PIONEERS Incredible PBX for Pogoplug 4

[tycho]

Jeffrccar, search and read. We've covered this a lot on the forum. Short answer, "yes," with caveats.

 

[Jay Deal]

Jeffrccar see this thread for PogoPBX on non-V4 PP platforms: http://pbxinaflash.com/community/index.php?threads/incredible-pbx-for-dockstar-pogoplug-e02.15650/

I am waiting on a used Sheevaplug which has the same Kirkwood base as the Pogoplug, Dockstar, etc. The Sheevaplug has the advantage of 512MB of RAM and 512MB of nand. While it has a different booting scheme, I am hoping that I can somehow massage the PogoPBX image into it such that it functions normally. If I figure it out, I will post how I did it.

 

[hecatae]

Jeffrccar see this thread for PogoPBX on non-V4 PP platforms: http://pbxinaflash.com/community/index.php?threads/incredible-pbx-for-dockstar-pogoplug-e02.15650/

I am waiting on a used Sheevaplug which has the same Kirkwood base as the Pogoplug, Dockstar, etc. The Sheevaplug has the advantage of 512MB of RAM and 512MB of nand. While it has a different booting scheme, I am hoping that I can somehow massage the PogoPBX image into it such that it functions normally. If I figure it out, I will post how I did it.

I have just been given a Dreamplug : https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx and hope to do similar

 

[Jeffrccar]

Jeffrccar see this thread for PogoPBX on non-V4 PP platforms: http://pbxinaflash.com/community/index.php?threads/incredible-pbx-for-dockstar-pogoplug-e02.15650/

I am waiting on a used Sheevaplug which has the same Kirkwood base as the Pogoplug, Dockstar, etc. The Sheevaplug has the advantage of 512MB of RAM and 512MB of nand. While it has a different booting scheme, I am hoping that I can somehow massage the PogoPBX image into it such that it functions normally. If I figure it out, I will post how I did it.

I thought there was a problem with the image but my dockstar works great with the pogoplug v4 img. i just needed to sync the img to usb drive and it boots.

 

[tycho]

I thought there was a problem with the image but my dockstar works great with the pogoplug v4 img. i just needed to sync the img to usb drive and it boots.

i'll have to go back and look, but it was not "plug and play" (ha!) for me and my Dockstar. I can't now remember the issue but there were a number of gremlins. Make sure that all of the PBX subsystems and dependencies work before you declare 100% victory.

 

[Jeffrccar]

i'll have to go back and look, but it was not "plug and play" (ha!) for me and my Dockstar. I can't now remember the issue but there were a number of gremlins. Make sure that all of the PBX subsystems and dependencies work before you declare 100% victory.

Well, i have already installed this U-boot with Arch Linux Arm on the dockstar.
There's one thing i have noticed that it has trouble rebooting with the reboot command. it seems to hang at the end. I just unplug and plug it again and boots fine.
I just ordered the pogoplug V4. $12 and $12 for 32GB card

 

[Jeffrccar]

There's one thing i have noticed that it has trouble rebooting with the reboot command. it seems to hang at the end. I just unplug and plug it again and boots fine.

Nevermind, I had rootfstype=ext2 and I was to do rootfstype=ext3 in the U-boot and now it reboots fine.

 

[tycho]

Hey Jeffrccar: can you post in this thread:

http://pbxinaflash.com/community/index.php?threads/incredible-pbx-for-dockstar-pogoplug-e02.15650/

... the steps you took to make a Dockstar reliably boot the Pogo image with all modules working and "green?"

If you read that thread several of us had some issues. I for one had to copy the "3.2.0-4-kirkwood" folder from my original Dockstar Debian+Asterisk install USB flashdrive to the new-from-pogo-image /lib/modules folder. And that resulted in some after-effects later on when trying to update things.

 

[Jay Deal]

Jeffrccar see this thread for PogoPBX on non-V4 PP platforms: http://pbxinaflash.com/community/index.php?threads/incredible-pbx-for-dockstar-pogoplug-e02.15650/

I am waiting on a used Sheevaplug which has the same Kirkwood base as the Pogoplug, Dockstar, etc. The Sheevaplug has the advantage of 512MB of RAM and 512MB of nand. While it has a different booting scheme, I am hoping that I can somehow massage the PogoPBX image into it such that it functions normally. If I figure it out, I will post how I did it.

