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Voice Id Either make an audible file with your voice or a text to speech app. I used https://freetts.com/#ads. After downloading the mp3 file I went to https://audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-wav to convert to wav. Name your file anything you want. I went with myid1.wav. Use WinSCP to move myid1.wav to /home/repeater/myid1.wav You have to convert to ulaw. It will NOT work with a .wav file, I've tried multiple times. Open up putty and convert myid1.wav to myid.ulaw by using the command: sox -V myid1.wav -r 8000 -c 1 -t ul myid.ulaw Next your gonna wanna go into rpt.conf sudo nano /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf Scroll down and change idrecording = idrecording = /home/repeater/myid When your done making the changes hit ctrl + o followed by enter then ctrl + x followed by enter. After your done making all the changes make sure to restart asterisk by using: sudo service asterisk restart

Here are some custom courtesy tones I found while googling different things. Courtesy tones can be found in /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf scroll down till you see [telemetry] you'll see a list of courtesy tones labeled ct1-ct8. Add whatever you want from the list below after ct8 and change the x to the next in line. ex: ct9, ct10, ct11, ct12.... sudo nano /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf (courtesy of W2YMM) - ctX=|t(0,0,640,0)(330,0,50,2048)(495,0,50,2048)(660,0,50,2048) ; YELLOW JACKET ctX=|t(800,0,100,2048)(800,0,100,2048)(540,0,100,2048) ; SHOOTING STAR ctX=|t(500,0,100,2048)(500,0,100,2048)(750,0,100,2048) ; COMET ctX=|t(750,0,125,2048)(808,0,80,2048)(880,1200,80,2048) ; STARDUST ctX=|t(0,0,640,0)(660,0,50,2048)(500,0,50,2048)(385,0,50,2048) ; HORNET ctX=|t(1000,0,20,2048)(800,0,20,2048)(600,0,20,2048) ; TUMBLE WEED ctX=|t(0,0,640,0)(660,0,100,2048)(500,0,100,2048)(385,0,100,2048) ; WASP ctX=|t(1500,0,20,2048)(1250,0,20,2048)(1000,0,20,2048)(750,0,20,2048)(500,0,20,2048)(2550,0,20,2048); CHIRPCHOMP ctX=|t(1000,800,50,2048)(800,0,50,2048)(600,0,50,2048)(1500,0,50,2048) ; MOONBOUNCE ctX=|t(500,700,100,2048) ; UONK ctX=|t(1000,0,100,2048) ; BEEP ctX=|t(440,0,100,2048) ; BOOP ctX=|t(840,500,100,2048) ; BLOOP ctX=|t(1000,0,50,2048)(750,0,50,2048)(500,0,50,2048) ; DESCENDING ctX=|t(500,0,50,2048)(750,0,50,2048)(1000,0,50,2048) ; ASCENDING ctX=|t(1760,0,30,2048)(0,0,30,0)(1760,0,30,2048)(0,0,30,0)(1760,0,30,2048) ; NEXTEL ctX=|t(2450,0,200,2048) ; NASA OVER1 ctX=|t(2500,0,100,2048) ; NASA OVER2 ctX=|t(2175,0,200,2048)(1950,0,175,2048) ; MOTOROLA TONE REMOTE 1 ctX=|t(2175,0,75,2048)(1950,0,50,2048) ; MOTOROLA TONE REMOTE SHORT ctX=|t(0,0,640,0)(660,880,100,2048) ; PIANO CHORD Look for unlinkedct = ct2 and change ct2 to whatever you want unlinkedct = ct9 ; Send a this courtesy tone when the user unkeys if the node is not connected to any other nodes. (optional, default is none) When I'm not connected to a node (unlinkedct) I have ChirpChomp as my courtesy tone set as ct9. ct9=|t(1500,0,20,2048)(1250,0,20,2048)(1000,0,20,2048)(750,0,20,2048)(500,0,20,2048)(2550,0,20,2048); CHIRPCHOMP You can also make your own tones following the guide in rpt.conf ; As far as what the numbers mean, ; (000,000,010,000) ; | | | |-------amplitude ; | | |-------------duration ; | |-------------------Tone 2 ; |-------------------------Tone 1 ; So, with 0,0,10,0 That says No Tone1, No Tone2, 10ms duration, 0 Amplitude. ; Use it for a delay. Fine tuning for how long before telemetry is sent, in conjunction with the telemdelay parameter) ; The numbers, like 350,440,10,2048 are 350Hz, 440Hz, 10ms delay, amplitude of 2048. If you use Tone 1 and Tone 2 in the same ( ) they will play at the same time not 2 different tones. So you need to put each tone in it's own set of ( ). ex (tone1,tone2,150,2048) will play both tones at same time making 1 tone, (tone1,0,150,2048)(tone2,0,150,2048) will make 2 different tones. DO NOT put spaces between the , and number! Change duration in ms to how long you want each tone to be played. Change amplitude to how loud you want the tone. When your done making the changes hit ctrl + o followed by enter then ctrl + x followed by enter. After your done making all the changes make sure to restart asterisk by using: sudo service asterisk restart

