[App_rpt-users] Beagle Bone Black how many interfaces

[Doug Crompton]

Sean,

I am sure others will respond but as far as I know there is no Beagle Black implementation of Allstar. If there was because of it limited horsepower it would probably not handle even one USBradio connection. SimpleUSB it might handle several nodes. The Beagle XM is the board used with Allstar. It uses a GPIO connected interface called an LOX that I don't think is available anymore. The XM is over three times the cost of the black.

 http://www.dmkeng.com/LOX_Order_Page.htm

The same would be true for the Raspberry Pi. No implementation but if there was it would be limited to SimpleUSB.  

Not that there is a problem with simpleUSB. I use it and it works fine. I don't find the added features and complexity of USBradio to be necessary in my case. Properly setup I doubt anyone would know the difference. 

You just have to find a minimalist computer that can handle what you want to do. There are a ton of not so old off lease computers out there in the $100 or less range. Most are within 5 years old. If you don't like running hard drives a 64G SSD would work fine and they are in the $75 range.
73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


> From: ve6sar at gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:45:36 -0700
> To: App_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> Subject: [App_rpt-users] Beagle Bone Black how many interfaces
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm completely new to app_rpt an been doing lots of reading up it.
> 
> My back ground is using hardware controllers for repeater linking and
> I've built several IRLP nodes over the years
> 
> Now I'm trying to learn something new.
> 
> I'm looking at using a beagle bone black and some home made radio
> interfaces since to idea behind the project is to make a controller
> cheaper then a hardware one.
> 
> How many radio interfaces can the beagle bone black realistically work
> with at one time?
> 
> Assume full duplex connections
> 
> Thanks
> Sean, VE6SAR
> 
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