Raspberry PI-2 and Asterisk

AllStarLink
1

Just an update, although I'm not using the apt-rpt fork I'm sure there are
folk interested.

For over one year I've used Asterisk very succesfully on two Raspberry Pis
B+.

Moved to PI-2 yesterday. Having used dist-upgrade to get current release of
Raspbian Wheezy (7). I'm running Asterisk 1.8.13.1.

VOIP slow and stuttering, but at times ok.

The distribution is billed as backward compatible with the Model Bs so I
popped it back into the slower Model B. Works perfectly - every time.

Back to PI-2. Problems with stuttering and very slow voice messages. Seems
to affect voice messages mostly but not exclusively. Two different PI-2s
have been tried.

Thought it might be something to do with the SD card not being able to keep
up.

Moved OS to a USB memory stick, allegedly many times faster than SD.
Perhaps a marginal improvement, but difficult to say.

I have several other projects getting behind so I don't plan to do anything
more - the production system remains on the older PI until reports from
others start to appear. More than happy with BBB solution for apt-rpt anyway
so no rush.

73

Bernie
GM4WZG

2

Good Morning

Update from south of the border too.

I spent a few hours last night working on the Raspberry Pi 2 & app_rpt combining Steve N4IRS notes and scripts with some tinkering and I have a working version of app_rpt allstarlink on my 40886 node.

I was not particularly happy with the current Raspbian release as it caused my machine to crash a few times. So I have moved to a purer version of Debian Jessie compiled for ARM7 and with a couple of simple extra steps all went well.

I currently have not USB FOB that I can modify but I have the audio outputting to a small speaker and additionally via my hub and then RF Node and so far so good. Plan on making / obtaining a interface for one of my handhelds and then I can really put it to test.

I will feed back my notes to N4IRS when I have given it another 24 hours running and connected to a busy hub but if anyone wants to contact me off list then go for it.

I will update here with anything important.

Regards

Jon

2E0RFU

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On 7 February 2015 at 10:11, B. McIntosh [Pace] bmcintosh@paceprofessional.co.uk wrote:

Just an update, although I’m not using the apt-rpt fork I’m sure there are

folk interested.

For over one year I’ve used Asterisk very succesfully on two Raspberry Pis

B+.

Moved to PI-2 yesterday. Having used dist-upgrade to get current release of

Raspbian Wheezy (7). I’m running Asterisk 1.8.13.1.

VOIP slow and stuttering, but at times ok.

The distribution is billed as backward compatible with the Model Bs so I

popped it back into the slower Model B. Works perfectly - every time.

Back to PI-2. Problems with stuttering and very slow voice messages. Seems

to affect voice messages mostly but not exclusively. Two different PI-2s

have been tried.

Thought it might be something to do with the SD card not being able to keep

up.

Moved OS to a USB memory stick, allegedly many times faster than SD.

Perhaps a marginal improvement, but difficult to say.

I have several other projects getting behind so I don’t plan to do anything

more - the production system remains on the older PI until reports from

others start to appear. More than happy with BBB solution for apt-rpt anyway

so no rush.

73

Bernie

GM4WZG

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Hi Bernie,

So your running a recent Asterisk version, but not the AllStar release,
on the RPi? Have you tried the AllStar code?

Even though Asterisk is the host environment for AllStar, the
apps/app_rpt.c, channels/chan_simpleusb.c and related code make comparing
these different environments impossible. From a resource utilization
standpoint, it's rather like comparing a freezer ice cube to the iceberg
that sank the Titanic!! (Well, maybe not quite that extreme! HiHI)
...The AllStar code (with USB support) uses a LOT of CPU power, etc.!

For all who are interested out there, the plain Asterisk distro (not
AllStar) runs great on most of the little boards that I've tested.

Anyway, please don't take this as criticism--I'm not meaning that at all.
And, I'm very interested to hear what results users are having with any
installation of Asterisk or AllStar.

73, David KB4FXC

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On Sat, 7 Feb 2015, B. McIntosh [Pace] wrote:

Just an update, although I'm not using the apt-rpt fork I'm sure there are
folk interested.

For over one year I've used Asterisk very succesfully on two Raspberry Pis
B+.

Moved to PI-2 yesterday. Having used dist-upgrade to get current release of
Raspbian Wheezy (7). I'm running Asterisk 1.8.13.1.

VOIP slow and stuttering, but at times ok.

The distribution is billed as backward compatible with the Model Bs so I
popped it back into the slower Model B. Works perfectly - every time.

Back to PI-2. Problems with stuttering and very slow voice messages. Seems
to affect voice messages mostly but not exclusively. Two different PI-2s
have been tried.

Thought it might be something to do with the SD card not being able to keep
up.

Moved OS to a USB memory stick, allegedly many times faster than SD.
Perhaps a marginal improvement, but difficult to say.

I have several other projects getting behind so I don't plan to do anything
more - the production system remains on the older PI until reports from
others start to appear. More than happy with BBB solution for apt-rpt anyway
so no rush.

73

Bernie
GM4WZG

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FYI, my P2 was also sluggish until I moved the governor from on demand to performance.

Mike

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On Feb 7, 2015 10:25 AM, “David McGough” kb4fxc@inttek.net wrote:

Hi Bernie,

So your running a recent Asterisk version, but not the AllStar release,

on the RPi? Have you tried the AllStar code?

Even though Asterisk is the host environment for AllStar, the

apps/app_rpt.c, channels/chan_simpleusb.c and related code make comparing

these different environments impossible. From a resource utilization

standpoint, it’s rather like comparing a freezer ice cube to the iceberg

that sank the Titanic!! (Well, maybe not quite that extreme! HiHI)

…The AllStar code (with USB support) uses a LOT of CPU power, etc.!

For all who are interested out there, the plain Asterisk distro (not

AllStar) runs great on most of the little boards that I’ve tested.

Anyway, please don’t take this as criticism–I’m not meaning that at all.

And, I’m very interested to hear what results users are having with any

installation of Asterisk or AllStar.

73, David KB4FXC

On Sat, 7 Feb 2015, B. McIntosh [Pace] wrote:

Just an update, although I’m not using the apt-rpt fork I’m sure there are

folk interested.

For over one year I’ve used Asterisk very succesfully on two Raspberry Pis

B+.

Moved to PI-2 yesterday. Having used dist-upgrade to get current release of

Raspbian Wheezy (7). I’m running Asterisk 1.8.13.1.

VOIP slow and stuttering, but at times ok.

The distribution is billed as backward compatible with the Model Bs so I

popped it back into the slower Model B. Works perfectly - every time.

Back to PI-2. Problems with stuttering and very slow voice messages. Seems

to affect voice messages mostly but not exclusively. Two different PI-2s

have been tried.

Thought it might be something to do with the SD card not being able to keep

up.

Moved OS to a USB memory stick, allegedly many times faster than SD.

Perhaps a marginal improvement, but difficult to say.

I have several other projects getting behind so I don’t plan to do anything

more - the production system remains on the older PI until reports from

others start to appear. More than happy with BBB solution for apt-rpt anyway

so no rush.

73

Bernie

GM4WZG

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