Re: New Member Question
A watchdog is often used for a remote computer. So if it hangs up it will cause an action to take place. A watchdog is setup in a few different ways. The way I have mine setup, it monitors an internet
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Teton Amateur Radio Repeater Association (TARRA)
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Re: New Member Question
Guys,
Thanks for the replies! Based on what's been posted, I'll keep to the default 32 bit OS that came with the '400.
- The power supply it came with is 5.1v @ 3A, so I ought to be good there.
- I
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Jim Bennett / K7TXA
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Re: New Member Question
Michael - you are correct! After I posted that reply I checked the IP address of one Mini with Ethernet, then turned on WiFi and looked at it's address. By George they are both on the same subnet, so
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Jim Bennett / K7TXA
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Re: New Member Question
https://diode.io/raspberry%20pi/running-forever-with-the-raspberry-pi-hardware-watchdog-20202/
https://medium.com/@arslion/enabling-watchdog-on-raspberry-pi-b7e574dcba6b
Google is your
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Melinda Pethel - KO4KBT
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Re: New Member Question
It's electronic hardware added to a system that will periodically check to see if the system is working and, if not, issue a warning and probably reboot the system.
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Nigel Gunn, G8IFF/W8IFF
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Re: New Member Question
David,
When I say it went into the weeds, I meant it was completely frozen. No amount of keyboarding or mouse movement would get it going. Could not get to it from any other computer - it was frozen,
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Jim Bennett / K7TXA
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Re: New Member Question
What is the “Watchdog”?
Mikeal R. Hughes, BA., MA., D.Min., Th.D., Ph.D.
Amateur Extra, GROL, MOS, Comp Tia A+, Network+, Security+, CEH
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Dr. Mikeal Hughes
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Re: New Member Question
Pardon my ignorance. You have a local network within your house with just your stuff on it. You have the Macs in your shack and the RPi in the garage. The Macs are on Ethernet and the RPi is wireless.
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Michael WA7SKG
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Re: New Member Question
For reliability and speed use a USB SSD rather than an SD card.
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Nigel Gunn, G8IFF/W8IFF
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Re: New Member Question
I would say that if anyone wants any level of longevity of operation on a Raspberry Pi, they must do a few key things:
- Use a known good / competent power supply (ideally outputs 5.1v @ 3A)
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David Ranch
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Re: New Member Question
I rather fix the problem, not cure the symptoms! Once the Pi is running reliably, then turn on the watchdog if it is mission critical.
Max KG4PID
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Max
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Re: New Member Question
Sounds like a situation where a watchdog would help.
Mick - W7CAT
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Teton Amateur Radio Repeater Association (TARRA)
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Re: New Member Question
I'd stay with the 32 bit, at least for now. If you can VPN using Ethernet then wireless won't be any different as long as they are both on the same network.
The quality of the uSD card and power
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Max
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Re: New Member Question
Hello Jim,
Can you define "weeds"? Could you ping them? Maybe log into them remotely using say SSH or VNC?
Raspberry Pi OS still defaults to 32bit though a 64bit version is in long-term beta.
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David Ranch
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New Member Question
Hi Folks - new member here. I've had several RPis over the past few years and gradually grew away from them, mostly due to unreliability. They seemed to go off into the weeds when left on for days at
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Jim Bennett / K7TXA
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Re: Current List of known-working handhelds for 1200 baud TNCs?
Not a handheld, but I use the Leixen VV-898 mobile
Easy to interface, easy to mount, low current draw, good sensitivity, relatively cheap.
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Bill WA4OPQ
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using adafruit PiTFT for mobile ops.
Has anyone used a Pi with the adafruit PiTFT for radio display. I would like to operate mobile with my FT818ND. However the radios screen is too small to be used safely while mobile. I am currently
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Doc Sarvis
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Re: Current List of known-working handhelds for 1200 baud TNCs?
The Baofeng uv-5 is “good-enough”—for me. And “relatively cheap”—for me.
The specific model is Baofeng UV-5RAX+
Unsolicited info: The gateway is 5 miles away.
I hope this helps.
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bobolink
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Re: Current List of known-working handhelds for 1200 baud TNCs?
As I alluded to in my initial post, for the Baofeng I have a custom PTT/audio interface that includes transformer audio isolation, a FET for PTT, a USB sound dongle, etc., and a PTT TOT and reset.
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Jon Adams
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Re: Current List of known-working handhelds for 1200 baud TNCs?
Oh well let me step in it.
Perhaps the cheapest radio interface which includes programmatic PTT
control and works with Dire Wolf appears to be the DINAH AllStar designed
interface. Assembled with
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Don Rolph
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