TUTORIAL Intel NUC5CPYH for WAZO

[lrosenman]

@wardmundy and anyone else:
Do you think that this NUC and 8G/Ram and a 120G SSD would do WAZO and drive my Panasonic KX-TGP600?

Intel NUC NUC5CPYH, 4K Support via HDMI, Intel HD Graphics, SATA3 for 2.5-Inch HDD/SSD BOXNUC5CPYH

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00XPVRR5M/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1J324M9P82YUI&coliid=I3MYPAWAHUAMWM

 

[wardmundy]

Haven't looked at these in a long time. Be sure you find evidence that someone has used it successfully for VoIP and Asterisk BEFORE you buy it. Some NUCs don't work reliably.

Hopefully, someone with more recent experience will chime in to assist.

 

[jerrm]

Horsepower should be fine, but Debian was an adventure on a bare metal NUC last I tried, chasing drivers and such. But... drivers get updated all the time and it's been a while. Amazon's return policy is not great on PCs, so I would do some more homework with regard to Debian installs on that specific model, as NUCs actually vary quite a bit.

 

[lrosenman]

I bit the bullet, I'm usually pretty good at beating stuff into submission. I'll post here (or where @wardmundy tells me to) with what it takes. Stuff should be here Friday, so a nice weekend project.

 

[lrosenman]

Installing Debian was a breeze. I did the following:
placed the latest BIOS (0058) on a Fat32 formatted USB Stick
Placed that stick in the front USB port
powered on the NUC
when the splash screen came up, pressed F7
navigated to the USB stick and the .BIO file
pressed enter, and let it do it's thing.
then DD'd the debian-8.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso to a different USB stick
booted off of it, and answered all the questions.
it just worked. Now starting to pull the Xivo/Wazo stuff.

 

[lrosenman]

followed the http://nerdvittles.com/?p=18734 and http://pbxinaflash.com/community/threads/xivo-16-15-wazo-16-16-upgrades.19952/page-3
and have a working 16.16 setup. Easy Peezy.

 

[jerrm]

Great! Good to know.

Assume it was the NUC model listed in the OP?

 

[lrosenman]

Yessir, this was with an Ethernet connection, the kernel installed by Jessie doesn't support the 3165 WiFi card, I don't care

 

[lrosenman]

I put a Kingston KVR16LS11/8 SO-DIMM and a
Kingston Digital 120GB SSDNow V300 SATA 3 2.5 Solid State Drive (SV300S37A/120G)
in it, and it's a speedy little demon

 

[briankelly63]

So would you order the same hardware again or change anything?

 

[lrosenman]

So far, wouldn't change a thing.

 

[lrosenman]

As a followup, if you pull the jessie-backports kernel and the iwlwifi bits, you get the wifi card working.
If anyone needs details, let me know.

 

[wardmundy]

As a followup, if you pull the jessie-backports kernel and the iwlwifi bits, you get the wifi card working.
If anyone needs details, let me know.

Yes, please.

 

[lrosenman]

edit the /etc/apt/sources.list add contrib non-free to each deb/deb-src line
create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list with the following content:

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free

apt-get update
apt-get install -t jessie-backports firmware-realtek
apt-get install -t jessie-backports firmware-iwlwifi
apt-get install -t jessie-backports linux-image-amd64 linux-base
apt-get install wireless-tools

reboot, and you should be running the new kernel:

root@wazo:/etc/apt# uname -a
Linux wazo 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.7.8-1~bpo8+1 (2016-10-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@wazo:/etc/apt#

then configure the wireless as usual.

 

[wardmundy]

Thanks for all your work on this. Total cost with RAM and SSD should be just over $200. Looks like it would make an excellent platform for Wazo and any of the 3CX products.

 

[lrosenman]

my pleasure.
my cost (Amazon Prime):
NUC: 124.99
SSD: 48.99
Memory: 48.98

(I had the Kingston memory here, but Amazon recommended the Crucial
CT102464BF160B at 38.79, which I have as well, but the Kingston is on the
compatibility list).

Was an absolute breeze to install.

 

[The Deacon]

@lrosenman - I bought an Intel NUC NUC5CPYH yesterday to build out a Xivo when I stumbled upon your post. Just curious to see how the NUC has been for you? Anything you'd change so far?

 

[lrosenman]

Wouldn't change a thing! Been working great, with zero issues.

Got for it

Let me know if you have any NUC questions.

 

[lrosenman]

Note the latest BIOS is 0062.

 

[The Deacon]

Will do! Thank you, sir!