[App_rpt-users] beaglebone w/ URI

[David McGough]

Hi Guys,

I would very much like to see app_rpt (or equivalent) running under recent
versions of Asterisk, too.  All the Asterisk developer efforts for Pi's,
Beaglebone's, etc., are understandably targeting very recent versions, not
deprecated releases (such as the Asterisk 1.4.x tree).

However, porting app_rpt forward has some issues standing in the way. As I
see it, the chief issue is the fairly recent license model which Digium
requires developers to sign, if they with to have their code included with
the official software distributions. As many other developers have
remarked too, it gives me a bit of a rash! See it here:  
https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/secure/DigiumLicense.jspa  ....I could 
remark further, but, the webpage speaks for itself.  Yuck!

What I'm currently looking for is an alternative strategy which will allow
code to be included in the Digium source tree and resolve any "ownership"  
concerns. This basically amounts to a simplistic channel driver and
application connector API to Asterisk, which would be included with
Asterisk under the contributor license. Then, all the actual radio-related
code falls into separate-from-Asterisk applications which connect to it
using the API. As a side effect, by putting the radio-related code in
stand-alone applications, other technical issues (such as hardware
drivers, etc.) are simplified, too.

Before I ramble on further, anyone got any thoughts about this?


73, David KB4FXC





On Tue, 12 Nov 2013, Doug Crompton wrote:

> 
This question has been asked by me and others many times. The problem is 
there would need to be software changes to do that. I don't think there 
is any question that Allstar would work on the Black or even the 
Raspberry  Pi in simpleusb if someone wanted to work on the software 
challenges.
> 
> The Raspberry Pi has a great Asterisk package that works amazing well 
(see links below).  The problem is the Pi Asterisk package is a late 
release that will not run app_rpt.  It is also a Debian package. People 
have tried to make it work but I have not seen any successes to date???? 
I am not sure why for instance the ACID package could not be compiled on 
the Pi.  Perhaps I should try it and see how many errors I get. The only 
things you need for a simple node are USB and Ethernet which both of 
these boards have. The Pi works great on IRLP.
> 
> http://nerdvittles.com/?p=5527
> http://nerdvittles.com/?p=3026
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pbxinaflash/files/IncrediblePi-1.x-Debian-6/
>  73 Doug
> WA3DSP
> http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
> 
> 
> > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:32:08 -0500
> > From: kb1ncj at gmail.com
> > To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> > Subject: [App_rpt-users] beaglebone w/ URI
> > 
> > Any possibility Pickle or Limey would run on the beaglebone black with 
> > usb URI? Will that board power the URI? Just an idea..
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