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4 years ago I do want to mention that the file for the designation of the Tally GPIO pins needs to be addressed. In the /etc/default qmsk-e2-tally file, not only do you have to remove the comments "#", but there is an extra blank line that needs to be removed as well.
Agreed, the the EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/qmsk-e2-tally syntax with the \ line-continuations is not very user-friendly. Unfortunately, it's the file format defined by systemd, and there's not really any better way to define those TALLY_OPTIONS.
The go-flags package that we use supports setting option default values from environment variables, so the tally gpio options could be improved to support separate environment variables like TALLY_GPIO_PIN_GREEN=23, TALLY_GPIO_PIN_RED=24, TALLY_GPIO_PINS=... etc, which would make the /etc/default/qmsk-e2-tally much easier to use.
Alternatively some custom .toml configuation file.
Is there a way to get the software to ignore more than on destination? I can get it to ignore a single destination by placing it in the above file at the end. But if I try to add another destination to ignore, it will ignore the second destination and not the first. I'm sure it's just a configuration error on my part. Any help would be appreciated.
You can only pass --tally-ignore-dest=REGEXP once, but you can use a regexp that matches multiple different values: --tally-ignore-dest=Monitor|Test. Note that a regexp pattern like "Monitor" will also match destination names like "Monitor 1", unless use you ^...$ to anchor to regexp to the start/end of the name.
I edited https://github.com/qmsk/e2/wiki/Tally#configuration to add some better examples.
The quoting with the special characters may get a little tricky when passing regexps via the shell or the systemd EnvironmentFile, but they're powerful enough to express anything you need.
Running 0.6.1 Relatively new to the Raspberry Pi. Great work on the Tally software. After a couple of learning kicks to the head I was able to get it up and running. I do want to mention that the file for the designation of the Tally GPIO pins needs to be addressed. In the /etc/default qmsk-e2-tally file, not only do you have to remove the comments "#", but there is an extra blank line that needs to be removed as well.
On another note: Is there a way to get the software to ignore more than on destination? I can get it to ignore a single destination by placing it in the above file at the end. But if I try to add another destination to ignore, it will ignore the second destination and not the first. I'm sure it's just a configuration error on my part. Any help would be appreciated.