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#!/bin/bash
#
# A cron job script for downloading the extnodes file with error reporting
# 
#
# This is intended to be run from cron every 5 min
#  Copyright 2018 Bryan Fields
#  Licensed under the GNU GPLv2

URL="http://register.pttlink.org/cgi-bin/gennodes.php"
FILEPATH=/var/lib/asterisk

#sleep for a random time of 0-300 seconds
#sleep $[( $RANDOM % 299 )  + 1 ]s

# use curl in silent and compressed mode, connect timeout of 5 and
# -f for fail with an error code of 22 on server errors
#-m 20 is a max time for the whole process of 20 seconds
curl -s --compressed --connect-timeout 5 -f -m 20 -o /tmp/rpt_extnodes-temp $URL
#curl --connect-timeout 5 -f -m 20 -o /tmp/rpt_extnodes-temp $URL
exitcode=$?
if [ "$exitcode" = "0" ]; then
    grep -q extnodes /tmp/rpt_extnodes-temp
        if [ $? -eq "0" ] ;then
            chmod 700 /tmp/rpt_extnodes-temp
            cp /tmp/rpt_extnodes-temp $FILEPATH/rpt_extnodes-temp
            mv -f $FILEPATH/rpt_extnodes-temp $FILEPATH/rpt_extnodes
            whenandwhere=`grep "Generated at" /tmp/rpt_extnodes-temp |cut -c2-100`
            #don't print out on good run
	    #echo "NodeUpdate installed a new nodes list $whenandwhere"
	    logger -i "NodeUpdate installed a new nodes list $whenandwhere"
        else
            #echo "NodeUpdate failed to parse node list; node list not updated"
	    logger -i "NodeUpdate failed to parse node list; node list not updated"
            exit 1
        fi

else
    #echo "NodeUpdate could not get nodes list from server"
    logger -i "NodeUpdate could not get nodes list from server"
    exit 1
fi
exit 0

#!/bin/bash
#
# A cron job script for downloading custom node announcements with error reporting 
#
# This is intended to be run from cron every 8 hours and will randomly insert a delay from 0-8 hours
#
#  Copyright 2018 Bryan Fields
#  Licensed under the GNU GPLv2

URL="rsync://rsync.pttlink.org/connect-messages"
FILEPATH="/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/rpt/nodenames"

#sleep for a random time of 0-28800 seconds (8 hours)
sleep $[ ( $RANDOM % 28799 )  + 1 ]s

#assign the filesUpdated var with the number of files changed by rsync.  This is nasty, but it works.

filesUpdated=`rsync -a --stats $URL $FILEPATH |grep "Number of regular files transferred" | cut -c 38-50`
exitcode=$?
if [ "$exitcode" = "0" ]; then
    if [ "$filesUpdated" = "0" ]; then
	echo "NodeNameUpdate run with no updates"
	logger -i "NodeNameUpdate run with no updates"
    elif [ "$filesUpdated" > "0" ]; then
	echo "NodeNameUpdate updated $filesUpdated nodenames"
        logger -i "NodeNameUpdate updated $filesUpdated nodenames" 
    fi
else
    echo "NodeNameUpdate failed"
    logger -i "NodeUpdate failed"
    exit 1
fi
exit 0

0 0,8,16 * * * 	root /usr/local/bin/NodeNameUpdate.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * 	root /usr/local/bin/NodeUpdate.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

sudo sed -i 's/allstarlink.org/pttlink.org/g' /usr/local/bin/rc.updatenodelist
sudo sed -i 's/allstarlink.org/pttlink.org/g' /usr/local/bin/NodeNameUpdate.sh
sudo sed -i 's/allstarlink.org/pttlink.org/g' /usr/local/bin/NodeUpdate.sh
sudo sed -i 's/allstarlink.org/pttlink.org/g' /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf
sudo sed -i 's/allstarlink.org/pttlink.org/g' /etc/asterisk/iax.conf
sudo sed -i 's/allstarlink.org/pttlink.org/g' /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf
sudo service asterisk restart

sudo reboot 

Beginners Guide

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The first step is to create an account.

Download PTTLink image file

Login to your account

Create a Server

Request a Node number

Edit Node settings

Install and configure PttLink to your computer

PTTLink software setup

PTTLink Audio settings with SimpleUSB

PTT and COS polarity settings

Ensure the nodelist is downloading

Add missing NodeUpdate.sh and NodeNameUpdate.sh scripts

PTTLink Configuration Updates

Allmon2 Setup.

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