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With RPi boards so readily available, there's no reason to buy that pile of stuff from innova (in my opinion).

I am having difficulty obtaining a WiFi connection to my SHARI unit. I've followed the online prompts to add a WiFi source (my mobile hotspot) yet when disconnecting the LAN and rebooting the SHARI unit, there is no internet connection. The WiFi capability is enabled within the software. The software verifies wpa supplicant is the mobile hotspot username and passcode. When I reconnect with the LAN, it works as it should. Then dropping the LAN and repowering the SHARI results with no internet connection. Any thoughts how to resolve this?

Dick N9EEE

I'm running HamVoip on ArchLinux as well as Ham Clock.? You don't need a monitor connected to view ham clock because it can be accessed by any web browser.

Plus you can install a desktop environment in Arch if you want, I did that too and used a monitor connected to it for a while.? All all the same Pi.

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 05:43 PM, Innovations in DX and Contesting, LLC - W9VW - Greenfield, IN. EM79dt wrote:

taking up monitors,

install Supermon and controll the node that way.?

none of my nodes have a monitor

The NiceRF SA818S does not contain a lowpass filter so its 2nd harmonic greatly exceeds FCC part 97 spurious emission requirements.? The SHARI Pi3U Chinese clone AURSINC does not use a low pass filter.? Here is a plot of the RF output at 70 cm.



? AURSINC's newer SR-FRS procuct using the Sunrise Electronics? SR110U module has similar issues with spurious emissions as well as numerous other issues which I have documented

?All Kits 4 Hams products add a lowpass filter to the RF output so that the second harmonic is typically 60 dBc (dB below carrier).? The SA818 firmware restricts operation to the 2 meter or 70 cm ham bands.

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"I noticed there is no band pass filter between the SA818 and the SMA connector. the SA818 DOES NOT meet USA FCC specifications!!"

How do you know this? I haven't seen anything in the regulations that requires a band pass filter. Just not having a band pass filter doesn't mean it that doesn't meet FCC specifications.

Have to looked at the RF with a good quality spectrum analyzer??? If there is any noise it maybe low enough to be acceptable for the antenna that comes with it. Not likely that it will meet the FCC specifications for those wanting to put an amplifier on it with an external antenna, or just a larger gain antenna. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who are doing that. There are also plenty of people who don't care about the regulations in so many ways.

Mick - W7CAT

I noticed there is no band pass filter between the SA818 and the SMA connector. the SA818 DOES NOT meet USA FCC specifications!!!

Sure it's cheaper because it's missing? necessary components to make it operate legally in the USA..

Larry W8LM

Mike

Allstar uses ARCHLINX... a linux that is text based... HamClock displays on a GUI...
So there are no drivers for the display..

I say it's a no go...it's like DOS and Windows of 30 years ago..

I ended up running Shari on a Pi 3 and left my hamclock running on the Pi4.? HamClock will run on an innova Quadra too, but doesn't seem as snappy.? You really don't need a monitor for your Pi running Shari.? Just remote into it to adjust it.
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73 de Marty, AA5UN
Granbury, TX
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You can access HamClock remotely via web browser, or, run it inside a Linux VM on a pc/mac. If your shack PC is already running Linux, it can be run there as well.

Make double sure that the PORT number is correct.? Also might try totally logging off then connecting.? I double checked mine and sure enough the port no was missing a 2.
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73 de Marty, AA5UN
Granbury, TX
EM12cj

I was looking at hghttps://qso365.co.uk/2024/05/how-to-set-up-a-hamclock-for-your-shack/
that uses
I hope this works on a rpi3B to lan connect into my shack rack.

KJ7CLT

Sorry. Your device is not a genuine SHARI.? It is a Chinese clone. It is not supported on this group.

Is it possible to run Ham Clock on a pi 3b+ while also also running All Star, or will one system overwrite the other?

Requesting help with configuration of a Raspi Node.
Thanks in advance!

RPi image: RPi-Z2W-2-3-4_V1.7-01_Allstar.img.xz burned using Raspberry Pi Imager v1.7.2 [Linux]

Node includes a Raspi 3B+ and SHARI. (SR110U - SA818 Ham Allstar Radio Interface)

Node radio:

Adjusted frequency & CTCSS with programming software for SA818 SR110 SR-FRS radio module.
Windows software: SA818_SRFRS.exe
Is 'WriteSA818' the correct programming button ? [tried both]



Jumbospot radio is not detecting a signal. Testing with an HT with CTCSS. Using the COS LED as an indication of received signal.

