$70 all in one mumble server and wifi

That would be amazing, thank you so much! Let me know if it would be easiest for me to mail sd cards and thumb drive, or if you can put the images on your Google drive. I can't wait to get this going, we have had no com in our theater since the renovation...

The image that is up now is for the back bone that is the all in one Wi-Fi router and mumble server host. It will run on a three or a zero. But the Wi-Fi is better on the three and the three gives you a bridge to your wired ethernet backbone. I am at the theater today and will snag the image that has been bulletproof for the station for the pie zero and upload it soon. I also have an image for a station that can be burnt to a USB thumb drive to boot up in raspian. That would let you use any old thin client or old PC you happen have sitting around as a station. So yes the server and the station images are two different things.
 
In theory yes... there is info on the web on getting one of those up and running.. unfortunately it's not plug and play with raspian.
you have to hand install the drivers and do a lot of config. I tried one, but didn't have the time/ patience to get it to work.
So for the best wireless headset experience I'm still sold on the logitech DECT units that I have picked up as refurbs for about the 50 to 60 buck range.
One set up they work and keep working, as long as you boot up the pi with the headset base connected.

I have now found at least one wireless earbud that works with the IOS app on the iphone. The first 2 I tried did not.
 
Looking for help - was experimenting with getting a picomm setup on a Pi3, and when I get the image on an 8g card, the Pi3 shows a blank screen and nothing available otherwise.

I've tried multiple cards, 16g and 8g, all with the same results. The devices i have to download/ copy the image are all networked and filtered through a school network. Win32 is what I am using. Tried Etcher, but that couldn't even identify the image. Since I was having difficulty, I took it to the resident computer guru, who programs Rasberry PI stuff for fun all the time. He also had the same issues. The Pi3 operates with other cards.

Any thoughts where we might be going wrong? Could the school district filtering be the issue? Am I missing a basic step? Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
Are you doing a simple copy or actually using a disk imaging utility. https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/latest/download

I work mostly from linux, and havn’t actually burned one from the windows side. The r pi sites have various
tutorials as well. I dont want to assume anything about your experience with the pi, but thats the first thing that comes to mind.

oops I just re read about your pi guru... I think I need to check for corruption.

If push comes to shove, you could send me a 16 gig sd and I could burn one for you.

when I get a chance, I’ll do a fresh download as well, to make sure nothing got corrupted on the storage end.

I have had a couple folks do this successfully though.
 
Are you doing a simple copy or actually using a disk imaging utility. https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/latest/download

I work mostly from linux, and havn’t actually burned one from the windows side. The r pi sites have various
tutorials as well. I dont want to assume anything about your experience with the pi, but thats the first thing that comes to mind.

oops I just re read about your pi guru... I think I need to check for corruption.

If push comes to shove, you could send me a 16 gig sd and I could burn one for you.

when I get a chance, I’ll do a fresh download as well, to make sure nothing got corrupted on the storage end.

I have had a couple folks do this successfully though.

- Yes using the disk imaging utility - Win32 and tried Etcher also. I am suspicious that the District web filtering is the issue. My guru took it all home tonight to attempt a clean download from home - I'll report on the results when I get it back from him in the next couple days. Good to hear others are having success - this would be great to get up and running. Thanks so much!
 
So -update. No progress. Guru took everything and tried several clean downloads of Picomm, and got the same blank-screen results. He thinks it could have something to do with the compression google uses, but if others have gotten it to work, I stumped.

Any suggestions if there is something we missed?

We do have the instructions to build from scratch, so we’ll get there eventually.
 
I downloaded today at work, and will take the image home to try it out again.
And yeah.. the do it yourself stuff isn't too hard either if you have worked with the pi or linux

The build in wifi router setup stuff was cookbook that I lifted from elsewhere, but I think the instructions are complete.

After that the Main thing is getting the startup delay built in to allow the audio components to load before mumble starts.

Will let you know if the image fails... I can re upload in case google broke doing maintenance or some such.
 
OK was poking around... perhaps a big duh here.... the image is compressed as a tar.gz needs to be uncompressed/unzipped in order to make it expand to
img file.. were you using it raw?
 
OK was poking around... perhaps a big duh here.... the image is compressed as a tar.gz needs to be uncompressed/unzipped in order to make it expand to
img file.. were you using it raw?
Ha - I was, I don't know what the other guy tried - I'll try that - Thanks so much!
 
Ha - I was, I don't know what the other guy tried - I'll try that - Thanks so much!
I can confirm that anything that has the extension "tar.gz" is a compressed file. Uncompress to the .img file and then burn to the SD card.
...but a Linux Guru should know that??? For me it's Live and Learn...
 
