[arm-allstar] BBB projects OT

[Doug Crompton]

Bob,

 Keeping in mind the lower computational capabilities of the BBB than a PC you can do a great deal with it. It could host a small web site. The Allstar image has a web server in it. It is used for lsnodes. You could add your own web pages to

/srv/http

There is actually a simple html file in there you can run from your browser. Just type the IP address of your BBB into a browser on your network -

 http://192.168.0.218/

When you don't specify a file name it defaults to index.html so you can look in that directory and see the code that creates what you see on the screen in your browser. Just modify index.html or add additional html files in that directory or ones created under it and of course set up all the links in the pages and you have the start of your own web server. If you want it to be viewable over the internet you would need to open port 80 in your router to the BBB. The port could be changed if necessary.
If you want to serve files I suspect you would want to connect a hard drive or SSD. That would be done via USB and mounted under linux. Then you could use NFS or Samba to make the files available to other computers on your network.

Another neat thing you could do is make a music server. I did this many years ago with an NSLU2 and if that would do it the BBB certainly would. 

You could also setup a phone PBX using Asterisk - there are canned versions out there like Incredible PBX.

Many of these things you could do while Asterisk Allstar is running although you might want to play on another BBB.

I hope that gives you some ideas.

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


Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 19:09:39 -0500
From: N1XBM at amsat.org
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
Subject: [arm-allstar] BBB projects OT

This is a little off topic but I thought I'd try here. I have some interest in playing with linux and the BBB. I had visions of using a BBB and doing things like network attached storage or even purchasing my own domain to host a simple website or play with my own email service. 
Anyone have any ideas of places to look or good write ups in the internet? 
Thank you

Bob/N1XBM

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