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title: Post-Script On Hotspots
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layout: post
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date: 2023-06-04 12:29:50
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tags: Blog
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excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
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So it turns out the Libre Computer *will* boot standard RPi images...it's just it doesn't boot like a RPi. Unlike
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ARMBoot or whatever it uses; the Le Potato actually uses a custom bootloader and EFI boot...it actually has a boot
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screen. You boot it without card and you get a nice screen telling you the OS can't be found, unlike an RPi that does
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nothing.
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I dug around and found Libre had a github repository and a script to convert Raspbian images to boot. It required
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an existing RPi to do the work for you. So I flashed a new Pi-Star image, ran the script, found out I needed more
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space on the /boot partition, fixed that problem, converted the image, fixed the filesystem mount points, and it
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booted.
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So...Pi-Star itself actually works on the Le Potato. There was additional work in enabling the UART on the header,
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but so far it does seem to work. However I think there are some additional issues with something as the load never
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drops below 1, which I don't recall it doing on a Pi3. It does however have an additional 3 cores to work with, so
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that's fine in my book for now. I've been running it a few days and other than the TYTMD380, both of my DMR radios
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work just fine. The SHARI Pi-Hat has been running hamvoip for ASL with no issues. I checked in to the local net and have had a few
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conversations with people who only commented at how clean my signal was "in to the repeater".
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I also figured out, after digging deeper in to things after I had stuff working; all the stuff I needed was pretty
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much built in to ASL. The simple-usb utility is what sets the sound card up to provide PTT on it's GPIO to the SA818.
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So in reality...there wasn't anything too special, the documentation is just...lacking. But that doesn't change the
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fact I couldn't compile anything on it. I was told this was likely due to app_rpt never having been updated for
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64-bit. Maybe. Whatever arch it wanted to use to compile wasn't in my kernel sources...which could have been a bad
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config on the Libre provided image or the fact I needed a 32-bit OS which they didn't provide.
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The sad part is the Pi-Star staff. When I shared this information on their forum, it was immediately removed without
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any discussion with me. The only discussion was one admin saying "no" and removing it. This is not the first time I've
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had issues with them outright deleting things I've written over there. I mean you base your project on an open-source
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operating system but don't seem to want users doing anything *they* don't want done.
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I'll be ditching actual Pi-Star soon. I've been talking with W0CHP who forked Pi-Star and makes an improved version.
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They are actually planning on supporting Le Potato natively...so I offered to both beta-test and provide help.
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In the meantime, if you want to boot Pi-Star on Le Potato...I've put the information in one place the Pi-Star admins
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can't remove it....my Git repository! https://git.pickmy.org/nq4t/PiStar-On-Libre-Le-Potato
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