Hello Asterisk, Back in 2009 I built a small Intel Atom based computer running Centos 5 for my asterisk system. 5 phones, 2 people 1 POTs line and six or so SIP numbers. So basically no load. I'm feeling like it's time to build another machine. It's probably silly, but it's been six years and I can't upgrade the OS which is falling behind. I'd likely just put it on a Raspberry Pi or something like that, but I need the one POTS line and all I have for that at the moment is a Digium card for a PCI slot. Are there any current thoughts on this? -- Ira
Find a HPT5720 with expansion chassis on eBay for under $50, load AstLinux ( instructions at AstLinux.org ) Move your Digium card and your confs , fix up any differences from your older version of Asterisk to the fairly current version 11 currently available with AstLinux. Use the GUI to edit and mage the system, as AstLinux has a somewhat different directory structure than you may be familiar with You should be up and running in a couple of hours, have a low power < 20 watts, fanless flash based system that will just work in a real case. The Pi is OK for a playtoy and some testing, but I much prefer the HP thin clients for a robust installation. I assume you are not doing any fancy call center or heavy database work. For a home or home office it is a really good solution. AstLinux is also used with other embedded installations on computers with multiple Ethernet ports, acting as router and firewall in addition. I prefer the component solution personally, which makes the HP thin clients the way to go. John Novack I have built more than 30 of these systems on various HP Thin Clients, used off of eBay with no failures Ira wrote:> Hello Asterisk, > > Back in 2009 I built a small Intel Atom based computer running > Centos 5 for my asterisk system. 5 phones, 2 people 1 POTs > line and six or so SIP numbers. So basically no load. I'm > feeling like it's time to build another machine. It's probably > silly, but it's been six years and I can't upgrade the OS > which is falling behind. I'd likely just put it on a Raspberry > Pi or something like that, but I need the one POTS line and > all I have for that at the moment is a Digium card for a PCI > slot. > > Are there any current thoughts on this? > > -- Ira > >-- Dog is my Co-Pilot
If you are really wanting to build something on Raspberry Pi or similar ARM platform, you could also take a look at Elastix for ARM. http://www.elastix.com/en/downloads/ Elastix is a fully integrated platform, and includes the majority of necessary components in one installation. The new Raspberry Pi 2 platform may be perfect for your needs in this respect, although based on your load, the B+ board may be more available at this time, and slightly cheaper. The Pi 2 is about double the core processing speed. YMMV Thanks, *Glenn Geller* *VDOTel* On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:34 PM, John Novack SCII < jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org> wrote:> Find a HPT5720 with expansion chassis on eBay for under $50, load AstLinux > ( instructions at AstLinux.org ) Move your Digium card and your confs , fix > up any differences from your older version of Asterisk to the fairly > current version 11 currently available with AstLinux. > Use the GUI to edit and mage the system, as AstLinux has a somewhat > different directory structure than you may be familiar with > You should be up and running in a couple of hours, have a low power < 20 > watts, fanless flash based system that will just work in a real case. > The Pi is OK for a playtoy and some testing, but I much prefer the HP thin > clients for a robust installation. > I assume you are not doing any fancy call center or heavy database work. > For a home or home office it is a really good solution. > AstLinux is also used with other embedded installations on computers with > multiple Ethernet ports, acting as router and firewall in addition. > I prefer the component solution personally, which makes the HP thin > clients the way to go. > > > John Novack > > > I have built more than 30 of these systems on various HP Thin Clients, > used off of eBay with no failures > > Ira wrote: > >> Hello Asterisk, >> Back in 2009 I built a small Intel Atom based computer running >> Centos 5 for my asterisk system. 5 phones, 2 people 1 POTs >> line and six or so SIP numbers. So basically no load. I'm >> feeling like it's time to build another machine. It's probably >> silly, but it's been six years and I can't upgrade the OS >> which is falling behind. I'd likely just put it on a Raspberry >> Pi or something like that, but I need the one POTS line and >> all I have for that at the moment is a Digium card for a PCI >> slot. >> >> Are there any current thoughts on this? >> -- Ira >> >> >> > -- > Dog is my Co-Pilot > > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20150306/57e630ce/attachment.html>
