[arm-allstar] Next BBB update

[James R. Pilgram]

Mahalo Doug, That's what I'd have done. Just thinking about the less 
inclined.. This BBB is a breeze to setup. Really appreciate all your 
hard work.
Aloha Jim

On 08/25/14 15:56, Doug Crompton wrote:
> 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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