[arm-allstar] Next BBB update

[Doug Crompton]

Jim,

I will be saying this again probably in a little more detail but all you have to do is burn the image, bring it up, log in, setup the first time stuff then use winscp or whatever program you use to copy files over and 
copy the entire /etc/asterisk and sub directories from your present version on top of the new version. Reboot and you should be good to go. Of course if you customized other things you might need to do some other updates. The longest time will be burning the image!

Of course it goes without saying that upgrading is always optional and if what you are using is working for you then perhaps you would choose not to. I do think though that this next upgrade will be significant enough in improved reliability to warrant an upgrade. 

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:04:33 -1000
From: jim.pilgram at gmail.com
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Next BBB update


  
    
  
  
    Aloha, 

    Will this require a ground up rebuild or an upgrade. It's not a big
    deal to do the ground up for me but I have built a few nodes for
    others around the country who might not be able to do a ground up
    rebuild.. Easy to burn and ship a new card I guess. Just wondering.

    

    Aloha Jim NH6HI

    

    On 08/25/14 11:46, Doug Crompton wrote:

    
    
      
      Just a little little
          tease regarding the next release of the BBB image. 

          

          There have been very few problems with the current release but
          the biggest complaint or concern is the vulnerability of the
          USB to power spikes, EMI, etc. Unfortunately when this happens
          the current kernel often does not recover gracefully and a
          reboot is almost always necessary. This is annoying with local
          servers but for those deployed in remote areas it is just not
          acceptable.

          

          The latest ArchLinux kernel along with a minor
            fix to the simpleusb channel driver has solved that
          problem. This is in testing now and so far it seems rock
          solid. You can remove and replace the USB cable from the BBB
          while connected and it restores instantly. Thus if a USB spike
          takes out the connection it will recover. This adds a huge
          increase in reliability to the BBB. So for those of you who
          are experiencing these problems help is on the way!

          

          The new kernel seems to start faster and although still under
          testing it appears the 30 second boot delay that is now in
          rc.local can be reduced significantly or possibly eliminated.
          The entire startup process is looking a lot faster. I have
          gone from power up to connection to a node in less than a
          minute.

          

          Other things that should make it to the next release are GPIO
          and backup/restore and a few other nice utility scripts like
          weather alerting. Right now we are shooting for mid September.

          

          There are lots of ideas brewing about future updates and if
          anyone has any particular (realistic) needs in additional
          features or can provide additional features that would be
          useful to all please email me.

        

        73 Doug

          WA3DSP

          http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

         
      

      
      

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