I find nmon very useful for a system monitor.? It is easy to use and provides a dozen or more things to look at on your Pi.? MIght this be included in the BAP suite?
73
Dave-KD7UM
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unstable behavior of G90 with flrig
Is there something I should know about the current build of flrig?
I've been wasting hours trying to get a RPi/Digimode-4/G90 connection working with flrig.? Reloaded the firmware today and got the radio connected to the RPi.? Yay!? But I took it out on the lawn just now and set everything up.? "Transceiver not responding!"? What the heck?? I didn't change anything.? Maybe I wasn't holding my mouth right.? Dunno.? This is ridiculous.
I don't know if this is caused by the G90's comms port firmware code being unstable, or either the RPi or Digimode-4 (or the interaction of the two) exhibiting random behavior.? If it's a flrig fault, I'd appreciate knowing about it before I waste more time.
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Pulled my Pi out today¡. Wanted to address a VNC issue to find that many features were not running¡ reflashed the SD card¡. To no avail¡. I will have to start from scratch¡. Not sure what is going on.?
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Team,? I was running my TS480SAT in the field with a regular raspi unit and the audio device was recognized and was able to connect w the iPad, etc. I just took the radio with same cables and audio usb and placed in the Raspi400? unit at the house but I am unable to open the audio devices as the output only shows usb audio device but the input is blank, same set up as I had been running and plughw: 2,0.... but not able to see both as used to so I not getting audio in or out.... Need help    
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Re: fldigi does no install
I had this problem two days ago.? After working with Jason the final fix was to delete the FLDigi folder from the Downloads folder and using BAP reinstall FLdigi.? It seems there is a bad distribution floating around somewhere.? You can read our dialog at :??
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Hello all,
I'm currently in the process of a complete rebuild of my raspberry 3 system. Fresh os install, fresh build-a-pi. js8, wsjt-x, various other programms install ok , also the 'fl' suite installs, except for fldigi. I've now tried twice to install it, everything seems ok, build-a-pi spends 'a lot of' time compiling, finishes installing, I reboot the pi and ... fldigi is nowhere to be found. Not in the menu, not when calling it on the command line, not with 'find / -name fldigi', and even when re-running build-a-pi, it says fldigi is 'not installed'
I'm still delving into the issue, but if anybody has an idea ???
some info about my system:
cat /etc/os-release :
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"
fldigi-4.1.20 folder (with contents) is found in the Downloads folder, but no executable 'fldigi'
all available patches have been applied in build-a-pie
when I re-run build-a-pie, the scan for installed software does not find fldigi (says 'not installed')
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There is already something like that already.
Marty kd8bj
On 9/21/21 3:09 PM, Brian Dale wrote:
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He would have to hire a bunch of call center
people to support all of the problems that would occur from
people not knowing how to do anything with the Pi.?
The BAP script makes things super easy..that
coupled with Jason's videos can help anyone to set up their
Pi. However, if someone just wants a turnkey Pi and doesn't?
know how to do anything for themselves, it would be a customer
support nightmare!
I see it all the time with DMR radios and a
certain company that charges extra for a turnkey plug-and-play
codeplug. Anytime something doesn't work or the customer wants
to add or edit channels to their radio they don't know how?to
do it and they go bashing the company for not supporting them
enough.?
Do you sell
the Pi build with everything already installed?? If not, you
should!
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He would have to hire a bunch of call center people to support all of the problems that would occur from people not knowing how to do anything with the Pi.?
The BAP script makes things super easy..that coupled with Jason's videos can help anyone to set up their Pi. However, if someone just wants a turnkey Pi and doesn't? know how to do anything for themselves, it would be a customer support nightmare!
I see it all the time with DMR radios and a certain company that charges extra for a turnkey plug-and-play codeplug. Anytime something doesn't work or the customer wants to add or edit channels to their radio they don't know how?to do it and they go bashing the company for not supporting them enough.?
Do you sell the Pi build with everything already installed?? If not, you should!
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Do you sell the Pi build with everything already installed?? If not, you should!
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Thanks for alle the help!
adding a 5 sec pause solved the issue :-)
Use Terry's fix above or update to latest version of BAP and reinstall Conky. FWIW, Terry's fix is what was implemented in the latest version of BAP.
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Re: Pi-APRS Hamlib Rig Open error -6
#aprs
Thanks Jason, It appears that you and I are at the exact same point:
- Our Pi-APRS config files are (essentially) identical.
- We both have to open a terminal window and run "rigctld -m 4".
- We both have PTT RIG localhost:4532 in the direwolf.conf file for PTT control via CAT.
- We both have two Pi-APRS associated windows open when Pi-APRS is running.
