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Good morning group.. I'm hoping someone can help me out. I did a new install of pi desktop on a Raspberry pi 4 and installed build a pi. I have no gridsquare information showing up in conky. My GPS dongle has a lock, and if I type cgps I get the data from GPS. I uninstalled GPSD and reinstalled as per KM4ACK YT video on Conky and still no joy. Any ideas will be appreciated!
John
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Good morning,
I tried gpsupdate first thing this morning and still no luck.
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Which version of BAP are you running? If unsure, run the following command: cat ~/pi-build/changelog | head -1--
73, de KM4ACK
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Version 3.0.7
I went through updates of the applications I have loaded today just in case something was slightly out of date.
I can provide any screen shots or answer any questions you may have.
Thank you!
John
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Run this command and I'll see if I can spot what the issue may be bash ~/pi-build/diagnostic--
73, de KM4ACK
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Don't see anything unusual in the report. Run this command please: /home/pi/bin/conky/gridSee if there are any errors. Then run this command and let me know the output. cat /run/user/$UID/gridinfo.txt
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73, de KM4ACK
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Good morning,
Here are the results from the above commands:
/home/pi/bin/conky/grid
Traceback (most recent call last):
2: from /home/pi/bin/conky/get-grid:3:in? '<main>'
1: from /usr/lib/ruby/2.5.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:59:in? 'require'
/usr/lib/ruby/2.5.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:59:in? 'require' : cannot load such file -- gpsd_client? (LoadError)
Next Command (I could not tell if there was supposed to be a space after cat so I tried running it both ways):
cat/run/user/$UID/gridinfo.txt/
bash: cat/run/user/1000/gridinfo.txt: No such file or directory
And then with the space:
cat /run/user/$UID/gridinfo.txt
With the space after cat it returned a blank line and nothing else.
I hope this information is helpful!!
Have a great day!
John
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There is a space after cat. It appears you might be missing a couple of ruby gems. Run the following two commands sudo gem install gpsd_clientsudo gem install maidenhead
and then try /home/pi/bin/conky/gridcat /run/user/$UID/gridinfo.txt
again. --
73, de KM4ACK
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I am having the same problem after the lastest install. I tried all the previous suggestions for this thread including watching the video and still no joy on my end. Everything else for Conky works except for the grid square and xgps and cgps both give good information from the gps dongle
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Hi John,? I never heard back from Jason, I know he has to be super busy these days. I formatted my SD card and did a fresh install of the raspberry pi software and build a pi. After that everything worked. That would be my advice to help get your system running as well.? Once you get that completed let me know if you have a hard time transmitting. I've had to play with the settings in the FT-891 but I have it working now.? 73 K8FOF
I am having the same problem after the lastest install. I tried all the previous suggestions for this thread including watching the video and still no joy on my end. Everything else for Conky works except for the grid square and xgps and cgps both give good information from the gps dongle
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On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 07:31 AM, John B wrote:
Hi John,? I never heard back from Jason
I never saw a post/question from you after the recommendations in my last post to you on June 24. Sorry if you sent it elsewhere and I missed it.
I am having the same problem after the lastest install. I tried all the previous suggestions for this thread including watching the video and still no joy on my end. Everything else for Conky works except for the grid square and xgps and cgps both give good information from the gps dongle
Run this command and see if it produces any errors: /home/pi/bin/conky/grid
If it produces errors, please post them here. If not, run cat /run/user/$UID/gridinfo.txtand see if it shows your grid. ? --
73, de KM4ACK
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No worries Jason..? I figured it was a miss communication somewhere. I reinstalled everything and it worked..
The 891 is odd..? I'd had it working for a couple of weeks..? I turned it off..? I came back yesterday and powered everything back up and I can't transmit again..? No power coming from radio..? I think I'll go back to factory settings and try again.
Thank you and 73, K8FOF
On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 07:31 AM, John B wrote:
Hi John,? I never heard back from Jason
I never saw a post/question from you after the recommendations in my last post to you on June 24. Sorry if you sent it elsewhere and I missed it.
I am having the same problem after the lastest install. I tried all the previous suggestions for this thread including watching the video and still no joy on my end. Everything else for Conky works except for the grid square and xgps and cgps both give good information from the gps dongle
Run this command and see if it produces any errors:
/home/pi/bin/conky/grid
If it produces errors, please post them here. If not, run
cat /run/user/$UID/gridinfo.txt
and see if it shows your grid.
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73, de KM4ACK
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The 891 is odd..? I'd had it working for a couple of weeks..? I turned it off..? I came back yesterday and powered everything back up and I can't transmit again..? No power coming from radio..? I think I'll go back to factory settings and try again.
This is the that I used when I first got the 891. It's written in regards to Windows but the radio settings listed there work for the Pi. Just ignore the software part of the article. --
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On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 12:40 PM, km4ack wrote:
/home/pi/bin/conky/grid
I ran /home/pi/bin/conky/grid and got
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /home/pi/bin/conky/grid
EN34nw04ss
but Conky still does not show a grid 
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 07:47 AM, <john.c.weiser@...> wrote:
I ran /home/pi/bin/conky/grid and got
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /home/pi/bin/conky/grid
EN34nw04ss
Great! This tells us that the script is working and that the ruby gems are installed :-) Now let's look at another file. Run this command:
cat /run/user/$UID/gridtext.info
which should show you your grid square again. Please verify that it does.
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73, de KM4ACK
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 07:47 AM, <john.c.weiser@...> wrote:
I ran /home/pi/bin/conky/grid and got
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /home/pi/bin/conky/grid
EN34nw04ss
Great! This tells us that the script is working and that the ruby gems are installed :-) Now let's look at another file. Run this command:
cat /run/user/$UID/
which should show you your grid square again. Please verify that it does.
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73, de KM4ACK
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I had the same issue this morning after upgrading to 3.0.8 and I performed the steps in the June 24 reply from Jason about missing gems.? Once I did that it worked!
Thanks,
David N4FGA
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His issue isn't missing gems as the first command returned the grid. John, My apology. I had you searching for the wrong text file. Try this instead cat /run/user/$UID/gridinfo.txt --
73, de KM4ACK
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 02:55 PM, km4ack wrote:
cat /run/user/$UID/gridinfo.txt
Basically the same result (although I know nothing about the pi so it could mean more to you:) ) 
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Hi John, just curious - do you have
#Update GPS maidenhead for conky */1 * * * * /home/pi/bin/conky/grid
in your crontab?
Also, what does the /home/pi/bin/conky/grid file look like?
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 02:55 PM, km4ack wrote:
cat /run/user/$UID/gridinfo.txt
Basically the same result (although I know nothing about the pi so it could mean more to you:) ) 
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km4ack