Ramon,
Thanks for your kind comments and congratulations on getting your BBB up and running. I am amazed myself at the ease and speed of getting a node online once you have done it a few times. I think I can get a BBB node online in less than 10 minutes minus writing the sd card and acquiring a new server and node at allstarlink.org.
We have not had any heat issues but it is never a bad idea to dissipate heat especially when you run it in an area that has an elevated temperature.
73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:19:03 -0400
From: kp4tr.ramon at gmail.com
To: doug at crompton.com; app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] BeagleBone Black Allstar Official Release
Doug,
Just wanted to congratulate you on your efforts in porting Allstar
to the BeagleBone Black. I just got my BBB board today and have a
node up and running with no issues. Took me about 3 hours to set
up, but mostly because I realized the BBB uses a microSD card,
which I didn't have one on hand. I had to go to Walmart and get
one because it is close and open at 9:30PM.
I am using the simpleusb.conf, which I have never used, but works
fine.
The TI chip does get a bit hot, so I put a heat sink on it to
help.
On 6/26/2014 10:24 AM, Doug Crompton wrote:
The distro is Arch
Linux but this is a complete package, image download at the
website. No additional downloads are required. You do not need
to do anything but configure it.
73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 05:16:42 -0700
From: donegan at donegan.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] BeagleBone Black Allstar Official
Release
To: doug at crompton.com
CC: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
Yes, and the distro required on the SW side - I
have a current node in test mode with an 'old' everex
GPC, A.C.I.D. and URIx, I have an unused BeagleBone
Black, so just wondering what else would be required to
'glue' a BBB based one together. I'll check out
hamvoip.org shortly and see what kernels (pun intended)
of data it has :-)
____________
Steven Donegan
KK6IVC
SSCC/NORC Life Member, Car #86
www.sscc.us
From: Doug
Crompton <doug at crompton.com>
To:
Steven Donegan <donegan at donegan.org>
Cc:
"app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org"
<app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org>
Sent:
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 10:37 PM
Subject:
Re: [App_rpt-users] BeagleBone Black Allstar
Official Release
Steven,
I think you are asking about hardware?
BBB, sound FOB, Radio.
73
Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
Date:
Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:07:11 -0700
From: donegan at donegan.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] BeagleBone
Black Allstar Official Release
To: doug at crompton.com
What is the complete
configuration required? IE BBB+?
Being
a computer professional
(+geek+electronics geek+ham etc) I
might just replace my low power mac
mini sized node with an even more
small and power efficient unit - and
besides I like hacking on linux and
asterisk :-)
____________
Steven Donegan
KK6IVC
SSCC/NORC Life Member, Car #86
www.sscc.us
From:
Doug Crompton
<doug at crompton.com>
To:
"app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org"
<app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org>
Sent:
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 10:02 PM
Subject:
[App_rpt-users] BeagleBone Black
Allstar Official Release
Hello and
welcome to the first public
release of Allstar on the
BeagleBone Black. This
represents months of trial
and error testing which
first started with the
Raspberry Pi back at the
beginning of the year and
was finally successful on
the BBB platform. We have
had several beta versions
out now for over two months
with many testers and we had
very good reports. There is
more to be done but this is
a working system that will
allow many to get rid of
their energy consuming PC's
with constantly running hard
drives and have an Allstar
system that fits in the palm
of your hand.
The web page I have created
gives very detailed
instructions on how to
download, install, and
configure your BBB for use
with Allstar. The web page
is:
hamvoip.org
There you will find a link
to download the image and
also to join the arm-allstar
email list. Please try to
address questions specific
to the BBB and Allstar to
the arm-allstar list and not
the apt-rpt list.
While the code is the
current Acid release there
are many differences in how
things are done on the BBB
and the OS we are using,
Arch Linux, is much
different than Centos or
Debian. Please refer to the
web page for detailed info
on some of the differences.
We also recommend that you
NOT use the nodesetup
routine that is offered on
the standard Acid release.
In many ways this is faulty
and often more trouble than
it is worth. For that reason
we have renamed nodesteup on
the image and made it
non-executable. Besides what
is described on the web page
there is a very detailed
how-to describing first time
setup of the config files.
We encourage you to edit the
existing config files rather
than wholesale copying your
existing configs on top of
the examples. There is a
little learning involved but
in the long run it is good
to know how things work by
configuring the files on
your own.
We also encourage you to
make image backups once you
have your system configured.
This will avoid having to
recreate your configuration
should a failure of some
kind occur. While we have
not seen any problems with
power failures and as far as
we know not one SD card has
ever failed running Allstar
there is always a first time
and better safe than sorry.
This release does not have
the backup/restore scripts
that we promised but they
will be available soon.
Basically what they will do
is copy /etc/asterisk and
all directories under it in
entirety into a tar file and
then you would use winscp or
a similar file copy program
to transfer the tar file to
another computer. This would
allow you to make updates of
the image when new code is
released in the future
without losing your former
configuration. For now you
can do this manually. See
the howto on the web page
for instructions on doing
image and directory backups.
It is not hard to do and
well worth the piece of
mind.
Have fun and I hope you
enjoy your new BBB Allstar
node. There will be many
more features and upgrades
available in the future all
of which will be announced
on the arm-allstar email
list. There are already
plenty of experienced users
on the list that can help
you with any problems you
might have.
73 Doug, WA3DSP
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