Everything appears to be running as designed when the callsign is in uppercase and quotation marks are placed around the city name in the conf file. The uppercase callsign was a showstopper. I don't think opening a terminal window and running "rigctld -m 4" was mentioned in your video as being a requirement, I guess you just had it running (actually, you can see it's running by looking at your Conky display). "The Pi-APRS settings script needs to put quotation marks around the city name. If this is not done, a city name consisting of two or more words will cause errors. Even if the user manually puts the quotation marks around the city by editing the Pi-APRS conf file, the next time the settings script is run to change another setting (the location, perhaps), the script overwrites the city definition deleting the quotation marks. In fact, if I remember correctly, I believe it deletes the city definition entirely!"? --- I just went to the github link you provided and saw that this is already listed as a bug, with a fix that can be applied to the source code. Searching Google for the other error I get... KISS SEND - Discarding message because no one is listening.This happens when you use the -p option and don't read from the pseudo terminal.
...Produces exactly one result! This error only shows up when the main Pi-APRS window has been running for some time. The thread suggested that running direwolf with the "-p" option was not needed, but the thread died after a few unsuccessful suggestions. The error, which, after it starts appearing, shows up after every packet that is received. It's annoying (who likes seeing persistent errors?!) but doesn't seem to affect the working of the app. Thanks for your help. Julian
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Re: Pi-APRS Hamlib Rig Open error -6
#aprs
Had to dig out my system with Pi-APRS to test a few things :-) I didn't go back and watch the video but when I start Pi-APRS on my system, I have both terminal windows as you do. I may have had one minimized in the video. My Pi-APRS settings are: #Config file for Pi-APRS #20200414 KM4ACK MYCALL=KM4ACK SSID=6 CITY=Murfreesboro STATE=TN GRID=EM65 HEARDYOU="Heard you via ISS in" QSLMESSAGE="QSL & 73!" STATUSCOMMENT="Station" LATLON=3554.63N/08621.27W SYMBOL="Q" APRSPATH="CQ,ARISS" NEWMSG="/home/pi/Pi-APRS/message.wav" DIRECONF="/home/pi/direwolf.conf" DIREWOLF="/usr/local/bin/direwolf -p -t 0" MSGPATH=/run/user/1000/pi-aprs KISS="/usr/local/bin/kissutil -f /run/user/1000/pi-aprs/ -h 127.0.0.1" I opened FLRIG and set the frequency on the radio. Next I opened a terminal window and ran: rigctld -m 4
Next I started Pi-APRS and then started the modems. Finally I used the Free Message button and sent a test message successfully to my digipeater. Opening my digipeater, I replied to the message and it showed up as expected in the Pi-APRS app. The one other thing of importance is I have the following line in the direwolf.conf file PTT section. (line ~187) PTT RIG 2 localhost:4532This is needed if you want to send PTT through CAT control. There are some improvement like you mentioned that can be added to the code. I added the one for converting the call sign to uppercase. --
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ rigctl -vvv -m 1 f
Opened rig model 1, 'Dummy'
145000000
This looks as I would expect. There has been recent issues surrounding hamlib 4.3 and I wanted to rule that out.
Reading config file direwolf.conf
Audio device for both receive and transmit: plughw:2,0? (channel 0)
Could not open audio device plughw:2,0 for input
Device or resource busy
Pointless to continue without audio device.
Bold text was in red
This would indicate that the sound card isn't connected or is in use by another application. In Linux, only one app at a time can access the sound card. To verify that the Pi is seeing the sound card, run: arecord -land you should see something like: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****card 2: CODEC [USB Audio CODEC], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]? Subdevices: 0/1? Subdevice #0: subdevice #0Notice "card 2 device 0" This is where the plughw:2,0 comes from. Also, make sure that no other application is running that might be using the soundcard (ex JS8Call, FT8, etc) --
73, de KM4ACK
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Re: My Build-a-Pi version?
You can also use the following command: grep version ~/pi-build/changelog | head -1
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Use Terry's fix above or update to latest version of BAP and reinstall Conky. FWIW, Terry's fix is what was implemented in the latest version of BAP. --
73, de KM4ACK
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Terry Hunt posted the solution for this back in July.? I don't remember the exact code off the top of my head but the gist was to insert a pause in the conky code.? Do a message search and you'll find the answer you seek!
-73's-
Hi
Everytime I restart my BAP, Conky starts up with it, bur some og the text in the display I am not able to read because the are blurry or Pixel'd
(See attached photo)
Whem I do a start Conky again, everything is fin?
I don't know if this problem was mentioned before, and U didn't read it, then I am sorry!
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Re: My Build-a-Pi version?
click the pi icon, HamTools, Build-a-Pi
Click no to updates then the next screen will list the version near the top
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How can I tell what version of BAP I have installed? Sorry if this has been answered before but I didn't find it in a search here.
Tom - K0TW
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Terry Hunt posted the solution for this back in July.? I don't remember the exact code off the top of my head but the gist was to insert a pause in the conky code.? Do a message search and you'll find the answer you seek!
-73's-
Hi
Everytime I restart my BAP, Conky starts up with it, bur some og the text in the display I am not able to read because the are blurry or Pixel'd
(See attached photo)
Whem I do a start Conky again, everything is fin?
I don't know if this problem was mentioned before, and U didn't read it, then I am sorry!
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How can I tell what version of BAP I have installed? Sorry if this has been answered before but I didn't find it in a search here.
Tom - K0TW
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Typo - should be I DIDN'T get the same error message second time I typed direwolf -p
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