So sorry to have put you through that. I will either have to re load as a zip to protect those in the Windows world
or include what a tar.gz is in the instructions. Many a time, I have been working on a project, and the special sauce is obvious
to the person who wrote the cookbook, but I spent hours trying to figure out what I did wrong. I think most modern zip programs will
undo a tar for you (short for tarball)
 
I appreciate all the help - admittedly, I’m not even a windows guy, only owned macs; even took classes programming them decades ago... The “guru” I referred to and I have been limited by the software the school lets us put on the computers, he did mention something about a compressed file, but my suspicion is he tried to open it with the universal can opener, instead of the right tool for the job, only because we didn’t have the ability to pick what we used.

I appreciate the advice as I learn my way through this. I have actually been having fun with the pi, and hope to build up a little Linux knowledge. Thanks!
 
Joy. Finally got this up - the problem was with the school network, file size etc. Turns out my Guru friend did decompress the file, and then encountered other issues. I hadn’t even gotten that far because of the limitation of the memory allocated toward our individual user accounts.

Anyway, thank you @jtweigandt! After minimal tweaking, we are hoping to run 8 wireless stations. 4 up so far. All are happy with the quality, and we are in for less than $200 for the pi3, Logitech headset, and a few extra micro SD cards. Quotes for a similar clearom setup stalled for purchase when they went over 5 figures. This is perfect for our middle school. I can’t express my appreciation enough!
 
Absolutely great to hear. We have run 5 musicals now on the picomm. The Dect headsets beware that you need to “exercise” the lithium ion batteries.. If you keep them offline months at a time, you may have them fail to charge later. If you keep them online “trickle”, without using them, you may lose some talk time. I try to make sure I take them off the hook at least once a month for a couple of hours. My main little unit just runs 24/7 for over a year now. Have had to restart a few times to handshake with a flaky router that I have it connected to for a secondary backbone. Make sure before you get too far along to use the utility provided in the raspian desktop to directly clone your working sd card. I just keep a spare taped to the inside of the case. I havn’t had to use one on the picomm, but I have when I was doing something wonky with an xray storage system that I have using the pi. Make sure not to cycle power during the boot sequence and you should be good. There are minimal writes to the sd once everything is up. Powering down during a write is the most susceptible time. Interestingly I also use a company that makes our Lab equipment using a pi under the hood to run results reporting link to our PC’s Its been running on my countertop for a year or more now.
 
Today I installed your image for the pi zero stage communication system. The networks show up and will connect. When I try to connect to a mumble server running on a laptop I get the error "Server connection failed: Network unreachable." I also cannot load a page in a web browser or ping a local or external address. I am having the same problem on both a pi zero w and a pi 3. I have no network problems using mumble on a pi zero w or pi 3 with a clean install of Raspbian. Using mumble on a pi 3 or zero 2 I can not get the headset working and only the mic works. Any suggestions?
 
am guessing you need to reset the ip address of the zero to something in your network address range. Your router should have some low addresses reserved for fixed ip devices. i created the image with an address in the 192.168.0.* range most home networks are 192.168.1.*, and therefor you won’t see machines in opposite ranges.

I used fixed ip addresses, so I can administer them headless using VNC

I used the 0 series addresses to avoid someone putting something else on one of the computers in the closed net and screwing me up.

if you have the zero connected to a keyboard and monitor, you can click or right click on the netork status icon in the upper right to get access and change the ip.

I forget what name I gave the pizero, but it’s probably beltpack1 in the mumble setup. You have to edit a config file to change or give a unique name to each of the pi zero’s

You have to run the audio wizard from within the mumble session on the pi, and you will not hear the example text read... just punch through. You might or might not hear yourself during the mic test, but the VU meters should work to set your range. I’m working from memory, and cant remember which but you have to load the logitech usb default driver from the dropdown for the audio and the mic during the wizard.

Then you have to close mumble and reboot the pi, before the settings will take and let you use the headset. It took me hours and trying every driver before I realized that.

The address of a picomm base is 192.168.0.1 Some routers will let you talk to both address ranges 0 and 1 So you can have regular network traffic, and have your mumble net not browseable by the normal, but you can still ping and connect using the direct address if you know it. Some routers you have to mess with routing in order to let the 0 range pass over the ethernet or the wifi.

But I believe the base images.. picomm and the beltpack image will automatically find each other over the picomm wifi automatically as is.

Most usb to 1/8 jack sound dongles work out of the box using the most basic driver in the mumble setup. So wired headset to pizero is a pretty simple setup. I have put a zero on a small cell phone battery charger pack with a wired headset and used it as a mobile beltpack as well. The connection of the logitech dect is more reliable than moving around connected to the wifi.. but if it drops, it does automatically re aquire and connect to the wifi
 
Your suggestions for the network fixed the network problem. I still have no audio though. I am using a UGREEN USB to TRRS adapter and apple earbuds. I have tried all of the microphone input options but none of them work and the VU meter does not move. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.

Is there something I have to do to get the drivers to appear in the drop down menu?
 

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