<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div>On the pi:</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">apt-get -y asterisk</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32489" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32817" dir="ltr">Works just dandy - with a Grandstream FXO/FXS gateway anyway - no clue as to the rpt bits.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32818" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32819" dir="ltr">And I too have BBB's, Pi's, small PC's (node 40920 is an 'old' Everex GPC PC (about the same size +- as a Mac Mini) works fine.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32820" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32821" dir="ltr">Have not yet wired the URIx to a Baofeng which is what I will eventually do.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32488"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32487"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32414" class="signature"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32413">____________<br>Steven Donegan<br>KK6IVC FCC Technician Class License<br>SSCC/NORC Life Member, Car #86<br>www.sscc.us<br></div></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32472" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32471" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32470" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420258670095_32822" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Steve Zingman <szingman@msgstor.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, January 3, 2015 4:37 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [App_rpt-users] Asterisk on a Raspberry Pi<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Doug,<br clear="none">I have looked at your 818 repeater project. We bought a couple of the <br clear="none">828 boards. They do work, not well but they work. We then decided to <br clear="none">move to the Baofeng since they are cheaper cleaner and shipped from the US.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I know you gave up on the Pi. I like the BBB as well, but having a <br clear="none">little bit of every of hardware known to man between us It did not take <br clear="none">much to get Asterisk running. I'm not trying to support any piece of <br clear="none">hardware, I just enjoy the projects.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">73, Steve N4IRS<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt3822874095" id="yqtfd62740"><br clear="none">On 01/03/2015 07:19 PM, Doug Crompton wrote:<br clear="none">> Steve,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> You might want to check out my SA818 link on the hamvoip.org site. I<br clear="none">> have two running as a repeater. They are alright modules but do have<br clear="none">> some idiosyncrasies. They have poor harmonic filtering that does NOT<br clear="none">> meet FCC amateur specs so technically you need to put a filter on the<br clear="none">> output which I did in my design. I think for a cheap node the Baofeng<br clear="none">> 666 or 888 might be a better choice as it (I think) meets FCC specs out<br clear="none">> of the box. There are also links in the sa818 page to other sa818<br clear="none">> designs and Baofeng mods.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Good luck on the Pi. I gave up on it long ago and put all my effort into<br clear="none">> the BBB. Money wise it is really not a big difference. You can get C<br clear="none">> model BBB's for $40 at Microcenter now with good quantities so there was<br clear="none">> no real appeal to trying to get the Pi running once the BBB worked so<br clear="none">> well besides it is hard enough to support one platform. The problem is<br clear="none">> more in the OS and USB support than the platform although the BBB does<br clear="none">> have an edge in processing power. Using a bleeding edge OS is trying at<br clear="none">> times but it sure has advantages as things are maturing quickly.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> *73 Doug<br clear="none">> WA3DSP<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio*" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio*</a><br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> > Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 16:39:38 -0500<br clear="none">> > From: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:szingman@msgstor.com" href="mailto:szingman@msgstor.com">szingman@msgstor.com</a><br clear="none">> > To: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org" href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a><br clear="none">> > Subject: [App_rpt-users] AllStar Asterisk on a Raspberry Pi<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > For the past few weeks we have been playing around with building a cheap<br clear="none">> > simplex node. The idea was a simple RF node for around the house.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > We started with the NiceRF SA828-U. This was a pretty simple single RF<br clear="none">> > chip based complete UHF radio. At $22 plus shipping, worth a shot.<br clear="none">> > The Sa818 was also considered, but the SA828 was a more complete.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> <<a shape="rect" href="https://www.tindie.com/products/NiceRF/all-in-one-walkie-talkie-module-kit-sa828-v-400-480mhz/" target="_blank">https://www.tindie.com/products/NiceRF/all-in-one-walkie-talkie-module-kit-sa828-v-400-480mhz/</a>><br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > One problem with the single chip radios is that you have no access to<br clear="none">> > discriminator receive audio and to the modulator input, but it's cheap.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > The nice RF modules do work, but was there a better way? The SA-828 was<br clear="none">> > shipped from China and took forever to get to us in the States. We<br clear="none">> > started looking around for a alternative. Enter the Baofeng BF-888.<br clear="none">> > Available on Amazon, shipped from the US and $15 + tax shipped to Prime<br clear="none">> > account.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > A number of people have used the 888 for IRLP, EchoLink and AllStar<br clear="none">> > nodes. One thing we wanted to do differently was to take receive audio<br clear="none">> > freon the receiver before the audio anp. A web search will turn up<br clear="none">> > everything you need to know to use this type of radio in a node.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > Next was the USB interface. The DMK URI or the Repeater Builder USB RIM<br clear="none">> > are both fine pieces of equipment and we highly recommend them. There<br clear="none">> > are lots of CM108 sound FOB mods on the net. We used the WB2EDV carrier<br clear="none">> > board. With all new parts a a sound FOB, total cost about $23<br clear="none">> > <<a shape="rect" href="http://www.repeater-builder.com/projects/fob/syba71-fob.html" target="_blank">http://www.repeater-builder.com/projects/fob/syba71-fob.html</a>><br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > Last but not least, the node computer. Doug has created a nice<br clear="none">> > BeagleBone Black node computer. <<a shape="rect" href="http://hamviop.org/" target="_blank">http://hamviop.org</a>> We really like the<br clear="none">> > BBB board but we wanted to try something else. Since we had quite a few<br clear="none">> > Raspberry Pi between us, why not try it. We know others have said it<br clear="none">> > does not work (well) but was still worth a try.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > We did not want to create a downloadable image ready to go with scripts<br clear="none">> > to hold your hand. AllStar exported from the SVN, dahdi from<br clear="none">> > asterisk.org and roll your own.<br clear="none">> > The scripts we built will help you install the required libs to compile<br clear="none">> > Asterisk and some simple patches to fix some issues with Wheezy and<br clear="none">> > Raspbian. SSL (res_crypto) and GSM. We also fixed the script that<br clear="none">> > downloads the source for iLBC just to be complete.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > The test machine for the project was the first rev Pi 256 MB. Keeping<br clear="none">> > the loaded modules to a minimum, leaves about 64MB of free memory. Audio<br clear="none">> > reports are good Surprising since we are do not have access to<br clear="none">> > Discriminator and Modulator. The one complaint we got was the squelch<br clear="none">> > crash at the end of a user transmission. This is a work in process and I<br clear="none">> > would not put it out at a remote site. For a local simplex node, it<br clear="none">> > seems to work. One of the nodes is running full time on the bench at<br clear="none">> > node 2153.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > I'll post a link to the tar of the scripts and patches. It's worth<br clear="none">> > playing with if you have the time to wait for a compile and want to get<br clear="none">> > your hands dirty with AllStar built from scratch.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > Oh, and for the heck of it, we call it the PiStar ;)<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > 73, Steve N4IRS and Mike N4IRR.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > --<br clear="none">> > "Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about."<br clear="none">> > 1st Law of Logic<br clear="none">> > _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> > App_rpt-users mailing list<br clear="none">> > <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org" href="mailto:App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a><br clear="none">> > <a shape="rect" href="http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users" target="_blank">http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users</a><br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > To unsubscribe from this list please visit<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users" target="_blank">http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users </a>and scroll<br clear="none">> down to the bottom of the page. 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