Need help with rpt.conf. on *3xxxxx response is "mAcro not found"

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I was adding the “ 990 shutdown “ and the “991 reboot” DTMF commands from Freddy in rpt .conf and got really interested in all of the DTMF commands that are available and decided to enable a few just to try them by removing the semicolon save and reboot and as usual must have created a shot to my foot. When I try the normal 355553 or any other 3+node number I get a response of “Macro not found" the remainder of my nodes work fine with this and connects and talks. I have spent hours looking through the rpt.conf file and can't find the issue. I have tried 721 and I get the time and the *711 gets me the last two characters of my call.

Do you have any ideas if I had a listing of a standard installed rpt.conf I MIGHT be able to figure it out.

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commands starting with a 3 are reserved for ‘connect in transceive’ *3xxxxx

Macro’s start with a 5 *5xxx

Unless you have changed something in the command set which I would highly advise against unless you have very good reason and have understood all the implications for that action.

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I always get “Macro not found” before the audio levels are set (ie. DTMF isn’t being decoded properly yet). Definitely monitor the CLI to confirm the digits are being read correctly.

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Yes, I agree with Robert,

I had not read your original post well.

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Likewise, I agree with Robert. I changed the device used to do audio in, and it required resetting gain before working properly.

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There is a section somewhere in the middle of rpt.conf page that says ;startup_macro =

Change the value to *3xxxxxxx and unquote.

Add this next stanza startup_macro_delay = 8 without a quote

This works perfectly with my node. This is a delay in seconds before macro starts.

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startup_macro_delay is not an ASL3 option in rpt.conf. That’s a HamVoIP option.

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Thanks gang ! I will take a look at those locations and see if I have changed something by mistake.

Hi Im quite farmillar with what *3 and *5 are for and havent knowingly touched them.. the only thing that i have knowingly touched are the “cop" commands because of the need to know how it all works because I plan to use ASL3 AS A REPEATER CONTROLLER.. AND CONTROLLER FOR SOME OTHER CONTROL FUNCTIONS.

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Yes, as I said, I had misread your original post.

This may help you some. Keep in mind while most is the same, the structure is pre-asl3

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For ASL3 information, you would be much better off searching for information in the ASL3 Manual. We even have an entire section that covers the configuration files (e.g. rpt.conf).

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I see little reference to ‘DTMF’ default command assignments.

But most of those are in the rpt.conf file.

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Coy, there can be many different issues at play with your resulting problem.

1st if the command is commented out?

2nd if you changed some of the defaults and have a conflict of dtmf command numbers.

This issue can be deeper than you might first expect because all of this rides on asterisk and asterisk uses what is called a ‘first match’ system.

Meaning if you have a command assigned with ‘50’

You can not then have a command of 501 because 50 would execute first every time.

3rd, it is important to be sure that

functions=functions (default)

is either described in the node description or the template node-main.

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A fix for this might be to make the 50 command 500 so you have 3 digits and more individual commands available.

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and I noted that the ASL3 Manual has an entire section covering the configuration files including rpt.conf … all updated for ASL3!