Re: Quisk Version 4.1.50 November 2019
Same issue with 4.1.50 ...I have lost quisk and cannot recover it...
pascal@hp-260-g2-pv:~$ quisk
Traceback (most recent call last):
? File "/usr/local/bin/quisk", line 7, in <module>
??? from quisk.quisk import main
? File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/quisk/quisk.py", line 33, in <module>
??? import _quisk as QS
ImportError: No module named _quisk
pascal@hp-260-g2-pv:~$ sudo python2 -m pip install --upgrade quisk
The directory '/home/pascal/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
,,,The directory '/home/pascal/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
Requirement already up-to-date: quisk in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
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Pascal
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.50 November 2019
Some problems here on Ubuntu 18.04/64 bit and python 2.7 (but also python3).
After make; make soapy; python setup.py build and sudo python setup.py install commands I get in /usr/local/bin a file called quisk for quisk execution.
Starting this command I get an exception:
? File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 480, in load_entry_point
??? return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
? File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2693, in load_entry_point
??? return ep.load()
? File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2324, in load
??? return self.resolve()
? File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2330, in resolve
??? module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
ImportError: No module named quisk
Running python quisk.py from source directory work correctly
Version 4.1.48, which use same startup program, work correctly
Same error running code in interactive python session.
Regards
Franco Spinelli
IW2DHW
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Re: Requesy to add connect/disconnect or start/stop button to UI
Hello Jim,
Thanks for the input. The easiest solution is obviously for me to delete those fields of the UI.
My understanding is that the RP implements the so called "Metis Protocol" . The difference between "Metis"/"Hermes" is a? bit of Chinese to me to be frank (no offense for our Chinese friends), but I know it is a real one as I have been confronted to it at least once (and if you remember, this is how you kindly implemented the ALEX filter functionality in QUISK).
?I will open a ticket on GitHub to find out if the "SDR transceiver compatible with HPSDR" supports those "Hermes" commands/Interface" with the current "Metis" implementation. If it does it would be a good news because the redpitaya hardware offers a number of GPIO pins an I2C bus interface "a la rawbery PI" and "a la Arduino" so by very nature of? this device, external temp/current/swr sensors monitoring the external PA and/or LNA could be potentially connected to the RP and then the info chaneled through the hermes/metis? protocol to QUISK (at least on paper)
Regards Peter
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 2:00 PM jimahlstrom < jahlstr@...> wrote: Hello Peter,
These fields are present because they are part of the Hermes protocol, and Red Pitaya implements the Hermes protocol. But that doesn't mean that the features exist in the hardware. If you want to pursue this, the first thing to do is ask on the Red Pitaya group if there is a temperature sensor in the hardware. If there is not, then nothing you do in software will add one. The same for AGC, RF Gain and current. There won't be a power output or SWR because Red Pitaya lacks a power amp.
You can control which fields are shown on the last line of the screen by changing the widget file shown on the Config radio Hardware screen.?
Jim
N2ADR
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.50 November 2019
I updated the Linux installation instructions to cover Python2 and Python3. It is simplest if you use only one Python (2 or 3) and not both. Using both is possible, but will require some understanding.
Jim
N2ADR
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Re: Requesy to add connect/disconnect or start/stop button to UI
Hello Peter,
These fields are present because they are part of the Hermes protocol, and Red Pitaya implements the Hermes protocol. But that doesn't mean that the features exist in the hardware. If you want to pursue this, the first thing to do is ask on the Red Pitaya group if there is a temperature sensor in the hardware. If there is not, then nothing you do in software will add one. The same for AGC, RF Gain and current. There won't be a power output or SWR because Red Pitaya lacks a power amp.
You can control which fields are shown on the last line of the screen by changing the widget file shown on the Config radio Hardware screen.?
Jim
N2ADR
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Re: Requesy to add connect/disconnect or start/stop button to UI
Thank you Jim, it is going to be really useful.
Something totally different now ; I would like to have the possibility to use the fields below in my redpitaya environment
As you know these fields only work with some specific hardware and unfortunately not with the redpitaya that I use. Unless I am mistaken there is currently no possibility to connect to the redpitaya some temperature and current sensors, the output of an swr bridge? or an external atenuator controlled by this RfLna slider .
Why the RfAGC doesn't work with my redpitaya today remains a mystery for me though, it should logically work because no sensors are needed for an RfAGC to work, right ?? .
Anyway, I am not too sure what is the best way of moving forward; to open a ticket on github to request to Pa add these functionalities to the redpitaya "sdr-transceiver compatible with HPSDR" or instead connect those sensors/rf bridge output/rf attenuator commands to an Arduino (for instance) instead of the redpitaya and then,? find a way of getting all the sensor information transferred from the arduino to quisk so it is displayed in the fields above. (but is this possible ?)
