Try this from Jason's video:??
Be aware that each upgrade that adds an app or a complete redo will require this again.
Merry Christmas.
Dave - KD7UM
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Hey everyone.
I just nuked & paved my previous Buster BAP with a fresh copy of Bullseye and re-installed BAP.
I've noticed that some apps are listed in the Main Menu (raspberry/start menu) multiple times like WSJT-X, JS8Call, YAAC and a few others. Some items are in the wrong areas also and some not listed at all.?
The Maim Menu Editor in the Pi is kind of a pain to work with *for me* and I was wondering if there was another app or utility that would make editing the Main Menu easier as I'm not an expert with linux (previous added apps to the correct locations with no icons appearing and left a question on this list before)??? I've tried drop & drag with the Main Menu Editor and that isn't a feature.
Thanks.
Jeff
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Re: Pat Winlink Auto Download of RMS "Grid square not set in Pat configure" error
Thanks for the info. This will help in diagnosing the issue. --
73, de KM4ACK
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Re: Digipeater not transmitting on Baofeng
Hey, just wanted to let you know increasing the volume on the pi did make the signalink start transmitting. Thank you for your help and all your hard work on BAP!
On Dec 15 2021, at 9:40 pm, Beau [W6ERR] via groups.io <beau@...> wrote: No, it wasn't lighting up. I'll give that a try and report back. Thanks!
Beau W6ERR
On Dec 15 2021, at 4:44 am, km4ack <jason.oleham@...> wrote: Is the red light on the signalink illuminating during transmit? If not, your volume level on the pi is too low.
You won't need VOX on the HT itself as the signalink has VOX built in. -- 73, de KM4ACK ?| ?|
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Scott,
? ?As for your questions
?1.? no
?2? ?bottom left only gives call sign
?3? ?It's not seeing gps data?
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Re: Pat Winlink Auto Download of RMS "Grid square not set in Pat configure" error
Hi Jason, I've been keeping my pi current, both on OS and BAP updates, so there should be no mismatches. I'm still on Buster. The last date on any file in the .wl2k-old file was Nov 5, 2021, so that's when things changed (IE. I did an apt update/upgrade and ran BAP update). I've run updates since then too.
grep version ~/pi-build/changelog | head -1
version=3.1.3
git status | head -1
On branch version12
git checkout version12
M??? .getardoplist-cron M??? config D??? setup Already on 'version12' Your branch is up to date with 'origin/version12'.
grep VERSION /etc/os-release
VERSION_ID="10" VERSION="10 (buster)" VERSION_CODENAME=buster
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Re: Inserting of USB drives
Hi Bo
I have been down that line of thought too. The power connections
are quite stout so
I don't think that is the root of the low power conditions. In
thinking back on it the low
power warnings came about when that small USB stick was plugged
in. So far since I
haven't had that disk plugged in I haven't had the warning or the
reboots. I have also
found that using a micro SD card may not work well, so am looking
at a different stick
in 8GB size. the disk doesn't need to be real big to serve my
purpose, so I think that will
work and a trial to see if the power warning comes back when it
is plugged in and if not
I will keep it in and continue with that.
I really like the small size and light weight of the combination
is good to use with my
FT-817, and small size battery for POTA use. My park of choice is
close and when better
dry weather returns I can try a short activation.
Marty kd8bj
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On 12/16/21 11:09 AM, Bo W4GHV wrote:
It's all in the tiny wires in the USB power cables!
The charger/supplies put out 5.5v and it's down to the critical
7.0 volts at the pi. I finally found a cable that have a lower
wire number (bigger wires). Tempted to make a good cable soldered
to the board.
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73, Bo W4GHV
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(1) Does it TX if you goto the "Message" tab and select "General Stations Query"?
(2) In the bottom left of XASTIR: Do you get periodic messages about the GPS STATUS. Such as FIX:DGPS ?
(3) I had this issue before, but was utilizing "serial GPS" connection instead of "Networked GPS (via gpsd)".?
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Re: GPS INOP since BAP 3
#gps
I blame lack of caffeine, phase of the moon, and local air temperature.
Thank you for the catch, corrected in attached.
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Re: GPS INOP since BAP 3
#gps
Thank you very much!!! Just tested it and watched it update the system as soon as it got the GPS signal.?
For me: line 12 needed to be: sudo nano /etc/default/gpsd
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Re: GPS INOP since BAP 3
#gps
Here are the instructions I wrote up to be able to use NMEA strings to set time.
There are a few options mentioned but not in the instructions,like NTP server for network,
GPS Grid Square sharing, etc, that I can write up / post if needed / wanted. This was a
project I did when I didn't have any Internet network capability for field work.
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Trying to get hf aprs running. Dirwolf loads and in Xastir interface control I show AGWEP up and Network GPS up.
?I'm using an external GPS which Conky shows up and working.
? ? In xastir, I click transmit now, get message TX inhibit until vaid GPS.
?An suggestions??
