What's Needed - Building your own Digipeater from A to Z - Part 1

[@Blazerboyk9]

Found your channel for meshtatic, live these videos too

[@The_Comms_Channel]

Welcome and thanks! I'm actually working on an updated digipeater series coming soon!

[@ronizulufineartworks]

I have a Raspberry pi 5. Do I download the same Raspbian image as you did for the Le Potato(AML-S905X-CC)? Can many of the manual steps be bypassed if I use the R pi gear icon to set ssh, username, password, etc? Thanks

[@The_Comms_Channel]

You can follow this video for the flashing process. It's for a Meshtastic BBS series, but you can follow this to flash the pi and then continue on with the digipeater video kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqrMn6aHoKeIabM

[@ronizulufineartworks]

@@The_Comms_Channel Thank youu!

[@The_Comms_Channel]

@@ronizulufineartworks Sure thing! Good luck with your digipeater build!

[@KempOutside]

Looking forward to Part 2!

[@The_Comms_Channel]

Thanks! Coming soon!

[@greenleaf44]

lets go!

[@markphillips8019]

Why do you think that RPi's are still hard to find? They are available in heaps everywhere. Microcenter is a local distributor to me and they have hundreds of all types in stock.

[@The_Comms_Channel]

They were at the time the video was made since it's a little over a year old now. Luckily they are easy to find now as you mentioned.

[@leskeegan9033]

Do you have a link for your github page?

[@Cynical1800]

Did I miss something? RPi is hard to find?

[@The_Comms_Channel]

Yes, it's been an issue for years now, but it's finally starting to go back to normal. www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/you-cant-buy-raspberry-pi-right-now

[@abecoulter8550]

Would VNC work as an alternitive to SSH

[@The_Comms_Channel]

VNC won't work since this is command line only. No desktop environment is installed.

[@BobBob-il2ku]

Is it for APRS?

[@The_Comms_Channel]

Yep, this is a APRS digipeater. We have one at higher elevation for us to use.