DigiPi v1.9-4 is Released

[KM6LYW Radio]

DigiPi v1.9-4   https://digipi.org

This is largely a stability and convenience update.  Winlink/AX25 users should upgrade.

• upgrade Linux kernel 6.1.77 -> 6.12.25
• winlink/AX.25 MUCH more stable, refcount kernel crash fixed
• Zero2W/3A+/3B+ use dwc2 USB driver to prevent IO chip lockup with ic705 GPS
• update all packages, apt-get upgrade
• wsjtx logs downloadable at http://digipi/logs
• add boot-time mode to Initialize page
• update pat email client to v0.17, fix rigctld connection
• broadcast AX.25/netrom routing table every 60 minutes
• html/style updates on home page, callsign in header
• fix funny typo on SysInfo page
• update easter egg
• webchat doesn't crash if it receives a bad telemetry packet
• linpac/axcall/uronode now work with IPV6 (axcall.php)
• Pi5/4/3B+/3A+/Zero2W
  

Upgrade process is to reflash/reinitialize at this time.  Existing data may be backed-up/restored by copying off local, config and fldigi folders.

Thank you for all the testing and great support!

-craig

KM6LYW

[Bob Fairbairn]

I just built a pi4 with the bigger display attached.  Setting it up fresh most things are working.  I was wondering if I set wsjtx as the running app and then save and reboot should wsjtx still be turned on?

[Craig]

DigiPi 1.9-4 has a "default boot-time service" selection when you Initialize.  I you
select wsjtx, it'll start at every boot (vs Standby).  You can hack/change this behavior
if you edit /etc/systemd/system/digipi-boot.service.

if it helps,
-craig
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[Dave Christensen]

I need to understand what order of operations I am missing.  I upgraded one system to 1.9.4.  Made the change to my home Wifi.  Logged in with Putty to enable a disk mounted for write.  Restored the four folders previously backed up and had errors with Filezilla mostly about folders and directories.  I deleted the four folders on the Digipi and reran FIlezilla restore with much fewer errors. Rebooted and was presented with the Digipi home page BUT IT WANTED TO INITIALIZE.

So did I do this in the in the right order?  How do you get past the Initialize request after folder restore?

Thanks

Dave - KD7UM

[Craig]

Hi Dave, yah, that could be more clear.

Initialize, press [save configuration] (makes discs read-write),  restore folders, then reboot.

This'd be a good wiki entry.

Let us know how it goes!

-craig
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[Gwen Patton]

I'm reading this thread, and I'm missing some information. Entirely because I don't know linux that well yet, but I wanted to ask before I started the process. Dave mentions FOUR folders. You only mentioned THREE (local, config and fldigi) so I wanted to ask what the fourth one Dave mentioned might be. If Dave can interject with what that fourth folder is, I'd appreciate it. I want to make sure I back up anything important in my existing filesystem before I start the upgrade process (on a new microSD chip, not messing with my existing one).

In your bullet list at the top, you have bullets for upgrading the kernel, sudo apt-get upgrade, etc. Is that a bullet list of what the USER has to do, or is that a list of what the maintenance upgrade does? Any perceived lack of clarity is because my brain isn't clear, and doesn't necessarily reflect the clarity of what you typed.

Is there a video or page specifically for the process of getting Winlink and AX.25 up and running for beginners? Something that explains it like I'm five (with a bachelor's degree and a concentration in computer science) and need linux stuff beaten into my head with a rubber mallet? (I use a cheat-sheet for TMUX when I use it...) I want to get that process in place before I do the initialization of this upgrade. I skipped it for my current system, and want to not skip it this time, and the process seemed divided up in several places when I looked, and was just wondering if there's a video I didn't take cognizance of that would help.

I have to pick up on a topic we discussed on Discord, because it's still not doing what it should be. I've got CW via FLDigi working, but only as a tone into SSB. That works just fine, and it is NOT "MCW" and therefore illegal on HF, since it is a tone input into SSB, it's valid as CW, as when there's no tone, there's no carrier. (It would be MCW for it to be tone on AM or FM on HF, and that is naughty in the FCC's sight.) What I'm NOT apparently able to do is actual interrupted-carrier CW in the radio's CW mode. I can get the radio to key down, but it does not key and unkey in the dits and dahs that would make it proper CW, it's one solid key down for the length of the macro string. I'm not sure if it's sending nothing, or if it's a solid CW carrier that entire time, which I would like to make stop and be proper CW. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, because I have compared the FLDigi rig control with what I can find online for the subject, and nothing seems to help with making actual, factual key up/key down style CW. How do I accomplish this magic? (Memory refresh: DigiRig Mobile & KX3/KXPA100, with all correct DigiRig cables.)

73,

Gwen, NG3P

[Craig]

Hi Gwen, thanks for the note.

Dave?

local, config, fldigi, flrig (the last one nobody really uses)

Also, use a SEPARATE SD card, don't overwrite what you have, just in case, you said that,
but yah, let's be clear.

forget anything to do with apt-get.  I'm curious where you're getting this info.  bulleted list?

heh, you know tmux, you know more than you think.

I'm super stoked you got CW working with fldigi/KX3!!


best,
-craig
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[Gwen Patton]

Sorry, the bullet list was at the top of a previous attempt at this post. It was in the middle of it in the new iteration. But here's the list...

This is largely a stability and convenience update.  Winlink/AX25 users should upgrade.

• upgrade Linux kernel 6.1.77 -> 6.12.25
• winlink/AX.25 MUCH more stable, refcount kernel crash fixed
• Zero2W/3A+/3B+ use dwc2 USB driver to prevent IO chip lockup with ic705 GPS
• update all packages, apt-get upgrade
• wsjtx logs downloadable at http://digipi/logs
• add boot-time mode to Initialize page
• update pat email client to v0.17, fix rigctld connection
• broadcast AX.25/netrom routing table every 60 minutes
• html/style updates on home page, callsign in header
• fix funny typo on SysInfo page
• update easter egg
• webchat doesn't crash if it receives a bad telemetry packet
• linpac/axcall/uronode now work with IPV6 (axcall.php)
• Pi5/4/3B+/3A+/Zero2W

I realized AFTER I sent the email that this is the upgrade path for 1.9.4, which I already have, but when 2.0 comes out, I expect I'll need to know part of it anyway, especially the part about getting Winlink and AX.25 set up. As you said, yes, I'm going to use a new card for this. Then I'm going to attempt N7JMS - Jon's procedure for increasing the partition size to use the rest of the space on the SD card, in case I want to install something else and need the room.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

73,

Gwen, NG3P

[Craig]

oh, okay, ignore that list too, those aren't instructions, just a list of things that happened, that I did,
since the last release, ie "changelog".

DigiPi 2.0 is VERY close to being done, you might wait.


best,
-craig
KM6LYW

[Dave Christensen]

There are four folders.  They are:

1. config
2. Fldigi 
3. flrig
4. local 

All folders are in the root directory when you login

Dave

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[Jonathan Scherch [KK7PW]]

Dave, 

Are these four folders in the Pi directory? I cant seem to locate them. Thank you for any path. 

73.

Jonathan, KK7PW

[Jonathan Scherch [KK7PW]]

I found them in the Pi directory. All is well. 

73.

de KK7PW