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Re: Grid Square Not Found in Pat Configure error in Conky Recent Log Entries
Open Pat Menu and choose Manage Pat Winlink. On the next screen, choose Pat Login-Logout. Log in by entering your call, password, and 6 character grid square. Then click log in. This will make sure that the info is in the pat config file.
-- 73, de KM4ACK
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Direwolf and GPS
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýUsing Build-a-Pi I found that GPS support was not included in the Direwolf build. Jason may have included this in a later build but if not it may help someone who knows they want GPS support in Direwolf, perhaps for a mobile tracker or digi.If you run the following: sudo apt-get install gpsd libgps-devBefore the Build-a-Pi script it installs Direwolf with GPS support to save having to recompile later. Hope that helps someone. 73 de Dave G7HJX? |
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Direwolf Flashing
Every install results in a flashing console for Direwolf, a bit of research seems to indicate that this has been fixed in the dev branch. I can compile from source using make etc. But the dev branch now used cmake and I¡¯m struggling to get my head round it¡¯s use. Anyone help?
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Re: Conky doesn't appear if login required
I had that on one of the builds I was testing. I checked off Conky in the build the pi. Whatever it did, it restarted after the rebuild 73 On Wed., Jun. 24, 2020, 5:24 p.m. Bill Dornbush <bill@...> wrote: I changed the Pi Configuration to not auto login to the Pi when booted.? When I rebooted, I was asked for a password, which I entered.? The screen cleared, and the Build-a-Pi background appeared but no conky.? How do I get conky to appear when I don't auto login? |
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I did a quick test tonight.?I added the "dtoverlay=uart5" to the /boot/config.txt file and rebooted.?
The device ttyAMA1 was present after the reboot. A quick install of minicom and a jumper wire on pins 32-33 and I now have UART5 working on the PI4. So my idea is going to work. Now I just need to figure out a good buffer/level converter design for UART3 and 4. Jason, if you read this, you might want to add minicom to the software-to-add list for the next rev. :-)? -- 73 de KC0WBP |
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GPS and Build-a-Pi V3
On my V3 installation, conky shows?
You see that there is no gridsquare listed.? I recall when reading about conky, that it gets this from the GPS. I did have some trouble getting Pi to recognize my GPS, which is a BU-353S4 on a USB port.? I think it is resolved now. When I run? $ cgps I get a display showing the GPS information to confirm it is working.? The display includes the gridsquare. How do I get conky to show the gridsquare? -- --Bill AA6BD |
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Re: This might be a dumb question.... (Build a Pi on Laptop?)
Jay and Tim are right. Somethings will work. I just don't want anyone to think it will work out of the box. The FLDIGI suite, hamlib, and direwolf should build fine. JS8, WSJTX, and Pat all grab the armhf deb files so those will be a no go.
You will need to mod the build-a-pi script at line 82 as it verifies the user is "pi". Comment out those lines to bypass the check. In addition, several scripts (Pat Menu for one) use /run/user/1000 directory to write temp data. Since this directory is in ram, it saves writes to the SD card. This directory may not be available on other systems but could be created in ram to make things work. -- 73, de KM4ACK
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Here is my plan so far;
? Changes needed in /boot/config.txt (I think?) [pi4] # CAT/Programming UART, 5v TTL RS232 port. # All my radios use 5v TTL for serial. dtoverlay=uart3,ctsrts # with flow control pins ? # Optional 2nd UART or Main SPI port. # Could be used as a second CAT/PRG port, # or maybe an Arduino as a fake ups, # or maybe a MAX232 chip for devices with a real serial port? #dtoverlay=uart4,ctsrts # with flow control pins #dtoverlay=uart4 ?# or without flow control pins ? # GPS port since RTS/CTS are not needed for GPSs dtoverlay=uart5??? ????# without flow control pins -- 73, KC0WBP |
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I was looking over the PI4 specs yesterday since I finally had a reason to buy one, thanks Jason, and discovered that it finally has multiple UART ports available. So now I have the bad idea of making a ¡°draws¡± like hat; RTC, GPS w/pps, CAT/PRG port, and 12v->5v power supply built in. I was planning on skipping audio stuff since I just finished the allstar mod on a few cm108 adapters, and don¡¯t really have any good I2S audio chips in the junk drawer anyways. ? I probably won¡¯t find the time this week to raid the junk drawer but I figured I¡¯d throw the idea out there if anyone wanted to make one too. FYI, RPi pins are 3.3v only. Make sure you use level converters when needed. |
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Re: This might be a dumb question.... (Build a Pi on Laptop?)
It should come close to working on most debian/ubuntu systems. I haven't gone line-by-line on the script yet but it doesn't look like much would need to be changed for a full x86 system. The only issues I can see with a quick look are the RTC, hotspot, and no pi user that might give you problems.
Make sure you fork it on github so we(I) can all use(steal) it when you get it working.? |
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Re: Saving image to PC
I normally use tar to make the backup. Just plug in a jump drive and backup / and /boot partitions to it. FYI, this does not make a normal pi.img file but just "zips" all the files off the partitions to a single file. DD and other utilities like that backup the free space too, which can waste backup space and time. Since most of the time your just looking to backup/recover a file not image a new SD card, it's quicker just to make a tar backup. A full system backup with cron is probably a bit overkill, your files aren't changing that fast. At most I do a full system backup before/after an upgrade. If you really want more then just tar/rsync /home/pi daily with cron.
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