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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Neil,<br><br> It is often hard to diagnose problems like this remotely. If you are running the 1.2.1 BBB version the green light stopping blinking should not happen. Test this by removing the USB to the DMK-URI on a working system. When you plug it back in it should recover and start blinking again. I suspect it will because I think this problem is not in the USB. If you are losing Ethernet (login) also then it is a more serious problem.<br><br>The Internet should have nothing to do with the RF side not working. What you are seeing is obviously not normal and not usual by any means. It could be a bad power supply to the BBB. It could be a bad image. It could be bad hardware - the BBB itself. Often the only way to find out is to substitute. I would start with a different power supply. That is the most critical on the BBB.<br><br>Another thing you could try is another SD card. Put the card you have programed aside and a minimal setup just to get you registered and able to connect. Run that for a few days and see if it happens again.<br><br>There is no easy fix. You need to take it one step at a time. I am sorry you are having this problem. There are hundreds of BBB's out there running Allstar and it is not something that I have ha reported to me before.<br><br>If you do decide to buy another board make it an RPi2. Not that there is anything wrong with the BBB but any future buys should be the RPi2.<br id="FontBreak"></font><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</font></b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: k8it@cac.net<br>To: arm-allstar@hamvoip.org<br>Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 14:15:17 -0400<br>Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] how can i determine why a bbb node goes to sleep<br><br>
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<div>it happened again. I checked it about 16 hours of on time and all was well.
now the status shows that the node is not online.</div>
<div>The beagle bone blue led is flashing but the URI light green is solid
on. I have no linux login when I try to connect using putty. so by my estimate
it occurred in the last 3.5 hours. the on time should be about 19.5 hours if it
was working. The node has no output right now.</div>
<div>I just rebooted the node about 2pm Eastern time and all is well and it is
back online.</div>
<div>My daughter did tell me that the internet did get real slow for a few
minutes when we where out.</div>
<div>Could this be the cause? and if so what can I do to tell the BBB to retry
the internet connection until it reconnects, and why would this lock up the rf
side of the simplex node? id;s for example should still work.</div>
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<div>73 Neil k8it 41838</div>
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<div style=""><b>From:</b> <a title="mailto:doug@crompton.com CTRL + Click to follow link" href="mailto:doug@crompton.com">Doug Crompton</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 21, 2015 10:39 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">ARM Allstar</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [arm-allstar] how can i determine why a bbb node goes
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Neil,<br><br>There is
nothing that should go to sleep on the BBB or RPi2 assuming you are using a
wired connection. I do have some questions about what you mean by going to
sleep.<br><br>Do you lose connection to the linux prompt or just the local
connection via radio?<br><br>If you do have the linux prompt can you ping to
somewhere and get a response?<br><br>ping ucsd.edu<br><br>I am not sure if you
can answer this question but does the blinking green light on the USB FOB go
solid or out when this happens?<br></font><br><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif">If
you go into the Asterisk client can you see the hungup line when you release the
PTT of the radio you are talking to your node with?</font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Does the node ID or give any output when this "sleep"
happens?</font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif">In the Asterisk
client you can key and unkey the radio manually to see if you have
control. The command is -</font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif">susb
key </font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif">susb unkey</font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif">This should key the radio and turn on the red PTT LED.
Make sure to unkey.</font><br><br><b><font style="FONT-SIZE:16pt;" size="4">73
Doug</font><font style="FONT-SIZE:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="FONT-SIZE:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="FONT-SIZE:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="FONT-SIZE:16pt;" size="4">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</font></b><font style="FONT-SIZE:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><br><br>
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From: k8it@cac.net<br>To: arm-allstar@hamvoip.org<br>Date: Thu, 21 May 2015
22:06:47 -0400<br>Subject: [arm-allstar] how can i determine why a bbb node goes
to sleep<br><br>
<div><font face="Calibri">I have noted a "sleeping node" or node lockup issue
after extended hours of no activity. I try to key up the node when this occurs
and get nothing. the status of the node shows connected and not keyed up. the
timing of these sleeping periods seem random. some people have suggested
starting a cron job to reboot on a regular schedule. rebooting the node does
bring it back 100%</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Are there any thoughts or best practices to
share?</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">73 k8it 41838 or Echolink k8it-l</font></div>
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