ardop: verbose logging, web gui

[Adam KC2AEP]

1. verbose ardop info

Coming from having used winlink express, I was a bit frustrated at the lack of detail in Pat about the status of my often-shaky ardop connections.

In windows you have this GUI which helps you see which speed you've negotiated, if your packets are getting Ack or Nak, if the constellation looks good, what type of packet has been most recently decoded, etc.  

So far the closest I can get on digipi is to open the shell and type: tail -f /tmp/ARDOP*.log

This shows the ardop debug logs in real time, and if you are fast at scanning the output you can get a rough idea of what's going on.  I'm sure this could be enhanced further by piping through some script or shell magic to clean up the output.

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2. ardop web gui

I discovered there's a fork of ardopc, called ardopcf, which has a web gui that replicates a lot of the information I'm used to seeing from winlink express.  See screenshot below.  Also nice that it lets you dynamically adjust the audio level, which has also been a gap (though solveable from alsamixer)

The github docs indicate there are pre-built binaries for the Pi that can be installed simply by downloading and running, which sounds easy enough.  I have not tried it yet, but I plan to test it out. 

The last binaries are about a year old, so unclear if this is actively being developed, or perhaps it's "good enough" as is.

Adam

[Craig]

Great observations Adam.

ardopfc is a newer fork, and the web view is pretty neat.

DigiPi has been using John's original ardop with a few tweaks on timing to support
a wider variety of rigs with odd tx/rx turn-around times.  more of a leader.

I use John's "ardop gui" on my pc and it monitors the connection in a real-time manner,

https://www.cantab.net/users/john.wiseman/Downloads/Beta/




just point it at digipi on port 8515 -- good stuff

cool,
-craig
KM6LYW

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[Adam Berson]

Oh that's super interesting.  

Could ardop gui run on the digipi?  looks like he's got a version in that folder called piARDOP_gui

I'm not sure how to launch a GUI app and get it to show up on VNC but happy to poke around.

[Craig]

DigiPi uses VNC/X11 for the desktop gui, which only starts if you turn on wstjx/ft8/sstv/fldigi,
you can start one of those, then 'file->exit', then right-click the desktop, open a terminal,
and run ardop-gui -- super easy right? :)

for me, i just run ardopgui on the pc i'm using to talk to digipi

swapping out ardopfc should be easy too, if you want to go that route

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[David Cottee]

I am using piARDOP_GUI64 on a pi to monitor ARDOP.  Have to use the full IP address on the network for it to work, so may be problematic if is changes.  Haven't tried running it on the digipi, though it should work as Craig suggests.

73 David VK2VJ 

[Adam Berson]

I tried ardop_gui (32bit arm) and it ran, but it was a hassle to run it on the digipi with the way the VNC was setup... among other things, when I start up js8call (as a hacky way to get the vnc desktop), it would kill the ardop modem, and vice versa.  The VNC is cumbersome anyway.

 

So I tried ardopcf and so far so good!

Perhaps the smartest thing I did was use the new "split tab" view in chrome to arrange the Ardop web gui and Pat side by side.  It was really nice to see the signal quality and see the protocol negotiate up and down to different speeds as the signal faded in and out, allowing me to tweak my Rx gain and whatnot.  Being able to tweak the drive level without alsamixer was very nice too.

I added a custom hyperlink next to Pat to launch the ardop web gui:

These are the steps, for the full experience you need to be comfortable editing shell script and html:

• Install ardopcf (32 bit arm binary)

• Open Shell

• sudo remount

• wget https://github.com/pflarue/ardop/releases/download/1.0.4.1.3/ardopcf_arm_Linux_32

• chmod +x ardopcf_arm_Linux_32

• Configure digipi to use ardopcf instead of piardopc

• sudo nano ~/ardop.sh

• Modify the existing piardopc line to run this command in place of the original piardopc: “~/ardopcf_arm_Linux_32 -G 8514”  (that extra switch enables web GUI on port 8514)

• Make it easy to open the web GUI:

• sudo nano /etc/www/html/index.php

• Add the following near the bottom, inside the same TD element as PatEmail

<br><i>

(<a href="#" 

onclick="window.open(location.protocol + '//' + location.hostname + ':8514', 'ardopcf'); return false;">ardopcf gui</a>)

</i>

• SAVE CONFIGURATION

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