Changing the * to something else

App_rpt-users
1

The repeater controllers we use on our system strips any DTMF tones received after a * is used. Is there any way to change the * prefix to something else like 11

Thanks

73
Ted
W6SAT

2

Yes there is. It’s called inxlat. It’s documented on our Wiki.

https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Rpt.conf#inxlat.3D

3

Thanks Tim. I tried the following and it didn’t work.

inxlat=#56,#57,0123456789ABCD

DTMF sent to the repeater to control internal node 1100 from node 1110: #5641100 then #56149XXX

Seems that should have disconnected internal node 1100 from our hub node 49XXX

I had asterisks CLI running in the background to see if the DTMF tones were received and they were.

4

Please try removing the commas.

5

I’ll try that.

Is the wiki wrong in that respect then?

6

It might be a bad example in the WiKi. I’ve always heard that is not possible to change the # function in AllStar yet the WiKi example shows exactly that.

I have inxlat= *,#,0123456789ABCD,Y in one of my nodes and I change the * to *<something> in another one. Both work as advertised.

I will say that using AllStar behind a regular repeater controller is not optimal for a number of reasons. The one exception is using RTCM’s in mix-minus mode. That works quite well in a network of repeater controllers. Typical use case for that is replacing 420 links.

7

What does the “Y” do at the end of the inxlat line?

8

It makes dial tone after the prefix (the * normally) is entered.

9

I see that now on the Wiki.

Thanks

Ted