Hi Cassie (and David)
The 9100 effectively has a sound card and 2 serial port UARTS on
the end of its USB hub, so only the USB A-B cable is needed.
Re the audio, I think it worthwhile for initial simplicity to
start with what you already have. ie if it installed Pipewire,
Pulseaudio or the basic ALSA then start there. I have my own
reasons for sticking with Pulseaudio that are well beyond this
topic!
You might want to set 60. CI-V Baud Rate to 19200 rather than
rely on the default "Auto". Also 62. CI-V Transceive to Off (which
I wont elaborate on)
When using the USB only connection the PTT goes in on the first
serial port as an Icom CI-V command. The 9100 does not support RTS
etc PTT signalling. The easiest way to handle that IMO is to
install hamlib and run the rigctld daemon before starting
direwolf. In my case I have the following in the dw startup;
/usr/local/bin/rigctld -m 3068 -vvv -r /dev/icom9100a -s 19200 -c
0x7c &
You will probably need /dev/ttyUSB0 as I created a special link
name. Once again hot plugging and looking at dmesg will tell you
what the port number is.
Then in the actual config file the PTT line is;
PTT RIG 2 localhost:4532
It is also possible to direct rig connect, not using rigctld, but
that stops sharing the rig with other applications. I actually use
it to have the rig QSY and do other things so more flexible. The
User Guide link David suggested has working examples of that, but
using rig number 3068.
Hope this helps
Cheers Bob VK2YQA
On 23/8/24 05:28, David Ranch via
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Hello Cassie,
Thank you both for the reply. I inherited this
project (with of course zero knowledge of any of this) and am
trying to make sense out of what they had started (granted none
of their set up was working when I came in).
A great way to learn and you've come to the right place.? Lots of
very smart users, developers, etc. are here on this list.
I adjusted the cabling... ditched the rigblasters and
looked over the 9100 settings- FM/D, 55 squelch off, 56 mod
level is on 50%, 59 data mod USB.
Any other settings I should be looking out for?
I would say that once you start direwolf and start decoding some
packets, send us the direwolf startup output to see if there might
be any initial tunings needed
They also have 2 connections to the computer, they have the
USB bus and also have the DATA2 connection- are both of those
necessary?
I'm not an IC9100 but in browsing the manual yesterday, it seems
like the USB connection should be able to do it all
I'm in the process of adjusting the direwolf config file to
match the new setup, and I'm not quite sure what you mean by
not having ADEVICE? are all of those lines commented for you?
or do you have a line for ADEVICE default?
Also- we are currently running on Ubuntu desktop, 22.04.3
The ADEVICE aka "Audio Device" is what Direwolf connects to for
hearing and sending the audio.? Direwolf is very flexible on which
audio "device" it will interact with.? I personally recommend to
try and keep Pipewire, PulseAudio, etc. out of it if possible in
the spirit of keeping things simpler.? To Identify the USB audio
device from the IC9100, I would recommend to :
?? #1 - Shutdown direwolf
?? #2 - disconnect the IC9100 USB port from the Ubuntu computer
?? #3 - re-connect the IC9100 USB port and then run "sudo dmesg"
on the Ubuntu computer to see what sound and serial devices were
recognized
?? #4 - follow the instructions from:
? ? ? See Section 9.1.3
?????
For PTT, it sounds like you will need to select the second serial
port presented by the IC9100 which you would have been told about
in item #3 above.
--David
KI6ZHD
