[Allstar Digital] BBB use?

Mon Nov 30 18:29:05 EST 2015

Will a BBB work for this interface?

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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:29:14 -0500
>From: Mike Zingman <mike.zingman at gmail.com>
>To: Digital linking using Asterisk and app_rpt
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>Subject: Re: [Allstar Digital] A new Pi
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>I am using an OrangePi. For $15 it is a great value. I would see the new pi
>as an internet of things IoT device.
>On Nov 27, 2015 2:20 PM, "Buddy Brannan" <buddy at brannan.name> wrote:
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>> I'm also interested in this:
>> http://getchip.com
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>> Wonder how things will run on it? Sounds good, price is right.
>>
>> --
>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
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>> > On Nov 27, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Mike Zingman <mike.zingman at gmail.com>
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>> > http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/26/raspberry-pi-zero/?ncid=rss
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>Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:40:00 -0500
>From: "Bryan D. Boyle" <bdboyle at bdboyle.com>
>To: allstar-digital at lists.keekles.org
>Subject: Re: [Allstar Digital] Allstar-Digital Digest, Vol 2, Issue 25
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>OK, I realize that I'm a little late coming to the party here...but, is 
>there a BOM (bill of materials) aside from a DMR repeater and a working 
>allstar (been doing it for 6 years...so, I think I can spin up another 
>node...) node?
>
>Reason I'm asking is that I've come into the ability to get onto a 500' 
>tower that already has a 440 stick near the top.  Now, I'll have to get 
>a 5.8 gig link back to my central net access point (about 8 air 
>miles...Ubnt equipment is your friend), but, also have a moto UHF DMR 
>repeater sitting in a box ready to go, and my local coord body is going 
>to hunt for a pair on narrowband spacing to assign to me.
>
>So, assuming I have the repeater (and amp), duplexer, Pi2B, net 
>connection...I think I'll need some dongle (AMBE?) to do the 
>transcoding, another channel driver for allstar...a legit node number 
>(though, I don't see this ever showing up on DMR-MARC like my other 
>machine in Fairless Hills); I only plan on using this as a DMR link into 
>my existing allstar network...)
>
>Thinking that the Pi uses the DIAL release?  Or is Compton's version 
>workable?  saw something about a different channel driver...so, that's 
>on the list to acquire and gen into the system (haven't looked to see if 
>it is part of the distro).
>
>Am I missing something?  I'll offer to collect FAQ information and 
>re-post as need be (I know what it's like cranking on code and then 
>facing doing the dox...) if that would be a help.
>
>And if I'm off base, I'm ok with that and will go back to lurking...
>
>73 all
>Bryan WB0YLE
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>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:55:55 -0500
>From: Steve Zingman <szingman at msgstor.com>
>To: Digital linking using Asterisk and app_rpt
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>Subject: Re: [Allstar Digital] Allstar-Digital Digest, Vol 2, Issue 25
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>I'll take my PC hat off her. That's Politically Correct.
>Some people want you to think that it's a magic trick to run AllStar 
>Asterisk on a specific board. It's not true. AllStar Asterisk has a few 
>requirements that the underlying Linux must provide. DAHDI needs to be 
>compiled as a kernel module, so the kernel headers are required. For 
>most sound hardware, OSS (Open Sound System) is required. That's about 
>it. I too have been around AllStar for quite a while and it was a 
>problem compiling app_rpt on Debian early on. Since ACID was the 
>official distribution, I had to go it alone if I wanted Debian. I 
>started building my scripts and patches so I could run AllStar Asterisk 
>on Debian. Someone called the scripts and patches just a collection of 
>files. That's quite true. Just as AllStar is just a collection of files.
>
>We decided to run AllStar on a RPI1 as a test. For me, it was fun to try 
>to shoehorn AllStar in a limited resource machine like the Pi1. It 
>worked. It's not great but it works. At the same time, more and more 
>people were running into problem with ACID on newer hardware. ACID was 