Following up, trying to tuck the V4 image into the booting scheme of the Sheevaplug was a no go. I tried it many different ways - straight boot of the V4 image on the SP, copy of the SP '/' and '/boot' files to the V4 image and copy of all files from the V4 image to the SP image '/' and downward - nothing worked. It may have something to do with the SP having 4 partitions on the SD card whereas the PP image has only one. They run different Debian kernels and the uBoot is different. The list goes on and on. Maybe someone with more skill could figure it out but I believe you would need to build an IPBX image from scratch for this.

With the cost of Sheeva, Dream and Guru plugs being more than a Beaglebone Black and possibly equivalent to the say the cost of a Cubox, I think a BBB or Cubox w ould be a better choice and certainly better (directly) supported now and in the future.

 

[Jeffrccar]

Jay Deal: I think the problem is you have a old uboot. Now last month, bodhi added support for the Sheevaplug that boots up to the 3.16+ kernel.

 

[Jay Deal]

Jay Deal: I think the problem is you have a old uboot. Now last month, bodhi added support for the Sheevaplug that boots up to the 3.16+ kernel.

Unfortunately the one time I tried to do something "funky", and by funky I mean use one of the bodhi kernels, I ended up bricking a Pogoplug Pro that I still have not been able to unbrick. IMO, some of that doozan / bodhi / warheadse stuff is just too complicated for me so I need to wait until it's a cookie cutter-paint by numbers-pancake flipping-neanderthal proof procedure before I attempt another one of them.

 

[David P]

Hey everyone, would someone post the output of free -m on a setup for me? I'd like to know if I could squeeze OpenVPN on one of these things with PIAF.

 

[Jeffrccar]

Jay Deal: Come on! Take a risk! Just kidding, for real if your afraid of bricking make a serial cable. http://blog.qnology.com/2013/10/pogoplug-e02-v2-serial-connection.html
another way to get around not updating u-boot would to compile an older kernel in the pogov4 img but it would take a lot of work.

 

[Jeffrccar]

Hey everyone, would someone post the output of free -m on a setup for me? I'd like to know if I could squeeze OpenVPN on one of these things with PIAF.

Sure

root@pogoplug:~# free -m
            total      used      free    shared    buffers    cached
Mem:          119        77        42          0        11        36
-/+ buffers/cache:        28        90
Swap:          255        39        216

 

[David P]

Sure

root@pogoplug:~# free -m
            total      used      free    shared    buffers    cached
Mem:          119        77        42          0        11        36
-/+ buffers/cache:        28        90
Swap:          255        39        216

Thanks bud,

I wonder if swapping like that puts excessive wear on the SD card?

 

[Jay Deal]

Jay Deal: Come on! Take a risk!

A task best left for the young and the bold (perhaps like yourself). It doesn't bother me if someone else figures it out. I sometimes feel like I'm done trying to figure things out anyway.

 

[tycho]

Hey everyone, would someone post the output of free -m on a setup for me? I'd like to know if I could squeeze OpenVPN on one of these things with PIAF.

Edit Post by tycho

Here's mine, while running the PogoPlug PIAF image:

root@pogoplug:~# free -m
            total      used      free    shared    buffers    cached
Mem:          119        108        11       0          3        44
-/+ buffers/cache:        60        59
Swap:          255        30        225
root@pogoplug:~#

 

[tycho]

Thanks bud,

I wonder if swapping like that puts excessive wear on the SD card?

Maybe. But I had it lying in a drawer. And I've determined that this rig really doesn't need even an 8GB card (which might cost $6), so a replacement 4GB card might cost me -- oh -- $4?

 

[David P]

Maybe. But I had it lying in a drawer. And I've determined that this rig really doesn't need even an 8GB card (which might cost $6), so a replacement 4GB card might cost me -- oh -- $4?

And here I am going all out on a Sandisk class 10 32gb.. haha

thanks guys.

 

[tycho]

And here I am going all out on a Sandisk class 10 32gb.. haha

Totally not necessary. This with a good but cheap MicroCenter house brand 8GB SD: