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Aaron, N3MBHForum Administrator
Hey Joe,
You’re running on a RPI2 right? What image are you running on? Richard has a Beta 2 image up that fixed some stuff on the RPI. I have had success with CM-108 cards. as well as another generic USB sound card. We are working on a hardware design that will incorporate the sound card into the interface board and accessed over I2C instead of USB.73,
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorEirik,
Thanks for the comment. We feel there is a niche for an open source repeater controller as there really isn’t anything else like it. Being open source gives us many advantages: it allows a broader range of hams to get involve in its development and improvement, better community, and a greater long term prospect in a cost conscious vertical market.We’re still getting things rolling, but we have some exciting update coming up including software and hardware. Stay tuned for more.
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorExcellent Nils, glad you got it up and working! Looks like a great setup you have and your PDF is nicely documented. Looking at your schematic of your interface and other notes about config, it looks like you are using the software vox. Your radio appears to have a COS line since you have a carrier LED. If that comes on when it receives an incoming signal, then with a little extra circuitry (optocoupler and a resister) you can tie that into a GPIO pin on the PI for more reliability. We don’t have that very well documented at the moment, but we hope to make some basic schematics here soon to work towards an interface board.
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorNils H, Thanks for your input on the Beta. Just a couple comments.
#1 – As you have stated, others are aware of the PW issue, this only affects the RPI2 and C1. We plan to address this on the next build. For the time being, I have entered what the PWs are for the board in the Getting Started guide.
#4 – Yes every situation might be a little different especially when folks are bringing their own hardware to the table. We plan to add script that reads in the available audio devices and channels to populate a dropdown to facilitate easier detection and selection for ports.
#5 – Right now the CTCSS is on the main settings page and is not fully implemented. CTCSS is support in the core but has not been tested for reliability. I am thinking of moving the CTCSS into the ports section. This will allow different tones/settings to be selected for different ports. The ports section is still under construction an was recently added to make provision for…well more ports.
#6 GPIO will vary from device to device. One thought I have had when we design our own hardware is to include an eprom that can be read when the board it plugged in to auto set this if it is present.
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorThanks for the ideas. We are considering many things, but we want to build a solid base first. Incorporating other VoIP services like Allstar or Dstar are considerations, but we will also have to make sure there are no licensing conflicts. Some of these systems are proprietary.
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorOK. All that should be achievable with properly routed ports for SSH and HTTP. Weaved should make it much simpler. We plan to take a look into Weaved and do some tests with it.
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorHi Joe,
I am not able to replicate what you described above. I downloaded the openrepeater-raspi2-1.0.0-beta1-07_07_15.img.gz image at a size of about 295 MB. I unzipped it once and ended up with openrepeater-raspi2-1.0.0-beta1-07_07_15.img at 3.9 GB not another archive with a IMG extension. So I am not sure how that has happened. I have had no other reports of this either.I am glad you were able to get the image up and running. Thanks for your patience and giving OpenRepeater a go.
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August 6, 2015 at 10:14 pm in reply to: beta1-07_07_15/RPi2: ssh/console credentials incorrect #1204Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorAlso this is not build on Raspbian. It is built on Debian Jessie which is why you don’t get the expect RPI functions.
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August 6, 2015 at 10:11 pm in reply to: beta1-07_07_15/RPi2: ssh/console credentials incorrect #1203Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorHi Joe,
Please see this forum topic: https://openrepeater.com/forums/topic/default-ssh-password-not-workingWe will fix that in the next release.
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Aaron, N3MBHForum AdministratorGreeting and welcome to the forum. Thanks for you patience. The actually IMG file has that is being hosted has been download by one of the developers and verified working. We are working to change the download structure in the future to hopefully be more reliable to the couple of folks that have had issues.
First I need to verify what Raspberry Pi Model you are trying to run on. Above you state that the SD card is not bootable on any of the 3 RPIs that you have. Please note that as of right now this image is only supported on the new Raspberry Pi 2…which looks identical to the model B+ but it has a quad-core process and 1GB of ram.
This is because the installation is running straight Debian compiled for the quad-core processor and not running Raspbian. Therefore this IMG is not compatible with earlier single-core versions of the Raspberry Pi such as the Model B, B+, A, or A+.
Based on the information you provided, it sounds like you are running an older RPI and not the RPI2. Your download sizes seem to match, you have no issues uncompressing the file, and no errors writing to the SD card. Sounds like you also ruled out the SD card by putting a copy of Raspbian on it.
So if you are running on an older RPI, the prebuilt IMG is current incompatible with those boards. It is possible to built your own install on the older boards. We have a build script; however, we do not offer support on that yet and we have not written a tutorial on how to do so. I started the project on the older PI, but results were buggy. That older board was fried and has not been replace. If you are running on a Newer RPI2, let me know and I can send you a direct link until we refine out download infrastructure.
Thanks for your interest in the project, and I hope you are able to get something up and running.
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