Re: New user, startup issues
Follow up for the record. I did find and try another SD card with pretty much the same results...the Pi would lock up at random points during the start and never got running. I ordered a new Raspberry Pi Zero W through Amazon Prime with a promised Tuesday delivery, then was emailed that it would be Wednesday, then emailed that it was delivered on Thursday, then it actually arrived on Friday. I moved the original 32GB card over and reconnected everything: HDMI monitor, USB hub with a mouse and keyboard, and using the supplied power supply. It booted up perfectly, logged into my WiFi, and downloaded all the updates. Hooray! Now to start learning how to use it.
Incidentally, I contacted Vilros about the time I was ordering a new Pi and they responded the next day and suggested similar tests, which I reported on. Once I could find and give them the order number (it was a gift, so I had to go back to the giver), they sent an complete new package with a return label for the original one. The replacement arrived today.
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Re: netlogger running on ARM v7 raspbian
I'm looking at this right now. The netlogger people have both the source code and a Debian package to install Netlogger, but it is for a 64 bit OS. The Raspbian I have installed is 32 bit, so I don't think this will work. I'm hesitant to change my Pi OS to 64 bit because much of the ham radio distros are 32 bit only.
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If I find a way to install Netlogger on my RasPi-4, (Raspbian Buster, 32 bit) I will update this thread.
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steve
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You can write only this, if not write the full commands ? sudo apt install libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5serialport5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libfftw3-single3 ? ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Ken Hendrickson Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 6:51 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [RaspberryPi-4-HamRadio] wsjtx 2.3 fail on Ubuntu 64 bit install #raspberrypi ? Thanks, I will try that. I found Ubuntu 64 to be very slow on my 8 gb pi 4 even after overclocking to 2 mhz.
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Thanks, I will try that. I found Ubuntu 64 to be very slow on my 8 gb pi 4 even after overclocking to 2 mhz.
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After writing this: wsjt-wsjt-x 2.2.2 is working on ubuntu 64 bit 20.10 sudo apt install libgfortran5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5network5 \libqt5printsupport5 libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5serialport5 \ ???? libqt5sql5-sqlite libfftw3-single3 libgomp1 libboost-all-dev \ ???? libusb-1.0-0 ? ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of 4x4fdil via groups.io Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 9:21 AM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [RaspberryPi-4-HamRadio] wsjtx 2.3 fail on Ubuntu 64 bit install #raspberrypi ? I have installed the program but when I opened it I got this massage "Failed to fund SQLite Qt driver" ? ? The 64 bit arm version of WSJTX fails to install on Ubuntu 64 bit version downloaded from Ubuntu.
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I have installed the program but when I opened it I got this massage "Failed to fund SQLite Qt driver" ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Ken Hendrickson Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 10:00 PM To: [email protected]Subject: [RaspberryPi-4-HamRadio] wsjtx 2.3 fail on Ubuntu 64 bit install #raspberrypi ? The 64 bit arm version of WSJTX fails to install on Ubuntu 64 bit version downloaded from Ubuntu.
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The 64 bit arm version of WSJTX fails to install on Ubuntu 64 bit version downloaded from Ubuntu.
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Hello Alf
I'm using a Pi4 4GB remotely (headless) without any problems using VNC. The VNC software allows me to operate (WSJTx in my case) remotely from my pc (Window), laptop (Linux), and my tablet and phone (Android).?
Don't forget to enable the interface in PiOS for VNC, it's not on in new installs by default.?
Maybe I've been lucky but I've never had a problem with VNC.
Good luck with the event.
73 Glen
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Re: WxtoImg and Pi4 - Receiver selection
I need assistance with the following: Options/Recording Options/
Receiver Type.? When I left click on the selection a list of radios?
appears but disappears when I release the left mouse button.?
I need to find R2FX on the list, but it is off the screen.? Is there a way I can release the left mouse button and have the list remain up so I can scroll down to select my radio type???
I am operating a Pi with Buster.? I have only had wxtoimg loaded a
few days and in the beginning receiver selection worked.
Any ideas or information will be greatly appreciated.
- Tony
WA6IOF
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Re: Virtual Audio connection between CubicSDR and Fldigi
The basic way to do this would be to route it through the pulseaudio server.
if you install pavucontrol (type sudo apt install pavucontrol in a terminal) then this will give you a control panel for volume control and redirecting audio - in theory at least.