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Re: pat winlink outbox not working with pat menu catalog scripts
Karl, Run these commands to move to Pat Menu 2.5.0. This is specifically designed to work with the new paths of Pat 0.12.x but won't work with older versions of Pat Winlink cd ~/patmenu2
git pullgit checkout version12--
73, de KM4ACK
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Re: Pat Winlink Auto Download of RMS "Grid square not set in Pat configure" error
Those changes will certainly work but you shouldn't have had to go to that much trouble and I suspect you will run into other issues with Pat Menu. Can you tell me which version of BAP you are running? If you aren't sure, run: grep version ~/pi-build/changelog | head -1and which branch of Pat Menu are you using? If unsure, run these two commands: cd ~/patmenu2git status | head -1There are two different branches for Pat Menu depending on which version of Pat Winlnk you are running. The Pat Winlink development team changed the location of the data files (mailbox & config) in v0.12.0. Pat Menu should support both and Build a Pi is designed to move you to the correct branch of Pat Menu depending on which version of Pat Winlink you are using. If the "git status" command above returns "master", you can move to the correct branch by running: git checkout version12
which will sync Pat Winlink with Pat Menu since you have already updated Pat Winlink to v0.12.x One last question, are you using Buster or Bullseye? grep VERSION /etc/os-release--
73, de KM4ACK
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Re: GPS INOP since BAP 3
#gps
Anyone else having issues running with their system clock not syncing over GPS? This has been a problem with field ops when my system clock is not sync'd using JS8CALL & other modes.?
(1) I've tried restarting gpsd service.
(2) Purging gpsd & re-installing.
(3) Used BAP for initial install & re-install.
(4) Used the steps in this thread to no avail
(5) cgps shows current time / position
(6) XGPS is accurate
(7) YAAC & XASTIR move me around the map while driving.?
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Re: Patron - Winlink Question
Hello Loyd,
that is a great idea but I'm occupied in my work so can't take part of this. Do you think to save this session so I or others too can watch the session later on?
73 de Erwin, OE1EKG
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Re: Patron - Winlink Question
WINLINK CLASS FOR BEGINNERS THIS FRIDAY! ? WINLINK IS THE DIGITAL MODE OF CHOICE FOR AUXCOMM, SO THE MORE YOU¡¯RE INVOLVED, THE MORE YOU WILL NEED TO KNOW THIS MODE. BEGINNERS CLASS THIS COMING FRIDAY EVENING!!! FREE TRAINING!! ? SATERN is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom class for the beginning Winlink user. Topic: WinLink 101 Time: Dec 17, 2021 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Training
Meeting ID: 833 9767 2090 Passcode: 223891 ? Talk to you soon, good way to test their bap
I believe you are talking about the Winlink Gateway. If so, check out this section of the Winlink Gateway video. for setting it up. The information should update on the map every two hours. You can also force an update with a reboot of the gateway. More information can be found in John's document
FWIW most Winlink gateways are identified on APRS.fi with the -10 SSID.
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73, de KM4ACK
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Re: pat winlink outbox not working with pat menu catalog scripts
Thank you Jason.? So the older Pat Menu 2.4.0 is probably looking to post the propagation report request to the out that it expects to find in the .wl2k/mailbox/??? ---- but of course, since I installed Pat Winlink 0.12.0? there is no .wl2k path on this system.? This begins to make sense.? When it fails to find the .wl2k path, it does not bother to give me any type of error to let me know that the directory does not exist,? and that was the frustrating mystery.
Therefore, either I could edit your script to point it to the correct path, or, nuch simpler I imagine, I could update the Pat Menu version to one that works with Pat Winlink 0.12.0 or greater, to the proper current path.
I prefer to simply update the Pat Menu, if you would kindly detail your more preferred way of doing such an update of Pat Menu, I am hoping that will be all that is needed.? If? you have written a script that allows selecting to update both Pat Winlink and Pat Menu to their latest, please steer me to that script, and I will make those two selections only.? 8^)
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Re: Inserting of USB drives
If you solder direct to the board, be sure to NOT bypass the protections included to prevent over-current, over-voltage, etc...
(I think you meant 5.1v at the Pi, not 7v....)
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Re: Pat Winlink Auto Download of RMS "Grid square not set in Pat configure" error
I found the problem. Firstly, the script that updates the crontab file creates an entry in the crontab that uses "getardoplist" instead of ".getardoplist-cron". Secondly, the path to Pat's config file is incorrect in the ".getardoplist-cron" script. The script ".getardop-cron" is using the wrong path to the Pat configuration file. It references the folder ".wl2k", which no longer exists with the latest version of Pat -- apparently, it got renamed to ".wl2k-old" during an update. The Pat configuration files are now in "/home/pi/.config/pat". So, the two lines in ".getardoplist-cron" that say:
GRIDCK=$(jq .locator $HOME/.wl2k/config.json) and
GRID=$(grep locator ~/.wl2k/config.json | sed 's/"locator"://;s/"//g;s/,//;s/ //g')
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Should be changed to say: GRIDCK=$(jq .locator $HOME/.config/pat/config.json) and GRID=$(grep locator ~/.config/pat/config.json | sed 's/"locator"://;s/"//g;s/,//;s/ //g') After that, the crontab file needs to be edited ("crontab -e") and the last line changed to:
03 09 * * * /home/pi/patmenu2/.getardoplist-cron
Where "03 09"? is the time the job should be run every day - 9:03 am in this example.
Now the cron job runs correctly. Julian ?
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km4ack
Loyd