[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hello Hayden,
As mentioned it is implement in the development branch of 2.2.x. That code base is currently being absorbed into the 3.0 redesign. So it will definitely be within 3.0 release when that is ready. It’s just slow going. If you want to help on the development side, you should join our slack group. Let me know if you need an invitation.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hello Hayden,
Looks like the rewrite ghost is back. I will have to look into that. For the time being you can certainly grab the zip files off of GitHub repos as mentioned above. Yes the Modules that are listed on ORP site are those that are considered more production ready. The extra repos on GitHub are experimental or incomplete modules. Those are not listed as it would create more support questions from users that are not coders that could be kept up with. They are on GitHub for other developers to tinker with. Should they get to a production ready state then they could be listed.

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hello Tim,
I am not sure I follow what is and is not working. If you are getting ID out of the board then that means you should be getting audio from the controller into TX. Make sure you adjust the levels if needed in the ALSA mixer for your application. Also the ICS boards have multi-turn pots to adjust input and output levels. Dan @ ICS has some videos on adjusting these over on his YouTube Channel.

I recommend isolating the radio(s) and the controller. You could make a simple breakout cable into the controller. Have an LED for your PTT line, a push button pull-down circuit to simulate COS input, feed a tone generator (could be computer/phone based) into the RX side, and hook the TX audio into powered computer speakers.

It is unclear from your original post if you are using 1 radio or 2. If you are using a single radio and operating in simplex mode, the simplex mode behave a bit differently than the repeater/full duplex mode. If you are using two radios and are using simplex mode, make sure that you have proper RF isolation. If you get stray RF into the RX radio or even the cables or Pi…weird stuff can happen. For my test rig, I have a Motorola GR1225 repeater with a tuned duplexer, but I still tend to run it into a dummy load. That not only ensures that I am not blasting the surrounding area with unneeded RF while testing, but also eliminates any RF issues.

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hello Tim,
So just to clarify some things: The ICS boards do have two logic inputs per port, a COS input and a CTCSS input which each get their own GPIO pin. The core SVXLink software doesn’t currently have support for a separate CTCSS input, so that is unsupported at this time. CTCSS should be set in the radio which will in most cases would not activate the COS/COR line out of the radio unless both a carrier is detected and the proper CTCSS tone is detected by the radio. While software CTCSS is somewhat supported by ORP, it is still recommended to set this in the radio as it is more complicated to make sure that you are getting unfiltered audio out of the radio where the controller may not be able to hear the CTCSS to do a software decode if it has been filtered out with a high pass audio filter in the radio.

For your QTY KT-8900R radio, while I am not familiar with that specifically, you may be able to hack it. One option could be pulling voltage off of the RX led, but you need to ensure that the LED behaves as desired…meaning that it doesn’t light up when a carrier is detected but the proper CTCSS tone set in the radio is not detected. There are often mods people make to cheap radios for Allstar nodes and APRS. Maybe this one would be of use: https://4x5mg.net/2017/02/12/using-qyt-kt8900-allstar-node/

There are also other cheap radios that you can get your hands on that are better for repeater use. For example the Motorola GM-300, these are older wide band radios that can had for cheap that are much superior to the Chinese radios for repeater setups. They have programable 16 pin outputs on the back that can contain a COS line, etc. Programming them is a challenge as you need a specific dos environment to do so. You may have hams in your area that know how to do this.

Hope this helps!

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

This is bizarre as this has been working flawlessly for a long time. Seems to be some type of encoding error. The modules files are not kept on the same server, but rather passed through the download manager for tracking stats. The files are kept on GitHub and as a work around you can grab the latest release of each of these modules here:

https://github.com/OpenRepeater/MODULE_Remote_Relay/releases/tag/v1.1

https://github.com/OpenRepeater/MODULE_Metar_Info/releases

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Dave,
Sorry for the delay in responding. I over look this as it was pending moderation because of the links. Thanks for your report. I believe this should be corrected now. It seemed to be a caching server/redirect issue. I’ve purged the cache and resaved the module downloads which should regenerate the rewrite rules for the links. I spot tested the two links you mentioned above and they appear to work again. Let me know if you experience any further issues. Thanks.

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Trying to reply on the go right now, but from your previous reply it sounds like you are getting both audio in and out with IDs.

Still baffles me that you are not getting anything from Parrot. I will have to try it in simplex to be certain it functions. On the surface I’m not picking anything out of your configuration file that looks out of the norm. I would watch the log and ensure that it is activity the module.

I know EchoLink can be weird and only partially function if not all the router and port forwarding is configured properly. I’d focus on getting parrot to work first to ensure the building blocks are working.

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

From that I can see, the logs look normal. We already established rx audio is working at least reasonably since you are getting DTMF decodes. When you say that you can hear your IDs ever 10 minutes, is that from a speaker/headphones as suggested or from the radio? If it’s from the speaker but you aren’t getting audio from the radio, that that would obviously be an interface problem. If you are getting the audio from the radio (meaning ID) then it could be a problem with EchoLink. Still unclear where the audio is coming from and if you were able to get the local parrot module to work.

You can always posts a sanitized version of your svxlink.conf file here for us to look over for possible issues as well. That is located at /etc/svxlink/svxlink.conf

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Also in the UI under the sound settings make sure you have the correct channel selected for your setup…left/right. Maybe try the other one.

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Yes it does sound like you have an audio output problem. Yes the parrot module is local…no voip issues. If you are getting DTMF decode and seeing that in the logs then you are getting reasonable audio in. Here’s a few things to try:

– disconnect the audio out from the sound card that goes to the input of the radio and plug in a set of headphones or powered speakers. It will make trouble shooting much easier.
– double and triple check the alsamixer settings, make sure that the output isn’t muted.
-try a different sound card
-use the speaker test function of alsa.

Hope that helps narrow it down.

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