Radioberry to Raspberry PI 5

[Bradley Miller]

So I recently purchased this:

https://www.aursinc.com/products/aursinc-sdr-radioberry-v2-0-hf-sdr-transceiver-pi-hat-for-raspberry-pi-4-radio-card-rpi-4-hat-analog-devices-ad9866-10cl016-12-bit-broadband-modem-for-ham-radio-sdr-transceiver

I bought at. new PI 5 with 4Gb of memory and then downloaded the Pi5 image.  Everything boots up, but nothing works on receiving.  I didn't know what to expect or how it should work . . . in looking it appear like I should have started hearing/receiving something at least.  Nothing - nada.   I grabbed out a PI 4, installed from instructions and it worked fine.  ???  I don't understand a lot yet, as I'm a new ham, but I'm really frustrated by the instructions and level of knowledge on the new 5 install.  Could someone give me a checklist or something to understand why this isn't working properly?

[Photon Multimedia]

I think you have to realize that things change. Most open source projects are not super well documented. You have to be a good researcher and use your search tools. In this forum Johan documents that the RPI-5 changes the way gpio ports are used. In order to get reasonable performance he had to change the ports to use PIO. This allows the full speed of the RPI-5 but that requires patches to the operating system. To make it easier for the new builder he graciously offers a pre-installed operating image for the RPI5, for a few dollars. 

This project is very worthwhile but it will require researching and following the instruction on the github pages and the postings in this forum.

Good Luck and have fun.

[Bradley Miller]

That's why I got the pre-installed operating image .  . . has anyone tried that from scratch to see if it works totally? I've only been dealing with open source projects for the past 25 years or so.  

[Paulh002]

Did you update the image? That will break the drivers.

Just create the sd card an do not update anything

The image works well.

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[Photon Multimedia]

Good, So it helps others to help you if you give information about how you are testing. What SDR program are you using to talk to the Radioberry. Is your chip a CL016 or a CL025? Are you sure? Did you take off the heatsink to check rather than just take Aursincs word for it. Let everyone know a little more info to be able to make suggestions.

As Paul mentioned the patches Johan created will be overwritten if you do a typical OS update.

[Bradley Miller]

Nope - I fired it up and performed no updates.   I'm going to walk through this again from scratch and document each step so we can see where the failure happens.  

[Photon Multimedia]

Good to know what sound card are you using? 

[Bradley Miller]

I don't have any soundcard on the PI 4 or 5, I'm using it remotely on my Mac.

[Photon Multimedia]

I am not a mac person but does you remote client redirect/pipe the audio output?

[Bradley Miller]

Yes it does, but either way the RPI5 isn't showing any signals coming inbound at all.  I literally copy/pasted a few commands on a RPI4 and it worked.  

[Photon Multimedia]

If you scroll through the posts there are command line utilities to check that the Radioberry service is loaded. The the Soapy drivers are recognized and if the right FPGA code is being used.

to answer your initial question yes it worked for me no problem from Johan's image.

[Bradley Miller]

Hold tight . . . I think I have found the issue.  I'll know here in about 15 minutes or so . . . perhaps this is operator error.    I did verify mine is a CL025

[Photon Multimedia]

There is nothing wrong with the CL016 you just need the right gateware.

[Photon Multimedia]

Since you found the image that Johan offers you have probably have seen this but I will put the link about using Radioberry with the RPI5 for anyone else reading this thread who might need it

https://www.pa3gsb.nl/radioberry/radio...@rpi5.pdf

[Bradley Miller]

It's working . . . I used the wrong gate software.  Ugh!  Rookie mistake . . .  Thank you!

[Bradley Miller]

Is there a safe way to update things  - that might be handy to include on the documentation.  I thought I saw something about excluding certain parts?

[Photon Multimedia]

Updates to the OS are a difficult situation with Johans patched OS.  You really need to wait until Johan updates the OS. He has published a note about which updates to avoid overwriting his patches if you don't want to wait.

Paul has a little different solution with his SDRBerry.  He has an OS patch script. If you update the OS you can reapply the OS Patch script to get the fixes needed back. This is for his SDRBerry project which is a different front end than typically used with other Radioberry based builds. I really like SDRBerry.

github.com/paulh002

[David Cooley]

Technically, if you arent having issues, there is absolutely zero reason to do a full update/upgrade on your OS.  If you are having issues, update that package the issues are related to.  I have several pi's running various things arou d the house, and some have not been updated in a couple years.  They do what they are supposed to do without issues, so I leave them alone

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[Photon Multimedia]

This is true UNLESS your RPI is connected to the internet and the updates are security updates.