Are you using the web Chrome-based display?? The changes in the post only affect the Chrome display.? The old display you posted in the video is being removed.? It does not have all of the updated functions.

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Evan
AC9TU

Jens,

The mod provided only works with the Chrome-based display.? The video is using the older gtk-based display that is being phased out.? Try it using the Chrome display.? It should look like this:



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Evan
AC9TU

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On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 01:12 PM, Mark Erbaugh wrote:

have you tried booting your Pi 5 from an external USB drive?

Sorry, no, I have not.

I'm still working through getting my USB3 NVMe to run sbitx correctly with Pi 4 and the old Buster-based OS that came with sbitx.

I just figured out what it was doing wrong, will update the other thread, it was a permissions thing for /dev/gpiomem.

Next I want to use some of the advice I read here to get it to run on Bullseye in 64 bit mode then try Bookworm.

Basically I want to take things one step at a time, always having a fall-back that works so if I screw something up I can still use the radio.

-- Regards, Dave, N1AI

Note:? If you edit the message heading, a new topic is created, and links to the old topic are lost.

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Evan
AC9TU

Jens,

Did you comment out the lines in index.html in the data folder under the sbitx folder in the pi home directory?(/home/pi/sbitx/data/index.html)?as per this message?

/g/BITX20/message/105788

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Evan
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I just got a Pi 5 yesterday. Currently I'm not planning on replacing the Pi 4 in my sBitx DE.

Off topic: have you tried booting your Pi 5 from an external USB drive?? I have a USB3 enclosure with an NvME SSD. You can use the Raspberry Pi Imager software to create a bootable USB drive. I tried booting my Pi 5 it and while it boots and runs fine, if I try and update the software, I get a "drive was removed without ejecting error" and have to do a hard shutdown.? The failure is repeatable. The same NvME drive works fine on my Pi 4's (one in the sBitx) and my Pi 400. To eliminate the possibility that the drive was drawing too much current, I connected it to a powered USB3 hub - same failure.? I'm trying to figure out if the problem is with the Pi 5 in general or if my board is defective while I can still return it.
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73,
Mark, N8ME

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 02:23 PM, Mark Erbaugh wrote:

official way to manipulate GPIO pins

I didn't find an official statement.

I did see an interview with Eben Upton and he mentioned libgpiod but I can't find a reference for that.

I did find the following which shows libgpiod and gpiozero working on Pi 5 and rpi.gpio is said to not work.

I did check to see what came installed on my Pi 5 with Bookworm and here's what I see:

$ apt list | grep gpio | grep installed

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

libgpiod2/stable,now 1.6.3-1+b3 arm64 [installed,automatic]
liblgpio1/stable,now 0.2.2-1~rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
libpigpio-dev/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
libpigpio1/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
libpigpiod-if-dev/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
libpigpiod-if1/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
libpigpiod-if2-1/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
pigpio-tools/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
pigpio/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed]
pigpiod/stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
python3-gpiozero/stable,stable,now 2.0-1 all [installed]
python3-lgpio/stable,now 0.2.2-1~rpt1 arm64 [installed,automatic]
python3-libgpiod/stable,now 1.6.3-1+b3 arm64 [installed]
python3-pigpio/stable,stable,now 1.79-1+rpt1 all [installed]
python3-rpi.gpio/stable,now 0.7.1~a4-1+b4 arm64 [installed]
raspi-gpio/stable,now 0.20191001 arm64 [installed]
rpi.gpio-common/stable,now 0.7.1~a4-1+b4 arm64 [installed,automatic]

Note that 'installed' doesn't necessarily mean 'works on Pi 5'.

Note my Pi 5 is not installed in the sbitx chassis nor does it have the sbitx software on it at this point in time so I can't test the sbitx with it right now.

-- Regards, Dave, N1AI

Did you try the suggestions in /g/BITX20/topic/help_with_sbitx_v2_ft8/102262327 perhaps?

-- Regards, Dave, N1AI

Thank you very much Dave I really enjoy the FT8 with auto logging. Finally run about 30% power

carl. KF0ARU?

Congratulations Carl, you didn`t give up, instead you conquered....well done.
Now is the time to use your new rig and enjoy the hobby.
Dave
G4JBE

Great idea, Evan!? ?I'll see if I can reconnect JUST the HV voltage doubler system next.? ?Adding little bit by little bit should teach us a lot!

Here is a schematic of where I am at present, that resulted in a reasonably acceptable spectrum.? ?I was VERY ENCOURAGED by this result, even though it means we still have a lot of real work to do for this Serial No. to be on the air on all bands....
Gordon KX4Z

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:58 AM, Ken N2VIP wrote:

A) the firmware in the RPi 4 has always supported USB booting, the RPi 3 had the ability to modify the firmware to boot off USB directly, otherwise a bootloader on a MicroSD could do the same thing. (Boot off MicroSD, then transfer to USB)

All true. I used the 'rpi-clone' script from which cloned the sdcard's contents onto the NVMe and set up the bootloader to use it as the favored boot device. I think there were a few things the script didn't cover with regard to sbitx setup (some permission issues) so it wasn't perfect, but overall the end result is the system booted off NVMe and the sdcard was still discovered at boot time and made available so I could write updated software from the NVMe to the sdcard. Now I will go through /home/pi/sbitx/install.txt to see if there are any things I need to fix up.

-- Regards, Dave, N1AI

My solution to the problem: industrial velcro! It's a thing, search for it on Amazon. It comes in three inch wide strips. Now I can hang external USB-to-NVMe sticks on the back of the sbitx unit. Can also hang batteries, etc. See attachment.

-- Regards, Dave, N1AI

I have the same big problem with the FT8 transmit-receive-time-slot management from the FT8 software .
Anybody knows a solutions how the FT8 program-code must be edited / new programmed that FT8 will work correct ???

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Great work! ?I note that the uBitx v6 has