so ive been messing around with remote station control for about 8 months now and finally got something stable-ish running but im curious if anyone is actually doing this with RemoteHams and also tying in some kind of internet linking like echolink or allstar on the backend

my current setup is a kenwood ts-590sg at the remote end, running the RemoteHams client software on a dedicated box out there, and it mostly works but i keep running into these weird latency spikes that make it basically unusable on SSB when my connection gets flaky. CW is fine, digital is fine, but voice is just rough sometimes. the SDR side is actually kind of interesting because ive got an rtlsdr plugged into a pi at the same location and i was trying to use that as a panadapter feed through the RemoteHams interface but honestly the integration is clunky and i dont think thats really what the software was designed for

the internet linking piece is where i get confused. ive got an allstar node at home and i was thinking about somehow bridging that to the remote location so i could do some linked repeater stuff through the remote rig but i cant quite figure out if that even makes sense architecturally or if im just creating a mess. anyone tried something like this? or is there a smarter way to think about the whole thing

yeah ive been running a RemoteHams setup for almost two years, ts-2000 at a hilltop location about 40 miles from my house. the latency thing you're describing is just kind of the reality of it, at least on consumer internet. i ended up putting a dedicated 4g lte backup connection at the remote site and bonding it with the main dsl and that helped a lot but its not perfect. for voice i basically just accepted that anything under 150ms round trip is workable and anything above that i switch to digital or CW

the SDR panadapter idea through RemoteHams is a dead end in my experience, the software really wasnt built with that workflow in mind. what i did instead was run a separate SDRangel instance at the remote site and just remote desktop into that when i want the visual spectrum, its not elegant but it works and the cpu overhead is manageable on a halfway decent mini pc

the allstar bridge idea is interesting but i think youre overcomplicating it. allstar and RemoteHams are solving pretty different problems and trying to merge them sounds like a support nightmare. what are you actually trying to accomplish with the linking piece, like whats the end goal

not sure about the allstar angle since i've never tried that combo but the SDR integration thing caught my eye. i've been lookin at doing something similar with a kiwisdr at my remote location instead of fighting with the rtlsdr on a pi. the kiwi has its own web interface so you can just open a browser tab and youre looking at like a 30mhz wide chunk of spectrum, no integration required. might be worth looking at if the panadapter piece matters to you becasue it sidesteps the whole software compatibility problem entirely