Configuration: /usr/local/sbin/firsttime.sh

Report Status - Yes
CW ID - No
Bind Port - 4569
Duplex Setting - 1
IAXRPT Password - No
SIMPLE USB CONFIGURATION
EEPROM Setting - eeprom=0
Audio Boost Setting - rxboost=0
Carrier Detection Setting - carrierfrom=usbinvert
COR Inverted - Yes
CTCSS Setting - ctcssfrom=no
PTT Setting - invertptt=0
PL Filter - plfilter=yes
De-emphasis Filter - deemphasis=no
Pre-emphasis Filter - preemphasis=no
RX Audio Delay - rxaudiodelay=0
AUDIO LEVEL SETTINGS
RX Mixer - rxmixerset=500
TX Mixer A - txmixaset=500
TX Mixer B - txmixbset=500

Have also followed instructions to enable the COS LED and configure Supermon v6.2+

Thanks again!

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Here is what I ultimately want to do.

I want to host one or more voices somewhere, probably a github repository, then create a script that anyone can run direct from their shell via curl piped to bash, or by downloading it for those who don't trust that method. Fair enough if you don't.

This script would do the following:

1. Detect if your system is running HamVoIP, ASL or neither. This can be done programmatically in a few ways. There are some differences between the HamVoIP and ASL sound packs. HamVoIP uses GSM files for everything, while ASL uses a mixture of both ulaw and GSM. Mostly ulaw. In the case of HamVoIP, there are a bunch of scripts that are hard-coded to look for .gsm files. I'll get to that later.

2. Detect if a third party voice has been previously installed already, and if so, which one. This can be written out in a number of ways when a voice has been installed on the system.

3. Display a menu of available voices, assuming more than one, with an option to play a demo file locally to your node, so you have an idea of how things will sound before installing. After all, what I like may not be what you like. I'd like to have at least one male and one female voice, with a couple of variations on speed. One normal, one faster. That kind of thing.

4. Back up your existing /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/ folder before installing a new voice. In the case of HamVoIP, there are also a few sound files outside of this directory that are called with some specific scripts, like saypublicip, sayreg and saydns, I believe.

5. Downloads .ulaw files to the appropriate place. I'm not a fan of the GSM format, and since we don't need the full asterisk sound pack for app.rpt (this can be cut down to a little over 400 samples), with a better edited, faster voice, the files will be of much higher quality, and take up less storage as well.

6. On HamVoIP, do a find/replace on every .sh and .pl file in /usr/local/sbin, replacing .gsm with .ulaw or .sln, which ever file format ends up being used. Ignore this step if using ASL.

6.1. Since HamVoIP likes to redownload all of these scripts for most updates, a mechanism should exist to easily fix things after an update without the need to download a sound pack again. Alternatively, just use .GSM files and cry about the lower audio quality, at least if you're me... I personally can't stand that grainy, washed-out sound. Asterisk actually does better if you use raw linear PCM or ulaw anyway, as it's one less layer of potential transcoding, even for the stack connected to a radio channel driver.

7. After the voice is installed, prompt the user if they would like to run the write-node-callsigns.sh script from HamVoIP (after checking if it exists on the system) with the new audio files. For extra credit, if it doesn't exist, add an option to periodically add new calls on a cronjob if desired.

On day two of having a fully working HamVoIP node back in September of 2019, I made a new, extremely fast sound pack for myself using the Apple Fred voice, because it was easy for me to script. Basically, what I did was write a bash script on Mac OS with a while loop that read a tab delimited text file with all the prompts written out in the first column, then the path to write each file in the second. Since Apple's say command only writes out .aiff files, everything was then processed by SoX to filter, normalize and trim each sample to make it extremely responsive. Since I used .ulaw files, I wrote another script that uses sed recursively to replace any occurrence of .gsm with .ulaw in all .sh and .pl scripts in /usr/local/sbin.

I am a screen reader user, so I listen to fast, synthetic speech every day. It is no exaggeration to say that my node says "N2DYI Disconnected" in only a little more time Allison would say "N2" on a normal setup.

That being said, this voice is not one I would recommend for a wide area repeater, and it has some bugs that I never fixed, because it's for my own personal use, and I don't really care too much about the bits that are broken, but if anyone here wants it, no warranties, let me know.

I have access to many high quality options that are licensed for non-commercial, commercial and broadcast/transmission use, so it's just a matter of painstakingly creating each sample, probably with a few variations each, multiple times for different voices, batch-processing the audio for high intelligibility at the low 8 kHz sampling rate, getting the timing just right, etc. I can do all that. It's part of my profession. But none of that does any good if it's not easy to install on a system.

I would love to get something better out there especially for repeater operators, but really just anyone who is as annoyed at the stock Allison soundpack as I am. BTW, I was a long-time Asterisk user before coming to the world of Allstarlink/HamVoIP, having done managed a few commercial phone systems, so I had about 15 years of personal Allison annoyance behind me before I even built a node.

73

N2DYI

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