Hello, First of all, thank you for DigiPi — excellent project. I am currently running DigiPi on Raspberry Pi 4 with an RTL-SDR Blog V4 dongle. RTL-SDR reception and Direwolf decoding are working correctly. Digipeater and IGate are functioning prop

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Sergej Beresteckij UA6ATG

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Feb 18, 2026, 3:06:34 PM (8 days ago) Feb 18
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Hello,

First of all, thank you for DigiPi — excellent project.

I am currently running DigiPi on Raspberry Pi 4 with an RTL-SDR Blog V4 dongle.

RTL-SDR reception and Direwolf decoding are working correctly.
Digipeater and IGate are functioning properly.

However, when using RTL-SDR (via rtl_fm pipe or direct RTL mode), the OLED display no longer shows received callsigns or packet activity.

direwatch.py is running and reading /run/direwolf.log, but no APRS packets appear on the display, even though Direwolf clearly decodes them in the console.

Previously, when using a radio + USB soundcard, OLED display worked perfectly.

Could you please advise the correct way to integrate RTL-SDR reception with DigiPi so that OLED packet display works as expected?

Thank you very much for your support.

73,
UA6ATG

Craig

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Feb 18, 2026, 4:03:55 PM (8 days ago) Feb 18
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Hi Sergej,

rtl-sdr isn't explicitly supported on DigiPi (not an audio device), but you can
kind of get rtl-fm and direwatch.py to work together with these commands,


rtl_fm  -s 22050 -g 49 -f 144.39M 2> /dev/null | direwolf -d o -t 0 -r 22050  -   > direwolf.log &

./direwatch.py -o  -l direwolf.log -t "APRS"



more info at my direwatch github page:  https://github.com/craigerl/direwatch


best,
-craig
KM6LYW
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