Radioberry first time installation

[Jörg Uthoff]

Hello Radioberry fans,

I am new to this group and I wanted to share my experience getting a new Radioberry to work, by installing

• raspberry Pi 4 operating  system
• radioberry driver
• piHPSDR software

for the first time.

I received a Radioberry yesterday from the vendor "AisLu Hifi Store" on Aliexpress.

I decided for that vendor, as it was the only one with a price <EUR 100, which looked very reasonable for such a super-interesting product like the Radioberry.

I ordered it late on Feb. 16 and received it on Feb. 26, i.e. really fast delivery.

I was of course very curious, if it would be working and had prepared a 64-Bit Bookworm image for my Raspberry Pi 4 with the "Raspberry Pi Imager". 

I used that for the installation of the Radioberry driver and PiHPSDR using the 2 scripts from Johan's github https://github.com/pa3gsb/Radioberry-2.x/releases/tag/radioberry.

I failed, as no "radioberry" driver was installed.

After searching through this forum I found a link to Johan's youtube videos on the installation. From those I saw, that you must install "Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy, 64-bit) bullseye" (BTW: the 32-bit version of bullseye, that I tried before, did not work either for the driver).

With that I finally succeeded, to install the "radioberry" device driver using

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

To test the device driver I stopped the radioberry service and started it manually as described by Johan:

sudo systemctl stop radioberry

sudo radioberry

which created this output (different versions, than in Johan's wiki):

After the "radioberry" device driver installation, I could already connect "SDR Console", running on a Windows laptop, to the Pi running the radioberry,, by adding a "Hermes-lite" radio in SDR Console, which automatically found the Raspi in the same network.

Afterwards I installed PiHPSDR several times, until I finally learned, that you MUST NOT select the "CW local" option in the PiHPSDR installation!!

Selecting the "CW local" option will result in a GPIO conflict, which is nowhere shown but results in a very colorful waterfall, that I saw a number of times in this discussion group...

I finally installed WDSP and PiHPSDR with

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

You have to run 

./pihpsdr_install.sh

3 times:

• wdsp installation
• pihpsdr installation (without CW option)
• reboot

When you start piHPSDR you should see after approx. 15s of "Discovering" this screen:

Click on "Start" in the first line.

The UI of this version of piHPSDR is slightly different from the one described in the manual by DL1YCF (https://saure.org/cq-nrw/wp-content/uploads/piHPSDR-Manual.pdf)

The "Menu" screen has less options, as several options have moved into the bottom line, where you can switch between 6 sets of buttons clicking onto the "FUNC" button in the lower right corner.

In one of those menu lines, you will also find buttons for "BAND" and "MODE".

If you want to hear something through the local audio of the Raspi (e.g. USB connected audio interface or HDMI audio), you need to go to "Menu" / "RX" and select "Local Audio Output" and pick from the dropdown your audio device:

Hope this information is useful for other people, who either bought a Radioberry or built one themselves.

I am really impressed, what you can do with the Radioberry (although I am still at the very beginning) and piHPSDR. I have so far not found ANYTHING, that seems to be missing from the software.

Finally a picture of the piHPSDR receiving 40m earlier today. In "Menu" / "Radio" I set the sample rate to 192000 and picked only 1 radio:

Vy 73, Joerg - DB2OO

[qrp73]

you can install it on raspi OS Bookworm 64-bit. 

First, you're needs to restore current stock kernel version with

```

sudo apt install --reinstall raspi-firmware

```

this is required to restore kernel if you installed more fresh version with rpi-update.

Then reboot the system and install kernel headers with:

```

sudo apt install linux-headers-rpi-v8

```

After that you can compile and install radioberry driver.