[App_rpt-users] Beaglebone Black Allstar operational

[Brett Friermood]

Very good news, Doug!

Keep up the good work.

Brett KQ9N

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Doug Crompton <doug at crompton.com> wrote:
> Some good news, I have Allstar running on the (BBB) Beaglebone Black. At
> least so far it does not seem to have the flaws that plagued the Raspberry
> Pi. The BBB has more processing power and does not seem to suffer from the
> USB problems the RPi had.
>
> Much more testing needs to be done as I have only had the Black for three
> days! I think many distributors are already out of stock since just last
> week when I got notice they were again available.
>
> The install is running in Debian wheezy 7.3. The BBB has a number of ways to
> connect. SSH via ethernet, via a client USB from a PC, via a serial port, or
> using the HDMI/keyboard. I have disabled the HDMI though and I am running it
> headless. The BBB only has one host USB port unlike the RPi's two.
>
> The BBB has 54 GPIO lines available when you disable the HDMI. So there a a
> lot of things you can do with it.
>
> I have not given up on the RPi. It just has some flaws that would make it
> objectionable to most users when running Allstar. I have been running it
> here and those at the other end have no idea I am using it but there are
> processing delays would make it unusable in a repeater environment and
> annoying otherwise. There is a group working on USB issues and perhaps I can
> revisit it in the future.
>
> 73 Doug
> WA3DSP
> http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
>
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