Re: Digipeater build.... not hearing packets

#8644

I guess I missed the part of not receiving.? I was thinking 'transmitting'.

For receive, SQL would be the first thing to look at.
Volume setting.? But it should show something at that level, so I'd be concern the audio is getting through.
Hearing them without the cable unplugged doesn't mean the sound card will hear them.
?? I'd try a speaker on the cable coming from the radio to make sure there is audio coming out the connector.
?? Then try changing the settings on the Pi - alsamixer????? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/Alsamixer
????? This may not be installed by default.?
?
-------
Rob KB8RCO

Re: Digipeater build.... not hearing packets

#8643

John and Rob, thanks.? I'll check out those user guides.? And the threads re AT878 and Wouxun on this forum.

Rob, before I implement the changes you suggested, let me try & answer your questions.

USB sound card:? What both aplay -l and arecord -l came back with were 1,0.? (Card 1, device 0)? In line 86, it shows?ADEVICE plughw:1,0. (All I did was remove #)

VOX: I did try Vox=1 on AT878, but this was after it wasn't receiving packets with Vox off. No change. I did not try Vox on Wouxun, because I assumed it was a moot point if it first wouldn't act like an iGate. Is that a fair assumption?

Re: Digipeater build.... not hearing packets

#8642

Three things of note:
1. Anytone and Wouxun are difficult to use for DIGI by design - especially if VOX is used.
??? Search this forum for more information.
2. The article is a bit dated.? Pulse audio is not a problem any more.
??? My personal opinion is that you don't want to remove default packages unless absolutely necessary, and it is not longer necessary.
3. You may want to run the "development" branch as that is very stable and adds new features that may be of interest.
??? after your mkdir build && cd build and before make ..
??? just add a line
??? git checkout dev

Remember:? when you use VOX, you need high enough audio to trigger it.

So, your USB sound card showed as card 2: ?
The article relies on VOX fro PTT.?
Are you positive the VOX is putting the radio into TX?
?? Check 1: Does it actually put the radio in TX for your beacon?
????????????????? Shorten the beacon interval to check this (EVERY=2).? Don't forget to change it back!
?? Check 2: Does it actually put the radio in TX when a DIGI request is received?
????????????????? Here you need another radio to send a packet with the matching your setting (say WIDE1-1).

-------
Rob KB8RCO

Re: Digipeater build.... not hearing packets

#8641

That article is pretty good, you may also want to go where you cloned direwolf onto you machine. Under that directory tree, there are several PDFs including the User Guide, which should help you with configuration and operation.

Show quoted text

On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 8:33?AM Jon W7SEA <jonw7sea@...> wrote:

New to the group... and to Linux.? Using as the basis to build digipeater.? (I've built iGates in the past.)? I completed the program and show up on , but I'm not hearing packets (or showing up ).? I've double-checked the lines in text editor I was to change and ensured that the sound card settings are correct.? Splitter cable plugs are in the right holes for the USB sound card.

Tried on two different radios:? Anytone 878+ and Wouxun UV8D.? I know packets are coming through as I can hear them (with cable unplugged from radio) and because the beacons show up on the AT878's screen (and in Ana APRS Info).? Squelch =1 and volume around 25%-33%.

Any advice on what to check next?? Thanks for the hand.
Jon W7SEA-15

--

John D. Hays
Kingston, WA

K7VE / WRJT-215

?

Digipeater build.... not hearing packets

#8640

New to the group... and to Linux.? Using as the basis to build digipeater.? (I've built iGates in the past.)? I completed the program and show up on aprs.fi, but I'm not hearing packets (or showing up ).? I've double-checked the lines in text editor I was to change and ensured that the sound card settings are correct.? Splitter cable plugs are in the right holes for the USB sound card.

Tried on two different radios:? Anytone 878+ and Wouxun UV8D.? I know packets are coming through as I can hear them (with cable unplugged from radio) and because the beacons show up on the AT878's screen (and in Ana APRS Info).? Squelch =1 and volume around 25%-33%.

