Hi Everyone, I’ve just started looking at Allstar, or more specifically Asterisk and app_rpt as a possible way to link several repeaters in our area together. Our hardware guy wants to use the OrangePi Zero as each repeater node and I’ve got Asterisk installed via the Allstarlink repo as per the FAQ on the wiki and Asterisk is running (on Armbian Stretch). The hardware guy also wants to use the onboard sound device on the OrangePI and GPIO pins to do tx/rx switching. Reading through the somewhat confusing documentation leads me to think this might not be possible. Is that the case? Does anyone have anything like this running? Thanks, Carl. (vk1kcm)
On 1/8/19 5:39 AM, Carl Makin wrote:
I’ve just started looking at Allstar, or more specifically Asterisk and app_rpt as a possible way to link several repeaters in our area together.
Our hardware guy wants to use the OrangePi Zero as each repeater node and I’ve got Asterisk installed via the Allstarlink repo as per the FAQ on the wiki and Asterisk is running (on Armbian Stretch).
It the Pi Zero likely doesn't have the CPU to run much, it's why it's not suggested as hardware.
The hardware guy also wants to use the onboard sound device on the OrangePI and GPIO pins to do tx/rx switching. Reading through the somewhat confusing documentation leads me to think this might not be possible. Is that the case?
The on board sound device it not suitable as it has filtering and noise for this. These are hardware issues with the audio chip in the broadcom CPU. I'd suggest you stick with a CM108/119 based device, RTCM/voter, or pciradio. It's going to be fully supported and we will be able to help you. Asterisk has a bunch of experimental code in it, and not all is intended for production use. That said, if you're wanting to get it from alpha to production quantity, patches and pull requests are greatly appreciated. 73s -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net
Hi Bryan,
On 9 Jan 2019, at 5:32 am, Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net> wrote:
On 1/8/19 5:39 AM, Carl Makin wrote:
Our hardware guy wants to use the OrangePi Zero as each repeater node and I’ve got Asterisk installed via the Allstarlink repo as per the FAQ on the wiki and Asterisk is running (on Armbian Stretch).
It the Pi Zero likely doesn't have the CPU to run much, it's why it's not suggested as hardware.
It’s the OrangePI Zero, not RaspberryPi Zero. It’s a 1.2Ghz Allwinner H2+ (A7 Quad core) with 512MB RAM. It’s pretty close to a RaspberryPI 2 I think. Regarding the sound, it uses the sunxi sound system, not the Broadcom one, but I’m certainly going to have to investigate it further to see if it will work. Looking through Github, the channel driver for the Beagleboard looks much like what I want so I might have a play with that. Thanks! Carl. (vk1kcm)
See chan_alsaradio and the beaglebone GPIO. I've got a couple boards that I need to compile a driver for. Best regards William On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 5:41 PM Carl Makin <carl@stagecraft.cx wrote:
Hi Bryan,
On 9 Jan 2019, at 5:32 am, Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net> wrote:
Our hardware guy wants to use the OrangePi Zero as each repeater node and I’ve got Asterisk installed via the Allstarlink repo as per the FAQ on
On 1/8/19 5:39 AM, Carl Makin wrote: the
wiki and Asterisk is running (on Armbian Stretch).
It the Pi Zero likely doesn't have the CPU to run much, it's why it's not suggested as hardware.
It’s the OrangePI Zero, not RaspberryPi Zero. It’s a 1.2Ghz Allwinner H2+ (A7 Quad core) with 512MB RAM. It’s pretty close to a RaspberryPI 2 I think.
Regarding the sound, it uses the sunxi sound system, not the Broadcom one, but I’m certainly going to have to investigate it further to see if it will work.
Looking through Github, the channel driver for the Beagleboard looks much like what I want so I might have a play with that.
Thanks!
Carl. (vk1kcm)
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Hi William,
On 9 Jan 2019, at 10:45 am, William Franzin <wfranzin@gmail.com> wrote:
See chan_alsaradio and the beaglebone GPIO.
I’m definitely going to look at the Beaglebone channel driver as I suspect it will just need the GPIO definitions adjusted. I didn’t know about chan_alsaradio, thanks for that! I’ll have a good look at that too. Carl. (vk1kcm)
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