[Xastir] Raspberry Pi with Xastir

[Ray Wells]

Lee,

A quick update on my RPi's.

The adsb unit is about to tick up 22 days and for the aprs gateway unit 
with dixprs it's 18 days.

I'm finally starting to have confidence in the Pi for my 24/7 radio 
applications.

Ray vk2tv


On 27/01/14 06:32, Lee Bengston wrote:
> Update - I didn't realize at the time I wrote the message below that the
> AX25 interface had quit transmitting and receiving packets - it had quit
> less than an hour before I sent the message.  I had to kill the interface
> on the Pi and restart it via kissattach, and then restart the AX25
> interface in Xastir.  At least this failure scenario didn't crash the
> entire OS.  There does seem to be an issue with AX25 networking in the
> Raspbian distibution.  For grins I have APRX running now as the IGate using
> the same AX25 setup - we'll see how long it lasts.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ray.  My unstable setup was very similar to yours - Dixprs as the
>> IGate and AX25 networking on the Raspbian/Wheezy distro.  It also included
>> a powered USB hub for the USB to serial adapter, USB enclosure with IDE
>> hard drive, and (sometimes) a keyboard & mouse.  In theory I didn't need
>> the wired hub because the USB drive enclosure was powered, but I had
>> started with a laptop hard drive in a smaller HD enclosure that did need
>> the powered hub, so I just stuck with it, anyway.  I was not using WiFi -
>> at least not directly.  The wired Ethernet port was connected to a wireless
>> access point configured in client mode, so the AP handled the wireless
>> connection to the router.  10 days was very typical before a crash.  In my
>> case it was not just networking - pretty much everything - had no access to
>> the Pi once it crashed.
>>
>> My current setup, however has not changed from the above other than to run
>> Xastir as the IGate instead of Dixprs.  It has now run for 20 days and
>> counting.  I started out using a universal phone charger rated at
>> 5.5v/800mA.  Then I moved up to an "Amazon Basics" unit rated at
>> 5.5v/2100mA, but nothing changed.  Only changing the software has had an
>> impact.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lee - K5DAT
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Ray Wells <vk2tv at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> I had terrible stability problems with a Pi in service as an aprs Igate.
>>> Ten days was the best I could get out of it before a crash but the crash
>>> could have been after a couple of hours or so. The installation was Wheezy
>>> with kernel ax25 compiled on the machine and running dixprs as the gateway
>>> software. The Pi drove an approved powered hub with 2A p/s and I used wi-fi
>>> to access the LAN. It was the wi-fi that crashed every time. I moved away
>>> from the Pi because I needed reliability. I had looked at power supply
>>> issues, but obviously not in enough detail.
>>>