Installing the system this way makes it pretty easy compared to previous installs but, it comes with some quirks which cause issues with Node-Red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the outset the plan has always been to have AllStartLink 3 and Node-Red running on the same Pi4 to keep it totally self contained. This was easy enough to achieve and works without issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Installing Node-Red onto a Pi4 is really easy and is fully documented on the Node-Red Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the AllStarLink 3 operating system was installed on my SD card, booted and operational I installed Node-Red. I soon realised that there were a few things I had to do before loading the Node-Red flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AllStarLink 3 no longer logs connect and disconnect messages in the connectlog<\/em><\/strong> like it did in AllStarLink 2. To get logging working again I had to create two new BASH scripts as detailed below and put them into \/etc\/asterisk\/myscripts<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the connect information I created the BASH script as detailed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the disconnect information I created the 2nd script detailed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once these scripts were created I had to change the ownership and privileges as detailed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also had to change ownership\/privileges of \/etc\/asterisk\/myscripts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the two scripts were in place I had to alter the asterisk config so that it called the scripts as part of the connect\/disconnect process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I found the connpgm<\/em><\/strong> and discpgm<\/em><\/strong> entries in \/etc\/asterisk\/rpt.conf <\/em><\/strong>and changed them as shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next I disabled the temporary filesystems that are used by default for the apache and asterisk logging as it’s useful to keep the apache logs for debugging and I needed the asterisk logs for the Node-Red dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Disabling the temporary file system is very easy to do, just edit the \/etc\/fstab<\/em><\/strong> and comment out the two lines as shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the entries in the \/etc\/fstab <\/em><\/strong>were commented out I rebooted the Pi4 to get persistent filesystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final thing that had to be done was to allow user repeater<\/em><\/strong> to use sudo<\/em><\/strong> without a password so that it could be used to perform reboot\/shutdown\/process restart as user root from within the dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once this was all done I imported the Node-Red flow, configured the SSH nodes with login credentials for the Pi4 (important to use the user repeater<\/em><\/strong> for SSH), clicked deploy<\/em><\/strong> and the dashboard was ready for use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve been using the dashboard for a few weeks now and it’s running perfectly, without error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to build your own Node-Red Control Dashboard for your AllStarLink 3 node then, just download the flow using the button below and import it into your flow editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve recently built a new AllStarLink (ASL) node for my MB7IBW gateway that I have recently brought up on air on the 2m band. AllStarLink 3 has a lot of changes in it when compared to the previous version and this of course impacts my Node-Red Control Dashboard that I’ve been using to manage my … <\/p>\n![\"Node-Red](\"https:\/\/m0aws.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AllStarLink3-Node-Red-Control-Dashboard.png\")
#!\/bin\/bash\n\n# \/etc\/asterisk\/myscripts\/connectlog.sh\n\necho $1 Connected $2 on $(date +\"%T\") - $(date +\"%m-%d-%Y\") >> \/var\/log\/asterisk\/connectlog<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n#!\/bin\/bash\n\n# \/etc\/asterisk\/myscripts\/disconnectlog.sh\n\necho $1 Disconnected $2 on $(date +\"%T\") - $(date +\"%m-%d-%Y\") >> \/var\/log\/asterisk\/connectlog\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\ncd \/etc\/asterisk\/myscripts\nchown asterisk:asterisk .\/*\nchmod 750 .\/*<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\ncd \/etc\/asterisk\nchown asterisk:asterisk .\/myscripts\nchmod 755 .\/myscripts<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nconnpgm = \/etc\/asterisk\/myscripts\/connectlog.sh\n\ndiscpgm = \/etc\/asterisk\/myscripts\/disconnectlog.sh<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n# Comment out the next line for persistent Apache logs\n#tmpfs \/var\/log\/apache2 tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=0775,size=32M 0 0\n\n# Comment out the next line for persistent Asterisk logs\n#tmpfs \/var\/log\/asterisk tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=0775,size=32M,uid=102,gid=106 0 0 \n\n# Note: These lines are wrapped, should be on 1 line in the \/etc\/fstab<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n# \/etc\/sudoers\n\n# Allow repeater sudo without password\nrepeater ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n![\"Node](\"https:\/\/m0aws.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Node-Red-AllStarLink3-Control-Dashboard-Flow.png\")
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