rigctl cant set freq through digirig mobile

[Drew Batten]

I set up digipi 2.1 on a rpi 4 with a digirig mobile connecting it to my FT-817. In PAT with the ARDOP modem, everything seems to work except for setting the frequency of the radio. I opened a terminal and couldn't figure out the right combo of rigctl flags to get everything to work. Has anybody else gotten this combo of hardware to work?

Drew

K4CYB

[Craig]

Hi Drew,

the 817 is the "odd" rig with the digirig mobile in that we use RTS for ptt signaling
but it also has a pass-through serial port for changing frequencies?  DigiPi just
uses the RTS signaling in direwolf/packet, and assumes you wont be using rigctld.

I think you know the file to edit is /etc/systemd/rigctld.service

ExecStart=/usr/bin/rigctld -m 1020 -r /dev/ttyUSB0 -s 115200

I'm guessing at the ttyUSB0, try ttyACM0, also see if you can figure out
the baud rate for the rig (9600,  19200, etc).


... and hopeing we have another 871 user on the list here.

cool,
-craig
KM6LYW

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[Drew Batten]

Thanks for the help, editing the systemd file did the trick. The change that worked was changing the ExecStart line in /etc/systemd/system/rigctl.service

ExecStart=/usr/bin/rigctld -m 1020 -r /dev/ttyUSB0 -s 38400 -P RTS

38400 is the baud rate my radio is set to.

I had been running the 'rigctl' command to experiment with different flags but I think this was interfering with the systemd service already running so it wasn't working right. Maybe stopping the service first would have worked better.

Drew

K4CYB

[Craig]

Great thanks for the legwork on that, I updated the DigiPi wiki,

https://github.com/craigerl/digipi/wiki/DigiPi-Wiki#yaesu-ft-817

-craig
KM6LYW