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
Very good news, Doug! Keep up the good work. Brett KQ9N On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Doug Crompton <doug@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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Thats very nice, Doug! So i have many questions to install it for a very low power system with BBB: Do you have an install packet for the BBB?If not, is sufficient to simply install Debian wheezy 7.3 ? Where you download AllStarLink software for this linux distribution? I'm used for install to ITX boards the ACID packet from original site allstarlink.org. 73! Thomas, IW3AMQ From: doug@crompton.com To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 00:51:39 -0400 Subject: [App_rpt-users] Beaglebone Black Allstar operational 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 _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users To unsubscribe from this list please visit http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Enter your email address and press the "Unsubscribe or edit options button" You do not need a password to unsubscribe, you can do it via email confirmation. If you have trouble unsubscribing, please send a message to the list detailing the problem.
Sounds good to me. I've heard that there is another manufacturer of the Beaglebone Black now, so maybe once they get up to speed it will be easier to acquire one. Matthew Pitts N8OHU On April 5, 2014 12:51:39 AM AST, Doug Crompton <doug@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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Doug, I have a feeling that myself and a few other beginners are used to the typical wipe/CentOS install associated with ACID, so we scratch our head when we see someone successfully using app_rpt on another OS (in your case, Wheezy) . Could you share a little about how you compiled the OS, and app_rpt? Thanks! Sam KJ6QFS On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Doug Crompton <doug@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 DougWA3DSPhttp://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
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