You should then be able to send the output from CubicSDR to the analogue output, and use pavucontrol to set the FLDigi input to the monitor of the analogue output; I'm still working on that, though.
Another option might be by using pactl to install a loopback module - that's a bit more technical, though, and I'm still working on how to do it.
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Hi and tnx fer the answer!
I'll making a SD-card with Raspberry Pi OS then ...
Have you any comments re. headless use and resolution? I had
problems (black screen) when I tried with HamPi. Now I think I'll
install latest version for RPi.
73 Alf
OH6IH
Den 1 feb. 2021 kl. 11:18, skrev N5XMT:
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RaspberryPiOS. 100% it's designed for the pi and
just about every debian package available is ported to ARM and
available via apt install.? You can also build apps from source
as well
On Feb 1, 2021, at 00:27, Alf Blomqvist
< oh6ih@...> wrote:
Good Morning from Finland!
I'm preparing a Raspberry PI 4B 4GB RAM to
use with (latest) version of JTDX to use with OH100SRAL
anniversery call sign later this week (Friday to Sunday,
possible next week on Monday and Tuesday).
Last week I also used the special call sign with a Raspberry
Pi 3B and issues with it's capasity to run JTDX.
My transceiver is Yaesu FT-450D.
The antenna is Fan Dipole.
i have following questions:
1. What Operating System you suggest for the RPi ?
2. What version of JTDX, if not latest issued?
3. Do you suggest me to use JTalert ?
4. What Remote Control Software? ( Raspberry Pi suggest sorted
by ease of installation following: Xrdp, SSH and X11
forwarding, VNC, TeamViewer, NoMachine)
-- I have used VNC, but it stopped working last week and I got
no help from RealVNC !! - After that I have used TeamViewer.
5. I Intend to use the RPi headless -? what resolution you
suggest?
6. My QSO:s are sent to eQSL and I manually import the QSO:s
to QRZ, Club Log, HRDLOG.net and HamQTH.
6. Any other suggestion and what to consider?
73 Alf
OH6IH
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Hi I use a charging a anker usbhub that delivers 3 amps ,ok for light loading of 3 ,3 Pi's? but new 4 not happy if things are working hard. ie a hard drive connected.
Roger
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RaspberryPiOS. 100% it's designed for the pi and just about every debian package available is ported to ARM and available via apt install.? You can also build apps from source as well
On Feb 1, 2021, at 00:27, Alf Blomqvist < oh6ih@...> wrote:
Good Morning from Finland!
I'm preparing a Raspberry PI 4B 4GB RAM to use with (latest) version of JTDX to use with OH100SRAL anniversery call sign later this week (Friday to Sunday, possible next week on Monday and Tuesday).
Last week I also used the special call sign with a Raspberry Pi 3B and issues with it's capasity to run JTDX.
My transceiver is Yaesu FT-450D.
The antenna is Fan Dipole.
i have following questions:
1. What Operating System you suggest for the RPi ?
2. What version of JTDX, if not latest issued?
3. Do you suggest me to use JTalert ?
4. What Remote Control Software? ( Raspberry Pi suggest sorted by ease of installation following: Xrdp, SSH and X11 forwarding, VNC, TeamViewer, NoMachine)
-- I have used VNC, but it stopped working last week and I got no help from RealVNC !! - After that I have used TeamViewer.
5. I Intend to use the RPi headless -? what resolution you suggest?
6. My QSO:s are sent to eQSL and I manually import the QSO:s to QRZ, Club Log, HRDLOG.net and HamQTH.
6. Any other suggestion and what to consider?
73 Alf
OH6IH
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Good Morning from Finland!
I'm preparing a Raspberry PI 4B 4GB RAM to use with (latest) version of JTDX to use with OH100SRAL anniversery call sign later this week (Friday to Sunday, possible next week on Monday and Tuesday).
Last week I also used the special call sign with a Raspberry Pi 3B and issues with it's capasity to run JTDX.
My transceiver is Yaesu FT-450D.
The antenna is Fan Dipole.
i have following questions:
1. What Operating System you suggest for the RPi ?
2. What version of JTDX, if not latest issued?
3. Do you suggest me to use JTalert ?
4. What Remote Control Software? ( Raspberry Pi suggest sorted by ease of installation following: Xrdp, SSH and X11 forwarding, VNC, TeamViewer, NoMachine)
-- I have used VNC, but it stopped working last week and I got no help from RealVNC !! - After that I have used TeamViewer.
