[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.

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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.

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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.

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

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]

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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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Rares I just sent you a link via email.

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Solovey,
Thanks for the update. Glad you got it working.

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Hello Chris,
A couple questions:

What Device/IMG are you using?
If the RPI2, when did you download the image?

You are able to get into the web interface, so that should mean that you are able to ping it as well. Which is a good indication.

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Rares,
Your case seems to be one of the rare ones. Yes we are still working to try and make our workflow as smooth as possible and easy for our users. Have you tried the download since Richard updated the image (last night around 9:00 EST)? It’s much smaller now.

We currently don’t have a direct download link as we are using a method to track rough download statics so we can use that to determine popularity of particular boards. Not to say we won’t change that, but having some kind of stats is important for us. If you have had problems with the new image, send the project a private message on the Facebook page or Twitter and I will return a direct link.

We currently have the files on a different server than the web hosting. We do have GitHub repositories, but looking at their terms it doesn’t appear that we can serve the files from there due to the size. Checksums are something we plan to offer in the future for those that want to verify download integrity, but Richard is unable to provide that right now as he is in the middle of a move.

We do have Debian packages to build different aspects of the project as well as a build script. The build script is in our “scripts” GitHub repository. We don’t currently offer any user documentation for that and it would require Debian Jessie to install.

Hope this is of some help. Thanks and 73.

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