[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hi Joe,
The 8 ball module sounds like a SVXLink Module. I haven’t gotten into module development too much yet. I am hoping to build a framework in ORP that will support a WordPress style plugin architecture that will allow upload a zip file via the UI and it will unpack and hook into the UI and svxlink respectively. But that could be a ways off.

The looping feature of the long ID might be more on the SVXLink side too. The UI has some scripts to process the uploaded audio, then it writes out the path in a TCL override file that tells SVXLink to use that file. I am not sure that it has the functionality to loop through multiple files. It would be nice to add schedule based announcements in the future.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

You can try stopping and starting the SVXLink service from the command line with the following commands:
service svxlink stop
service svxlink start

If you want to check the results of this you can open another terminal window and issues the following command to watch the log file real time:
tail -f /var/log/svxlink

You may want to check your port setting to make sure you audio card is set correctly. Also just try changing a setting and rebuilding the config files which will restart the service afterwards.

Hope that helps.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hi Joe,
I guess that depends on what that feature is. SVXLink is a pretty capable already; however, you have to be a programming genius to configure it. ORP sits on top of that and we create UI to request input, then create logic to interpret that and output config files. This makes a great lesser know application more accessible by the majority. Our challenge is to make that logic without convoluting the end results. UI design is a big factor for me personally, because I want everyone to be able to understand what they are doing.

Let me know your thoughts and I will point you in the right direction. In some case, you may just want to hack the install to customize it to your liking. If that’s the case I can point you in the general direction.

Now that 1.1.0 is out, my focus is working on improving documentation. We should be launching a knowledge base soon.

73,
Aaron, N3MBH

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hello Joe,
Thanks for the positive feedback. That’s is one of my main goals of the project is to make it simpler for the end user. The audio card detection and adding the beginnings of a setup wizard are the first steps in that direction. Thanks again for the feedback and for your interest in the project.

73,
Aaron, N3MBH

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hello Regor,
Welcome to the forums and thanks for your support of ORP! If you say the IP address works fine and you can SSH in, my initial thought would be that you are not using HTTPS (secure) to access the Web UI. This can be overlooked easily. See the excerpt from the getting started guide below. Once you get there, you may have to click on and advance link to proceed since it is an unsigned SSL Cert.

Go to https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (192.168.xxx.xxx) of the repeater board and click the login button on the splash page. NOTE: You may get a browser warning about an untrusted SSL Certificate…proceed anyways.

Hope this helps.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Sorry about that, looks like I over looked this reply. Sure, if you are willing to modify your install some there is a php file that hard codes many of the settings in the svxlink config file. If you place you hard coded changes in here, then anytime you update the web gui and rebuild it will write out the config file with your changes.

If you plan to do this, just be sure that you are comfortable with PHP and the svxlink config file.

Also, we just release 1.1.0 if you want to switch to that.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Greetings,
Sounds very interesting what you are trying to accomplish. Unfortunately, ORP is purely analog at this time. To be able to collect extra information about the radio, I would guess that would only be achievable with a digital system (like D-Star, System Fusion, DMR). ORP is in it’s simplest form a prepackaged distribution of SVXLink with a web application that sits on top.

If you are wanting to build upon this, the first step would be to get this kind of support built SVXLink itself. If you are able to help with development on that, you would need to reach out to Tobias SM0SVX, the author of that piece of software.

I wish the best of luck to you and let me know if you have other question. Thanks.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Yes there is. You have some access from within the web gui, but that isn’t perfect the the refresh rate is a little slow.

For SSH, you can use the tail command. If you are doing other things in SSH open up a new SSH session in another tab or window and issue the following command:

tail -f /var/log/svxlink
This will add new lines realtime and scroll as the log grows. To exit just type Ctrl+C.

Hope that helps.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hi Joseph,
Welcome to the forum and thanks for your interest in the project. No, at this time HSMM is not an included feature of OpenRepeater. I think HSMM is a great system but is not directly related to the operation of a voice repeater. For those that need HSMM, I think the best solution is to connect the ORP controller into separate HSMM hardware via ethernet. Hardware such as modified Linksys or Ubiquiti Networks hardware that specifically handle this purpose. Perhaps we can look at doing a blog or wiki style tutorial on how to integrate the two. Hope that helps.

Regards,
Aaron – N3MBH

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

I guess some of this needs to be honed a little more on the site, right now the system supports 1 duplex port (RX/TX), but we are building the support for multiple ports (i.e. for RF Link radios). It supports all the basic stuff that you’d expect from a controller including customizable ID and Courtesy tones. With the 1.1.0 release we are about to make there is more control in those areas now giving more options than 1.0.0. It comes with some stock sounds and can speak the callsign of the repeater as well as ID with morse code. You can upload your own sound clips in WAV or MP3 also. It also has EchoLink built in. Without getting too wordy, that gives a general overview. After our 1.1.0 release I will have to update some things on the site to better outline this. Thanks.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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