BUG New Incredible Pi Image

[womble1]

have bought a 64 GB DS card is that OK to go ?
Thought I might record phone calls...
also...
the transcription does it work ?
I never got that to work on the latest PIAF asterisk 11 freepbx 11...

 

[snarpatroid]

Reports of 64gb are hit and miss - there's a guide of known good/bad cards at http://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards but try it - the Pi install will expand the image to the size of your card so you can use the space.

I have only used transcription on voicemail, it works to a fashion but I've seen 'will speak to you soon' come out as 'Will says hue sun' and so on...

 

[womble1]

What about recording.
I bought the kingston 64 GB chip that is verified so that's ok.

 

[snarpatroid]

You'll have no problem recording phone calls at all, you'll want to keep an eye on file sizes though - the recording module does not allow time limits or file size/age to be monitored and deleted so you'd either have to set manually or set up a cron job.

That's food for thought on call recordings though - I only have an 8gb card and I'd be interested in a recording module that set a rule so there's a maximum record time (let's say no more than 1 hour per call for argument's sake) and deletes if the recording is over say 1 week old. Anyone got tips on this suggestion?

 

[womble1]

hmm the default installer failed so after formatting I moved the files by hand but that also failed.

 

[womble1]

OK so the installer failed I formatted the card as DOS copied the whole install image with ditto to the card, put in PI and it gets so far it says unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,2)

 

[snarpatroid]

My best guess in that case is although someone's indicated the card is compatible it probably isn't (remember compatibility guides are usually wiki files that anyone can edit too). Try another R-Pi image like www.openelec.tv - although that's media centre software you can get an idea if there's a problem with the installer if Openelec installs.

FWIW I'm mid argument with Kingston right now, I find their SD cards total rubbish even though some people seem to be okay with them. Had two corrupt in a Pi to an irreversible state, they replaced the first one but the second one I've been told not to use in a Pi and that may invalidate the warranty if I do.

Sadly - and this is the sad thing - not all cards are made to the same spec even though they should be, so it can be trial and error. On a cheap SD card that can be okay, but I'd imagine you have invested a fair amount of money on this card.

wardmundy may be able to advise here, I haven't done this myself, but I'm sure it must be possible to set the voicemail recordings to an external USB device either by changing the directory or possibly a symlink, then you could use a cheap SD card for your overall install then a USB drive as your recording device. Would that be an option? Alternatively if you really wanted to keep on a large SD card I'd be using SanDisk but YMMV.

 

[wardmundy]

Try the RasPBX install before you give up. If you have the very latest Raspberry Pi, the OS firmware may not be sufficiently current to boot with the old Incredible Pi image.

 

[snarpatroid]

I had an email from Kingston today about the second corrupt SDHC 4gb/class 4 card I have used with a Pi. I was using Openelec so a different image, but Kingston said rather worryingly they notice a 'high failure rate' using their cards with a Raspberry Pi so they have informed me now whilst they will replace my card, this is the only time they will replace if I continue to use the card in a Pi. After much discussion I have said I will return the card to them for diagnostics as I would like them to redevelop their cards - there is a problem somewhere if cards like SanDisk work but Kingston's don't.

Bottom line is if you use a Kingston they are aware of a high chance of failure, they advise not to use their cards with the Pi, you're safer with SanDisk.

 

[womble1]

Thanks OK well I've booted of two cards now one a 16 GB card the same error occurs found

it says JBD2: no valid journal superblock

then no file system could mount root, tried: ext4
kernal panic - not syncing:VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknownblock

I think I will get a Beaglebone Black as they are 3 times the performance and my card might work there.... Ward what is the concurrency you can get with a beagle bone Black ?

 

[snarpatroid]

There are two versions 3.7 and 3.11 showing on http://incrediblepbx.com/ try them both. I have been successfully using Incredible Pi since around January last year, making changes and upgrades as we went along - when it's up it is a very stable and solid system, perfect for a SOHO environment.

 

[womble1]

Try the RasPBX install before you give up. If you have the very latest Raspberry Pi, the OS firmware may not be sufficiently current to boot with the old Incredible Pi image.

Thanks.
I am downloading the Noobs files for raspberry, which OS should I install ?

 

[wardmundy]

womble1: Try the new Incredible Pi image on SourceForge. It has the latest Wheezy/Raspbian kernel and associated files. It is available NOW. Should be ready for download after 5 p.m. EDT today. Let me know if you still have a problem with it. Thanks.

 

[womble1]

Thanks Ward, the installer failed on my 64 GB chip but I got a 16GB one and it's working so it must be the 64GB chip that has the issue...
now installing the

wget http://incrediblepbx.com/incrediblepbx11-raspbx.gz

version.
Will now be much more careful in my chips looks like Kingston fail a lot....

 

[womble1]

Tha

womble1: Try the new Incredible Pi image on SourceForge. It has the latest Wheezy/Raspbian kernel and associated files. It is available NOW. Should be ready for download after 5 p.m. EDT today. Let me know if you still have a problem with it. Thanks.

Great Thanks it worked... on my 64 GB chip.
However I first had to partition the SD card using https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ and making sure to use the erase option...
That booted up...
Now just need to see how to log in !
Thanks Ward !!

 

[Jay Deal]

Associated with this, anything going to happen with the Incredible PBX image for the Beaglebone Black?

 

[wardmundy]

Associated with this, anything going to happen with the Incredible PBX image for the Beaglebone Black?

Our best advice is to use the RasPBX image and then add Incredible PBX.

 

[womble1]

odd now getting this after downloading the latest image...
I expand the image in Downloads, and go into the folder and launch the mac utility....


Incredible Pi 3.11 image file missing from Downloads/incrediblepi-3.11 folder.
Download incrediblepi-3.11.tar.gz into the Downloads folder.
Then double-click on the file to unzip. Switch to incrediblepi-3.11 folder.
Then rerun this make-sdhc-mac script. DO NOT RUN make-sdhc. That's for Linux.
logout

 

[wardmundy]

odd now getting this after downloading the latest image...
I expand the image in Downloads, and go into the folder and launch the mac utility....


Incredible Pi 3.11 image file missing from Downloads/incrediblepi-3.11 folder.
Download incrediblepi-3.11.tar.gz into the Downloads folder.
Then double-click on the file to unzip. Switch to incrediblepi-3.11 folder.
Then rerun this make-sdhc-mac script. DO NOT RUN make-sdhc. That's for Linux.
logout

Ooops. Sorry. I forgot to change the image names in the scripts. On a Mac, open the make-sdhc-mac script with TextEdit. Choose Edit, Find, Find and Replace. Plug in the values shown below and click All button, then Done, then File->Save. Will get it fixed up for future downloaders.

 

[wardmundy]

All fixed at SourceForge.