[arm-allstar] Possible alternative to the Raspberry Pi 3?

[wrhowell amphibiansolutions.us]

I bought one of these inovato Quadra items.  Besides the major interferance it caused on my radios, how hot it seem to run at, and the fact that trying to get the software to load either on the exsisting software or a complete load of a new OS ---- it just didn't work. I ended up giving it to my son-in-law to use a a media delivery box and he came back wih pretty much the same issues so we thru it in the trash. And any help from the tech support was only by mail and worthless at that.

It's too bad as it would have made a nice littel option to the Pi and for a great price. I guess you get what you pay for as it is said.


William, KI5PHN
________________________________
From: ARM-allstar <arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org> on behalf of larry via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
Sent: Friday, January 6, 2023 1:55 AM
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
Cc: larry <larry at n7fm.com>
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Possible alternative to the Raspberry Pi 3?

Looking further at their web site --- Links at the very top of their
page explains that some cooling probably needs to be dealt with.

*It Says   "BEFORE ORDERING* please read this link: keeping your quadra
cool
<https://forum.inovato.com/post/keeping-the-quadra-cool-12455928?pid=1333518445>
and amateur radio operators: potential adapter interference
<https://forum.inovato.com/post/possible-radio-interference-with-quadra-power-adapters-12495535?pid=1333868530>"

Just pointing to a caution note from here.

Overall it looks like a neat alternative at a great price.

Larry - N7FM


On 1/5/23 10:13 AM, Nate Bargmann via ARM-allstar wrote:
> I have been catching up on back issues of Steve, N8GNJ's, Zero Retries
> newsletter and in the October 28, 2022 issue he noted the availability
> of a possible Raspberry Pi alternative, the Inovato Quadra:
>
> https://www.inovato.com/
>
> It looks like a rather complete system.  It comes with Debian installed
> on the internal 16 GB eMMC so I don't have any idea what the possibility
> of installing HamVoIP is.  It does have a microSD slot but I've not dug
> deep enough to see if it will boot from it and use the eMMC as mounted
> storage.
>
> I don't have any interest in the product or the company.  With Pi 3B+
> units "selling" at about 4X their MSRP, this looks like it could be a
> possible alternative.
>
> 73, Nate, N0NB
>
_______________________________________________

ARM-allstar mailing list
ARM-allstar at hamvoip.org
http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar

Visit the BBB and RPi2/3/4 web page - http://hamvoip.org