Re: zBitx power draw
Ken, anybody who¡¯s having to work off batteries thinks this way. It¡¯s a very important parameter to them. I suspect the people who pay the light bill for 50 kW transmitters also think this way;
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Gordon Gibby KX4Z
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Re: zBitx power draw
When you talk about efficiency, what are you actually talking about? When I discuss efficiency I'm talking about a power source - 120 v, 3 amps in, 12 v, 23 amps out, for example. I've never seen
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Ken N2VIP
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Re: zBitx power draw
Thanks!? Just wanted to double check - that's what I was seeing, but seemed high.
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Ben Sanders
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add a wifi network to zbitx
I'd like to add a second wifi network so that when at home it connects to the home network but when I'm away it would automatically connect to my phone's hotspot. Looks like tools like nmtui, etc are
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Dino
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Re: zbitx, compiler optimizations
#zbitx
You folks are going to fix this I¡¯m convinced of it. More power to you! I would be trying to help you, but obviously you know what you¡¯re doing and I¡¯ve got students getting ready for final
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Gordon Gibby KX4Z
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Re: zbitx, compiler optimizations
#zbitx
Peter, My response was based on your first message, bit your second one, where you profiles the various function in ui_tick().? ?I used the brute force approach to get rid of everything except
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Jody - K3JZD
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Re: zbitx, compiler optimizations
#zbitx
Hi Peter, That? is essentially what I did - there is an existing global variable (in_tx) that is True when in Transmit Mode.? In the existing code, once the key down is discovered (which does not
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Jody - K3JZD
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Re: zbitx, compiler optimizations
#zbitx
Peter , will it help to use the timing implementation from WiringPi? https://github.com/Pi4J/wiringPi/blob/8d188fa0e00bb8c6ff6eddd07bf92857e9bd533a/wiringPi/wiringPi.c#L2114
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quad@...
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Re: zbitx, compiler optimizations
#zbitx
Hi, digging deeper I was profiling the sbitx binary, and for better profiling support, I put the different parts of the ui_tick in own subroutines, so they can be identified separately at the profiler
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Peter, DL4PIT
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Re: zbitx, compiler optimizations
#zbitx
I have no time yet to involve into investigating that problem, but can't the libgpiod functionality of reporting the timestamps of the pin state changes be used for that?
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WZab - SP5DAA
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Re: zbitx, compiler optimizations
#zbitx
Fascinating.? Sure the waterfall is able to be eliminated and is a good idea.? Is the big yellow display of the dots and dashes worth eliminating, too.? I sure don't need that, although it could be
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Pinball Wizard
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Re: zbitx, compiler optimizations
#zbitx
Hi Jody, very interesting, thank you! If you managed to detect key-down very fast with an IRQ handler, wouldn't it be sufficient to exit/skip time consuming tasks in ui_tick()? I mean setting a new
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Peter, DL4PIT
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Re: FT8 time differential - how to resolve?
Ths is how I installed wsjt-z. First, I installed hamlib 4.5.4. Hamlib4 is already installed but I wanted a newer version. export CXXFLAGS='-O2 -march=native -mtune=native' export CFLAGS='-O2
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Leo Aniol, AI5II
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Re: zbitx, compiler optimizations
#zbitx
Peter, I have been experimenting with getting CW to work smoothly on this device.? Previously I had published a modification that I made to sbitx_gtk.c which turned off the water waterfall (and more)
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Jody - K3JZD
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Re: FT8 time differential - how to resolve?
Hi Leo, total newbie here, how do I install wsjt-z ? thanks Miguel KP4MI
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miguel medina
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Updates from Adafruit
FYI The Wild West is painful for home brewers. 73, Andy https://youtu.be/XvE4AGfbkew?si=ZGYxSRltqRptn8wa
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AndyH
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Re: error after update
If you check line #2 in start.sh, it is "cd sbitx" which will error out unless you run the start.sh script from the /home/pi folder because you are already in the sbitx directory and there is no sbitx
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Leo Aniol, AI5II
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Re: error after update
here is my CLI output pi@sbitx:~/sbitx $ ./start.sh ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??USER ?? ?? ?? ??PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: ??root ?? ?? ?? ??321
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miguel medina
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Re: New zBitx - New User - CW operation
Thanks for the user experiences. Sounds like FT8 is usable then. It¡¯s just a mode I very rarely use. SSB even less. As for CW¡. ¡°The zBitx is a CW dream machine¡.¡± is what the ad says.
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Steve Sutterer AK0M
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Re: zBitx power draw
Of course, the output power measurement is just probably by measuring voltage and assuming a resistance, but that¡¯s a pretty low overall calculated efficiency, 15% or so. And of course part of that
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Gordon Gibby KX4Z
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