Any advice on what to check next?? Thanks for the hand.
Jon W7SEA-15

Re: Direwolf MODEM settings

#8639

开云体育

Hello Chris,

I am no longer able to do so as I get the error message:

????????? Channel 0: Demodulator + option can't be combined with multiple frequencies.

I saw this back on Feb 2022 with Direwolf 1.7D and reported it at .? This seems seems to be a subtle bug around mapping the right modem for the configured speed but a simple work around is to explicitly configure the modem:

? MODEM 300 1900:2100 7@30 /4 D

Please also note that depending on your speed of your computer, adding the /4 can save you some wasted CPU cycles on processing an otherwise very slow mode.

--David
KI6ZHD

Direwolf MODEM settings

#8638

Hello all!

I am moving my packet platform from 20M to 30M (BBS, APRS Weather, Digipeter). I am using direwolf 1.7.

I recently noticed that something has changed on the modem config line. Where I used to be able to set multiple decoders:

?????????? MODEM 300 900:1100 9@30

I am no longer able to do so as I get the error message:

????????? Channel 0: Demodulator + option can't be combined with multiple frequencies.

Even if I drop the tone pair and keep the demodulators I get:

??????????? Channel 0: Demodulator + option can't be combined with multiple frequencies.
??????????? Channel 0: 300 baud, AFSK 1600 & 1800 Hz, A+, 44100 sample rate / 3.

Would someone please be able to assist? I know I am missing a setting somewhere, I just do not know where.

For background, I am running on Ubuntu Linux and have compiled 1.7 from git locally.

Thanks,
-Chris
KO4YAW

Re: Run kissutil and direwatch as deamons? #direwolf

#8637

I'm using screen to run kissutil.

You may attach/detach session as you wish.

screen -dmS KISS /home/hari/kiss.sh

kiss.sh

(I'm connecting to remote kiss)

#!/bin/bash

rm -rf /home/hari/tmp/{tx,rx}

mkdir -p /home/hari/tmp/{tx,rx}

kissutil -h 10.10.10.253 -p 8001 -f /home/hari/tmp/tx -o /home/hari/tmp/rx

73

Hari

Show quoted text

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 23:49 Doug Kaye (K6DRK) <doug@...> wrote:

Thanks, Craig. Works great for Direwolf and Direwatch. But I haven't been able to run kissutil as a daemon using the systemd method. Anyone successfully running kissutil as a daemon?

Re: Run kissutil and direwatch as deamons? #direwolf

#8636

Thanks, Craig. Works great for Direwolf and Direwatch. But I haven't been able to run kissutil as a daemon using the systemd method. Anyone successfully running kissutil as a daemon?

Re: Run kissutil and direwatch as deamons? #direwolf

#8635

Got it working. Took the desktop file out of .config/autostart and added

direwolf -c /home/quadra/direwolf/direwolf.conf &

to the /etc/rc.local file and it works great.

Michael WA7SKG

Michael WA7SKG wrote on 9/21/23 9:29 AM:

Show quoted text

I am currently starting direwolf with a .desktop file in .config/autostart. It starts up in a terminal window that just sits behind everything.
As mentioned below, I tried adding an & at the end of the exec line, but it still comes up on the desktop in a terminal window.
Maybe I'll try the rc.local route.
Michael WA7SKG
Craig, KM6LYW wrote on 9/21/23 6:28 AM:
You can fire up direwolf in */etc/rc.local* add the following line, with*&* at the end to run it in the background.

direwolf? ?&


... xor you can embrace the horror of systemd and create a direwolf service,

*/etc/systemd/system/direwolf.service *

Description=tnc
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/direwolf
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/
StandardOutput=inherit
StandardError=inherit
Restart=no
User=pi
TimeoutStopSec=3
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target


cool,
-craig
KM6LYW

Re: Run kissutil and direwatch as deamons? #direwolf

#8634

I am currently starting direwolf with a .desktop file in .config/autostart. It starts up in a terminal window that just sits behind everything.