5. I Intend to use the RPi headless -? what resolution you suggest?
6. My QSO:s are sent to eQSL and I manually import the QSO:s to QRZ, Club Log, HRDLOG.net and HamQTH.
6. Any other suggestion and what to consider?
73 Alf
OH6IH
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Re: [EXTERNAL] [RaspberryPi-4-HamRadio] New user, startup issues
That's probably the best card for a pi
The MicroSD card I am using is a Samsung EVO Select 32GB UHS-1 card. It is rated at up to 95MB/s read and 20MB/s write.
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Re: New user, startup issues
Something to keep in mind is that some USB keyboards draw quite a bit of power.? More than the pi zero's can supply thru their USB ports.? Your best bet is to run headless, and for desktop use VNC.
The easiest way to see if it's on the network, is to log into your router and go to "connected devices".? May be called something similar depending on who makes it.? And look for the pi there.? It will give you the ip address.? Also, Pi's don't do ipv6 addressing very well, so edit cmdline.txt on the sd card with notepad++ and add ipv6.disable=1 at the end.? Don't hit return anywhere.?
When you create your wpa_supplicant.conf, make sure as well to use notepad++, and regular notepad, wordpad etc all add linefeeds at the end of each line and Linux doesn't play nice with DOS formatted text.
OK, that explains it. I did see a message flash on the screen on the initial attempt to boot that something was being created or resized. I am using the full Buster, as far as I know. I sort of backpedaled this project for now until some new stuff comes in next week. I found a way to accomplish some of what I was thinking of doing using an Android ap and was playing with that today.
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Re: New user, startup issues
gparted should be in your toolbox. 73
That drive windows says needs formatted is the root filesystem for the pi image.? Don't reformat it.? It's normal, as windows cannot read a Linux ext4 filesystem
32g is fine. Plenty of room
On Jan 31, 2021, at 02:21, "Vic WA4THR via " < ptd.net@ target=_blank>vhklein=@> wrote:
Thanks for all the replies. I did send a note to Vilros with some questions.
I was checking to see if i had any empty MicroSD cards around, and all I had were either double the size or too small. The card I am using is a 32GB Samsung EVO select and it does pass the verification when I write to it. Is that good enough for this application? Among the imagers I used was the Raspberry Pi imager on their website. It didn't act any different from the others as far as performance.
However, I do notice something a bit odd. When I reinsert the SD card into the desktop, now there is a "new" empty drive showing and saying it needs to be formatted, one letter higher than the Boot drive on the card. I saw that before and thought it meant the card was bad, so it was reformatted and a new image copied over. It looked fine before I used it in the Pi, no phantom drive, so I wonder if the Pi is creating that new drive on the card? Although I think I have done this a couple of times, I may try erasing and reformatting the SD card again.
I started the process before I had an HDMI cable to connect to the monitor, so I was trying to use the built-in WiFi and run "headless". I added the needed files to the SD card (adding and empty SSH file and the filled out wpa_supplicant.conf file for my WiFi), but when trying to run the green LED on the pi would flash for a while, then go steady, but no signal ever showed up on the network. That's when I decided to wait for the USB hub and try to run it directly. On the one time it got as far as logging on to the WiFi, I did find it on the network.
I'll look at trying the Pi plugged in to the USB port, if I understand that technique, and good thought about watching the WiFi on the phone monitor. The power supply is the one supplied by Vilros, but another good idea to monitor the voltage, although nothing seems to be dimming under use. Among my many start attempts were efforts plugging only the mouse or only the keyboard in to the Pi, in case the load was too much. Those didn't make any difference except an inability to either select things or type in things when needed.
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Re: New user, startup issues
That drive windows says needs formatted is the root filesystem for the pi image.? Don't reformat it.? It's normal, as windows cannot read a Linux ext4 filesystem
32g is fine. Plenty of room
Thanks for all the replies. I did send a note to Vilros with some questions.
I was checking to see if i had any empty MicroSD cards around, and all I had were either double the size or too small. The card I am using is a 32GB Samsung EVO select and it does pass the verification when I write to it. Is that good enough for this application? Among the imagers I used was the Raspberry Pi imager on their website. It didn't act any different from the others as far as performance.