>built on a older version of Centos. Either it would not run, or there 
>were no drivers for needed hardware. Since I ran my nodes on current 
>Debian, I already had the scripts and patches to run AllStar on current 
>hardware under Debian. I decided To take those scripts and build a 
>complete installer. It took someone from "Bare Metal" to a up and 
>running node.
>
>Jim WB6NIL asked me if the Bare Metal installer I built could be used to 
>replace the aging ACID distribution. I said sure since it would reduce 
>the pain people were running into. Jim published the installer as DIAL. 
>As they say, what's in a name. Jim knew we had already built AllStar on 
>a RPi so he asked if I would create a image for the RPI2. I really don't 
>like images because they can get bloated with unneeded fluff. But people 
>prefer to download a disk image and burn it to a card. So I built DIAL 
>for the RPi2 and Jim published it.
>
>DIAL on the X86 or DIAL on the ARM are just AllStar Asterisk. No more no 
>less. All the apps, functions and channel drivers from the SVN 
>repository are included. I do disable what I consider unneeded modules 
>in modules.conf, simple to turn on when needed by editing modules.conf. 
>ALL the code is compiled and installed, just not enabled for run time. 
>This reduces the CPU load, the memory footprint and keeps asterisk form 
>logging complaints about missing unneeded configuration files. Lean and 
>mean is the motto. I continue to build version of DIAL on machines like 
>the BBB and OrangePi. X86 uses a very slightly tweaked version of the 
>Debian Net installer. It's pretty lean. For the RPi2 I did not like the 
>bloat included with the stock Raspbian images. So we built a stripped 
>down distribution based on stock Debian. The idea was not to strip out 
>what was not needed, the idea was to never include the fluff in the 
>first place. This is one of the reasons people are reporting good 
>success running 2 active nodes on a RPi2 with the chan_USB drivers. The 
>only added post install scripts were updated scripts from ACID. Jim 
>wanted these for new people, so they were includes. There are no weather 
>scripts, no talking clocks, no "hold you hand" junk. There is room to 
>add that stuff if you want.
>
>DMRGateway uses exactly nothing out of AllStar. Huh? DMRGateway feeds 
>audio to and receives audio from AllStar through the stock USRP channel 
>driver. The USRP channel drivers job is simple, take in PCM on a UDP 
>port and send it into Asterisk. It sends Asterisk audio out via UDP. It 
>also handles the PTT and COR signals app_rpt expects. The same way you 
>add Echolink (yuck) to AllStar, you add USRP to AllStar. From there 
>DMRGateway, DV3000 and DMRLink make up everything needed to connect 
>AllStar to a IPSC network.
>
>Bottom line, All of the meat and none of the fat. DMRGateway will work 
>with any version of AllStar that has the stock USRP channel driver.
>
>For INAD, 73, Steve N4IRS.
>
>On 11/27/2015 02:40 PM, Bryan D. Boyle wrote:
>> OK, I realize that I'm a little late coming to the party here...but, 
>> is there a BOM (bill of materials) aside from a DMR repeater and a 
>> working allstar (been doing it for 6 years...so, I think I can spin up 
>> another node...) node?
>>
>> Reason I'm asking is that I've come into the ability to get onto a 
>> 500' tower that already has a 440 stick near the top.  Now, I'll have 
>> to get a 5.8 gig link back to my central net access point (about 8 air 
>> miles...Ubnt equipment is your friend), but, also have a moto UHF DMR 
>> repeater sitting in a box ready to go, and my local coord body is 
>> going to hunt for a pair on narrowband spacing to assign to me.
>>
>> So, assuming I have the repeater (and amp), duplexer, Pi2B, net 
>> connection...I think I'll need some dongle (AMBE?) to do the 
>> transcoding, another channel driver for allstar...a legit node number 
>> (though, I don't see this ever showing up on DMR-MARC like my other 
>> machine in Fairless Hills); I only plan on using this as a DMR link 
>> into my existing allstar network...)
>>
>> Thinking that the Pi uses the DIAL release?  Or is Compton's version 
>> workable?  saw something about a different channel driver...so, that's 
>> on the list to acquire and gen into the system (haven't looked to see 
>> if it is part of the distro).
>>
>> Am I missing something?  I'll offer to collect FAQ information and 
>> re-post as need be (I know what it's like cranking on code and then 
>> facing doing the dox...) if that would be a help.
>>
>> And if I'm off base, I'm ok with that and will go back to lurking...
>>
>> 73 all
>> Bryan WB0YLE
>>
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