I would welcome your advise on this Regards Peter?
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:47 PM Peter Ide-Kostic via Groups.Io <on7yi.pik973= [email protected]> wrote: Hello Jim,
I am using QUISK with the redpitaya as an SDR transceiver but also my rf- lab to generate test signals and/or make rf measurements in reception mode. As any test environment/set-up it changes often depending on what I want to measure and for this reason it is not unusual that QUISK " temporarily loses" the connection to the red-pitaya (for instance if I reboot the redpitaya or if I temporarily disconnect the Ethernet cable).? At the moment when this happens, I have to quit QUISK and restart it (I launch QUISK from the terminal) then re-select? the right radio ( I have 3 redpitaya). It would be faster and more convenient for me? if we could have a simple CONNECT / DISCONNECT button in the UI (or START/STOP but the idea is the same) so I can click on that button to reconnect QUISK to the RP after it has lost connection instead of having to re-start QUISK). Please note LinHPSDR,? PowerSDR , SparkSDR and SDRAngel all have this facility and it would be nice to have it for QUISK too ( if? is feasible to implement it with the QUISK concept/architecture).
Many Thanks Regards Peter
PS: any news on the support of SoapySDR in TX mode ? ? ??
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Re: Requesy to add connect/disconnect or start/stop button to UI
Hello Peter,
I agree it would be good to have a start/stop button. I will work on this. I can't seem to get the Soapy Tx to work. I was hoping someone would figure out how to do it. I find Soapy very frustrating.
Jim
N2ADR
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.50 November 2019
Thanks Graeme! I was trying to adjust the Linux Initial Installation instructions at??for Python 3, so there was no "make" step involved. Perhaps it's too soon to expect that method to work?
Jim
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:30 PM Graeme Jury < gvjury@...> wrote: Hello Jim,
When you compile use "make quisk3" for the compile command. If you wish to compile the soapy module, the end of the quisk compile gives you a message with the command.
I downloaded the .tar.gz, extracted it into my \opt directory which I have made myself the owner of and set it up from there.
73, Graeme zl2apv
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Requesy to add connect/disconnect or start/stop button to UI
Hello Jim,
I am using QUISK with the redpitaya as an SDR transceiver but also my rf- lab to generate test signals and/or make rf measurements in reception mode. As any test environment/set-up it changes often depending on what I want to measure and for this reason it is not unusual that QUISK " temporarily loses" the connection to the red-pitaya (for instance if I reboot the redpitaya or if I temporarily disconnect the Ethernet cable).? At the moment when this happens, I have to quit QUISK and restart it (I launch QUISK from the terminal) then re-select? the right radio ( I have 3 redpitaya). It would be faster and more convenient for me? if we could have a simple CONNECT / DISCONNECT button in the UI (or START/STOP but the idea is the same) so I can click on that button to reconnect QUISK to the RP after it has lost connection instead of having to re-start QUISK). Please note LinHPSDR,? PowerSDR , SparkSDR and SDRAngel all have this facility and it would be nice to have it for QUISK too ( if? is feasible to implement it with the QUISK concept/architecture).
Many Thanks Regards Peter
PS: any news on the support of SoapySDR in TX mode ? ? ??
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.50 November 2019
Hello Jim,
When you compile use "make quisk3" for the compile command. If you wish to compile the soapy module, the end of the quisk compile gives you a message with the command.
I downloaded the .tar.gz, extracted it into my \opt directory which I have made myself the owner of and set it up from there.
73, Graeme zl2apv
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.50 November 2019
Are there instructions for installing on Python 3 on Ubuntu? I tried adapting the existing instructions and eventually ended up with "sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade quisk" completing successfully, but when I try to run I get:
$ quisk Traceback (most recent call last):
? File "/usr/local/bin/quisk", line 7, in <module>
? ? from quisk.quisk import main
? File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/quisk/quisk.py", line 33, in <module>
? ? import _quisk as QS
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_quisk'
Also, I needed to run "sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade wheel" to get a clean installation. Should that be part of the dependencies?
Thanks,
Jim
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 4:05 PM Graeme Jury < gvjury@...> wrote: Hello Jim,
Running well on Linux Mint 19.2 using Python 3.6 again thanks for the continued development.
73 de Graeme ZL2APV
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.50 November 2019
Hello Jim,
Running well on Linux Mint 19.2 using Python 3.6 again thanks for the continued development.
