[arm-allstar] Hello and questions ...

[Doug Crompton]

Dan,

 It looks like nice equipment more geared towards commercial use or at
least commercial expense! Depending on your needs you could save a lot of
money and use just multiple Allstar servers as the controllers for your
repeaters. You can have as many ports as you want just by adding servers or
nodes at minimal expense. It is open source and very flexible.

The BBB while still a somewhat viable ARM board is old and not as well
supported as the RPi2/3. For that reason we probably are not going to
support it to any great extent beyond its current image.



*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 6:10 PM, "Dan Keizer via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> HI there ... I'm new to the allstarlink world.  A group of us purchased the
> URIx units to try out linking some repeaters.  I must say, using the
> asterisk system in an RF environment is great.  I ran quite a number of
> asterisk boxes back in the day - now I only use one personal asterisk box
> in one of the rack units and our group has one main one we use for our ham
> radio activities.  I've administered and have some IRLP systems.  We run a
> multi-band high-speed network here in Winnipeg (va4wan.ampr.org) and I
> have
> these digital systems attached to my home 2.3GHz connection to our
> network.  Our interest is to test the use of these systems for our linked
> repeater system which is currently maintained by UHF linking.
>
> I certainly like what has been done with the integration components of the
> various systems, asterisk lends itself well to that.
>
> Question -- has anyone worked with the Sierra Radio Systems controllers
> previously.  Reason I ask is they have some nice gear and our local group
> has some of their gear.  They had come out with a BBB interface card
> (Commserver is the term) (link:  http://www.sierraradio.net  ) with audio
> processor on it which hooks into their backplane on their RCB card slots
> and treats the unit as a regular interface.  So, it acts as the digital
> interface slot for the repeater controller.
>
> My thinking here is that since the Allstarlink BBB systems already run
> asterisk, the solution to interfacing them would be to utilize the
> AllStarLink system and tap the audio channels and the COS/PTT interfaces.
> We've had this commserver for a while, but with all things going on, the
> group had not moved ahead with it as much as we would have really like to
> have.
>
> If no-one has worked on this type of unit before, I'd be interested in
> getting some input on previous best methods to interface various units,
> what modules I'd be looking at and how much coding we'll be looking at as
> well.  Their solution has appeal and it would appear the best way forward
> is to integrate their solution with the allstarlink world.
>
> Appreciate any input.
>
> 73, Dan ve4drk
> Winnipeg, Manitoba
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