Manual install Pi-Star on Orange Pi Zero 2W

• Manual install Pi-Star on Orange Pi Zero 2W
  • Prepare hardware
    • Turn off UART0 serial console
    • Turn on I2C
  • Prepare OS
    • Install required packages
    • Turn on 32bit armhf, because prebuilt binaries are compiled like that
    • Create user and grand permissions
  • Install Pi-Star specifics
    • Setup up web servers
    • Install web
    • Install MMDVM and related binaries
      • Option 1: Use prebuilt binaries
      • Option 2: Build them yourself from sources
    • Install pi star scripts
    • Copy pistar files
      • usr local
      • Now ugly part comes

Prepare hardware

Turn off UART0 serial console

Yes, because all MMDVM HATs using UART0 rather than other UARTs, we have to use UART0. That is not mistake by design, but really first versions of Rpi had only two UARTs and probably noone want solve switching to UART1.

orangepi-config
System --> Bootenv
replace "console=both" for "console=none" and add "extraargs=console=tty1"

systemctl stop serial-getty@ttyS0
systemctl disable serial-getty@ttyS0

Turn on I2C

System --> Hardware --> enable pi-i2c1, in system it will appear as /dev/i2c-2

Prepare OS

Install required packages

apt install git php-fpm php-json php-mbstring php-zip nginx stm32flash shellinabox geoip-database zip avahi-daemon avrdude flashrom

Turn on 32bit armhf, because prebuilt binaries are compiled like that

Only needed if you want prebuilt binaries

TODO: Probably create debian packages or podman images with pre-built images for arm64 arch too, also redone update strategy from git checkout to system packages as that will solve also dependencies and architecture

dpkg --add-architecture armhf
apt install libc6:armhf libusb-1.0-0:armhf libgps28:armhf

Create user and grand permissions

adduser mmdvm

• check UID 1001 and home /home/mmdvm

usermod -a -G i2c,dialout mmdvm

• TODO spi group, which not exists

Install Pi-Star specifics

Setup up web servers

configure nginx
TODO: copy site-available files
TODO: copy nginx default.d files
Note: change PHP FPM socket acording to PHP version
Create/copy .htpasswd to /var/www/.htpasswd and give www-data owner

Install web

cd /var/www/
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AndyTaylorTweet/Pi-Star_DV_Dash.git dashboard

Install MMDVM and related binaries

TODO: create some debain packages or container images.
Container is hard for some binaries as they use hardware-specific libraries like wiring pi

Option 1: Use prebuilt binaries

TODO: out of dated, binaries are NOT compatible with arm64 and armhf wiringpi is not available to support all MMDVMHost

cd /usr/local/
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AndyTaylorTweet/Pi-Star_v4_Binaries_Bin.git bin

Option 2: Build them yourself from sources

TODO: but in common;

• Install build tools like build essential, makefile etc.
• clone required binaries from G4KLX gitbub
• build one by one

Install pi star scripts

cd /usr/local
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AndyTaylorTweet/Pi-Star_Binaries_sbin.git sbin

Copy pistar files

usr local

/usr/local/etc chown

Now ugly part comes

Copy /etc pi-star specific files and make them owned by www-data, so web server can write to them :'(

• TODO file list / automatic something
• pistar-release
• mmdvmhost

chown www-data dstar-radio.mmdvmhost dstarrepeater hostname hosts ircddbgateway mobilegps pistar-css.ini pistar-remote starnetserver timeserver

I am not happy web browser have access to hosts file, it allow attacker to redirect IP/DNS to his server

Set up sudo without password to web server (yes, I am not kidding but PHP is really full of sudo commands)

Copy /etc/sudoers.d