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[Joel Caulkins]

Hi all,

I setup my Raspberry Pi 4b 2GB on a new monitor today, I used these instructions from the Radioberry WiKi,

pihpsdr

I advise running the radioberry on a RPI to use the pihpsdr version maintained by Christoph DL1YCF

$ git clone https://github.com/dl1ycf/pihpsdr.git
$ cd pihpsdr
$ cd LINUX/libinstall.sh
$ cd ..
$ cd pihpsdr
$ cp Makefile GNUmakefile
$ vi GNUmakefile // Edit compile-time options

Have fun
73 Johan
PA3GSB

Everything went okay, but when I try to execute Pihpsdr nothing happens. So, my question is, while executing the above commands I did not have the Radioberry card plugged into the Rspb pi because it hadn't arrived yet. Would that cause the program to not compile correctly? Should I do them over again now that the Radioberry is plugged in?

Joel

N6ALT

[Samuel Lourenço]

Hi Joel,

The commands on the wiki are wrong and will not work. There are the
right commands:

cd /tmp/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pa3gsb/Radioberry-2.x/master/SBC/rpi-4/releases/dev/pihpsdr_install.sh
sudo chmod +x pihpsdr_install.sh
./pihpsdr_install.sh

Note that you should have the radioberry module installed beforehand:

cd /tmp/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pa3gsb/Radioberry-2.x/master/SBC/rpi-4/releases/dev/radioberry_install.sh
sudo chmod +x radioberry_install.sh
./radioberry_install.sh

Don't forget to add radioberry to "/etc/modules".

Anyway, I don't know why Johan decided that the version maintained by
Christoph DL1YCF was better, but definitely it just won't work. The
instructions are a mess to begin with. This was clearly not tested.
You should install piHPSDR by following the instructions above, and
they will work for Bullseye and Bookworm. Don't forget to avoid the
"CW local" option. I have created a video where I install Radioberry +
piHPSDR, including all the preparation steps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7gA_frRj5U.

Kind regards, Samuel Lourenço

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[Joel Caulkins]

Thanks  Samuel,

I didn't have a chance of that working, got to wonder why it's there. I'm not sure which version of the OS I have installed, I just downloaded the latest 64bit OS, I will check. Thanks again.

Joel

N6ALT

[Joel Caulkins]

It appears to be Bookworm.

Joel

N6ALT

On Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 1:44:54 PM UTC-7 Samuel Lourenço wrote:

[Samuel Lourenço]

Hi Joel,

Yes, it used to work with Bullseye, but now Bookworm is the version that now contains the required headers for compilation.

Kind regards, Samuel Lourenço

[Joel Caulkins]

Hi Samuel,

How do I do this?   Don't forget to add radioberry to "/etc/modules".

Everything else is done and I'm ready to try it out.

Joel

N6ALT

On Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 1:44:54 PM UTC-7 Samuel Lourenço wrote:

[Joel Caulkins]

Samuel,

I made some headway, Thetis can detect the Radioberry running and use it fine but still I cant get pihpsdr to detect it, it keeps saying that the device is in use or not detected. I have figured out how to add radioberry to the module folder but can't seem to save the file after adding. I'm getting there, just slowly.

Joel

N6ALT

On Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 1:44:54 PM UTC-7 Samuel Lourenço wrote:

[Samuel Lourenço]

Hi Joel,

Basically, you edit "/etc/modules" (it is a file, not a folder, BTW) by doing:
$ sudo nano /etc/modules

Add "radioberry in a new line, followed by a return. Then you save by
doing Ctrl + X and then Y.

Kind regards, Samuel Lourenço

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[Samuel Lourenço]

Hi Joel,

That means that a radioberry instance is already running. To test this, you can simply open piHPSDR. Or you can shutdown and restart radioberry via terminal:

$ sudo service stop radioberry
$ sudo radioberry

The above two commands are just for testing and not at all required, since radioberry does start automatically.

Kind regards, Samuel Lourenço

A quarta, 11/06/2025, 21:50, Joel Caulkins <caul...@gmail.com> escreveu:

Ok that worked, now I get this message when trying to start pihpsdr from the terminal,====================================================================
====================================================================
Radioberry V2.0


Supports 4 receivers and 1 transmitter.

Build version: 2022.01.24

Have fun Johan PA3GSB

Report requests or bugs to <pa3...@gmail.com>.
====================================================================
====================================================================
Failed to open /dev/radioberry: Device or resource busy

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Joel Caulkins