[Aaron, N3MBH]

Joe, here is an example with an optocoupler.

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Thanks Joe for all your debugging and testing. I have pointed this out to Richard so he can track down the issue and make fixes for the next release. In the meantime, I have changed my password for Echolink so you shouldn’t be able to log into with those credentials any longer. I have been out of town for almost a week now, so sorry I missed your connection. My dev setup right now isn’t tied into a live repeater system, just a speaker and some simple test hardware. I have used it to serve Echolink connections which I can connect to via my phone client. I’d say if you found a work around and you are showing up in the Echolink Directory, then there should be problems with you keeping echolink active.

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There may be some issue with core system reading the correct echolink config files built by the front end. We are looking into it and should have it ironed out in the next release.

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Richard is working on a shell configuration menu. He said he is going to add this in.

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Hello Dimitri,
Welcome to the Forums. Yes, that is already in the works and is planned to be added to the next beta release. I already have the code done for that. It will allow you to set set a mode for the courtesy tone. Either: Disabled, Beep, or Custom. Custom being the options right now.

One way to get around it right now would be to recored blank audio file (500ms) and upload that and select that. Thanks for your support!

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No problem…sorry I misunderstood your comment. That is already supported. Under ports you set a GPIO pin for RX and set the RX mode to COS instead of VOX. As for hardware we are incorporating that into our interface board we are designing. If you are using something like the Easy Digi. You just need to do a little extra side hardware right now. The COS is active when the GPIO pin goes low. You will need some kind of pull up resister to pull the pin high when it is inactive…this keeps it from floating in value. It depends on the board you are using, on the BBB black some of it’s pins are already configured with pull up resisters, on the RPI2 it is best to add them externally. My recommendation is to use an optocoupler with a pull up resister. When you active the optocoupler LED, the phototransitor side will make the pin go low. It also isolates the board to keep you from frying the GPIO pin inadvertently.

It will take me a little while, but I will need to find or make a diagram to add to the hardware page. Bare with us as we are still developing the project and working to build documentation. Thanks for your interest.

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I tried again tonight also. Tonight I gave it a go on my Raspberry Pi 2 using the beta 3 image. All worked as expected after some delays with the Echolink system updating my password change. I was able to connect to it with my phone via both on wifi inside my network and outside my network on cellular data.

Best I can tell from your previous logo, it looks like you are connecting OK and people can connect to you. Yes you do show up in the directory. I don’t believe you can search stations by IP address in the directory, only by Node Number and Callsign…aside from just browsing through the list of thousands of connections. Echolink can seem a little buggy at points, especially getting everything configured right and the firewall setup properly.

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I will see what I can do to look into it. It works fine on my BBB. I will have to try it on my RPI2. I see you are making connections. Are you just not showing up in the directory server?

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Thanks for your interest and feedback. Yes the project is still in beta testing and development. We felt the best way to improve it is with real world feedback like yours.

The core SVXLink system does support Tone Squelch and tone transmission. Right now we still have to build the UI for it and the interfacing code. For the time being many folks can set this in their radios. I agree that VOX is some what touchy, but it is there for basic testing or for someone wishing to throw together a makeshift setup. COS is the preferred options. We are always working to improve things.

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I got my RPI2 the other day. The same USB sound card shows up different than on my Beaglebone Black.

On my BBB it works as: alsa:plughw:1
On the RPI2, I had to set it to alsa:plughw:0

For the TX channel use 0 for left (tip) and 1 for right (ring).

Hope this solves your issue.

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