However, I do notice something a bit odd. When I reinsert the SD card into the desktop, now there is a "new" empty drive showing and saying it needs to be formatted, one letter higher than the Boot drive on the card. I saw that before and thought it meant the card was bad, so it was reformatted and a new image copied over. It looked fine before I used it in the Pi, no phantom drive, so I wonder if the Pi is creating that new drive on the card? Although I think I have done this a couple of times, I may try erasing and reformatting the SD card again.
I started the process before I had an HDMI cable to connect to the monitor, so I was trying to use the built-in WiFi and run "headless". I added the needed files to the SD card (adding and empty SSH file and the filled out wpa_supplicant.conf file for my WiFi), but when trying to run the green LED on the pi would flash for a while, then go steady, but no signal ever showed up on the network. That's when I decided to wait for the USB hub and try to run it directly. On the one time it got as far as logging on to the WiFi, I did find it on the network.
I'll look at trying the Pi plugged in to the USB port, if I understand that technique, and good thought about watching the WiFi on the phone monitor. The power supply is the one supplied by Vilros, but another good idea to monitor the voltage, although nothing seems to be dimming under use. Among my many start attempts were efforts plugging only the mouse or only the keyboard in to the Pi, in case the load was too much. Those didn't make any difference except an inability to either select things or type in things when needed.
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Re: New user, startup issues
How in the world are you "adding files" to the Raspbian image or editing files when the thing won't boot up?
This is all pretty simple.? Get a NEW SD card, 32GB or even 128GB if you want to have that much space.? It's not a money issue, a 16GB decent card from WalMart is only about $8.
DON'T format it.? That doesn't make any difference as you are applying a completely new image on there and Windows formatting doesn't make any difference at all.? I have built a couple hundred SD cards with different Raspbian images and have had problems with pre-formatted cards.? Don't do it, not necessary.
Connect it to a HDMI TV and a USB keyboard/mouse.
Apply power.? The RED LED should never blink.? If it does, and randomly blinks, the power supply is bad.? Get a new one.? If it is steady on all the time, this is good.
Make sure you have the correct OS.? I'm assuming you are trying to boot the latest Raspbian OS for the Pi.? If not, you'll have to figure it out.
If there are errors during the boot, the problem should be obvious.? If they are random errors, or it boots and then hangs or other weird stuff, get a NEW Pi Zero.? It's only $10.
Try all that and see if it works.
Once booted then you can set up your WiFi from the GUI or from the command line if you want, enable SSH, etc.? Read the Pi docs.
Mark KD0QYN
Thanks for all the replies. I did send a note to Vilros with some questions.
I was checking to see if i had any empty MicroSD cards around, and all I had were either double the size or too small. The card I am using is a 32GB Samsung EVO select and it does pass the verification when I write to it. Is that good enough for this application? Among the imagers I used was the Raspberry Pi imager on their website. It didn't act any different from the others as far as performance.
However, I do notice something a bit odd. When I reinsert the SD card into the desktop, now there is a "new" empty drive showing and saying it needs to be formatted, one letter higher than the Boot drive on the card. I saw that before and thought it meant the card was bad, so it was reformatted and a new image copied over. It looked fine before I used it in the Pi, no phantom drive, so I wonder if the Pi is creating that new drive on the card? Although I think I have done this a couple of times, I may try erasing and reformatting the SD card again.
I started the process before I had an HDMI cable to connect to the monitor, so I was trying to use the built-in WiFi and run "headless". I added the needed files to the SD card (adding and empty SSH file and the filled out wpa_supplicant.conf file for my WiFi), but when trying to run the green LED on the pi would flash for a while, then go steady, but no signal ever showed up on the network. That's when I decided to wait for the USB hub and try to run it directly. On the one time it got as far as logging on to the WiFi, I did find it on the network.
I'll look at trying the Pi plugged in to the USB port, if I understand that technique, and good thought about watching the WiFi on the phone monitor. The power supply is the one supplied by Vilros, but another good idea to monitor the voltage, although nothing seems to be dimming under use. Among my many start attempts were efforts plugging only the mouse or only the keyboard in to the Pi, in case the load was too much. Those didn't make any difference except an inability to either select things or type in things when needed.
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Re: New user, startup issues
OK, that explains it. I did see a message flash on the screen on the initial attempt to boot that something was being created or resized. I am using the full Buster, as far as I know. I sort of backpedaled this project for now until some new stuff comes in next week. I found a way to accomplish some of what I was thinking of doing using an Android ap and was playing with that today.
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Vic WA4THR
Steve R
Glen - G0SBN
Dave R