Re: Quisk Version 4.1.52 December 2019
Hi Bruce,?
I am running Quisk via python 3 on mint 19.2 and recently upgraded to 19.3 and it has worked perfectly for me with both versions. I suspect that it is something in your setup rather than a bug in Quisk and hopefully others can add to the user experience.
73, Graeme zl2apv?
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 11:23 am < ag5gt@...> wrote: Hi Jim,
That "ON" button behaves strangely in Linux Mint 19.2. When Quisk starts initially, it's green and Quisk runs. Clicking on that, Quisk freezes and the button turns to the white-on-grey default color scheme. Clicking on it again causes the button to very briefly go green, but then Quisk disappears. I assume it crashed. If restarted immediately, the quisk window comes up, but may not have sound or any live data display. After closing that with "X" and waiting a minute, it will start up running again.
Bruce, ag5gt
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.52 December 2019
Hi Jim,
That "ON" button behaves strangely in Linux Mint 19.2. When Quisk starts initially, it's green and Quisk runs. Clicking on that, Quisk freezes and the button turns to the white-on-grey default color scheme. Clicking on it again causes the button to very briefly go green, but then Quisk disappears. I assume it crashed. If restarted immediately, the quisk window comes up, but may not have sound or any live data display. After closing that with "X" and waiting a minute, it will start up running again.
Bruce, ag5gt
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Re: Quisk with Rasbian (Buster)
I haven't got the nanoPi Fire3 running currently but it certainly was very fast though only with one USB port (USB 3.0).
With 4GB the Pi4 should be a better performer, I'll give it a miss as I have the nanoPi Fire3, nanoPi M4v2, Atomic Pi, ODROID-C2's and ODROID-N2.
Beats me why they didn't go for a hexa-core CPU for the Pi 4.
All my cards are very capable but I am soon to build quisk on the Pi3B with openSUSE installed.
73 ... Sid.
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On 01/01/2020 13:28, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: My experience with the RPi3+ is that you can run both Quisk and WSJTX at the same time without audio problems, but that was with the Jessie. I think Buster made things a lot slower. I was however not able to get Quisk and Fldigi to work without problems. And yes, I am getting the under voltage warnings as well. That is why I switched to the nanoPi with eight cores.
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Re: Quisk with Rasbian (Buster)
My experience with the RPi3+ is that you can run both Quisk and WSJTX at the same time without audio problems, but that was with the Jessie. I think Buster made things a lot slower. I was however not able to get Quisk and Fldigi to work without problems. And yes, I am getting the under voltage warnings as well. That is why I switched to the nanoPi with eight cores.?
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Re: Quisk with Rasbian (Buster)
Hi all,
My findings when getting more familiar with Rpi 3B+:
1) Quisk Digital Input and Output became available when WSJT-X was running together with QUISK
2) Choppy output from QUISK when Digital USB was used, phone USB/LSB gave good output. This was partly fixed by changing the sampling frequency of PulseAudio 44100 => 48000 as Steve suggested in the HL group. In my case choppy output persisted until I reduced the BW 3200 => 2000 Hz.
3) Running QUISK and WSJT-X simultaneously seems to put quite a heavy load on RPi, I wonder if we are reaching the limits of this device. RPi 4 may behave differently ...
4) I have undervoltage warning on most of the time in spite of using a 5V/5A linear power supply. The warning turns on when voltage drops under 5.00 V. All smaller phone chargers I tried could not provide enough voltage although specified for max 2A. The device kept rebooting until I changed the power supply. In my opinion it is the load peaks that bring the instantaneous voltage down to, say 4 V, which is not sufficient,
To summarize, I am not quite convinced if RPi 3B+ is powerful enough to run all the software required in digital modes. Still, a lot of progress has taken place in a few days.
As fireworks have started to make noise here in OH country, I wish everyone HNY 2020 !
73 de Heikki (OH2LZI)?
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Re: I/Q Phase and Amplitude Calibration for Tayloe-style SDRs
Hello Bruce,
Thank you for the excellent description of how to set up SoftRock-type radios. It is exemplary that you will take the trouble to make other's setup easier.
Jim
N2ADR
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Re: I/Q Phase and Amplitude Calibration for Tayloe-style SDRs
Jim's the real deal here as far as supporting new radios.
