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Radioberry V1 vs V2
What are the differences? Will a Rpi3b run both? 73 N7CHS
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Pi 5 portable power
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I’m running a Pi 5 here, with pretty good successes. It is my intention to build it into a portable PC for radio operations (e.g., POTA, vacations). One concern I had was regarding power when I’m away from 120V AC. I know it’s been discussed here a lot that we have to use the official Pi 28 Watt charger and such. HOWEVER, I have a LiFePo4 + solar battery system I built. I included in it a socket with 2 USB-C PD ports rated at 30 Watts each. (I use it to charge my MacBook Pro often.) I just booted up my Pi 5 on that port and got no warnings about low voltages at all. It just runs. I see no difference between this and the factory power adapter. I’m not running anything on the USB ports, so the power draw isn’t that much anyway. My configuration is Pi 5 with 8 Gb, Pi OS, Pimoroni NVMe Base board with an NVMe (Sabrent) 1 TB boot drive. I’ll report back if I encounter any problems, but so far so good. The socket I put in my LiFePo4 box is this one from Amazon ($20.99): https://a.co/d/5i1SGfZ 73 de K0RvW
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Hi all, I have left some Radioberry V2.0 beta 4 boards as well as the Radioberry Preamp boards by Johan PA3GSB from a club project. Good quality boards. 4 layer boards, see pics for eval. PayPal as friend/family please. 15 Each ex shipping.
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Link to PiGate and PiGate RMS
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Myself and a few others are in the process of "refreshing" our installs of PiGate and PiGate RMS before hurricane season. I can find the new link to the RMS files, but not to the "regular" PiGate files or the supporting documents. Does anyone have those handy? 73, Jack KE4LWT
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Using pi4 Radioberry outside LAN
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Hi I have an HF transceiver based on a Pi4 and radio berry. It works fine on my LAN with SDRConsole but I am unable to connect to it from the internet. On my LAN I have fixed the IP address in my router (via DHCP) , I have a fixed IP and I have port forwarded external port 1024 (I have tried several others) to the pi but I am unable to connect with SDR Console. I have had no problems with access via SSH with port forwarding. Does anyone have any ideas as to what to try? I presumed it was a port forwarding issue but maybe it is something more fundamental? Regards Richard
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NVMe on Pi-5 -- I need help understanding
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A Fikwot FN501 PRO NVMe was installed on my Pi-5 following a Utube video by Jeff Gerling. It boots without the SD card, but seems slow and the test method used by Jeff doesn't work with my setup. I made a screen capture of the output produced for the drive with sudo lspci -vvv, but I'm not sure if it is OK to upload it here. What I need to know is if the drive is compatible with my Pi-5. And, if I should upload the screen capture.
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Seeking case compatible with Pi 5 + Pimoroni NVMe BASE
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I plan on adding my Pi 5 to my portable rig. It’s currently caseless, however, as the Pimoroni NVM3 base board doesn’t seem happy in other cases. Anyone know of a case that can accommodate this configuration, while still allowing access to the external ports? Cheers, Ken van Wyk Armata Scientia
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sdrtrunk with rsp1a on raspberry pi 4
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Good afternoon, I have been trying to get sdrtrunk to work with my rsp1a(sdrplay). The program runs but does not detect the rsp1a.. Am I missing something? It say there is no tuner. Any help would be greatly appreciated, -- Jay WB2QQJ
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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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Different /boot configuration file location depends on Raspberry Pi hardware or variant of OS?