Lets start out with my setup so this might not work for you. My repeater is a Bridgecom BCR-40DU, I purchased the URIx, 25 pin cable, and Micro SD from the myGMRS store. Make sure your not using a Raspberry Pi 4, trust me it doesn't work. I ended up getting a Raspberry Pi 3B+. After installing the micro sd card into the pi make sure you connect an ethernet cable, log in, change password like instructed, then set up wifi if you want by following instructions in the quick start guide that came with the micro sd card, don't forget to log into your router and set up port forwarding. Your gonna wanna go into your simpleusb.conf file and change a few things. sudo nano /etc/asterisk/simpleusb.conf carrierfrom = usbinvert ; no,usb,usbinvert ; no - no carrier detection at all ; usb - from the COR line on the USB sound fob (Active high) ; usbinvert - from the inverted COR line on the USB sound fob (Active low) ctcssfrom = usb ; no,usb,usbinvert ; no - CTCSS decoding, system will be carrier squelch ; usb - CTCSS decoding using input from USB sound fob (Active high) ; usbinvert - from the inverted CTCSS line on the USB sound fob (Active low) duplex = 1 ; Duplex 0,1 ; 0 - half duplex ; 1 - full duplex When your done making the changes hit ctrl + o followed by enter then ctrl + x followed by enter. I wasn't able to use DTMF tones to connect to different nodes so I found a command in one of the forum pages to connect through ssh. sudo asterisk -rx "rpt fun 24219 *3172" 24219 is my node so insert your node number, *3172 will connect me to node 172, *3xxxxx will connect you to your node of choice, xxxxx being the node number. If your gonna use the Pi as your repeater controller then your gonna have to modify your rpt.conf file. sudo nano /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf hangtime = 1000 ; squelch tail hang time (in ms) (optional, default 5 seconds, 5000 ms) althangtime = 2000 ; longer squelch tail totime = 180000 ; transmit time-out time (in ms) (optional, default 3 minutes 180000 ms) idrecording = |ixxxxxxx ; cording or morse string see http://ohnosec.org/drupal/node/87 ;idtalkover = |ixxxxxxx ; Talkover ID (optional) default is none see http://ohnosec.org/drupal/node/129 ; See Telemetry section Example: idrecording = rpt/nodenames/24219 idtime = 900000 When your done making the changes hit ctrl + o followed by enter then ctrl + x followed by enter. Change the xxxxxxx to your callsign make sure you keep the |i or it won't identify. After your done making all the changes make sure to restart asterisk by using: sudo service asterisk restart These are all the changes I did to make everything work with my system. Once I get voice ID working I'll do an update. I hope this helps someone. It took me quite a few days of playing around trying to figure this out. Joe WROE856

I have the same repeater and been dealing with the same issue. this is what i changed to get it to work for me carrierfrom = usbinvert ; no,usb,usbinvert ; no - no carrier detection at all ; usb - from the COR line on the USB sound fob (Active high) ; usbinvert - from the inverted COR line on the USB sound fob (Active low) ctcssfrom = usb ; no,usb,usbinvert ; no - CTCSS decoding, system will be carrier squelch ; usb - CTCSS decoding using input from USB sound fob (Active high) ; usbinvert - from the inverted CTCSS line on the USB sound fob (Active low) when i key up i can see my node light up on the map. now i have to figure out how to connect to a node