I only use Hermes-Lite2's and a HiQSDR standalone using an ODROID-C2 and a 7 inch LCD at the moment.
The HL2's are on the LAN and quisk controls them from openSUSE/Fedora/Ubuntu x86_64 boxes, ODROID-C2, ODROID-N2, Atomic Pi, NnanoPi-M4v2 and I am getting the prereqs installed to run quisk on a Pi3B runing openSUSE aarch64.
73 ... Sid.
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On 30/12/2019 04:07, Michael Durkin wrote: Thankyou for your efforts ...
Sid and I bvb would send each other install hints and scripts ....
Bty ... openSUSE has been the most easy to get quisk working on .... even if the python scripts for install (Jim's?) dont work for me
On Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 6:29 PM <ag5gt@... <mailto:ag5gt@...>> wrote:
Maybe this is a good place to document the end result of my recent
effort to move from a Windows based system to Quisk in Linux Mint
19.2. With a lot of help from Jim, my Multus-SDR Proficio is now
operating with Quisk's "softrock" hardware files, including the
above described file that locks the iq-audio offset to vfo
frequency plus 10khz. Quisk plays nicely with WSJT-X, JS8Call and
Fldigi. For whatever it's worth, attached is a summary of the
essentials of the configuration, with screen captures. It works,
but I am certainly open to better or alternate ways to do it.
Bruce, ag5gt
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Re: I/Q Phase and Amplitude Calibration for Tayloe-style SDRs
Thankyou for your efforts ...
Sid and I bvb would send each other install hints and scripts ....
Bty ... openSUSE has been the most easy to get quisk working on .... even if the python scripts for install (Jim's?) dont work for me
On Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 6:29 PM < ag5gt@...> wrote: Maybe this is a good place to document the end result of my recent effort to move from a Windows based system to Quisk in Linux Mint 19.2. With a lot of help from Jim, my Multus-SDR Proficio is now operating with Quisk's "softrock" hardware files, including the above described file that locks the iq-audio offset to vfo frequency plus 10khz. Quisk plays nicely with WSJT-X, JS8Call and Fldigi. For whatever it's worth, attached is a summary of the essentials of the configuration, with screen captures. It works, but I am certainly open to better or alternate ways to do it.
Bruce, ag5gt
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Re: I/Q Phase and Amplitude Calibration for Tayloe-style SDRs
Maybe this is a good place to document the end result of my recent effort to move from a Windows based system to Quisk in Linux Mint 19.2. With a lot of help from Jim, my Multus-SDR Proficio is now operating with Quisk's "softrock" hardware files, including the above described file that locks the iq-audio offset to vfo frequency plus 10khz. Quisk plays nicely with WSJT-X, JS8Call and Fldigi. For whatever it's worth, attached is a summary of the essentials of the configuration, with screen captures. It works, but I am certainly open to better or alternate ways to do it.
Bruce, ag5gt
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Re: USB versus DGT-U mode
Thanks for the prompt to look again at the doc's. I did and realized I had been interpreting the information according to presumptions picked up from other sdr applications. With a little more tinkering, this time without that prejudice, I ended up with a configuration that works nicely in all modes of immediate interest; voice(ssb), wsjt-x, js8call and fldigi. Guessing others may be interested in this and other aspects of configuring with a softrock/peaberry/multus-sdr type of radio, I prepared a summary, with pictures. Actually, I'll probably need it myself when I'm re-building after the next hard-drive crash ;-)
I will post the config doc under a new thread since it is relevant to more than just the DGT-U question here.
bruce, ag6gt
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Re: Quisk with Rasbian (Buster)
Hi all,
As I am out-of-office (qth) right now, I will let You know as? i will be back (tomorrow ???). From my experience in the past, I am confident that problems like this will be solved in a way or another ...
73 de Heikki (OH2LZI)?
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Re: Quisk with Rasbian (Buster)
Yes, the two quisk digital devices are created when quisk starts. In first start, they won't show in the available devices.
Let me know how performance is... I'm using a pi3b+ with my softrock but have intermittent audio stutters, even without a network sound device. I am remoting in and piping x to my laptop, so it still could be a network hiccup and x frame buffer issue.?
