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Is there one place where instructions for swapping to a 64bit pi and installing the V4 are located. I'm an old geezer, but new to this Groups thing, I poked around but only found a lot of fragments to what I was looking for

So I finally was able to chase down enough cables and a micro USB hub to hook up to a HDMI monitor, mouse and keyboard and got it all working along with connection to my laptop over wifi. My question is when I mouse click settings boxes with the remote mouse and monitor, the item high lights, but can't see to be able to change the value like say the drive setting. What am I missing?

Could the zBitx display Pico code be modified to show the Raspberry Pi desktop on the internal display?

Hi, If I am running at 9V, and I am transmitting FT8 at 100%, what output power are you expecting and how much power is the device consuming? Cheers, Ben

Ashhar, could you please help with a couple of questions regarding radio ordering status. - Will the latest software updates (e.g. CW improvements) be included on zBitx orders placed now? - Are there any hardware updates anticipated (and if possible, on what schedule)? Thank you. -- Mike WA0YCN

Hi! I’m wondering how to turn the sound off? Thanks! Li KQ4EXQ

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 not installed but perhaps I can add the config manually via the shell interface in a Ssh session and avoid installing more applications that might increase the load. Any ideas on how to do this? TIA, Dino

HF Signals : Order Tracker Your Order #3869 Current status : Awaiting processing -------- Wish others would post order #'s if they really mean anything.

When using zBitx outdoor, I use my mobile phone as a time source. Additionally I would like to use my mobile to control zBitx via web interface. Unfortunately, my smartphone does not report IP addresses of the connected devices. In case of sBitx, I can find it's IP and connect to it from the smartphone. It would be nice if zBitx could report its IP as well. Another issue is the fact that connecting to the new network requires HDMI connection. I was in a hotel, where the TV didn't offer HDMI connectivity. Thence, I couldn't connect my zBitx to the local network. Adding a possibility to set WiFi SSID and pasword in the SET screen would be a good solution. 73, Wojtek SP5DAA

Hi, So for those that have received their ZbitX in the last week or so..did it arrive with the latest firmware (for both the display and main)? Or did you have to immediately update it? Thanks, Everett-WB9FUW

I am not able to obtain a 'rig control (TX) when setting up QSSTV on the ZbitX (following the released user-guide). I am able to receive signals, just not able to TX. The ZbitX is unable to communicate to the QSSTV app (or vice versa) re: PTT/TX. Any ideas? I have tried 'many' different radios / rig control combinations, but nothing works. (I do have WSJTX running, and of course, FT8). BTW, a small, finned heat-sink plus a small fan seems to have solved any heat issues. Don in Austin N5CID

I was playing around on FT8 yesterday (just got the radio) at 2 watts and was surprised at how hot the radio got and quickly

Hi all, from what I've understood about the timing issues with CW on zbitx, it seems that the CPU load is at least part of the problem. I personally would love an option to switch off the waterfall (either in menu or set options), because I only need it when searching for signals, but not when I have found one. Apart from that, I wonder why the binary is compiled with debug symbols and no optimization at all. I exchanged the "gcc -g" with a "gcc -O3" in the build script, and the CPU load decreased from 60-70% to 45-55% running FT8, so there is quite some optimization that can be done. Interestingly the CPU load is quite higher on CW, which is 65-70% optimized and 75-80% original (unoptimized). I guess this might be due to polling the key's GPIOs instead of handling them via interrupt (which would make the code more difficult of course). Is there a reason why the build script is not using optimization? (for development side "-g" is perfectly understandable, but for "production" side?) Maybe compiler optimization could at least contribute to the puzzle pieces for optimizing CW response. vy73, Peter DL4PIT

FYI The Wild West is painful for home brewers. 73, Andy https://youtu.be/XvE4AGfbkew?si=ZGYxSRltqRptn8wa

Hi all, I updated the firmware and software to the latest and Im getting errors in my cli window. any advise? thanks Miguel

Hi there I ordered my ZBITX back in November 2024 when it was launched. Fantastic little thing with a interesting potential. Combining HF with known platform ( Rspberry PI ). Of course, I got my unit as one of the first with high hopes and exiting. So here my findings: * The battery on the side is somewhat interesting move. The battery holder on mine was faulty but I also removed it and are using a regular 9VDC power source. Looks better this way and I do not need to remove the batteries from the holder to recharge them. * Find it odd that there is no proper "shutdown" of the RPI. In my UNIX-book you should not remove power from a UNIX-system. It will potentially break the system. * Having a separate CPU to handle the display from the main system seems to be a compromise as the main RPI cannot handle both from a capacity point of view. That is probably good, but introduces the need separate for FW-updates to both systems. Somewhat cumbersome when needed. * The networkinterfacing using WLAN seems not to be very robust. I find very often (nearly all times) that the interfacing with my DHCP-server does not pick up a IP-address not DNS lookup-information. Meaning that a name resolution cannot be done and the unit is not able to talk to the outside world . Having said that, this is the first node in my LAN that is having this behavior. I have between 20 - 30 nodes that do work flawlessly. * The lack of robust TCP/IP-communication with the outside world has led to that I have not being able to do tries to update the system for many weeks. At one point I hade to rebuild my SD-card from a image given to me. * I find very often that the main RPI is overutilized with a lot of lag introduced when using the radio. So that makes the cumbersome user interface even more unuserfriendly. A more powerful RPI would have been handy to have. * The user interface is far from user friendly. Having to point there and there on the screen to change basically everything is very cumbersome and slow process. The good thing is that there is only one knob to turn. I do not say that the radios of today should have a load of HW-knobs and buttons. The design we have with the zbitx is a bit to minimalistic to my liking. Sorry for this somewhat negative feedback. But I though that I needed to share this feedback to the group. Some issues could be solved in SW. Many cannot be solved due to HW limitations Im afraid. -- Tilman D. Thulesius SM0JZT / Sweden

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I have a new uBITX, and I have flashed it with the N8ME v.02 that has the night pallet option. When I switch the keyer from hand to Iambic A, even if I save, it seems to forget this setting. Does anyone have a point the way to where this value is, so I can just hard code it, or code it to be the default setting? -- -- J R Parrick (K0TBS) Si vis pacem, para bellum! K?TBS website