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Hello Everyone, As I continue to learn Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm (Debian 12), I'm finding a strange inconsistency and I think it either depends on: a) the hardware I'm using or the use of Raspberry Pi OS Lite (No GUI) vs Raspberry Pi OS Desktop (GUI) b) different versions of Rpi-OS images where they are making changes mid-release I'm curious if anyone can confirm this on your setups: Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB of RAM running Bookworm Lite (No GUI) -- cat /etc/os-release -- PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="12" VERSION="12 (bookworm)" VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" -- Shows all config files in /boot are symlinks to /boot/firmware/. That makes things backwards compatible: -- ls -la /boot/*.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Oct 9 20:39 /boot/cmdline.txt -> firmware/cmdline.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 9 20:39 /boot/config.txt -> firmware/config.txt -- Here is what is in the new /boot/firmware directory for config files -- ls -la /boot/firmware/*.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 132 Oct 9 21:00 /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1364 Oct 27 17:39 /boot/firmware/config.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 145 Oct 9 20:57 /boot/firmware/issue.txt -- Now compare that to a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB RAM running Bookworm Desktop (GUI enabled): $ cat /etc/os-release -- PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="12" VERSION="12 (bookworm)" VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" -- $ ls -la /boot/*.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 Feb 5 18:49 /boot/cmdline.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91 Feb 5 18:49 /boot/config.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Dec 4 21:04 /boot/issue.txt -> firmware/issue.txt These configuration files only contain text like: -- DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE The file you are looking for has moved to /boot/firmware/config.txt -- The new REAL location of these files is now ONLY in /boot/firmware.. -- $ ls -la /boot/firmware/*.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 132 Feb 5 18:57 /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1315 Feb 14 12:45 /boot/firmware/config.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 145 Dec 4 21:04 /boot/firmware/issue.txt -- By NOT making /boot/cmdline.txt a symlink to /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt, this BREAKS backwards compatibility with various tools, documentation, etc. I'm curious if anyone knows WHERE and WHY this is happening? --David KI6ZHD
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Intro - newbie
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Hi, G8NXD here, been running RPi since the first board release and have a box full of old RPi's sitting waiting for Godot. Been using RPi for local and remote QRSS and WSPR reporting for ages., also GP desktop applications. I've just aquired a couple of RPi5 8Gb but hate the OS for it so staying on Bullseye and RPi4 until Bookworm returns to sanity. I've just joined looking for help on why certain distros, Ubuntu and DV as examples, dont recognise my Monitor but Raspbian of all colours seem quite happy with it. It does'nt appear to be video drive level, #hdmi_drive=2 and dmi_force_hotplug=1, may be depreciated in modern Config.txt configurations, it does'nt seem to work these days. The monitor is an ASUS VE247. I have a feeling that the problematic distros assume a 4k monitor when first booting, but not sure about that and have no idea how to reject that option and default to a more antique resolution. Ideas on a ?5 note please :-) 73 Mike
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Has anyone here mounted the Pineberry Pi Bottom HAT onto an RPI5? I have sent an inquiry to Pineberry Pi but have no yet received a reply. I can find pictures on the internet showing the Top HAT mounted and have my Top HAT mounted and booting the RPI5. But I cannot find any pictures or diagrams of the Bottom HAT mounted to an RPI5. Should it be mounted with the SSD up (pointed towards the RPI5 bottom) or the SSD down (away from the RPI5 bottom)? To orient the connecting cable pointer as shown for the Top HAT, the Bottom HAT must be mounted with the SSD down. Thanks for any help or guidance. Happy New Year! Edd - KD5M
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Update from SparkFun regarding Rpi5 order
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I just received an update from SparkFun regarding my three month delayed Rpi5 Essential kit order. The prospect of them taking another MONTH is rather surprising to me and in some respects, I might just keep my order with them to see if they ever follow through. At the same time, I see that Parallax just received a shipment of 500 Rpi5 8GB models though I don't know if those are just the bare boards or some level of a kit. --David KI6ZHD From: Maria Henderson from Sparkfun <support@...> -- We sincerely apologize for the delay in processing your order. The shipment is anticipated to be dispatched in mid to late February. We acknowledge the inconvenience this delay may have caused and sincerely appreciate your understanding and patience in this matter. Please advise if you would like to cancel your order and receive a full refund. Thank you! Maria Sales & Support Team ?SparkFun Electronics, Inc. 6333 Dry Creek Parkway Niwot, CO. 80503 --
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Received pi5 from Sparkfun today
Hello, Received Pi5 8Gb this morning (02/06/2024) via FedEx. Ordered from Sparkfun 09/29/2023 Maybe this will provide/help with a time frame for those who still have units on order. DaveL
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One step forward, two steps back, one step forward again… So, I’d been working to get VARA* running on my Pi 5. I reported some successes here (and will begin testing with IC-7200 on dummy load later today). This morning, I ran an apt-get upgrade and saw box64 was updated. Oh noes! Sure enough, VARA had stopped working. So, I poked around a bit. Turns out, there are numerous versions of box64 in the Raspberry Pi distro. (To be fair, I haven’t checked which package repository each of these came from.) I tried a couple of them, booting with both the 8 kb page kernel and the 16 kb kernel. Eventually, I found one that works fine. Note the package used here (below). “box64-rpi4arm64”. The box-64-generic-arm ones seem to be for 32 bit ARM CPUs, though I’m just guessing based on the names. If anyone here has insight into what’s going on with these packages, please share. They seem to getting active updates right now. In any case, VARA is running again here. Will report back on my hardware testing. *REALLY* hoping to decommission my Windows box I use for running my rig. Cheers, Ken van Wyk Armata Scientia
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5v or 12v or PD??