Hello John, Friday, March 6, 2015, 12:34:42 PM, you wrote:> Find a HPT5720 with expansion chassis on eBay for under $50, > load AstLinux ( instructions at AstLinux.org ) Move your > Digium card and your confs , fix up any differences from yourBut given that means buying an old computer, why change at all? I already have a very low power one that works fine. Is AstLinux better than Centos 5 running Asterisk 13? -- Ira
John I will have to get one of these and give this a try. Thanks for sharing. Thanks Bryant Zimmerman (Grand Dial Communications, a ZK Tech Inc.) 616-855-1030 Ext. 2003 ---------------------------------------- From: "John Novack SCII" <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org> Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 3:37 PM To: "Ira" <ira at extrasensory.com>, "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] New Asterisk build Find a HPT5720 with expansion chassis on eBay for under $50, load AstLinux ( instructions at AstLinux.org ) Move your Digium card and your confs , fix up any differences from your older version of Asterisk to the fairly current version 11 currently available with AstLinux. Use the GUI to edit and mage the system, as AstLinux has a somewhat different directory structure than you may be familiar with You should be up and running in a couple of hours, have a low power < 20 watts, fanless flash based system that will just work in a real case. The Pi is OK for a playtoy and some testing, but I much prefer the HP thin clients for a robust installation. I assume you are not doing any fancy call center or heavy database work. For a home or home office it is a really good solution. AstLinux is also used with other embedded installations on computers with multiple Ethernet ports, acting as router and firewall in addition. I prefer the component solution personally, which makes the HP thin clients the way to go. John Novack I have built more than 30 of these systems on various HP Thin Clients, used off of eBay with no failures Ira wrote:> Hello Asterisk, > > Back in 2009 I built a small Intel Atom based computer running > Centos 5 for my asterisk system. 5 phones, 2 people 1 POTs > line and six or so SIP numbers. So basically no load. I'm > feeling like it's time to build another machine. It's probably > silly, but it's been six years and I can't upgrade the OS > which is falling behind. I'd likely just put it on a Raspberry > Pi or something like that, but I need the one POTS line and > all I have for that at the moment is a Digium card for a PCI > slot. > > Are there any current thoughts on this? > > -- Ira > >-- Dog is my Co-Pilot -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20150306/b68e0081/attachment.html>
On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 11:33:55AM -0800, Ira wrote:> Hello Asterisk, > > Back in 2009 I built a small Intel Atom based computer running > Centos 5 for my asterisk system. 5 phones, 2 people 1 POTs > line and six or so SIP numbers. So basically no load. I'm > feeling like it's time to build another machine. It's probably > silly, but it's been six years and I can't upgrade the OS > which is falling behind. I'd likely just put it on a Raspberry > Pi or something like that, but I need the one POTS line and > all I have for that at the moment is a Digium card for a PCI > slot. > > Are there any current thoughts on this?Very few ARM boards have anything close to PCI. Some of them: * nitrogen6x - A good board, well supported[1] but on the expensive range (~250$ (?)). Has a PCI-express slot. * Mira-box - has an internal mini-PCI slot. Not sure if it's good for you. Cheaper than the above, but still 150$ or so. If you look for a low-power ARM board, would you consider giving up the requirement of a PCI slot? Also note that many ARM boards don't have SATA. If you want to write to SD or to USB, please test performance of writing to see that Asterisk works well with it. Though quite a few (even of the cheaper ones) have SATA. [1] Raspbian uses those boards for their build servers. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com
On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 03:34:42PM -0500, John Novack SCII wrote:> Find a HPT5720 with expansion chassis on eBay for under $50, load > AstLinux ( instructions at AstLinux.org ) Move your Digium card and > your confs , fix up any differences from your older version of > Asterisk to the fairly current version 11 currently available with > AstLinux. > Use the GUI to edit and mage the system, as AstLinux has a somewhat different directory structure than you may be familiar with > You should be up and running in a couple of hours, have a low power < 20 watts, fanless flash based system that will just work in a real case.I would expect a decent ARM system to use roughly 2-5W. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com