Is there a release scheduled for the new RPi-4B??
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Please disregard, issue is resolved.
Thu, 2019-10-17 20:57
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RPi-4 Release
my wish is this also!
Me also.
This is my first Pi and I am very much looking forward to getting CQRLOG up and running.
Oh, nice!!!! May we get a install pkg for raspi 4
Now I can't remember at the moment how I installed CQRlog on the PI4 but I'm running Raspian buster and CQRlog, the PI uses a remote database that's on another PC in another part of the house but that shouldn't be any real difference. Below as you can see is a cat of my current sources.list followed by a apt search for cqr. Note the apt database was updated before running these commands using sudo apt-get update
please note, I do not remember why the CQRlog ppa is commented out. could be that it didn't play nice.
raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list && apt-cache search cqr
deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ buster main contrib non-free rpi
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
deb-src http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ buster main contrib non-free rpi
#deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ok2cqr/ppa/raspbian buster main
#deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ok2cqr/ppa/rasbian buster main
cqrlog - Advanced logging program for hamradio operators
libcqrlib-dev - Library and headers for quaternion arithmetic and rotation math
libcqrlib2 - Library for quaternion arithmetic and rotation math
Thanks for the list of install packages, that's a great start.
Have you (or anyone else) documented this step-by-step?
And can the RPI4 have a local DB copy, so that it resides on the PI for portable use?
Thanks ,Tyler
Hi Tyler!
Either make copy of ham shack PC's ~/.config/cqrlog when leaving. Copy it to RPI for portable, and then copy it back to ham shack PC when return (easiest way)
Or make replicating databases. See this chain: https://www.cqrlog.com/node/2496
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Saku
OH1KH
you say to disregard, this has been resolved. But where is the Raspberry pi release?
Kirk Crawford
KK6KC
Lomita, CA, USA
KK6KC,
I didn't say disregard, I said I have it working. If need be I can load up another SD card and go through the process and document it. Sadly I do not remember what steps I took, if it was as simple as an apt-get or if I had to use the ppa in some way (I see the ppa in my sourcelist but it's commented out) As you can see in my comment above I can find it indexed with an apt-cache search.
I am running raspian buster on a PI4
I just got the pi 4 and want to add cqrlog. If you can document the method I would appreciate it.
Kirk Crawford
KK6KC
Lomita, CA, USA
sure in the next few days I'll try and locate another SD card and document my procedure from scratch.
I am slowly looking into this as well.....
Problem i run into with my normal desktop system is that USB to RS232 is unstable as feck to say the least....
I loose connection as soon as i transmit on several bands.
As a sollution i bought a 4 port RS232 card on ebay or AliExpres and that works like a charm.
How do you guys solve that if you experience that as well?
Other part is that i want to run it on the 8GB version , but rapberry pi os is not official released as a 64bit os.... so 4GB max
I will wait till they release that, and probably will create an installer script then.
cheers
Alex
PA1SBM
HI!
Have you HamLib 4.0?
I have read from somewhere (I think it was on Hamlib developer mailing list) that 4.0 , at least the latest from source, can use gpio.
I'm not sure was question of PTT or serial connection. I think serial port (ttyAMAx) should work "out of box" with Hamlib anyway.
Then you need just opto isolators between PI and rig. Just remember that AMA is TTL level and has inverse levels 1 and 0 compared to RS232 output.
Trying with USB you need good quality USB wire. Properly double shielded.
Seems that you have RF around your shack. How are the groundings made?
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Saku
OH1KH
No , i run HAMlib 3.3 on all my machines.
I have not seen a official stable release of 4.0 yet. Is there ? if so please supply me with a link :)
"Seems that you have RF around your shack. How are the groundings made?"
well i have RF in my shack cause i am really close to my antennas outside.
I tried several cheaper and more expensive USB to RS232, but especially on 10m it just craps out. it seems to have something to do with the frequency of the xtal used for the rs232 chip in the converter. (harmonics.)
Hi!
Checked a bit and the undocumented (before) property is gpio lines for PTT.
I think as serial device ttyAMA should work same way as other serial devices.
I you have installed wsjtx you should have rather new rigctld. It is just named as "rigctld-wsjtx" as part of wsjtx package.
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Saku
OH1KH
Not CQRlog specific but here's a write up I did on GPIO using a PI on my own website. That'll probably help sort out the GPIO issues atleast.
http://www.kf4drr.com/pi4-ptt-relay/