There seems to be confusion about PD for the Pi 5. Here are a couple of references - make sure you are talking about PD or not! " https://community.element14.com/learn/learning-center/the-tech-connection/w/documents/28260/what-s-coming-up-in-the-changing-world-of-usb " " https://community.element14.com/technologies/power-management/b/blog/posts/usb-power-delivery-explained---is-usb-pd-the-future-of-charging " John Sunderson, Jr. Cell 626-399-6359 drbatch@... -- KG6TPA - drbatch@...
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Here appears to be an industrialized RPi-5 fully assembled with several important additional systems: EDATEC ED-IPC3020-04320 Industrialized Raspberry RPi-5 * Externally accessible PCIe M.2 SSD * RS-232 Port * RS-485 Port * Buzzer * Stereo Audio I/O two 3.5mm audio jacks * RTC SuperCAP and CR1220 Battery Backup * Fanless Design https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806155037349.html $165.00 Selections ED-IPC3020-08320 ED-IPC3020-04320 ED-IPC3020-08001 ED-IPC3020-08002 Ship to California, United States Delivery Shipping: $19.24 Estimated delivery between Jan 08 - Jan 16 ?Collect a $1.00 coupon for late delivery I expect EDATEC won't have the RPi-5 on hand to fulfill the order for a while as the RPi Foundation production reaches full capacity. Best regards, Larry WB6BBB
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Okay, so I know this group focuses on Pi 4, but I’m seeing traffic about Pi 5 availability as well, so I hope it’s okay to assume the 5 is welcome here too? [Moderator: Kill my message if I’m incorrect.] Like many, I’m working on a Pi 5 build. I currently have my 5 (8 Gb) running with the Pimoroni NVMe Base board and a 1 Tb Sabrent Rocket SSD. (RUNS GREAT!) I’m hoping to be able to run VARA HF/FM on it using Box64 + Wine. Ultimately, my aim is to run my alternate NCS for Winlink Wednesdays using my Icom 7100 and a Raspberry Pi rig control computer. I looked at https://github.com/WheezyE/Winelink and was hoping it would be what I needed, but it doesn’t (yet?) support the 5. So, being as patient as a sneeze, I set about to build Box64 and install Wine manually. I’ve been searching for a video and/or HOWTO to guide me a bit, though. Several exist for the 3 and the 4, but I’ve yet to find one for the 5. Any tips, folks? I’m very comfortable on Linux, but a bit of Box64 + Wine voodoo would go a long way. Thanks and 73s, K0RvW. Cheers, Ken van Wyk Armata Scientia
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Caveat: I have NOT yet tested it, but I plan to. I use one of these (below) in my DIY solar charging station. It provides 2x 30 Watt PD USB-C outputs, which power my Macbook Pro (15” 2018, which is a power hog) quite well for mobile comms. (Radio is directly connected to LiFePo4 battery via Anderson poles.) I’m hoping I can run my Pi 5 from the same USB-C. Power is more than adequate, but I don’t know about voltage. At home, I use a Pi power adapter, but I’d like to use this for mobile comms. Anyone here tested the Pi 5 using a similar setup? Cheers, Ken van Wyk Armata Scientia [Upgraded Version] 12V USB Outlet Qidoe 78W 3 Port USB C 12V Outlet Dual PD 30W & 18W USB A Port with Voltmeter Lengthened Aluminum Body Switch Waterproof USB Car Charger Socket for Car Boat Marine RV a.co
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Rpi 5 8G available in USA
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I just ordered one from PiShop.us
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