ASL_Cloud

A guide to setting up an AllStarLink node in the cloud

What you need

Setting up your AllStarLink Account

Setting up DigitalOcean

preparing the server

Setting up your node

Accessing your node

Remote control of your node Optional

Tips and tricks

Please note if a link had a * after it it needs to be open in a new tab.

Also sections of text that look like this you can copy and paste in you the terminal window.

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For this project you will need the following ingredients

• An Amateur Radio Licence
• An account at allstarlink.org*
• An account at digitalocean.com* you could use other cloud service providers but this guide is using DigitalOcean

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Setting up your AllStarLink Account

go to https://www.allstarlink.org/* once your account has been created lof in then select Portal on the top menu

from that menu select Server

fill in the form then hit submit

from the portal menu select node

here you will need to select create (mine says continue as I allready have 2 nodes)

fill in this form but you will get your first node straight away

you will need to make a note of your node number and the password. the password can be changed by clicking on the node number you can over your mouse over the password area on diplay or go in by clicking on the node number

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Setting up your server on DigitalOcean

headon over to digitalocean.com* and sign up for an account once you have signed in to you DigitalOcean account you need to select the Default Project and then select "Spin up a droplet"

On the next page select you closest server

Then select Debian and from the drop-down box select "10 x64"

Droplet type select "SHARED CPU Basic"

unser CPU options select Regular and the 1gb 1 core

Choose Authentication Method if you have an ssh key in a terminal client such as SmarTTY or Putty or have a Linux computer and don't mind a little extra work then select SSH key or if you like you can use a password.

if you go down the key route you will see the following image

Now to create the droplet just click on the blue button

Now we grab a coffee and wait for the server to be built

the buld has finished and you should see an IP address in the photo below its where the 167. is you will need this IP address for the next part

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Preparing the server

Lets get our sever ready for AllStarLink

open up your choice of terminal client you will need to input the following information

location	enter
host or server name	this will be the IP Address of your server
user name	root
password	this will be the password you inputted at server setup
key	if you opted for the key method select it here

Now to the installation of the project you need to run the following commands

apt update && apt install git -y

Now go and make a cup of coffee. Once that is done

git clone https://github.com/M6GSN/ASL_Cloud

Then run the following

cd ASL_Cloud

chmod +x *.sh

Now you can drink your coffee

./install.sh

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Setting up your node

Now we set up the node first off run asl-menu

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Accessing your node

part 1 Setting up your node for access

note due to some limitation on github some of the following changes templates are in separate files

first of we need to change locations input `cd /etc/asterisk/

then we need tp edit the iax.conf file nano iax.conf

scroll down till you find a section called Incoming radio connections then after the section radio then paste the text from iax.conf.txt* and change the following yourcall to you call sign and change the secret from YOURSECRETWILLGOHERE

when done press crtl+x then press y

now we need to change the extensions.conf nano extensions.confthen below the section radio-secure paste the text from extensions.conf.txt changing yourcall to your call sign and NodeNo to your node number

hen done press crtl+x then press y

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Remote control of your node

Although this is a optional step it does have it perks

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Tips and tricks