Asterisk on Guitar

FrAllard

Hi everybody,

Today I just received my very own LeMaker Guitar that was offered to me after presenting my project consisting of running Asterisk & FreePBX on a LeMaker Guitar to make your very own SIP PBX.

Here are the pictures I took while unboxing it, I didn't even started it yet before posting! I don't even know what is on the USB bracelet they sent along with the boards, I'll keep you posted as soon as I plug this in...

I'm from Canada and I use Asterisk from about 10 years now at home and I have some clients that also run an Asterisk PBX for their company.  I tried running Asterisk on various devices like the LeMaker Guitar in the past but I always relied on a premade image that I would simply flash ontothe device.

This project will ba all about building it from scratch. I don't know yet if I'm going to use packages or source files and compile everything. One thing I know I'm going to have problem with is that the LeMaker Guitar does not come with a real time clock, so we have to rely on the Internet to get the date correctly. I'll probably have to make a script to detect when Internet is available and then get the correct date.

FrAllard

Okay, looked at the USB bracelet and there is nothing on it it as a 4 GB USB key.

I connected the LeMaker to a monitor and Android is installed on the eMMC, I need some Linux flavor, so I'm going to read about how to make that happen... See you later!

tony_zhang

USB bracelet  is just an extra  little present for yo, not anything for LeMaker Guitar.

I have moved the thread to the right section.

Tido

Hi,

Will you write a document on Google Docs or how will you document your project?

Thank you for the unboxing pictures - this is missing on LENOVATOR's website.
I am surprised how nice it is packaged and with a little leaflet - well done LeMaker Team !
The Guitar comes with a heat-sink also a great improvement !

On the other hand, we now about the difficulty of the USB3.0 plug, so instead of 4GB Memory Stick
an USB3.0 OTG cable would have been much better ;)

Cheers
Tido

FrAllard

At the end if I'm able to even boot this thing in Linux I'll create an howto document. But for now the Linux images I planned to base my build with does boot but all of my spare monitors aren't able to display the output... I'm getting an out of range error and as I read I'm not the only one having this problem and so far I can't find the solution... It seems that the board need a new kernel file that would correct this problem.

While searching I also find that someone beat me to it regarding FreePBX, there is an ready to flash FreePBX image for the Guitar on the forum, I even tried it while it does seem to boot nothing is displayed on my monitor.

Regards,
FrAllard

Tido

FrAllard replied at Jan 19, 2016 12:52
all of my spare monitors aren't able to display the output.. ...

Hi

This is an old problem with the display resolution.
If you have a full HD display and HDMI, it works.

For everything else you have to use command line.
In windows there is a tool called Putty.

Maybe the LeMaker Team creates a fresh LEMUNTU, and maybe this works better with different resolution.
I have the Guitar attached to my TV or I SSH into it from my Linux box.

FrAllard

None of the monitors I tried are Full HD, one is 16:10 ratio and the other one is 4:3 ratio. I tried ssh but somehow Advanced IP scanner couldn't find the IP guitar on my network, the MAC address is no where to be found, so I guess I'll have to dig inside my DHCP server lease to find it! More to follow when I have more time to look into this!