Monitoring and Decoding 24/7 with Digipi/FLDigi

[Harley Soltes]

Greetings and thank you so much for creating this tool. I am waiting on my Pi Zero delivery. I will be using the DigiPi setup with my HF/SSB radio connected via Digirig Mobile to decode NAVTEX broadcasts. These broadcasts occur every 4 hours or when an emergency broadcast is necessary. With my current setup I seem to often forget to go turn things on every 4 hours and miss the broadcast. I would like to leave my Digipi connected and running FLDigi in NAVTEX mode full time monitoring and decoding.

Is this possible with the PiZero and Digigpi running FLDigi? Will Digipi save the broadcast text files? Any tips on how to set this up? 

This will be my first Raspberry Pi and I am hoping there are sleep settings etc that can be controlled.

All the best,

Harley Soltes

KK7HMS

[Craig]

Hi Harley,

Be sure to press [save configuration] on the digipi home page now and
then to
preserve the broadcasts.  DigiPi is "read-only" by default, so you need
to commit
data to the SD card this way now and then.  I'm concerned you might run out
of memory with the Zero2W if you're saving large images, which sit in RAM.
Can you copy them off from time to time?  FLDigi barely fits in our
512MB budget.

Make sure you're getting a Zero2W (original Zero doesn't work).

DigiPi will run 24/7 for years - I have a number of Digipeaters and
nodes out
there that require no maintenance.   you can cron a reboot (and run
saveconfigs.sh)
now and then.

cool,
-craig
KM6LYW

[Dennis Blanchard]

I'm connecting to my DigiPi via a Linux Mint machine. Oddly, the "Save Configuration" doesn't seem to actually save things. If I reboot, the WebChat selection is gone, and (sometimes) the Digipeat as well. When I click the save it doesn't appear to do much, is it supposed to change color or indicate that it was saved?

Tnx for a wonderful device, de K1YPP

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[Craig]

Hi Dennis,

[save configuration] would save the fldigi images, it doesn't save the
operation mode (digipeater, fldigi, wsjtx, etc).

[Harley Soltes]

Craig,

I posted as a separate post but saw this one talked about saving data so I will ask here. I am having a heck of a time getting FLDIGI to save configurations and text files that come in via RTTY and NAVTEX. I am not trying to save any image files, I tend to just look at them live. The main configuration of FLDIGI does save, like my rig information for Hamlib and a few other things. But, macros and frequency lists and most settings I keep entering for specific modes are gone the next time I load FLDIGI. It confirms I am saving the macros and the text files, but I am not finding them. When come back to FLDIGI later, the macros are gone and it does not return to where I left, which it does on the PC version. The frequency list (book) also repopulates with default frequencies and not the ones I add to it and save. I DO hit Save Configuration many times during a session and I leave the program by the EXIT button. 

I am not trying to save much beyond some basic text RTTY/NAVTEX and the macros and basic settings for the several monitoring services I follow.

Thank you!

Harley

KK7HMS

[Craig]

Hi Harley,

Try clicking "file->exit" in FLDigi, then press [save configuration]

I'm not an fldigi expert, but we need to figure out where fldigi is saving this information
in the filesystem.

DigiPi backs up /home/pi/.fldigi to /home/pi/fldigi (no dot) when you press [save configuration]

FLDigi writes all this information there,

pi@cool:~/.fldigi $ ls
analysis        fldigi_def.xml-old  images  mode_state.prefs  temp
avatars         fldigi.prefs        kml     palettes          wrap
data            fmt                 logs    rigs
debug           frequencies2.txt    LOTW    scripts
fldigi_def.xml  help                macros  talk


So I suspect it's writing your information somewhere else?


curiously,
-craig
KM6LYW

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[Harley Soltes]

Thank you. I solved the configuration issues inside FLDIGI with your suggestions to keep saving configuration in the DIGIPI menu. I thought that in FLDIGI was enough. I am not familiar yet with the Linux command line method yet so I will need to watch a tutorial to see how to get access to the data files. I would think there was a way to open them inside FLDIGI, and there is an open command for the logs, but nothing actually happens when you do it. 

Harley

KK7HMS

[Harley Soltes]

Now I hope  the file saving issue for data logs from the RTTY or NAVTEX session gets solved. In my Windows version the dialogues for opening the logs works to open the list of saved logs, which FLDIGI does automatically from each session. That does not open anything in the Digipi version. So either they are not being saved or FLDIGI does not know where they are. I am loading a standalone FLDIGI today on my Pi to see if it works any differently than DIGIPI version. One thing for sure, Digipi image sure loads into the Pi up and starts going much quicker. To put just the Pi OS with a minimal desktop plus FLDIGI takes most of a day! You have a great solution here...just need to get the FLDIGI files part going. You have saved users a lot of work. But heck, I am learning some Linux here. i started from <Pi> ZERO!!

Harley

[Craig]

I'm not a navtex/fldigi expert, but I play one on youtube, I suspect you need to enable navtex in
the fldigi configure dialogue,





Then look in the .fldigi folder which contains kml/Navtex.kml among other things,

./analysis ./images ./fmt ./fldigi.prefs ./frequencies2.txt ./macros ./macros/macros.mdf ./kml ./kml/Navtex.kml ./kml/User.kml ./kml/Synop.kml ./kml/styles.kml ./kml/fldigi.kml ./fldigi_UI_colors.colors ./wrap ./logs ./logs/logbook.adif.2 ./logs/logbook.adif.5 ./logs/logbook.adif.4 ./logs/logbook.adif.3 ./logs/logbook.adif.1 ./logs/logbook.adif ./scripts ./rigs ./LOTW ./avatars ./fldigi_def.xml-old ./data ./data/NEQP.txt ./data/SQSO.txt ./data/7QP.txt ./help ./fldigi_def.xml ./talk

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