73 de Graeme ZL2APV
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Quisk Version 4.1.50 November 2019
Thanks to Martin Schaller for fixing a bug in the SoftRock Tx sound level. I fixed a bug in the HermesLite gateware program button traceback.
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This Quisk provides pre-built binaries for the Windows Python3 versions. There are now four Windows versions: Python2 and Python3, each for either 32 or 64-bit Python. If you have a recent Python3, just run your Python3 and use pip to install Quisk. Pip will detect the version of Python you are using, and will install the correct version of Quisk. If you want to try Python3, install the latest 64-bit version. The installation instructions are here:
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If you are running Windows you can just do a regular Quisk upgrade and everything should just work. If you want to switch to Python3, first decide if you want to have both Python2 and Python3 on your machine. If so, you need to install Quisk on both. And read the Python documentation for the Python Launcher "py". Your Python versions are available as py -2 and py -3.
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The Python3 versions are new and I would appreciate it if you could test them.
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Jim
N2ADR
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.49 November 2019
Hi Graeme,
I found Jim by googling "Linux SDR Software". Looking at his code I thought it would not be too difficult to get Softrock supported.
Helmut and his group moved on to developing the R2T2 SDR transciever using QtRadio but the HiQSDR stuff is still up for sale on technologie2000.de
The file is gpio.tgz. The code builds gpio_V0_1.hex for ATmega32 and is interfaced to the HiQSDR Aux IO port, needs +3.3V signals from the ATmega32.
I originally used his RASDR software which had to be modified for different timezones and a few terms from German into English but eventually settled for quisk with Raspberry Pi 2 --> Pi3 -> the more powerful ODROID-C2 960K samplerate.
No great hurry, when you are settled and have the time.
73 ... Sid.
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On 16/11/2019 20:39, Graeme Jury wrote: Hi Sid,
In the early days pre softrock I had a sound card sdr made from CD4066's in parallel and an AD9850 vfo controlled with a PIC. I corresponded with Jim and he helped me to get it going with Quisk and although I tried all the other consoless I stayed with Quisk and it is still my primary radio except for wspr where I use the fabulous SparkSDR. I reckon that about the time Jim was getting USB going you must have been working in parallel and he was being hounded by us both :-) I will be forever grateful for what he did for us as it was outside of what he needed for his personal station.
I think that Helmut may have lost interest in the early development of HiQSDR and it seems to have gone off in another direction with different PC console from Quisk so I don't expect that you will get the IO extensions that you are looking for. It might be possible to implement this ourselves in conjunction with Quisk and do it sort of backwards but I have no chance in the near future of looking at it as having recently moved house I am still trying to unpack enough boxes and make cupboards and benches so I can get the car in the garage. However a stand alone radio with HiQSDR is on my horizon and I want to use HL2 as a box that I connect all kinds of experimental accessories to and it will sit on my lan.
I do hope that you get a response.
73, Graeme ZL2APV
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Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support
Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.49 November 2019
Hi Sid,
In the early days pre softrock I had a sound card sdr made from CD4066's in parallel and an AD9850 vfo controlled with a PIC. I corresponded with Jim and he helped me to get it going with Quisk and although I tried all the other consoless I stayed with Quisk and it is still my primary radio except for wspr where I use the fabulous SparkSDR. I reckon that about the time Jim was getting USB going you must have been working in parallel and he was being hounded by us both :-) I will be forever grateful for what he did for us as it was outside of what he needed for his personal station.
I think that Helmut may have lost interest in the early development of HiQSDR and it seems to have gone off in another direction with different PC console from Quisk so I don't expect that you will get the IO extensions that you are looking for. It might be possible to implement this ourselves in conjunction with Quisk and do it sort of backwards but I have no chance in the near future of looking at it as having recently moved house I am still trying to unpack enough boxes and make cupboards and benches so I can get the car in the garage. However a stand alone radio with HiQSDR is on my horizon and I want to use HL2 as a box that I connect all kinds of experimental accessories to and it will sit on my lan.
I do hope that you get a response.
73, Graeme ZL2APV
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.49 November 2019
My sentiments also.
Thanks to Jim, when I was looking for a Linux program for Softrock, quisk looked a prime candidate and Jim responded.
When DB1CC and others decided to develop HiQSDR based on Jim's N2ADR SDR transceiver published in QEX, that was the obvious choice with quisk again figuring in the decision to get HiQSDR.
I was again delighted to see Jim's involvement and support for HL2 as I was on the brink of asking him.
Amazing stuff.
Graeme -- a few weeks ago I emailed Helmut (DB1CC) asking if the extensions to the standalone HiQSDR were ever pursued but I have not received a reply.