Eric ww4et
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 3:08 PM David Turner via Groups.Io <g0vvf= [email protected]> wrote:
If you have pavucontrol installed, click on recording and you should
have the settings as screenshot below. With DGT-U button pressed, make
sure the filters aren't set to narrow. (Using pi4.)
Dave. g0vvf.
On Saturday, 28 December 2019, 16:58:34 GMT, Heikki Ahola < heikki.ahola@...> wrote:
Hi,?
This is quite new to me, have to try it ASAP.? Tks ! Actually, there was a problem this time when installing WSJT-X and I have not been able to run those simultaneously. With my other installations in various WIN- and Linux OS's this problem has not occured ...? ?
73 de Heikki (OH2LZI)
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Re: Quisk with Rasbian (Buster)
If you have pavucontrol installed, click on recording and you should
have the settings as screenshot below. With DGT-U button pressed, make
sure the filters aren't set to narrow. (Using pi4.)
Dave. g0vvf.
On Saturday, 28 December 2019, 16:58:34 GMT, Heikki Ahola <heikki.ahola@...> wrote:
Hi,?
This is quite new to me, have to try it ASAP.? Tks ! Actually, there was a problem this time when installing WSJT-X and I have not been able to run those simultaneously. With my other installations in various WIN- and Linux OS's this problem has not occured ...? ?
73 de Heikki (OH2LZI)
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Re: Quisk with Rasbian (Buster)
Hi,?
This is quite new to me, have to try it ASAP.? Tks ! Actually, there was a problem this time when installing WSJT-X and I have not been able to run those simultaneously. With my other installations in various WIN- and Linux OS's this problem has not occured ...? ?
73 de Heikki (OH2LZI)
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Re: Quisk with Rasbian (Buster)
In my experience, the QuiskDigitalOutput Input shows up in Quisk after you have run WSJT-X the first time.
Not sure why.
Arlen (WA6AUF)
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Re: Quisk with Rasbian (Buster)
OK, Karl-Heinz K., looks like it works for some, hihi. I need to study my Pi system in more detail and maybe re-start from scratch as the other Karl-Heinz anticipated ...? I was considering Pi 4 also? but finally selected 3B+ as it has connectors more applicable for me (less miniaturized!).?
73 de Heikki (OH2LZI)
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Re: Quisk with Rasbian (Buster)
It works for me. There was a thread a couple of weeks ago with some information about my setup. I¡¯ve never had a problem with the digital input/output not showing up.?
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Quisk with Rasbian (Buster)
Hello group,
Just received Raspberry Pi 3B+ (from Santa Claus) and installed the latest version of Rasbian. I installed QUISK as I have done with my other Linux computers (Linux Mint 19) but cannot find any pulse:QuiskDigitalOutput/Digital Input for WSJT-X or FLDigi. I wonder if these are available at all ? Otherwise QUISK seems to work as expected ...
73 de Heikki (OH2LZI)
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Re: USB versus DGT-U mode
Hello Bruce,
To connect the digital devices, please push the Help button and select "Documentation" and then "Digital Modes". The digital modes use special devices.
Jim
N2ADR
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In linux mint 19.2, setting up fldigi, wsjtx and js8, I began with the assumption that DGT-U mode was the proper selection on the panel. Quisk's "Radio Sound Output" is set to "pulse:QuiskDigitalOutput" and the "Microphone Input" is set to "pulse:QuiskDigitalInput". My assumption was DGT-U bypasses audio-conditioning such as the TX pre-emphasis that operates when in USB mode.
The DGT-U option does seem to work for Rx. However, for Tx, there is zero output from quisk to the sdr hardware. Only by selecting USB mode is there any Tx output. A look at the PAVU control confirms the digital app's are sending audio to quisk's microphone input regardless of whether USB or DGT-U is selected. Behavior is the same irrespective of which digital app is running.
One thing I notice on the Tx Audio tab is a difference in the behavior of the slider for "Clip". With USB mode selected, the slider is active and it is pushed all the way to the right, showing "Clip 20". When DGT-U is selected, the slider is inactive (greyed out) and all the way to the left, showing "Clip 0".
I'm missing something, somewhere. Suggestions?
bruce, ag5gt
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