Re: x6100 Com ports not seen on my PCs.
I have a Lenovo X1 Micro with only USB C ports.? The only thing I've found to work (after trying Amazon's and Grok's recommendations for USBC to C data cables), is to use a good USBC to USBA cable, with a USBA to USBC adapter. This works perfectly.? Grok says something about this setup forcing the laptop port into a simpler condition that works properly as USB host mode on the laptop.
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Re: Color modified v0.29.2 x6100_gui and sdcard.img
Where are screenshots stored? Looked all over using MC (thanks!) and can't find a folder with the shots. I assume it's in usr somewhere ...
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Re: Color modified v0.29.2 x6100_gui and sdcard.img
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 01:34 AM, Georgy Dyuldin wrote:
I guess you looking for this line:
Hi Georgy. Unfortunately that is not it apparently. I had already changed that to bright red. I thought the same thing. I don't use CW so i'm not exactly sure what marker he means. If it's the marker line in the spectrum the top half of the marker just stays whatever color the spectrum is as far as i can tell. In this case that's green. Bottom half is red.
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I like your idea of being able to change colors from a few presets, however that's above my coding knowledge. Anyway, good luck with the x6200 project!
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Edit: I will gladly make a pull request for my changes if you'd like me to.
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Re: x6100 Com ports not seen on my PCs.
I saw those but it didn't help.
I even downloaded the CHA drivers but when I try to install it shows 'already installed'.
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Re: Color modified v0.29.2 x6100_gui and sdcard.img
Pulled the new build - works great - thanks again wicknix!
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Re: Color modified v0.29.2 x6100_gui and sdcard.img
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 08:32 PM, wicknix wrote:
In this version i also added Midnight Commander. This makes ssh sessions tons easier.
In the firmware for TRX Brass I enabled the console directly on /dev/fb and with the help of a USB keyboard, SSH is not needed (;
73!
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Re: New x6100 user - a few questions
X6100 uses ALC to protect output transistor from overloading/high SWR. Few times, when my antenna accidentally wasn't connected properly and I tried to transmit - I seen SWR ~ 40 on the display of my amplifier (>10 on the X6100). It was short transmission, about 1 second, but after reconnecting antenna transceiver worked fine.?
Auto tuning was designed to adjust various antenna/feeder impedance to 50 Omh. High antenna SWR is fine for tuner.
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Regarding amplifier - I'm using MicroPA 50+. It's cheaper and has less output power (-3 dBm or 0.5 step of s-meter). Also - there is not tuner built-in. Few time I fry output transistor with working on FT8, but they are relatively cheap.
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r1cbu: you can take a look here
GPS: I don't know. Seems, all available drivers already enabled in the linux kernel. I'm using U-blox7
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Georgy // R2RFE
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Re: Color modified v0.29.2 x6100_gui and sdcard.img
I guess you looking for this line:
BTW, it will be great if you would be able to create a configurable parameter for such color changes. At least - define 2-3 colors for spectrum/s-meter and add corresponding settings to settings app. Maybe you also will create pull request)
If it's not possible - I'll return to it within a month, I hope. Right now I want to finish porting this app to the X6200.
Anyway - thanks for your efforts!
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Georgy // R2RFE
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Re: tuning 2m / 70cm with R1CBU
Richard,
The hardware in the X6100 covers only HF/50MHz.
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Franco K4VZ
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tuning 2m / 70cm with R1CBU
I installed the wicknix build of R1CBU (thank you both!) and noticed that the radio will happily tune up to the 2m and 70 cm bands.? Does the radio support that internally?? I cannot hear anything there on the X6100, while at same time hearing on a regular 2m/70cm radio on same frequency.
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Related, has there been any progress on adding CTCSS support to X6100?? We have some 6m repeaters hereabouts, also.
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Thanks,
Richard KK7JAW
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Re: Color modified v0.29.2 x6100_gui and sdcard.img
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 03:25 PM, Jens/HB9JOI wrote:
Please could You make the color for the frequency-marker in CW in a very contrasting color ... ?
I can try. I'll keep poking around the source code and see if i can spot it. No promises though.
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New x6100 user - a few questions
x6100 latest Xiegu firmware installed.
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- If you have high SWR, and auto-tune - does the radio protect itself from transmitting/tuning with too much reflected power? ?How far out does the SWR need to be before there's a problem? ?I use a nanoVNA, and always get to 1.5:1 or less, but there's always the chance what the nanoVNA sees isn't what the radio sees, and would like to make sure I don't fry the transmit side of things.
- While the XPA125B amp seems nice and takes care of several things - just curious if anyone has used some other amp - and what results you've had? ?
r1cbu firmware questions - version x6100_gui-0.29.2:
- I haven't done anything yet - I'll wait for a while before attempting to do anything - is there a "complete" manual somewhere other than the wiki? ?I understand some of the buttons now have new features - is there a "cheat sheet" of what the buttons do when the r1cbu firmware is operating?
