The Repeater Controller ====================== This is a PC based repeater controller which relies on the IRLP board as hardware interface with the radio. Credit ------ The repeater-controller is derived from previous work done by: - David Cameron VE7LTD <http://www.irlp.net> - Randy Hammock KC6HUR History ------ The original code was a single source file, ht-ct.c, provided by David Cameron VE7LTD on the no longer existing IRLP-controller Yahoo group. The purpose of the group was to foster the creation of an IRLP compatible PC based repeater controller. The code included a functional repeater controler and functions to control the ILRP interface board. I took this code in 2004 and added functionality, such as courtesy beep and PA compartment fan control. I also added support for directly controlling the various I/O pins of the IRLP hardware board based on the functions provided in ht-ct.c. At the time these functions were not provided by the IRLP distribution. In 2005 Randy Hammock KC6HUR took the work and added the irlpdev patch provided by David Comaeron. The IRLP system has deprecated the irlp-port device with the release of the 2.6 kernel. The irlpdev driver makes use of the kernel parport driver. As of 2013 I have performed a major cleanup of the code. All of the port control functions have been moved into a single library file. I've removed the legacy irlp-port parts. Finally the dedicated port control binaries have been replaced with a new portctl binary which takes the desired action as a command line argument. Contents -------- The repeater directory contains the sources for the actual repeater controller. The repeater binary is the executable that reads inputs from the IRLP board and controls the output according to the timing parameters defined in the source file. The portctl executable allows for manual manipulation of the port pins to key or unkey the repeater. Note that the repeater process may not be aware of manual portctl commands. The cwid direcotry contains a number of helpers for the creation of courtesy tones and cw id. These binaries create PCM waveforms and utilize the ALSA or OSS sound system to output these tones. ALSA is used by default as it allows for mixing of multiple sound sources. Features -------- - Control via IRLP board - IRLP aware and compatible - Hangtimer - Courtesy tone - CW ID ToDo ---- Some of the things I'd still like to do - Debug command line switch to show flags while events occur - Man pages and other documentation - Configurable timing parameters via command line or config file
adilinden-oss/repeater-controller
A Linux based repeater controller utilizing IRLP hardware
CBSD-3-Clause