[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hi 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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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Also 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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Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hi Joe,
Please see this forum topic: https://openrepeater.com/forums/topic/default-ssh-password-not-working

We will fix that in the next release.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Greeting 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.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

VPN shouldn’t be necessary as this is designed to be run headless. Anything you should need to do should be able to be accomplished via the Web GUI and SSH. All you’d have to do is set a static IP address for the NIC and make sure you take care of the appropriate routing to access externally. To make network address translation easier, you could use a service like Weaved which also offers mobile apps to connect to the service. I am currently using this on my RPI A+ that I use to control my garden irrigation and it works really well. As time goes on and we add more functions into the Web GUI, there should be less need for SSH. Also there will probably also be some DTMF control also.

As we expand out documentation we will probably include a tutorial on how to setup Weaved.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hello Rares,
Thanks for the feedback. These are all great suggestions.

I do have some plans for other features and improvements. Some very similar to your suggestions. We have discussed adding configuration modes to it can be setup as duplex repeater or a simplex node. I also have some updates to identification preferences in the works. We also were discussing adding a script to GREP all the sound card devices so that they can be put into an array for front end selection in the ports tab. More ports, ie for link radios are yet to come so we are working to build the framework for that.

We plan to add some buttons to start/stop svxlink services as well as reboot the device. We also want to build GUI pages to configure things like Time Setting, Hostname, Network/IP Settings, etc. Ultimately we would like to see the need for SSH to pretty much go away.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Greetings and welcome to the forums! I use Pin GPIO 7 for PTT and GPIO 30 for COS (Optional). The software vox in the 1.0.0 Beta 1 is a little spotty right now it might take some hacking to make it work right now, so the COS is currently the best option.

If you are looking at the Getting Started Hardware Guide then what is labeled as Pin 12 / GPIO 18 will go to GPIO 7 on the BBB (Pin 42 on the P9 Header) and your ground can go to any of the DGRD pins on the BBB. If you want to use the COS use GPIO 30 on the BBB (Pin 11 on the P9 Header). This will be active when pulled to ground. It uses an internal pull up resister to pull it high when it is opened.

Make sure that your pins are set properly in the Ports tab in the Web Interface, then rebuild the config after saving. You will need to restart the device so that the startup script can initialize the pins with the OS.

Hope this is of help. Thanks.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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Hello Guys,
We are still looking into this and should have something figured out soon. Rares already found a work around. Chris in the meantime try the following and let us know if any of these work:

Default user account:
username: debian
password: temppwd

Try the follow root PW:
username: root
password: debian

There is a possibility there was a problem with the rebuilt image. Jessie has been giving us some issues on the RPI build.

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Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

This topic has been closed to new replies as it was getting a little long. The original poster and I believe the others in this post have all had there issues resolved. If you are unable to get you’re issues resolved by the comments in this topic, please start your own topic. Thanks.

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Rares…glad to hear it’s working for you now.

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