I wanted to know if the promised implementation of? the HiQGPIO functions using rotary encoders for tuning and other controls were done. Some years back he sent me the gpio library for Arduino but not the circuit he promised or the proposed use of a different microcontroller.
73 ... Sid.
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On 14/11/2019 20:43, Graeme Jury wrote: Hello Jim,
It works? a treat!!! I was really impressed at how the gateware can be loaded and the radio runs as soon as it is finished without a manual restart. Quisk is really a one stop shop for HL2 and HiQSDR. Thanks a million.
73 Graeme ZL2APV
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Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support
Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.49 November 2019
Hi Mike,
My HL2's are on the LAN getting IP addresses via dhcp.
However, I have my standalone HiQSDR 192.168.2.196 with ODROID-C2 connected? -- Ethernet (192.168.2.198 --> 192.168.2.196) and another Ethernet? connected to my LAN (192.168.10.x via dhcp).
That's the way it has always been.
As it's completely separate and a fixed IP address, it's doubtful.
When it's disconnected can you ping it.
Also check with "dmesg -T" to see if there are any clues given.
73 ... Sid.
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On 14/11/2019 21:28, Michael Durkin wrote: I do not connect to HL2b9 after gateware loading ... i have not had a successful connect to Hermes light2 on any restart of quisk ... if i close quisk and start it will connect ... and i think that its because i have 2 networks running... DHCP for internet wifi and the fixed ip on a lan to the HL2b9 ...
So if anyone else is having that issue ... i dont think it has anything to do with Quisk
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:43 PM Graeme Jury <gvjury@... <mailto:gvjury@...>> wrote:
Hello Jim,
It works?? a treat!!! I was really impressed at how the gateware
can be loaded and the radio runs as soon as it is finished without
a manual restart. Quisk is really a one stop shop for HL2 and
HiQSDR. Thanks a million.
73 Graeme ZL2APV
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Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support
Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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Gateware 20191028 Released
yes i did ... forwarded to group now ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Durkin <kc7noa@...>Date: Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:52 PM Subject: Re: Gateware 20191028 Released To: Nigel Head < devonian21@...> ok, so i did find the most recent testing ....
I thought i seen that the current testing gate was going to be pushed to stable ...
If that was correct, what version was going to be pushed .. or is that just a bit too soon ....
Hello Michael,
Here -->??
Stable (latest) -->??
Testing (latest) -->??
Nigel
On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 21:14, Michael Durkin < kc7noa@...> wrote: silly me ..where is the recent hl2b9 gateware?
On 11/14/19, Nigel Head <devonian21@...> wrote:
> Hello Jim,
>
> I'm trying to do a clean install on a laptop running Lubuntu and when
> trying to add a new radio of the type 'Hermes' I get the following error
> (and can't create a new radio for HL2).
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>? ?File "./quisk_widgets.py", line 544, in OnButton
>? ? ?self.command(event)
>? ?File "./configure.py", line 1231, in OnBtnAdd
>? ? ?if local_conf.AddRadio(name, typ):
>? ?File "./configure.py", line 340, in AddRadio
>? ? ?page = RadioNotebook(self.notebk, radio_name)
>? ?File "./configure.py", line 678, in __init__
>? ? ?page = RadioHardware(self, radio_name)
>? ?File "./configure.py", line 1443, in __init__
>? ? ?self.AddTextButtonHelp(1, "Gateware Update", "Program from RBF file..",
>
> application.Hardware.ProgramGateware, help_text)
> AttributeError: Hardware instance has no attribute 'ProgramGateware'
>
>
> Nigel - G4ZAL
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.49 November 2019
Hi,
Installed Quisk 4.1.49 and tried to upload latest stable gateware for HL2 but the process failed when trying to erase the existing code in the EEPROM. Did not work with latest Spark either ... USB blaster did to job. My HL2 is build 5.
73 de Heikki (OH2LZI)
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Re: Quisk Version 4.1.49 November 2019
I do not connect to HL2b9 after gateware loading ... i have not had a successful connect to Hermes light2 on any restart of quisk ... if i close quisk and start it will connect ... and i think that its because i have 2 networks running... DHCP for internet wifi and the fixed ip on a lan to the HL2b9 ...
So if anyone else is having that issue ... i dont think it has anything to do with Quisk
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:43 PM Graeme Jury < gvjury@...> wrote: Hello Jim,
It works? a treat!!! I was really impressed at how the gateware can be loaded and the radio runs as soon as it is finished without a manual restart. Quisk is really a one stop shop for HL2 and HiQSDR. Thanks a million.
73 Graeme ZL2APV
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Sid Boyce