Re: Setting up Pat Winlink on my pi: wrong port for flrig?
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Sir, I've been having similar problems with the PAT Script page not reading my frequency for VARA FM and Packet.? Jason had me perform delete commands for hamlib as he thought I might have two version loaded at once.? Commands didn't work.? I went into Software update and deselected the hamlib that was checked, hit apply and OK.? It uninstalled version 4.5.1, I re-booted, and the system started working for packet.? I couldn't get it to work for VARA so I ran 73 Linux hamlib update for version 4.6 (newest version) and now I'm back to square one.? Nothing works.? I know enough about debian to be dangerous.? I'm finding out that Linux Mint 73 Linux is the way to go.? Much less fiddley than debian or raspberry pi.? Menus are much more user intuative and similar to windows.? Plus it's Jason's main focus now. Let me know what you find out and if you get a solution as I too need a fix.
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Good morning,
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I am working on setting up Pat Winlink with ardop, and I have run into a few interesting issues.
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Firstly, when I installed the various applications, I have to wonder if I had some sort of error because ardopc wasn't really installed. I had to manually go get piardopc from the? creator's site, which wasn't a problem.
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Now that it's installed, it seems to start up OK and the gui attaches to it, and I even get data on the little waterfall in the ardop gui.
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Immediately thereafter, Pat Winlink opens up in a browser. In the console at the bottom is the error message:
2025/04/23 09:27:06 Unable to get frequency from rig my-rig: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:4532: connect: connection refused.
To me, this looks like pat winlink has failed to connect to my rig control. Now, my assumption is that we are using FLRig for rig control. Pat Menu would not let me start the ardop modem without starting FLRig first, in fact, which is why I made this assumption. However, when I dig into my FLRig configuration, it's running xmlrpc on port 12345.
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Finally, when I dig into the config settings in pat menu, I see a rig control command of:
/usr/local/bin/rigctl -m 4
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This is interesting... what is this used for? I've tried executing that in a terminal and there is again no binary of that name at that location. Is there a package I am missing that I should install? It's my understanding that this command comes along for the ride when you install the hamlib libraries, but it's possible again that something failed to install. Is this something I need to fix?
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Is there a way to change the port that Pat Winlink is trying to connect to, should I change FLRig's port, or am I totally misunderstanding what's happening here and need to do something else?
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Thanks,
Donn
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Jeremy Pierce