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title: Pi-Star Back Up - AllStar Soon
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layout: post
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date: 2023-05-29 18:08:05
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tags: Blog
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excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
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The Pi-Star Dashboard has returned. Here is the current saga with the AllStarNode:
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I got the SHARI kit built and the node online. I decided after a little thinking it would be
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easier to get the SHARI hat running on the alternative SBC I bought. The only pins it requires
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on the GPIO header are an exact match; power and UART. The MMDVM also only requires UART, but it
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does use additional lines (pins 38 and 40) on the RPi's header for firmware update.
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The current issue is that despite claiming software compatibility, it doesn't have any. There's no
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easy way I've found...yet, of getting it to boot existing Pi images. I don't think. Let me go jam this thing
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in the board....
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And no. They said it was Raspbian compatible; what they didn't tell you is they use a *custom* image.
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The alternative is to install ASL via repos on a Debian image. This in itself is easier than trying to build a
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MMDVM hotspot from scratch. The only downside to that is forums claim the stability of ASL with this thing is
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poor compared to hamvoip.
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Dammit. This is why I'm done with Pi. It's no more open than any other PC platform and they're doing a cash grab.
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