Re: Raspberry Pi Drats Problem

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I've seen that behavior with the older Pi (A and B) models. They did not handle "hot plugging" ?(connecting USB devices while powered) very well. It would usually cause mine to reboot, or the device wouldn't work (as you describe).?

The newer Raspberry Pi 2 models are much more tolerant of "hot plugging".?

... Or it could be your particular USB device....

I would also submit we are departing from the original ?thread focusing on Roger's problem with a digression into USB ports since Roger's problem does not appear to be USB related.?

Mike, N0SO

On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 11:45 AM, "kc2oon@... [d-rats_group]" wrote:

I can tell you that I have had to restart the Pi every time I disconnect the USB/serial cable. No matter if it shows up in the repeater software or not as the correct port.?

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Re: Raspberry Pi Drats Problem

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I can tell you that I have had to restart the Pi every time I disconnect the USB/serial cable. No matter if it shows up in the repeater software or not as the correct port.?

It looks like it recognizes the radio port. It shows the radio port. There is nothing to indicate it doesn't recognize the radio port, but the radio indeed never keys up on the ratflector unless you reboot the Raspberry. Going in to the preferences radio tabs and deleting the radio, then re adding the radio also doesn't work. This happens to me 100% of the time leading me to believe it's not the software, it's the Pi needing to re-establish proper communications with the serial adapter.?

It could be my particular serial adapter, a trip-lite, ?but this is the process I must go through to get my radio keying if I remove it from the Raspberry.

Keith

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Re: Raspberry Pi Drats Problem

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Hello Keith,

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Whenever you make a change in the preferences that has to do with an actual radio, as in using a Serial to USB cable from the Pi to the radio, you have to restart the Raspberry. Simply disconnecting the USB and reconnecting it doesn't work like it does in Windows. The Raspberry doesn't auto detect a USB connection when you plug it in. It detects that USB at boot up. Pain the arse but that is how it works.

This is incorrect.? To confirm it: have your USB to serial adapter connected to your RPI and then run the command "dmesg".? Now remove the USB device and then run "dmesg".? Now plug the USB device back in and run "dmesg".? Linux absolutely will see the USB and /dev/ttyUSB* interface come and go.? Now, it true that the serial port can show up as a new /dev/ttyUSB* device but that can be fixed via persistent enumeration:

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--David

Re: Raspberry Pi Drats Problem

#773

Hi Roger,

You should not need to re-image the SD card to reset D-RATS to the defaults. On all Linux versions (including the Raspberry Pi) there is a "hidden folder" that holds your D-RATS configuration, log and QST files. It will be named .d-rats (that is DOT d-rats). If you delete that folder and restart d-rats it should run as though it were freshly installed.

HINT: Copy or re-name the .d-rats folder to something else - you may find it's contents useful when setting up the fresh copy.

If you did re-image the card, was the new image file made from a working SD card you had after setting up D-RATS? If so, then I would expect it to still know about your old settings.

Can you get a screen shot of the error? If the IP address or hostname of the D-RATS repeater you are trying to add is not correct you may get an error message but I would not expect it to crash.

Last, but not least, you can add stuff to the configuration by manually editing the file .d-rats/d-rats.config. Look at the [ports] section of the file and copy/paste, then edit the one for the default ratflector.

73,

Mike, N0SO

On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 8:41 AM, "eshroger@... [d-rats_group]" wrote:

I should have mentioned that I don't have Drats actually connected to a radio. The change I made was to try and connect to a ratflector by adding an IP address.

Thanks

Roger, N7BU

Re: Raspberry Pi Drats Problem

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I should have mentioned that I don't have Drats actually connected to a radio. The change I made was to try and connect to a ratflector by adding an IP address.

Thanks

Roger, N7BU

Re: Raspberry Pi Drats Problem

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Whenever you make a change in the preferences that has to do with an actual radio, as in using a Serial to USB cable from the Pi to the radio, you have to restart the Raspberry. Simply disconnecting the USB and reconnecting it doesn't work like it does in Windows. The Raspberry doesn't auto detect a USB connection when you plug it in. It detects that USB at boot up. Pain the arse but that is how it works.

You have to pull the UBS plug out of the Raspberry (that is connected to the serial cable to your radio), restart the Pi, let it boot up and find there is no cable, to reset itself, power down the raspberry, plug the cable back in, then restart it. DRATS repeater automatically knows which USB port and config you are using after booting up the Pi, so when adding a radio it auto fills in that info for you. Now I don't have other items in another USB port. If you do that may be an issue, I just don't know.

That has worked for me in the past. I've never had to reload the DRATS software so I'm not sure if uninstall totally removes the software package. ?

Keith

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I had Drats up and running on my raspberry pi. I made a change in the preferences by adding a new radio. When I went back to change radio, I got an error message on Drats saying there was an error. When I chose to ignore the error the window closed and could not get back into the preferences.

I created a new sd image and reloaded Drats. I got the same error message and all my settings from the first version were still there. How can I get Drats to reinstall and work? How do I get rid of the old settings?

Roger, N7BU

Re: Adding a D-Rats reflector directly into an Icom Dstar repeater stack

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Hey Dan,

Ok.. thanks and that's encouraging.? Could you tell me exactly what you have configured in the D-RATS "radio" section, the Network TCP Gateway, and Network TCP Forwarding sections??? Also, are you running IRCDDB on your Dstar stack?

