Re: [digitalvoice] Abridged summary of digitalvoice@googlegroups.com - 12 updates in 2 topics

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Stefan N.

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May 16, 2025, 7:22:11 AM5/16/25
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Hi Mooneer,

i'm desperate, cause of this message by starting FreeDV under LINUX Mint:
"./src/common/unichar.cpp(62): assert ""Assert failure"" failed in ToHi8bit(): character cannot be converted to single byte"

Tried to restore from an older version, but with no succsess. Do you have any idea, what causes this problem?

Thanks in advance,

73, Stefan

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John Antonuk <al...@yahoo.com>: May 11 07:28PM -0700

I have been using a SignaLink for many years. Today I took it out and set
up the connections to the radio directly. FreeDV will not PTT. Other apps
such as WSJT-X and VarAC work fine when ...more
John Antonuk <al...@yahoo.com>: May 11 11:01PM -0700

I did not realize that hamlib was built in to FreeDV. I thought I had to
install and configure it separately.
So I selected hamlib and set up the PTT and now it puts the TS-590s into TX
mode. ...more
Mooneer Salem <moo...@gmail.com>: May 12 01:29AM -0700

Hi John,
 
Any difference if you go to Tools->Options->Rig Control and select "Use
USB/LSB instead of DIGU/DIGL"?
 
Thanks,
 
-Mooneer K6AQ
 
 
On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM 'John Antonuk' ...more
John Antonuk - AL7ID <al...@yahoo.com>: May 12 04:36PM

Mooneer,
It did occur to me to try the USB/LSB instead of DIGU/DIGL but the behavior did not change.Still no rear audio, tx audio was coming from the front hand mic.
 
 
73,
 
John Antonuk
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Mooneer Salem <moo...@gmail.com>: May 11 03:05PM -0700

Hi Ron,
 
Currently this isn't saved to a file but you can view the console output on
Windows by going to Tools->Options->Debugging and checking "Show Console".
You should be able to copy the ...more
Ron Patton <w4...@protonmail.com>: May 12 05:14AM

Hi,
 
Yes, I do have that console display however (at least on my Win 10 machine), none of the mouse functions work such as right click, select all, etc. Even using the mouse to highlight the lines I ...more
Mooneer Salem <moo...@gmail.com>: May 12 01:35AM -0700

Interesting, for me I can right-click on the titlebar of the console window
and choose Edit->Select All (and then do so again to select Copy). What was
the problem report you were going to submit? ...more
Ron Patton <w4...@protonmail.com>: May 12 02:29PM

Hi,
 
Yea, call me brain dead 😳. I was wrapped around the axle about not being able to right click in text area. Right clicking on the title bar does bring up the menu.
 
Thanks for your help.
...more
Walter Holmes <wal...@k5wh.net>: May 12 09:52AM -0500

Ron,
 

 
I have found that with the later versions of HamLib, that some applications that I have used TS-2000 for decades, don’t always work, and I have to use TS-480 instead.
 

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Ron Patton <w4...@protonmail.com>: May 12 03:16PM

Hi Walter,
 
Thanks for the info. I will give TS480 a go.
 
OK, the SDR host application I'm using is custom written application that supports our radio(s) (Multus SDR, LLC) and is called MSCC. ...more
Ron Patton <w4...@protonmail.com>: May 12 09:09AM -0700

Hi Walter,
TS-480 works but FreeDV is slow to key up the rig. I think I see a couple
of commands being sent that MSCC does recognize. I will address these
commands in my application
Thanks, ...more
Ron Patton <w4...@protonmail.com>: May 12 09:12AM -0700

That should say " I think I see a couple of commands being sent that MSCC
does *NOT* recognize"
 
On Monday, May 12, 2025 at 12:09:58 PM UTC-4 Ron Patton wrote:
 
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Mooneer Salem

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May 16, 2025, 8:14:48 AM5/16/25
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Hi Stefan,

What's the output of "env | grep LANG" on your machine? I have the following in my Linux Mint test environment and I'm not currently seeing that message:

(rade-venv) mooneer@mooneer-virtual-machine:~/freedv-gui/build_linux$ env | grep LANG
LANGUAGE=en_US
GDM_LANG=en_US
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
(rade-venv) mooneer@mooneer-virtual-machine:~/freedv-gui/build_linux$

Thanks,

-Mooneer K6AQ

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Stefan N.

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May 17, 2025, 10:11:58 AM5/17/25
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LANGUAGE=de_DE
GDM_LANG=de_DE
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

Thanks, 
Stefan DF6VI

Mooneer Salem

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May 17, 2025, 10:35:12 PM5/17/25
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Hi Stefan,

Are you able to run FreeDV in gdb and produce a backtrace when you get that message? Unfortunately I tried including those environment variables and that didn't seem to let me reproduce the issue. It kinda sounds like something is going wrong somewhere during conversion to/from UTF-8 (likely due to something coming in from FreeDV Reporter but it could be from somewhere else, too).

Thanks,

-Mooneer K6AQ

Stefan N.

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May 18, 2025, 7:06:27 AM5/18/25
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Hi Mooneer,

Unfortunately I am not a programmer and I am not very familiar with LINUX.
The only thing I can say is that this problem occurred after a FreeDV update.
The notebook I'm using is set up exclusively for FreeDV and that's the only (third party) software installed.
So maybe a complete uninstall (but how?) would help?

Thanks,
Stefan - DF6VI




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Mooneer Salem

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May 18, 2025, 9:54:55 PM5/18/25
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Hi Stefan,

You can try removing/renaming your ~/.freedv file and seeing if that helps. (Also, can you email that to me off-list before you do? This is in case there's something in there that's triggering the error you're getting.)

Thanks,

-Mooneer K6AQ

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