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VarAC and ARDOP on Pi 5 + WINE?

 

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Good morning all.

I’ve been continuing with my testing on my Pi 5. Winlink + VARA HF or FM are working pretty well. Stability isn’t as rock solid as I'd like, but I can always fire up Winlink Express and send/receive emails reliably. (If I leave it running for hours, as I need to for Winlink Wednesday, the Winlink Express process croaks at some point, every single time.)

Two things I have not had ANY success with, though. ARDOP TNC and VarAC.

For the life of me, I can’t get the ARDOP TNC to initialize. I’ve compared the configuration settings side by side with my windows (ptui!) system, where it runs just fine. The ARDOP and TNC windows open just fine, but the TNC fails to initialize on 127.0.0.1. When I configure the TNC window manually do launch on 127.0.0.1:8200, that configuration fails to persist. Next launch, it’s gone again.

And then there’s VarAC. I installed it using the installer. I installed the fonts recommended on the VarAC web site. I enabled Linux mode in the VarAC.ini file.

It launched and seemed to run once for me, and since then, every time I launch it, the VARA HF window opens, then the VarAC window opens, but the fields are black and the window is unresponsive.


Has anyone else run into similar issues? Were you able to resolve them? Suggestions?

Cheers,

Ken van Wyk
Armata Scientia





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Disable Linux mode in the VarAC.ini file. It seems to have issue’s finding the emoji font, I let Irad know the issue.?
 

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On Feb 9, 2024, at 5:54?PM, Kelly K7MHI via groups.io <kellykeeton@...> wrote:

Disable Linux mode in the VarAC.ini file. It seems to have issue’s finding the emoji font, I let Irad know the issue.?



Thanks for that tip. I’m back from travel now and gave it a try. Sadly, same problem. I tried also turning off advanced mode in the INI file. Same thing.

Attached is a screenshot of what my VarAC screen looks like. It’s in a deadlock state, so no UI interactions at all.

Anyone else seeing the same sort of thing? (Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspberry OS with latest updates, including Box64, Box86, and WINE.)

FWIW, I’m running Winlink + VARA quite well in this configuration.

Suggestions welcomed. Thanks.

Cheers,

Ken (K0RvW)

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There was a new beta released 8.6 which I loaded successfully on a pi5 latest yesterday after the wine environment is setup with all the VB OCX

just install varAC with the installer. I just loaded a new pi5 over the weekend and wine9 box 32/64 and the program ran successfully, I saw more stability possibly the font issue is now handled for example ..

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More good tips, thanks. I’m inching my way closer to victory today. I hadn’t seen the step about the VB OCX, so I’ve done that now and things seem more stable.

Also, I noticed the UI in VarAC was fine until after I configured it to talk with my rig (Icom 7100). After a reboot, I then got the deadlock I posted here before.

I decided to try flrig for rig control. I have flrig running natively on the Pi5.

No more black screens and lockups.

In VarAC, I am receiving fine and correctly processed a few beacons from other stations.

However, when I try to beacon, VarAC crashes on PTT and leaves the rig on TX.

I’ll keep fiddling with it, but I’m thinking it’s either something with the audio devices in VARA HF or the rig control in flrig.

Closer, but not quite there yet.

Cheers,

Ken van Wyk
Armata Scientia





On Feb 19, 2024, at 9:52?AM, Kelly K7MHI via groups.io <kellykeeton@...> wrote:

There was a new beta released 8.6 which I loaded successfully on a pi5 latest yesterday after the wine environment is setup with all the VB OCX

just install varAC with the installer. I just loaded a new pi5 over the weekend and wine9 box 32/64 and the program ran successfully, I saw more stability possibly the font issue is now handled for example ..


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