Problem With piHPSDR

[Rob Robinette]

I have a new Radioberry working with SDR Console but when I run piHPSDR I get what is shown in the screen capture below. It's probably just a setting error but I tried all the piHPSDR controls and I couldn't fix it. Any help would be appreciated.

Rob Robinette K9OJ

[Rob Robinette]

Also, when I exit out of piHPSDR SDR Console doesn't work until I reboot the pi. Is there any way to restart the Radioberry service to keep from having to reboot?

[Rob Robinette]

I tried restarting radioberryd but SDR Console still shows a blank waterfall and no audio out unless I reboot the pi.

[Omar Lira Rangel]

Hi, I have the same issue, also, when connect trough SDR Console, all the discovery, identification and registering works, but I not receive data.

Thanks.

[Omar Lira Rangel]

Hi Robin,

Are you using the developer release?

t´nX

[Paulh002]

You can start / stop restart firmware with sudo systemctl stop radioberry  and sudo systemctl start radioberry.

if you stop radioberry and start radioberry manual. You can see the log of radioberry.

(The firmware is the part that enables SDRConsole to connect)

Op donderdag 12 augustus 2021 om 18:07:25 UTC+2 schreef omar...@gmail.com:

[Omar Lira Rangel]

Thanks Paul,

Yes, the connection is successful, and I can view the message related to the send command is executed,  the issue is that I do not get data/signal.

I suppose that is related to the problem that Robin comment about the blank waterfall in piHPSDR. 

t´nX

[Paulh002]

It can be that the version of the driver does not match the firmware.

In that case reinstall the version you want, that is dev version or release version.

I use dev version, to install dev version: 

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

Op donderdag 12 augustus 2021 om 18:34:09 UTC+2 schreef omar...@gmail.com:

[Omar Lira Rangel]

Thanks,

Still doesn't work.

:(

[Rob Robinette]

Paul, I tried the stop and start and the commands ran but it did not get the data back to SDR Console.
 I am using the developer version. I just installed from a fresh pi os, updated, rebooted, installed Radioberry, then installed piHPSDR.

[Omar Lira Rangel]

and... works now?

thnaks.

[Paulh002]

Did you test with SDRConsole?

I am not familiar with piHPDSR

Op donderdag 12 augustus 2021 om 19:40:13 UTC+2 schreef robin...@gmail.com:

[Paulh002]

An other issue I had was the right to access the device execute:

sudo chmod 666 /dev/radioberry

and try again

Op donderdag 12 augustus 2021 om 20:16:54 UTC+2 schreef Paulh002:

[Rob Robinette]

Paul I did the chmod and stopped and started radioberryd and there is still no receive (no waterfall or audio).

[Paulh002]

  Can you check some items? and list them here?

1) check registration of your radioberry on: http://www.pa3gsb.nl/radioberry/api/read.php

2) check if radioberry driver is available

ls -l /dev/radioberry

3) check the version of radioberry driver

lsmod | grep radioberry

3) start radioberry software manualy (first stop it) and show welcome screen, does it state version of gateware?

4) show version of radioberry firmware 

ls -l /usr/local/bin/radioberry 

5) show driver messages, execute in a seperate ssh window  dmesg -wH & and check if you get error messages when starting the firmware

dmesg -wH &

$ sudo systemctl start radioberry

[  +4.701506] inside radioberry_open function 

[  +4.701506] inside radioberry_open function 

Op donderdag 12 augustus 2021 om 20:37:44 UTC+2 schreef robin...@gmail.com:

[Ronald Nicholson]

I've sometimes seen an issue where the Radioberry uses the wrong sample rate (e.g. not the one indicated by the current SDR software).  Maybe the Radioberry FPGA gateware gets stuck using an old sample rate setting.  This problem usually gets fixed by killing and restarting both the radioberry server and the SDR app.  But I never have to reboot the Pi.  

So double check both the IP address and the sample rates to see if your 2 apps are using the same, or different values.

Not sure what the issue might be, as this should never be a problem using Protocol 1, since the number of receivers and the sample rate usually gets re-sent from the SDR app many times per second via UDP.

73,

Ron

n6ywu

[pa3gsb]

Rob

Do you use the gpio pins in the pihpsdr? 

Please dont

Johan

Op donderdag 12 augustus 2021 om 16:18:03 UTC+2 schreef robin...@gmail.com:

[Rob Robinette]

1. Yes

DC:A6:32:1A:FB:34 -- 73.0  0.9   2021.06.25   CL025   2021-08-12 16:28:58

2.

pi@pi4:~ $ ls -l /dev/radioberry

crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 240, 0 Aug 12 10:27 /dev/radioberry

pi@pi4:~ $

3.

lsmod | grep radioberry

radioberry             16384  0

3b.

====================================================================

====================================================================

                        Radioberry V2.0

        Supports 4 receivers and 1 transmitter.

        Build version: 2021.06.25

        Have fun Johan PA3GSB

        Report requests or bugs to <pa3...@gmail.com>.

====================================================================

====================================================================

Radioberry gateware version 0-0.

No Alex, N2ADR or generic filters interface board connected to radioberry

Radioberry amplifier config failed; only a problem if amplifier is installed.

Radioberry, Starting packet rx part.

fd socket: SO_PRIORITY: Operation not permitted

sock_TCP_Server socket: SO_PRIORITY: Operation not permitted

Radioberry, Starting packet control part.

Radioberry, Starting packet tx part.

