remotetrx - Man Page
The SvxLink remote transceiver application
Synopsis
remotetrx [--help] [--daemon] [--logfile=log file] [--config=configuration file] [--pidfile=pid file] [--runasuser=user name]
Description
remotetrx is the SvxLink remote transceiver application. It is used to connect to a receiver and/or transmitter and then the main SvxLink server can connect to the remote transceiver server via TCP/IP to get audio to/from it.
It is also possible to link via RF instead of via TCP/IP. An example use of the latter would be if the repeater is placed in a remote location where there is no network. Then networked remote receivers can be linked up to the repeater via RF from a link site where network is available.
The setup is pretty straight forward. The setup of a receiver or transmitter is done in the same way as in the SvxLink server so use the svxlink.conf(5) manual page as a reference for that. The remotetrx specific configuration is described in the remotetrx.conf(5) manual page.
On the SvxLink server side you need to configure a networked receiver/transmitter. That is described in the svxlink.conf(5) manual page in the Networked Receiver/Transmitter Section. If using multiple receivers you also want to configure a voter and make proper calibration of the signal level detector on each receiver.
Options
- --help
Print a help message and exit.
- --daemon
Start the SvxLink remote receiver server as a daemon.
- --runasuser
Start RemoteTrx as the specified user. The switch to the new user will happen after the log and pid files has been opened.
- --logfile=log file
Specify a log file to put all output into. Both stdout and stderr will be redirected to the log file.
- --pidfile=pid file
Specify a pid file to write the process ID into.
- --config=configuration file
Specify which configuration file to use.
Files
- /etc/svxlink/remotetrx.conf (or deprecated /etc/remotetrx.conf)
The system wide configuration file. See remotetrx.conf(5) for further details.
- ~/.svxlink/remotetrx.conf
Per user configuration file. See remotetrx.conf(5) for further details.
- /etc/svxlink/remotetrx.d/*
Additional configuration files. This directory is setup by the CFG_DIR configuration variable.
Environment
- ASYNC_AUDIO_NOTRIGGER
Set this environment variable to 1 if you get an error about ioctl: Broken pipe during remotetrx server startup when using OSS audio.
- ASYNC_AUDIO_ALSA_ZEROFILL
Set this environment variable to 0 to stop the Alsa audio code from writing zeros to the audio device when there is no audio to write available. ASYNC_AUDIO_UDP_ZEROFILL Set this environment variable to 1 to enable the UDP audio code to write zeros to the UDP connection when there is no audio to write available.
- HOME
Used to find the per user configuration file.
Author
Tobias Blomberg (SM0SVX) <sm0svx at svxlink dot org>
Reporting Bugs
Bugs should be reported using the issue tracker at https://github.com/sm0svx/svxlink.
Questions about SvxLink should not be asked using the issue tracker. Instead use the group set up for this purpose at groups.io: https://groups.io/g/svxlink
See Also
svxlink(1), remotetrx.conf(5), svxlink.conf(5), siglevdetcal(1)
Referenced By
remotetrx.conf(5), siglevdetcal(1), svxlink(1), svxlink.conf(5).