ASL 2.0 Documentation

Rough draft 2021-02-09 by KK9ROB

Flashing

Flashing the ASL Image

Auto-connecting to WiFi

To auto-connect to WiFi after the first boot, you can place a file called "wpa_supplicant.conf" in the boot directory of the USB/SD card.

• Generate a wpa_supplicant.conf file here:

https://www.pistar.uk/wifi_builder.php

• After flashing, remove the USB or SD card and re-insert.
• A volume "boot" will now be available. Place the wpa_supplicant.conf in this directory.

New Features

• Runs on Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4 as well as Intel-AMD.
• One OS and code base across all platforms.
• Survives kernel updates
• Boots on modern EFI systems (Intel/AMD)
• Allmon and Supermon included by default
• New cli> command rpt lookup <node#> (ala HamVoIP) to resolve IP address of any node.
• Most of the C code has been refactored to compile with current compiler.
• Http registration with failover to IAX2.
• Multi-threaded
• Use libcurl for statpost instead of shell call to wget
• Stats posting enabled by default
• Update startup/shutdown scripts to query systemctl for service status
• Clean up output from cli>rpt local nodes
• Updates to asterisk service management convenience scripts
• Fix compiler warnings, perhaps better system stability
• Collect perceived ip, port and refresh time from http registration
• Add libi2c-dev to list of build dependencies
• Add registerhttp and registeriax directives to chan_iax2
• Inclusion of systemd service file for updatenodelist
• Implementation of console command rpt lookup
• Fix ASTDATADIR location
• Implement http(s) registration
• Include app_rpt in the build package
• Merge in telemetry ducking
• Merge in upstream alignment
• Merge in simple voter
• Merge in http registration
• Change naming convention to asl-asterisk
• Depend on new asl-dahdi packages
• Compile with modern gcc
• Repackage various AllStar pieces into new Debian packages

HTTP Registration HOWTO

TODO