting with ACID but it appears the radio/usb
driver is preventing Asterisk from loading without a actual usb radio
connected. If I noload=chan_usbradio in the modules.conf file then

Asterisk appears to load but I am still having problems with refrence
to it in my rpt.config file.

I have been able to configure a Echolink connection but I
cant send audio to the connected node when the remote station connects

but the Asterisk debug indicates it is.
Does anybody have a working Echolink node that they would like to
share their iax,echolink,rpt and extensions config file with me.

Todd,
Set rxchannel = Zap/pseudo in place chan_usb in rpt.conf You will not
need the hardware.

73, Steve N4IRS

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10

Still issues with Echolink Audio.

As a recap…
I have verified my firewall is not blocking ports.
I am able to register a node in Echolink with APP_RPT
I set Set rxchannel = Zap/pseudo in place chan_usb because I am not using a hardware connection.

As a simple test I created a Extension that when I connect to Echolink from a remote node I want Asterisk to answer the call and playback a sound then close the connection.

[radio-secure]
exten => 2345,1,Answer

exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)
exten => 2345,n,Hangup

My asterisk log indicates it is playing back the sound file does not make it to the calling Echolink station.

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd

-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack
-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback("echolink/el0-12", "tt-weasels|skip") in new stack

-- <echolink/el0-12> Playing 'tt-weasels' (language '')
-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack

== Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on ‘echolink/el0-12’

Any Idea’s before give up.

Thanks Todd

···

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Todd Birkenholtz birkey@gmail.com wrote:

Group

Thanks for the help thus far.

In this simple example All I want to do is be able to connect to my Echolink node and have my Asterisk server playback audio.

A connection is made but audio is not played back through Echolink but my Asterisk logs indicate it is.

Todd Birkenholtz W0IOU

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:27 PM, James Nessen nessenj@jimsoffice.org wrote:

my untrained asterisk eye leads me to believe that your issue lies here:

[radio-secure]
exten => 2345,1,Answer
exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)
exten => 2345,n,Hangup

This tells me to answer, playback a sound and then hang up the connection, and your log confirms this:

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd
– Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer(“echolink/el0-12”, “”) in new stack

-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback("echolink/el0-12", "tt-weasels|skip") in new stack
-- <echolink/el0-12> Playing 'tt-weasels' (language '')
-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack

== Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on ‘echolink/el0-12’

I am running things the old way, but the ACID manual should cover you here as well:

[el0]

confmode=no

call=WU7Q-R

pwd=password

name=WU7Q-Repeater

qth=Sacramento-CA

email=email-addr

maxstns=20

rtcptimeout=10

node=3590

recfile=/tmp/recorded.gsm

astnode=2194

context=echolink-in

server1=server1.echolink.org

server2=server2.echolink.org

server3=server3.echolink.org

extensions.conf

[echolink-in]

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3001083,1,hangup

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3021507,1,hangup

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3111234,1,hangup

;exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3208345,1,hangup

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3066432,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3009875,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3083598,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3127901,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3009865,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3214691,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3302333,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/3005539,1,Rpt,${NODE}

exten => ${ECHOLINK}/_3XXXXXX,1,hangup

This was the old way to do access control on echolink nodes, this particular setup only allows connections from known users and then disconnects everyone else. Again, not the preferred method (see the ACID manual), but it works for us.

Jim, K6JWN

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Todd Birkenholtz birkey@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks Jim I will change my rpt.conf to rxchannel = Zap/pseudo

Any Idea on why no audio in my inbound Echolink connections?

My echolink inbound connection looks like this.

In extensions.conf

[radio-secure]
exten => 2345,1,Answer
exten => 2345,n,Playback(tt-weasels,skip)
exten => 2345,n,Hangup

*CLI> [Aug 14 11:45:36] NOTICE[16779]: chan_echolink.c:2189 do_new_call: new CALL=W0IOU,ip=204.13.148.184,name= Todd
– Executing [2345@radio-secure:1] Answer(“echolink/el0-12”, “”) in new stack

-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:2] Playback("echolink/el0-12", "tt-weasels|skip") in new stack
-- <echolink/el0-12> Playing 'tt-weasels' (language '')
-- Executing [2345@radio-secure:3] Hangup("echolink/el0-12", "") in new stack

== Spawn extension (radio-secure, 2345, 3) exited non-zero on ‘echolink/el0-12’

Thanks

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Steve Zingman szingman@msgstor.com wrote:

Todd Birkenholtz wrote:

Fellow Hams and PBX tinkerer’s

I want to provide a auto-patch and a repeater dial-in for our club
repeater using my existing home Asterisk PBX in a Flash setup.

Our club repeater is connected to Echolink so I was thinking about
creating a Echolink node on my server that users could link to then I
would allow an outbound call.
On the reverse I would like to provide a repeater dial-in number that

would route through my Asterisk server to our club’s node via
Echolink. Keeping in mind at no time does my Asterisk server actually
communicates with a radio directly it is just acting as a Echolink

gateway.

I have been experimenting with ACID but it appears the radio/usb
driver is preventing Asterisk from loading without a actual usb radio
connected. If I noload=chan_usbradio in the modules.conf file then

Asterisk appears to load but I am still having problems with refrence
to it in my rpt.config file.

I have been able to configure a Echolink connection but I
cant send audio to the connected node when the remote station connects

but the Asterisk debug indicates it is.
Does anybody have a working Echolink node that they would like to
share their iax,echolink,rpt and extensions config file with me.

Todd,
Set rxchannel = Zap/pseudo in place chan_usb in rpt.conf You will not
need the hardware.

73, Steve N4IRS

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