[arm-allstar] size of sd card for RPI2

[Doug Crompton]

Pete,

 Either 8G or 16G is fine. We only use 4G of it. Just make sure you get class 10. The SanDisk Ultra is recommended. Amazon has them for $8 to $10 or so. At one time there were lots of cheap knock-offs of these cards and I expect that is why there were lots of failures. This was often a topic on the IRLP Pi forum. Also people were buying the cheapest no name cards they could find. I use all San Disk and I have not heard of one failure even after a year of use. That being said you should always make backups.

While the GPIO could be used on the RPi2 there is currently no support. We also now do not expect the support to be in the next update. Modification of the FOBs is really not that hard and even if you did do GPIO on the RPi2 you still would need to build interface circuitry. It actually is a lot less kludgey to do everything with the FOB. Check out the simple FOB mod on the hamvoip.org web site in the howto's. There is one really easy way to solder the needed two wires to the chip shown there. 
73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


From: petem001 at gmail.com
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:14:32 -0400
Subject: [arm-allstar] size of sd card for RPI2





what size of micro-sd card would you recommend to run on a rpi2?
 
And would it be possible to run 2 unmoded usb dongle and use the i/o from 
the rpi2 to do the cor and ptt for both node?
 
 
 
thanks.. asking for a friend that have large hands and no one around him 
that could do the soldering on the dongle 
 
 
 
 

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