Parrot Mode

Parrot Mode echos back the audio you transmit to the node. When a user keys up after parroting is enabled, the node's receive audio (your transmit) will be recorded and then played back a selectable amount of time later (parrottime) after the user un-keys.

Associated COP Methods

The associated Control OPerator commands/methods associated with Parrot Mode are:

COP	Description
21	Enable Parrot Mode
22	Disable Parrot Mode
23	"Birdbath" (cancel/flush parrot audio stream)
55	Parrot Once By Command

rpt.conf Settings

In order for some of the Parrot Mode COP commands to function, parrot must be set to a zero value in rpt.conf.

parrot=

Parrot Mode can be configured as follows:

parrot	Description
0	Parrot Mode Disabled
1	Parrot Mode Enabled

Parrot Mode Disabled

Parroting is disabled by default (parrot = 0). When disabled in rpt.conf, parroting can be still be controlled using the Parrot Mode With COP Commands and Parrot Mode Once With COP Command.

parrot = 0                      ; Parrot mode off or enabled with COP commands (default = 0)

Parrot Mode With COP Commands

This mode allows two COP commands (cop,21, cop,22) to be used to enable and disable Parrot Mode, respectively. Once Parrot Mode is enabled then all received signals will be echoed back until Parrot Mode is disabled. To select this mode, the value for parrot should be set to 0 in the Node Number Stanza:

Parrot Mode Once With COP Command

This mode, initiated with the cop,55 COP command, allows Parrot Mode to be enabled for one transmission only. To select this mode, the value for parrot should be set to 0 in the Node Number Stanza:

Recording will commence as soon as the command is decoded, so the DTMF command to enable cop,55 should be terminated with endchar and the user should not un-key (the recording starts immediately).

Parrot Mode Enabled (Always)

This mode permanently places the node in Parrot Mode. This is useful when you want to make a simplex repeater, or a dedicated node for audio testing that echos everything it hears. The parrot enable and parrot disable COP commands will have no effect when operating in this mode. To select this mode, the value for parrot should be set to 1 in the Node Number Stanza:

parrot = 1                          ; Parrot all audio, all the time

parrottime

The other setting associated with the above parrot modes is parrottime. parrottime set the time, in mS, that the system waits after the user un-keys, before playing back the recorded audio buffer.

parrottime = 1000                   ; Wait 1s (1000ms) before playback

Functions

The four COP methods should be mapped to DTMF sequences in the [functions] stanza to enable them, as desired.

Example:

921 = cop,21                        ; Enable Parrot Mode
922 = cop,22                        ; Disable Parrot Mode
923 = cop,23                        ; Birdbath (Current Parrot Cleanup/Flush)
955 = cop,55                        ; Parrot Once if parrot mode is disabled