Looking for help on setting up AllStar remote server or proxy

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Wow… Blew that Bryan.

Hadn’t read all your earlier posts so sorry for the babble.

Larry - N7FM

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On 6/10/20 9:35 AM, larry wrote:

Bryan,

If starting from scratch, for better help you need to provide more
information on your intended use of Allstar, your Internet connection
and what you intend to drive with the Allstar feed.

Are you wanting to build an Allstar simplex RF node? Do you intend to
connect Allstar to a Repeater? Possibly construct a no-radio Node with
just a Mic and Speaker not caring about RF broadcast at your end?

Those question will determine what Sound interfaces you should look into.

Are you a builder that constructs things and has simple soldering
skills. Builds cables etc.

What kind of Internet connection is available at your location?
Satellite internet does not perform well due to latency.

I’m not trying to make things complex those answers will determine the
advice of what hardware and how to assemble things.

At a minimum you will need a Raspberry Pi for each location and some
way to interface sound between the Pi and whatever DEVICE you use to
pass audio to and from your Allstar Nodes.

Different USB sound interfaces are available depending on what you
intend to do with the Allstar’s TX/RX at your location. You can modify
a simple USB sound fob. Buy pre-made interfaces. Depends on your
building or plug and play preference.

Commands to utilize Allstar are included in the Allstar software and
nothing to worry about.

Without a better understanding of your end intent. Sorry I couldn’t be
more helpful.

Larry - N7FM

On 6/10/20 8:17 AM, Bryan Cerqua via AllStarLink Discussion Groups wrote:

[BryanW1BRI] BryanW1BRI
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June 10

Thanks Larry for the tips and guidelines.
As long as it possible I should be able to figure things out.
However I have no experience with ALS yet so having some good
examples with needed commands would help.

I’m trying figure out what’s needed before purchasing any interface
hardware.

Bryan
W1BRI

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[larry] larry https://community.allstarlink.org/u/larry
June 10

Bryan,

Not being the one who gives the best instructions but since no one else
has jumped in …

Many do what you mentioned when using a mobile node while traveling.

Remembering (you can normally connect outbound without port forward)
from a wifi location.

Place an Allstar server at home. Install 2 nodes on it, with one node
being set up as a HUB. Do the port forward on it
Make its audio driver (RXchannel use the pseudo driver) It becomes an
Allstar Repeater or conference connection point.What ever you want to
call it.

When portable connect (dial) your portable node outbound to that Hub
*73XXXXX

If you make the second node on the same home server. (Saves Hardware)
Set that Node to use the USB driver and interface it to your
Repeater/Radio or whatever you intend to talk to and from locally.

Connect the second node ( *73XXXXX) to the HUB. You can then have a full
time link from your current portable location to your home HUB. You will
hear any of the second nodes traffic it receives. Plus any other
station’s traffic that connects to your Hub.

Should you want to connect to another node somewhere else in the world
you can always dial it from your mobile/portable node. You can either
hang up the connection to the HUB to prevent the home node from having
to listen to your other connection or join them all together if you
leave the HUB connected.

Saves all the Monkey motion with DynDNS by using your own HUB as the
central connection point. Being able to have multiple connections is one
of the things that makes Allstar so great.

Is that something like what you were looking for?

Larry - N7FM

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[BryanW1BRI] BryanW1BRI
https://community.allstarlink.org/u/bryanw1bri
June 10

Looking for help on having a remote AllStarLink sever or proxy.

My application is setting up portable repeater using a WiFi
connection on the Raspberry Pi /without/ the need to log into a
router to make any changes such as setting up port forwarding such as
port 4569.

I would like to host a server (or equivalent) at my home QTH network
for AllStarLink similar to how a proxy is done for EchoLink (java
-jar EchoLinkProxy.jar) which has DynDns alias for QTH WAN IP address
and port forwarding setup for port 4569 and whatever else ports might
need to be setup.
Not knowing the specifics on AllStarLink maybe this doesn’t make any
sense? Maybe setting up a radio-less AllStarLink hub is what is
needed. I browsed the wiki.allstarlink.org
http://wiki.allstarlink.org and can’t seem to find the answer. Also
couldn’t find any help on YouTube.

I would think this is a pretty common need to allow portable repeater
with only a basic WiFi connection in locations such as hotels where
one doesn’t have access to router for setting up port forwarding.

Hopefully there is a simple solution but not being an AllStarLink
expert I’m not sure how to even ask the right questions.

Anyone that could provide a link on how to do this would be greatly
appreciated.

Bryan
W1BRI

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