- I see there's an option for a GPS - but no mention of which GPS dongles are compatible. ?I've got one from a few years back that had some issues connecting - and it seems others have had issues - so which dongles work? ?I'm asking, as the ones that work with this setup (correct drivers within the OS image) may be more difficult to find in the future - might as well get one now and have on hand.
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Re: Color modified v0.29.2 x6100_gui and sdcard.img
...looks nice so far !
Please could You make the color for the frequency-marker in CW in a very
contrasting color ... ?
Thanks / 73 , Jens
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From: wicknix via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2025 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [xiegu-x6100] Color modified v0.29.2 x6100_gui and
sdcard.img
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I think it might come down to SD card brands? I find my sandisk branded
cards at times need to be written to twice to actually work. Random other misc
brand cards work the first time. Anyway, thanks, and hope you enjoy the changes.
:)
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Re: Color modified v0.29.2 x6100_gui and sdcard.img
I think it might come down to SD card brands? I find my sandisk branded cards at times need to be written to twice to actually work. Random other misc brand cards work the first time. Anyway, thanks, and hope you enjoy the changes. :)
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Re: x6100 Com ports not seen on my PCs.
If you have the chance to try it with Linux (or know a friend who runs Linux and try to connect to the dev port), we can try to rule out Windows vs the hardware (USB cables, X6100 USB connector, etc).
In Linux the moment you connect that USB cable to your PC you should see several new messages (use 'sudo dmesg -T' to see them) similar to these:
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[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4: new high-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0608, bcdDevice=85.38
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4: Product: USB2.0 Hub
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] hub 3-4:1.0: USB hub found
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] hub 3-4:1.0: 4 ports detected
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4.2: new full-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0d8c, idProduct=0012, bcdDevice= 1.00
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4.2: Product: USB Audio Device
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4.2: Manufacturer: C-Media Electronics Inc.
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] input: C-Media Electronics Inc. USB Audio Device as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-4/3-4.2/3-4.2:1.3/0003:0D8C:0012.000A/input/input42
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] hid-generic 0003:0D8C:0012.000A: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [C-Media Electronics Inc. USB Audio Device] on usb-0000:00:14.0-4.2/input3
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4.4: new full-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4.4: New USB device found, idVendor=1a86, idProduct=55d2, bcdDevice= 4.44
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4.4: Product: USB Dual_Serial
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] usb 3-4.4: SerialNumber:
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] cdc_acm 3-4.4:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[Sun Mar 23 15:20:57 2025] cdc_acm 3-4.4:1.2: ttyACM1: USB ACM device
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Once it is connected, you can also run the command 'lsusb', and in the output you should see a couple of lines like these:
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Bus 003 Device 013: ID 0d8c:0012 C-Media Electronics, Inc. USB Audio Device
Bus 003 Device 014: ID 1a86:55d2 QinHeng Electronics USB Dual_Serial
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Hope this helps,
Franco
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Re: Color modified v0.29.2 x6100_gui and sdcard.img
Wouldn't load at first. Downloaded latest Balena and imaged with no problem. ( Outdated Balena)? Anyway, can't wait for the bands to get better to really try it out. From what I see on the waterfall, it'll really look nice. Thanks for your work on updating the colors. 73!
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Re: x6100 Com ports not seen on my PCs.
As mentioned, you need to use the cable that came with the radio connected to the DEV port. Also in my experience win10/11 are problematic as they seem to keep silently replacing the installed driver with a Microsoft supplied driver. Once i grabbed an old laptop and installed win7 on it i was able to connect just fine. It could have been that i was running win10/11 in a virtual machine on Linux, or it was just win10/11 being dumb. Either way i couldn't get win10/11 to work. Win7 connected to omnirig + HDSDR without issue.
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Re: Buildroot 2025.02 for R1CBU/R2RFE firmware
No issues. Rebuilt my color mod sdcard.img with it. Thanks!
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Re: Color modified v0.29.2 x6100_gui and sdcard.img
Ok, since buildroot 2025.02 is now available (thanks Franco!), i rebuilt my sdcard.img again using that. In this version i also added Midnight Commander. This makes ssh sessions tons easier. If you aren't familiar with it, it's a text mode dual pane file manager and editor. Once you ssh in to your x6100 just type mc to launch it. More info and documentation on it is found . Download updated sdcard.img .
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Re: x6100 Com ports not seen on my PCs.
Latest news.
Not having any success with cables or software drivers my hope went to a bad solder joint on the USB connector.
Wouldn't be the first time.
I did open the radio and found no problem with the soldering.
I am at loss. Aside from the "DEV" connection everything else works great and I still love the radio.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help.
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73, Yvon
AE7YD
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wicknix
Jens/HB9JOI