5.

 ls -l /usr/local/bin/radioberry

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 91808 Aug 11 23:31 /usr/local/bin/radioberry

6.

The result of dmesg -wH & 

[  +0.573803] radioberry: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.

[  +0.001036] inside radioberry_init function

[  +0.000018] radioberry loading...

[  +0.000287] inside radioberry_probe function

[  +0.000816] platform driver registered 0

[  +0.000026] Radioberry: registered correctly with major number 240

[  +0.000053] Radioberry: device class registered correctly

[  +0.000346] Radioberry char: device class created correctly

[  +0.000270] Radioberry: The rx sample state is currently: 1

[  +0.000021] Radioberry: The rx samples pin is mapped to IRQ: 65

[  +0.000111] Radioberry: The interrupt request result is: 0

[  +0.000029] GPIO ready for use

[  +0.000016] inside loading_radioberry_gateware function

[  +0.021836] inside firmware_load function

[  +0.000384] Radioberry gateware file size: 334039

[  +0.000018] GPIO ready for uploading gateware...

[  +0.000015] Info: prepare FPGA for loading image

[  +0.018984] rpivid-mem feb00000.hevc-decoder: rpivid-hevcmem initialised: Registers at 0xfeb00000 length 0x00010000

[  +0.000839] rpivid-mem feb10000.rpivid-local-intc: rpivid-intcmem initialised: Registers at 0xfeb10000 length 0x00001000

[  +0.001059] rpivid-mem feb20000.h264-decoder: rpivid-h264mem initialised: Registers at 0xfeb20000 length 0x00010000

[  +0.000671] rpivid-mem feb30000.vp9-decoder: rpivid-vp9mem initialised: Registers at 0xfeb30000 length 0x00010000

[  +0.046104] vc_sm_cma: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.

[  +0.002343] bcm2835_vc_sm_cma_probe: Videocore shared memory driver

[  +0.000031] [vc_sm_connected_init]: start

 sudo systemctl start radioberry

It just ran, nothing printed.

[Rob Robinette]

I have restarted radioberryd and restarted SDR Console and still no waterfall or audio.

I could be that piHPSDR is changing something that SDR Console doesn't like.

Johan, I am not using gpio pins and remote gpio is disabled. piHPSDR requires I2C so it is enabled.

[Paulh002]

Hi,

I thought for you should switch off I2C in piHPSRD, because the firmware driver is master of I2c.

Also the gateware reported by radioberry is not correct, maybe because of I2C issue

It should report: Radioberry gateware version 73-0.

Op donderdag 12 augustus 2021 om 23:24:33 UTC+2 schreef robin...@gmail.com:

[Omar Lira Rangel]

Hi, 

I tried installing without CW, and continue the same problem.

With Windows SDRConsole and openHPSDR-PowerSDR remotely, everything works fine.

I noted the next, when I run piHPSDR, the same for Rob, only shows nothing of signal in the panadapter and a static waterfall, after I close the program, the gateware fails, and shows a wrong version 0.0 or 255-255, even stoping and restarting the service or running manually the command, and I need to restart the pi in order to get the gateware working again.

Maybe could be something in piHPSDR working bad?

Kindly

Thnaks.

[Rob Robinette]

I switched off I2C but piHPSDR did not work. Turned it back on and piHPSDR works again.

[Radioberry]

Rob,

In your log i see:

Radioberry gateware version 0-0.

i2c can be on or off.... should not influence the working ....

I think you need to check the soldering of the gnd of the AD9866 and FPGA at the bottom site of the PCB.

73 Johan

PA3GSB

Op vrijdag 13 augustus 2021 om 05:57:58 UTC+2 schreef robin...@gmail.com:

[Rob Robinette]

Johan,

I'll check the ground solder joints.

[Rob Robinette]

My symptoms do match Omar's.

[Rob Robinette]

Johan,

My gateway version shows 73-0 but after running piHPDSR it shows 0-0. I have to reboot to get back to 73-0.

Rob

[Rob Robinette]

Can someone else run piHPSDR on their pi and then check their Radioberry gateway version and see if it's reported as 0-0?

[pa3gsb]

Rob

Do i understand it right... SDRC is working?

If so can you provide the start screen of pihpsdr.

Johan

Op zondag 15 augustus 2021 om 16:41:42 UTC+2 schreef robin...@gmail.com:

[Rob Robinette]

What is SDRC?

[pa3gsb]

Rob

SDRC SDR Console

You are using GPIO. The GPIO pins are used by the radioberry.

Pins allowed are indicated at:

https://github.com/pa3gsb/Radioberry-2.x/wiki/piHPSDR-running-CW-mode

But please build pihpsdr without GPIO option.

73 Johan

PA3GSB

Op maandag 16 augustus 2021 om 03:24:16 UTC+2 schreef robin...@gmail.com:

[Rob Robinette]

How do I turn off the gpio for the pihpsdr build? Why would John Melton configure piHPSDR incorrectly?

[Rob Robinette]

Yes, SDR Console works perfectly with the Radioberry until I run piHPSDR then there is no audio or waterfall until I reboot the pi.

[Rob Robinette]

When I run piHPSDR it does not run correctly. I get a hot column of red and yellow on the waterfall. When I exit piHPSDR and run SDR Console V3.1 I get no audio and no waterfall. I started with a fresh pi OS install, then followed Johan's instructions to install and build the Radioberry and piHPSDR software and this is where I'm at.