--David
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On 10/26/2015 04:46 PM, 'Dan Ozment' dan@... [d-rats_group] wrote:

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I have had this running for about a month, and it is working well? Not sure at this point that I can tell you any of the steps to getting it installed.? I wasn’t smart enough to document how I did it.? Unless someone else can point you to a good set of instructions I will try to piece it back together when I have a chance.

Re: Adding a D-Rats reflector directly into an Icom Dstar repeater stack

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I have had this running for about a month, and it is working well? Not sure at this point that I can tell you any of the steps to getting it installed.? I wasn’t smart enough to document how I did it.? Unless someone else can point you to a good set of instructions I will try to piece it back together when I have a chance.

Re: Adding a D-Rats reflector directly into an Icom Dstar repeater stack

#767

This is a great question. It's something I've always wanted to try.

The ircddb system supports running D-RATS on the gateway computer. I don't know anymore about it than that.

Since you mention Centos, I assume you are running a D-Plus system.

The following is only my best guess - try this at your own risk!

You can install D-RATS on Centos. It will report that two or three items are missing for D-RATS to run. You must install them manually. Run the D-RATS repeater application. Mark the "Accept incoming connections" box, click the on button and you should have a Ratflector at callsign.dstargateway.org port 9000.?

Connecting to the repeater stack is not as clear. I assume you could make a network connection and point to port 20003. I do not know what the network address of the repeater modules would be.

To my knowledge, none of this has been tried or tested. Use appropriate caution and back up your gateway database before you start tinkering.?

If you do have some success, please report it to the group.

Patrick (N3TSZ)

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From: "David Ranch dstar@... [d-rats_group]"
To: d-rats_group@...
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 5:29 PM
Subject: [d-rats_group] Adding a D-Rats reflector directly into an Icom Dstar repeater stack

Hello Everyone,

I'm curious if it's possible to add the D-rats python application directly onto the D-star / Centos Linux controller and avoid having to have an external computer and radio to create a local ratflector?

--David
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Adding a D-Rats reflector directly into an Icom Dstar repeater stack

#766

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Hello Everyone,

I'm curious if it's possible to add the D-rats python application directly onto the D-star / Centos Linux controller and avoid having to have an external computer and radio to create a local ratflector?

--David
KI6ZHD

Re: Question about d-rats.com reflectors

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The last time I was able to connect to the drats.com ratflector was Thursday afternoon (Oct 22nd).

I know this because I had to reconfigure my modem ports after a network outage and reset. I couldn't connect to our ARES/SKYWARN ratflector from outside the network but was able to connect to the KK7DS drat.com ratflector.

Keith

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Since the Winlnk Development Group has announced the implementation of secure password access and that in six months time they will reject any connection to a CMS without a password, does anyone have any ideas interoperation?

73,

John K2ZA

Re: Question about d-rats.com reflectors

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Hello Patrick,

Thanks for the help here.? I've never seen this "database" feature on Yahoo groups before.? To get to it, you have to goto say:

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click on the "More" pulldown, select "database", and then select "Ratflector List"

As for the database itself:

?? - It seems the two first entries are the ones that are down.. maybe someone can update the notes field to say they have been down since X date?

?? - The Fldigi ARQ entry should be removed.. 127.0.0.1 is a local connection only

It doesn't seem from the description like any one Ratflector is intended to be a world wide reflector but maybe one has become the defacto ratflector?? Can you recommend one where the most stations usually are?? I've had
wa7fw.dstargateway.org configured on my machine for some time but as of yesterday, I only saw your machine on it.

--David

Re: Question about d-rats.com reflectors

#762

The Ratflectors run by KK7DS are currently offline. They may return at some time. Until then, look in the database section of this group for more ratflectors to choose from.

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Patrick (N3TSZ)

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From: "George Zafiropoulos george.zaff@... [d-rats_group]"
To: d-rats_group@...
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2015 11:35 AM
Subject: [d-rats_group] Re: Question about d-rats.com reflectors

David,

The first and only time I played around with D-RATS a few months ago I was connected to and there was a lot of traffic and I chatted with some very helpful people.? I can? not connect to it any more either.

George

KJ6VU

Re: Question about d-rats.com reflectors

George Zafiropoulos

#761

David,

The first and only time I played around with D-RATS a few months ago I was connected to and there was a lot of traffic and I chatted with some very helpful people.? I can? not connect to it any more either.

George

KJ6VU

Question about d-rats.com reflectors

#760

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Hello Everyone,

I sent Patrick a D-RATS message a bit ago on the WA7FW Ratflector but I thought I'd try the list too. It seems the ref.d-rats.com:9000 and ref.d-rats.com:9001 ratflectors down?? They won't connect for me and even the server isn't pinging for me (might be expected):

$ping ref.d-rats.com

PING orion.danplanet.com (50.198.170.82) 56(84) bytes of data.
^CFrom 50-198-170-82-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net (50.198.170.82) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 50-198-170-82-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net (50.198.170.82) icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

--- orion.danplanet.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3474ms

Are those two servers operational anymore?? Are there any other Internet and Dstar RF Ratflectors that are somewhat active out there?

--David
KI6ZHD

Re: IC-7100 and D-rats

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Re: ICOM 7100

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I'm not a MAC user, but I would think you could the port the other software is using and type it into the D-RATS add a port box. If it's like Linux, it should be something with a TTY in it. Just don't run the other software at the same time you are running D-RATS or there will be a conflict.

Good luck with your 7100 and D-RATS.

Patrick (N3TSZ)

Re: ICOM 7100

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#757

Best bet is to list your /dev directory and see what is listed. ?For example, on my iMac running OSX and in FLDigig the port I use is "/dev/tty.usbserial"

Dan

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