As mentioned below, I tried adding an & at the end of the exec line, but it still comes up on the desktop in a terminal window.

Maybe I'll try the rc.local route.

Michael WA7SKG

Craig, KM6LYW wrote on 9/21/23 6:28 AM:

Show quoted text

You can fire up direwolf in */etc/rc.local* add the following line, with*&* at the end to run it in the background.
direwolf? ?&
... xor you can embrace the horror of systemd and create a direwolf service,
*/etc/systemd/system/direwolf.service *
Description=tnc
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/direwolf
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/
StandardOutput=inherit
StandardError=inherit
Restart=no
User=pi
TimeoutStopSec=3
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
cool,
-craig
KM6LYW

Re: Run kissutil and direwatch as deamons? #direwolf

#8633

You can fire up direwolf in /etc/rc.local add the following line, with & at the end to run it in the background.

direwolf? ?&

... xor you can embrace the horror of systemd and create a direwolf service,

/etc/systemd/system/direwolf.service?

Description=tnc
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/direwolf
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/
StandardOutput=inherit
StandardError=inherit
Restart=no
User=pi
TimeoutStopSec=3
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

cool,
-craig
KM6LYW

Run kissutil and direwatch as deamons? #direwolf

#8632

I've got Direwolf 1.7 running nicely on a Raspberry Pi 4. I want to run direwatch and kissutil as daemon processes, but no matter what method I try (systemctrl, etc.) I can't get it to work. Can anyone suggest (with some detail or a link) the best way to run these apps as daemons? Thanks.

Re: RPi Direwolf packet station.

Mike Berg

#8631

Thanks John.

I guess I should ask, when one is running Direwolf in it's Pi terminal window, can you interact with the program there?
Like do connects and type in data?

I've only used it to monitor packet and I haven't seen any instructions on using Direwolf directly.
73
Mike? N0QBH

Re: RPi Direwolf packet station.

#8630

EasyTerm works well for connected mode packet, either person to person or accessing a BBS.
As far as I know, it is only for Windows.
You could run EasyTerm on a Windows laptop and access direwolf, on a Raspberry Pi, over the network.

73,
John WB2OSZ

Re: Direwolf digipeater with weather data

#8629

开云体育

On 9/17/23 19:40, Mark Phillips wrote:

On the HamGate BBS project we use a "finger" command to collect a MetoGram?from a university in Norway. you might be able to fashion?this for your own purposes?

finger ^philadelphia@...? ? ?The city you are interested in is preceded?by the hat (shift 6) symbol.

"finger help@..." indicates that the caret symbol prior to the municipal name returns imperial units.

Many thanks for reminding me of the finger command. I used to use it extensively 1989-1991 to check the online status of a graduate astronomy friend at UNMLC, and then "talk" for realtime textual communications. There were several days when he wasn't online, and then I was informed that he didn't survive a private AC crash in TX. Maybe that's why I put the finger command out of mind, but again, thank you for reminding me of this very useful UNIX/Linux tool.

Re: Direwolf digipeater with weather data

#8628

It's quite easy.? I do it like this, but this is NOT weather:

# compressed telemetry
PBEACON sendto=IG slot=9:59 every=30 symbol="igate" overlay=R lat=37^48.66N long=121^48.20W COMPRESS=1 commentcmd="telem-data91.pl `sudo python telem_mor_b91.py`"

?

I'm sending voltages and temperatures.

If you want to see my python code, just ask.? It's not the best, but it works including sequence number.

There is no reason to send telemetry parameters, the :PARM, :UNIT, :EQNS, and :BITS message(s), more than once a day.? I send them once a year, and it's all good.? After all, the data is for me, so I know what everything is...

?

Arnold, KQ6DI

?

Show quoted text

On 09/18/2023 12:34 AM PDT ROBERT <om.f6gdl@...> wrote:

?

?

Good morning
Sorry, but that was not at all the meaning of my question and I didn't understand anything from your answer. It's much simpler. I would like to know if we can transmit the temperature of a room from Direwolf to a Raspberry located on a relay, and how to do it...

