Work arounds for broken monitor mode

Based on this issue, monitor mode for rpt appears to be not working

@N8RAW suggested a potential work around of “skipping” DTMF processing for contexts you don’t want to be able to transmit? I’m wondering if this the preferred option. I’m also not really sure what he meant by that, if that’s using “Dumb Phone Mode” which would rely on VOX to trigger PTT?

I have tried commenting out all “mandatory” commands and others that allow linking in rpt.conf, which seems to work but I’m having an issue getting the monitor node to follow a unique functions stanza and ignore the main stanza.

Currently I’m doing some squirrely shit by dropping incoming users into a confbridge as muted participants, and adding the Allstarnode in, but for some reason audio quality is horrendous doing this.

Also is there a way to hardcode an ilink command to specific node in rpt.conf? It would be nice to restrict which nodes I allow my RF node to connect to, which I can also do in the dialplan with a unique allow list but restricting it in rpt.conf seems more permanent?

Tagging @ve7fet since it’s their bug report on github.

Yeah, that was flagged as an issue while doing a code review when building the current ASL3 manual so that it could be investigated at a future date.

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Okay cool, just looking to see what folks are doing currently to work through the issue.