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Does AllStar Image Matter? #Allstar_Setup

 

I previously built a Raspberry Pi 4 with the official current AllStarLink image before I found and bought the SHARI PiHat. The documentation notes a new HamVOIP image. What is missing between the two images? Is it something I can download and install, or do I need to re-image the card and install the HamVOIP version?
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Thanks,
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Thomas
Bill KD2EOY
 

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Reimage and install the newest version of HAMVOIP is the best route.?

Bill Paulus?? ?KD2EOY

Past Vice President SCARA?

Southern Counties Amateur Radio Association


On Jan 14, 2021, at 8:56 AM, Thomas Weiss <thomasweiss3@...> wrote:

?I previously built a Raspberry Pi 4 with the official current AllStarLink image before I found and bought the SHARI PiHat. The documentation notes a new HamVOIP image. What is missing between the two images? Is it something I can download and install, or do I need to re-image the card and install the HamVOIP version?
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Thanks,
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Thomas
 

If it's working & 'Aint broke' why fix it!!? W2HR
 

The programming scrips for programming the SA818 RF transceiver are likely not in the AllstarLink image.??

Steve_WB8GRS
 

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Given that the official Allstarlink image doesn't work on a Pi 4, I'm wondering exactly how you managed that.

HamVoIP is based on an entirely different operating system, Archlinux, whereas the ASL image is based on Raspbian.


On 1/14/2021 8:10 AM, Thomas Weiss wrote:

I previously built a Raspberry Pi 4 with the official current AllStarLink image before I found and bought the SHARI PiHat. The documentation notes a new HamVOIP image. What is missing between the two images? Is it something I can download and install, or do I need to re-image the card and install the HamVOIP version?
?
Thanks,
?
Thomas
 

Well.......

I just looked at what was sitting on my desk and I just realized 2 things:
1) I missed the part of the documentation that it doesn't work on a Pi4
2) I grabbed the Pi3, not the Pi4 like I thought when I was tinkering. Was a fluke I got it to work then.....

Looks like I will be reimaging. Thanks All!

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:48 PM Patrick Perdue <patrick@...> wrote:

Given that the official Allstarlink image doesn't work on a Pi 4, I'm wondering exactly how you managed that.

HamVoIP is based on an entirely different operating system, Archlinux, whereas the ASL image is based on Raspbian.


On 1/14/2021 8:10 AM, Thomas Weiss wrote:
I previously built a Raspberry Pi 4 with the official current AllStarLink image before I found and bought the SHARI PiHat. The documentation notes a new HamVOIP image. What is missing between the two images? Is it something I can download and install, or do I need to re-image the card and install the HamVOIP version?
?
Thanks,
?
Thomas
 

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I’m running a Shari on a pi 3 with ASL. ? I used a hamvoip image to program the radio then put my ASL image in and set up my node.?

Fred
W5MGM?

On Jan 14, 2021, at 11:15 AM, WB8GRS <ssedgwick@...> wrote:

?The programming scrips for programming the SA818 RF transceiver are likely not in the AllstarLink image.??

Steve_WB8GRS

 

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You could also download the latest 818-prog script from the files area of this group, which is far more sophisticated than the generic one included in HamVoIP, with error checking and such, to your ASL image. I've used SHARIs both with HamVoIP and ASL. It's just a radio, so really, it doesn't matter what distribution you use as far as the SHARI itself is concerned. Of course, you can't run stock ASL (reliably) on a Pi 4. There was an image floating around for a while that kind of worked, but had major audio problems, and probably doesn't support the current Pi 4 board revisions. HamVoIP recently made a new image that supports these.

So, for now, if you want to use a Pi 4, specifically, HamVoIP is the way to go. Otherwise, ASL runs fine on even a Pi 2. I've thought of trying to build a radio-less node with a Pi Zero just for fun, but I haven't tried that yet. HamVoIP won't boot on that, and I'm not really sure ASL will work too well on it either, but it's a fun project for when I'm even more bored than I am now.


On 1/14/2021 3:02 PM, Fred via groups.io wrote:

I’m running a Shari on a pi 3 with ASL. ? I used a hamvoip image to program the radio then put my ASL image in and set up my node.?

Fred
W5MGM?

On Jan 14, 2021, at 11:15 AM, WB8GRS <ssedgwick@...> wrote:

?The programming scrips for programming the SA818 RF transceiver are likely not in the AllstarLink image.??

Steve_WB8GRS

 

HamVoIP already includes the latest SA818-prog, version 1.03, as of early
December, 2020.

An RPi Zero W doesn't have enough processing power to run the current
Asterisk/AllStar without choppy audio issues, so no HamVoIP release for
that board.


73, David KB4FXC

On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, Patrick Perdue wrote:

You could also download the latest 818-prog script from the files area
of this group, which is far more sophisticated than the generic one
included in HamVoIP, with error checking and such, to your ASL image.
I've used SHARIs both with HamVoIP and ASL. It's just a radio, so
really, it doesn't matter what distribution you use as far as the SHARI
itself is concerned. Of course, you can't run stock ASL (reliably) on a
Pi 4. There was an image floating around for a while that kind of
worked, but had major audio problems, and probably doesn't support the
current Pi 4 board revisions. HamVoIP recently made a new image that
supports these.

So, for now, if you want to use a Pi 4, specifically, HamVoIP is the way
to go. Otherwise, ASL runs fine on even a Pi 2. I've thought of trying
to build a radio-less node with a Pi Zero just for fun, but I haven't
tried that yet. HamVoIP won't boot on that, and I'm not really sure ASL
will work too well on it either, but it's a fun project for when I'm
even more bored than I am now.


On 1/14/2021 3:02 PM, Fred via groups.io wrote:
I?�?m running a Shari on a pi 3 with ASL. ?? I used a hamvoip image to
program the radio then put my ASL image in and set up my node.

Fred
W5MGM

On Jan 14, 2021, at 11:15 AM, WB8GRS <ssedgwick@...> wrote:

???The programming scrips for programming the SA818 RF transceiver are
likely not in the AllstarLink image.

Steve_WB8GRS

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