Thanks

?

Le 18/09/2023 à 04:40, Mark Phillips a écrit?:

On the HamGate BBS project we use a "finger" command to collect a MetoGram?from a university in Norway. you might be able to fashion?this for your own purposes?
?

finger ^philadelphia@...? ? ?The city you are interested in is preceded?by the hat (shift 6) symbol.

?

Sans virus.

Re: Direwolf digipeater with weather data

#8627

Robert -
The answer is Yes - as far as I can tell.
There is a "Telemetry Toolkit" which provides means of gathering information from sensors and formatting a APRS packet message with the data.
This packet message will be sent out by Direwolf according to the configuration of the "SENDTO=" designation.
This works quite well under Linux (so on the Pi), but you need to work with other langueages: Pearl
There are examples in the APRS-Telemetry-Toolkit.pdf file included with Direwolf.

Look through the PDF, and maybe a search on this Groups.io message board for "Telemetry" or "Telemetry Toolkit".
Section 5 has specifics on using the I2C bus, including kernel support.
What area are you having issues with:
a) Reading the sensor(s) on the I2C bus?
b) Scaling the data and formatted the APRS packet?
c) Issues understanding the :PARM, :UNIT, :EQNS, and :BITS message(s)?
d) Decoding the information on the other end?

-------
Rob KB8RCO

Re: Direwolf digipeater with weather data

#8626

开云体育

Good morning
Sorry, but that was not at all the meaning of my question and I didn't understand anything from your answer. It's much simpler. I would like to know if we can transmit the temperature of a room from Direwolf to a Raspberry located on a relay, and how to do it...

Thanks

Le 18/09/2023 à 04:40, Mark Phillips a écrit?:

On the HamGate BBS project we use a "finger" command to collect a MetoGram?from a university in Norway. you might be able to fashion?this for your own purposes?

finger ^philadelphia@...? ? ?The city you are interested in is preceded?by the hat (shift 6) symbol.

Sans virus.

Re: Direwolf digipeater with weather data

#8625

On the HamGate BBS project we use a "finger" command to collect a MetoGram?from a university in Norway. you might be able to fashion?this for your own purposes?

finger ^philadelphia@...? ? ?The city you are interested in is preceded?by the hat (shift 6) symbol.

NI2O:NI2O-7 Area: g7ltt Current msg# 0.
BOFH,DX,GAMES,MUD,TIME,WX,JPL,?,A,B,C,CONV,D,E,F,H,I,IH,IP,J,K,L,M,N,NR,O,P,PI,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Z >
wx
Trying...? The escape character is: CTRL-T
*** connected to 178.255.144.27:finger
? ? ? ? ?-= Meteogram for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States =-
?'F ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Rain (in)
?74 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? =--=-----
?73 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?^^^ ? ? ? ? ---
?72
?71 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ===
?70 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ====== ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?---
?69
?68
?67 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?===
?66====== ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ===
?65 ? ? ?==|==| ?| ?| ?| ?| ?| ?|^^^ ? ? |
? ? 22 23 18/09 02 03 04 05 06_07_08_09_10_11_12_13_14_15_16_17_18_19 Hour

? ? ?S ?S ?S ?S SE ?S ?S ?S ?S ?W NW NW ?N ?N NW NW NW NW NW NW NW ?W Wind dir.
? ? ?3 ?2 ?2 ?2 ?1 ?1 ?1 ?1 ?1 ?1 ?1 ?2 ?3 ?3 ?3 ?4 ?4 ?4 ?5 ?5 ?4 ?4 Wind(mph)

Legend left axis: ? - Sunny ? ^ Scattered ? = Clouded ? =V= Thunder ? # Fog
Legend right axis: ?| Rain ? ?! Sleet ? ? ? * Snow
[Peace, love, Linux.]

*** reconnected to NI2O:NI2O-7

Show quoted text

On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 9:59?PM ROBERT <om.f6gdl@...> wrote:

Good morning,
The subject interests me too. Did you get any answers?