Hi Art, Not sure what you are trying to do. ThumbDV™ and BlueDV are for network connectivity, so I am not sure how the IC-9700 comes into play.

New to this site so this may be a dumb question but here it goes. I have a NWDR AMBE thumbdv. Connected to my PC (Win10) and Blue DV installed. I ran the thumbdv test and it is communicating on a com

OK. The service is running now. Thanks for the help, John. I'll let it run tonight before taking the next steps in the process tomorrow. 73, John, NX2I

Try rebooting.

John, maybe there's some progress here. I added opendv to the dialout group with: sudo adduser -G dialout opendv then the service starts OK for awhile: john@ubuntu1:~$ sudo systemctl status

Here's what happens: sudo usermod -G dialout opendv [sudo] password for john: usermod: user 'opendv' does not exist

You man need this on Buster sudo usermod -G dialout opendv Then try starting AMBEserver again.-- John D. Hays Kingston, WA K7VE

Try this sudo usermod -G dialout opendv Then try starting AMBEserver again. -- John D. Hays Kingston, WA K7VE

OK....I had some free time. I ran the ThumbTest.exe program on Windows 7 and the device passed. It's back to Ubuntu.... John, NX2I

Thank you very much John, I really appreciate your help. No need to rush, I'm not going anywhere. Colin Colin G. MacArthur B.A., LL.B.

OK, I will run the windows test tomorrow. I just ran the same tests (with the same results) on a different Linux machine running Linux Mint 19.3 (Ubuntu bionic). John S

Yes, if this is a brand new ThumbDV™ from the website, then it should be the 460800 version. Each unit is tested before shipping. -- John D. Hays Kingston, WA K7VE

If you have a Windows machine, there is a test program in the files section of this group. It shouldn't hurt :) -- John D. Hays Kingston, WA K7VE

Those are very good results. It looks like a permission problem, as I stated in another thread. As I stated, I don't have access to a PiDV™ at the moment (packed away during an extended house

Yes, the LED blinks when AMBEtest3 runs. when I run AMBEserver -s 460800 -p 2460 -i /dev/ttyUSB0 I see the LED blink 1 time. dropping the speed to 230400 doesn't change anything. The thumbDV just

Hi John, I followed your instructions word for word. Results below. sudo python AMBEtest3.py -i /dev/ttyS0 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo python AMBEtest3.py -i /dev/ttyS0 AMBEtest3.py -s <serial

How old is that ThumbDV? Is it possible that it requires the lower baud rate of 230400 rather than 460800? Just a thought... Mike, WB4TTZ

Are the LEDs blinking during the test? It actually looks like it is not talking. Has this ThumbDV™ worked before? Other computer or OS? If it won't respond, then contact sales@...

Greetings John from Central FL! I confirmed that the thumbDV is at /dev/ttyUSB0. Here's the dmesg output: 225.880433] usb 1-2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 I ran the test

Hi John, This looks like a permissions problem. Try running the python script to test the ThumbDV™ directly (no AMBEserver running). If that works, then run AMBEserver in the foreground (no