开云体育Hello Scott, David - Thank you for the quick response and info about dmesg. I know almost nothing about Linux commands so every little bit helps. I ended up simply cleaning the usb fob contacts with a pencil eraser and it magically began to work fine. How old is this FOB?? If it's pretty new, you might have a problem.? There are a lot of these units that are very poorly made and if your USB contacts are getting a lot of oxidation now, you probably will have more issues in the future.? I personally have had very good luck with the $7 Syba units. I am now playing with various recording qualities as a way to learn about the Pi. My goal is to build a Ham Allstar node but I want to understand all the hardware connections before I start blindy following any of the many on-line "how-tos". I've managed to find a decent schematic for the CM108 fob I am using as a starting point so I'm going through each of the I/O lines that will eventually go to my HT radio, which is primarily the audio in/out, Carrier On Squelch, and Push-to-Talk signals. Always a good plan Not sure if you can answer but once I download the current Allstar Asterick s/w onto a uSD card, do I simply insert that in place of the RPi OS card currently in the slot and re-boot the Pi? Which Allstar software are you considering as there are several? ?? - The true Allstar project software either has Raspberry Pi image but the ASL2 Beta version is based on the Debian 10 Buster release which doesn't get security updates anymore and the overall installed ASL software is also very very old (2021-03-24).? There is evidently a lot of politics going on in that group and while gives some hints to it, there haven't been any updates since 2021. ?? - You can try using the newest Raspberry Pi OS image (a new Debian 12 / Bookworm release is due any month now) and then overlay the currently available Allstar software on top of it. ?? - There is the HamVoIP project which is both a well maintained project and tuned software but it's almost a fork of Allstar.? It's still compatible with the overall Allstar network but they don't contribute their core code changes back the the Allstar community.? This is bad for the overall Allstar project but if your OK with running the HamVoIP (psedo-fork), it should work fine. Maybe others can chime in here on other possible options.. --David KI6ZHD |
