laurencebarker wrote:There is also an issue whereby the 8" display driver fails to start some of the time, for reasons that haven't been resolved.

My apologies - Martin CT1IQI tells me that issue was resolved with a change to the device tree when building the linux kernel.

I haven't experienced an upgrade to either processor, yet. Other developers more skilled in linux kernel builds have been focussing on that. The Raspberry pi CM5 is, as far as I know, a pretty simple swap-in. All the existing interfaces should work. The Radxa CM5 is more complicated, because it uses...

The RF board temp measurement, as far as I know, appears as a voltage on J22 pin 3 on the RF board. That connector goes to the rear panel I/O spreader board, and the TEMP signal is not tracked from there. So no, the firmware doesn't make any measurement of RF board temperature and has no way to cut ...

Run the version that comes up like it's on a a small screen and edit the settings. There is a "screen" menu where you can change screen size and choose a VFO bar layout. When you say "with no settings at all" what were you looking for? Once you make changes they will be stored pe...

p2app does a search for either the V1 front panel (looking for an I2C interface device) or the V2 front panel (looking for a response from the serial port). I'm guessing it didn't get a response. The most likely reason is, it didn't find the serial device. Can you look in the /dev/serial/by-id folde...

I'm about to prototype a change to the power management that might enable this. I have planned to make the front panel pushbutton contact accessible so that it can be operated by a relay. The difference from now is: you will be able to have the relay operate for longer. It won't cause the power to s...

The commands you see described run on the Raspberry pi in the radio itself. You don't need a separate linux computer.

You can plug in a keyboard, mouse and monitor, or login remotely across the network from a windows or linux computer.

I'm the developer of the G2 firmware and p2app. The OS images came originally from the factory. Christoph Wullen DL1YCF is the active developer nowadays of piHPSDR; it was originally written by John Melton G0ORX.

That setting is in the SDR client software, rather than the G2 hardware. Both Thetis and piHPSDR have settings where that can be changed.

You haven't said what version of FPGA firmware or p2app code you have: but my guess is you need to upgrade your G2 to the newest. We only added wideband display recently. Path Illustrator in Thetis hasn't worked for several generations of hardware, and would (I imagine) be a lot of effort for little...

I have modified the G2 update script, incorporating KD4YAL's improvements - thank you. It also checks for libraries that need to be installed.


cd ~/github/Saturn/scripts
./update-G2.sh

I agree that it needs to be better. Just not sure how to achieve that. A start might be for the install script to test for the compiled executable (ie that the compile succeeded). I did see someone has posted an improved script here; I'll have a look at that when I get a chance. And over the last fe...

by the way - having on-board memory vs SD card will not be behind this. Having a displace vs no display is very unlikely to be be involved. What system updates have been performed could be involved, and what OS you have could be involved (mine is 64 bit but many others are 32 bit). But the change th...

If you don't have p2app (no extension) then I suspect its compile failed. I know someone else who is compiling p2app on a slightly different system from mine, and what my system reports as "warning" results in an "error" on his, and we are slowly working through those issues (his...

if you have no display, how are you running p2app: is it set to autostart, or do you plug in a display and keyboard, or log in remotely? "invalid desktop entry file" probably means that the desktop "shortcut" file can't find the p2app executable itself. It is a very small file th...

Thank you, but I don't think I can claim fixing that CAT connection. That must be something else!

I've updated p2app to V34 yesterday. This is to fix the problem where Thetis wouldn't connect, or where the T/R relayed clicked on & off. The problem was caused by a change to support upgrade to a Radxa processor, but introduced a race condition. "Autostarted" p2app didn't get the MAC ...

We seem to have an issue where the "autostarted" p2app does not work reliably, but the same program when manually started is OK. At least one other use has the same issue.... and I don't understand it. It doesn't happen here! Can you start it manually in the interim while we work out what'...

If you kill the p2app that was autostarted (kill <processid>) THEN start it manually, what happens?

"Error starting SDR hardware, is it connected & powered" implies that p2app isn't running after power up. This shouldn't have been changed by the update process. I'm assuming that you have a radio with no display on the front and it used to autostart p2app after power up. (If you have ...

There is a new version of p2app available in github. It fixes a "reliability" issue in establishing CAT connection to Thetis. current p2app version 33; FPGA V19 I have created an "update" script to make software updates easier. The instructions are as follows: 1. open a command w...

Have you set up the CAT over TCP/IP server in Thetis, with the "full" IP address (ie not 127.0.0.1)? Setup -? Serial/Network/Midi CAT/ Network tab on TCP/IP CAT server, press "IPV4" and it should list the IP address of your computer colon 13013 click "server running" A ...

I don't imagine you **have** to use C for the RP2040-piZero, but that's the only language I've written code in for 30 years. I didn't find installing the code for windows a problem; it sailed through in a few minutes. One operation to install the board type, then another (which I have forgotten the ...

The absolute newest p2app should also work with this, unless the USB serial device comes up at a different address from my radio (which is possible). Christoph is also supporting it in piHPSDR. We do need to do a little more work to finalise the naming of the USB serial devices. With my RP2040-piZer...

Well, I'm sorry my help was useless. Maybe others can help you: good luck.

That's a fairly old build of piHPSDR. Update it: the instructions are in the manual.

it is not needed in the background. You can skip those steps if you don't run piHPSDR.

"G2 Ultra" describes the hardware you are using. Is your question about the piHPSDR client app?

(If you are using Thetis still - which you can - MON should still be present. I don't instantly know if piHPSDR has that same function - I've never looked for it)

There are lots of ways to autostart linux code, but the mechanism used by the factory images is covered in the manual section 4.6. There should be a file /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart Its content should be: With display: @lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi @pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi @xscreen...

What I meant is: command line command to shut down the operating system are OK. Thereafter power will have to be switched off manually.