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Since there are many new members interested in talkkonnect, there are many emails I receive in a week. We are ready to answer your questions by voice chat using mumble.

Please join us using the following mumble connection details
for other mumble clients

server: mumble.talkkonnect.com:64738

You can set any name you would like to be called

Join the Channel HAM-CB

We will be standing by when we can, talk to you guys soon!

for talkkonnect

<account name="community-talkkonnect" default="true">   <!-- Server identifier and enabler -->
  <serverandport>mumble.talkkonnect.com:64738</serverandport> <!-- server:port of mumble server to connect to -->
  <username>yourname</username> <!-- Mumble Username that will be used to authenticate on the mumble server -->
  <password></password> 
  <insecure>true</insecure>   <!-- Set to true of your server doesnt require a certificate-->
  <certificate></certificate> <!-- Full Path to Certificate if Certificate is needed by Server -->
  <channel>HAM-CB</channel>   <!-- Initial Channel on The Server to Move to after successful connection -->
  <ident>yourname yoursurname</ident>             <!-- The identity to be sent in a panic situation -->
</account>

Josef a veteran ham radio operator in Austria contacted me and build talkkonnect to talk to his friends and also interface to his CB radio. Below are the pictures. I cannot explain how satisfying it is when someone uses talkkonnect and builds his own hardware. Please do continue to send pictures!

What better way to talk to the family while on the road. Ask the wife whats for dinner from the car? Or while traveling abroad keep in touch with the family.

I wipped up this intercom form factor of talkkonnect using a plastic project box, Orange Pi Zero, PM8403 Amp Board and an 1.3 OLED I2C Screen on a sunday afternoon.

talKKonnect can work with LIRC. You can add an infra red remote controller to change channels, change Mumble servers, adjust volume, press PTT, stream media, etc. You can program IR control keys for any talKKonnect function supported by talKKonnect http api.

I have created an irc channel on freenode the channel is #talkkonnect and I will try to hangout on the channel as much as I can. If anyone is interested in communicating or building talkkonnect hope to see you there!

talkkonnect orangepi zero with 0.96 OLED screen startup process

Checkout the video for showing the startup process of orangepi zero at

Check out the latest build looking very nice with OLED screen

If you are using terminal emulators like putty or kitty from windows you may have this problem that talkkonnect
does not respond correctly to functions keys F1-F4. You can set putty as the screen shot below and then ssh in again.

If you want to change keymappings in the code you can also do so but this will cause problems down the line I suggest that the problem
be solved by fixing the problem with the terminal (putty) for this case.

For http api you can use command for example http://192.168.10.3:8080/?command=F1 (the IP of the example talkkonnect is 192.168.10.3 change to your talkkonnect ip address)

Test Mode
1. There will be 1K test tones streaming feature for testing for packet loss
2. Press PTT in a predefined loop for testing until failure.

Streaming
1. Add cancellable stream so that participants can listen to a stream until someone interrupts the stream

Log Levels
1. Define log levels for talkkonnect configurable in talkkonnect.xml

Daemon
1. Let talkkonnect run in a daemon terminal that can be connected locally or remotely via tcp port

PTT Mode
1. Add PTT toggle mode for more convenience

Variable Bit Rate
1. Add variable bit rate to talkkonnect