If you are running a monitor with your RPi, Gayland's suggestion of
using the Raspbian 'SD Card Copier' is by far the easiest. It even resizes
to accommodate the size of the target mSD card. Nice.

/Basil n7nix

Gayland Gump <kg7gcf@...> writes:

> On your pi under Raspberry Menu/Accessories/SD Card Copier assuming that
> you've managed to pickup a usb sd card reader/writer when you've either
> purchased and SD card or bought one ( a very useful item in Pi World).
> Instructions for using it should be readily available with a bit of
> internet searching.
>
> This is the simplest, most straightforward method I know of.  Have a few SD
> cards handy and when you make any significant changes to your system, use
> this to make a backup.
>
> Gayland KG7GCF

> Now that I have a stable config with NWDR-15 : How do I use a USB
> micro SD Card device to replicate the entire active SD card?

The answer to this question depends on which operating system you are
using on the machine with the USB device, Linux/MAC/Windows.

If you google this topic you will get a lot of responses for things to
try and some of them might even work. I make a LOT of images using my
Linux workstation so my notes reflect that. I have a number of friends
that use a MAC and we have found a solution when using that OS as well.
For Windows there is a lengthy thread on the RaspberryPi-4-HamRadio
groups.io group that might be helpful. I can't really comment on the
Windows solution since I never use it.

Please read a file that I've recently added to our github repo with some
notes so that you can see what I recommend.

How to make an SD card image backup
https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/n7nix/blob/master/docs/SDCARD_BACKUP.md

/Basil

Could you list what actions you did that solved the problem or problems...in case someone else has the same or similar problem?

I just got to this.   You probably needed to upgrade nodejs ?

# Using Debian, as root
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_13.x | bash -
apt-get install -y nodejs

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:46 AM KB5ZUR <kb5zur@...> wrote:

I got it fixed sorry for the prior post.

looks like I am up and going now.

-Kb5zur-David

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 12:22 PM David Savells <kb5zur@...> wrote:

Well I have manages to break draws-manager. I get the following messages when I check the status:

● draws-manager.service - DRAWS™ Manager - A web application to manage the DRAW™ HAT configuration.
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/draws-manager.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2020-04-05 12:15:39 CDT; 2min 26s ago
     Docs: https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/draws-manager
  Process: 456 ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 456 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 05 12:15:39 DRAWS15 npm[456]: npm ERR! errno 1
Apr 05 12:15:39 DRAWS15 npm[456]: npm ERR! webapp@0.0.1 start: `node ./bin/www`
Apr 05 12:15:39 DRAWS15 npm[456]: npm ERR! Exit status 1
Apr 05 12:15:39 DRAWS15 npm[456]: npm ERR!
Apr 05 12:15:39 DRAWS15 npm[456]: npm ERR! Failed at the webapp@0.0.1 start script.
Apr 05 12:15:39 DRAWS15 npm[456]: npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
Apr 05 12:15:39 DRAWS15 npm[456]: npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
Apr 05 12:15:39 DRAWS15 npm[456]: npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-04-05T17_15_39_643Z-debug.log
Apr 05 12:15:39 DRAWS15 systemd[1]: draws-manager.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 05 12:15:39 DRAWS15 systemd[1]: draws-manager.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

additional log info:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 warn npm npm does not support Node.js v10.15.2
2 warn npm You should probably upgrade to a newer version of node as we
3 warn npm can't make any promises that npm will work with this version.
4 warn npm Supported releases of Node.js are the latest release of 4, 6, 7, 8, 9.
5 warn npm You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/
6 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'start' ]
7 info using npm@5.8.0
8 info using node@...
9 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
10 info lifecycle webapp@0.0.1~prestart: webapp@0.0.1
11 info lifecycle webapp@0.0.1~start: webapp@0.0.1
12 verbose lifecycle webapp@0.0.1~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
13 verbose lifecycle webapp@0.0.1~start: PATH: /usr/share/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/usr/local/var/draws-manager/webapp/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
14 verbose lifecycle webapp@0.0.1~start: CWD: /usr/local/var/draws-manager/webapp
15 silly lifecycle webapp@0.0.1~start: Args: [ '-c', 'node ./bin/www' ]
16 silly lifecycle webapp@0.0.1~start: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
17 info lifecycle webapp@0.0.1~start: Failed to exec start script
18 verbose stack Error: webapp@0.0.1 start: `node ./bin/www`
18 verbose stack Exit status 1
18 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/share/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:283:16)
18 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:189:13)
18 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/share/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
18 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
18 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:970:16)
18 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
19 verbose pkgid webapp@0.0.1
20 verbose cwd /usr/local/var/draws-manager/webapp
21 verbose Linux 4.19.97-v7+
22 verbose argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
23 verbose node v10.15.2
24 verbose npm  v5.8.0
25 error code ELIFECYCLE
26 error errno 1
27 error webapp@0.0.1 start: `node ./bin/www`
27 error Exit status 1
28 error Failed at the webapp@0.0.1 start script.
28 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
29 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Any ideas on how to fix this ?

-Kb5zur David

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 1:22 PM John D Hays - K7VE <john@...> wrote:

As I recall WSJT-X uses Hamlin/CAT for PTT. 

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020, 10:55 KB5ZUR <kb5zur@...> wrote:

I'm struggling with the TX audio settings in JS8Call. When i use the recommended settings based on the 0.4V Peak to Peak value for my ICOM 706, I don't seem to output any power. When I adjust the values up, I get power output but no replies to my CQ's or replies to other stations I can hear.

I would like to do some testing in WSJT-X Ver 2.1.2 but don't see a way PTT with the script file.  

2 Questions: 

Can you recommend TX Audio setting for my ICOM706MkIIG 

Do you know if WSJT-X supports Advanced PTT settings for the script file for keying?

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 11:10 AM David Savells <kb5zur@...> wrote:

Couldnt find advanced PTT setting in WSJT-X 

which ptt_ctrl.sh showed  /home/pi/bin/ptt_ctrl.sh

So I set that path in JS8Call and it is now keying the radio.

Just now getting into the TX audio adjustments but looks like I can TX using the Test PTT button in JS8Call setup.

Ill follow up once I can confirm proper operation

Thanks again for your help.

-Kb5zur David

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 10:55 AM Basil Gunn <basil@...> wrote:

Hi David,

> Try using the path that comes back from the above command for js8call
> /home/pi/bin/ptt_ctrl.sh %1
>
> I'll test this later on today.

Using full path seems to work fine for script /home/pi/bin/ptt_ctrl.sh
%1 and js8call

Have you used wstx?
What did you use for PTT control when using wstx and ICOM 706MKIIg?

/Basil n7niix

--

John D. Hays
Kingston, WA

K7VE

 

Follow up question.................

Now that I have a stable config with NWDR-15 : How do I use a USB micro
SD Card device
to replicate the entire active SD card?

Ed, KD9FRQ

On 4/9/2020 5:49 PM, Basil Gunn wrote:
> Hi there, i have 2 questions related to the DRAWs hat on a Raspberry
>> Pi 3B+
>>
>>     - Is there current guidance for applying operating system updates on an
>>     RPi 3b+ running the DRAWs hat? I'm running the stock image from ~1 year ago
>>     still.
> If you are running on an image that's about a year old I would recommend
> starting from a current image. The reason is around May of last year
> some of Anna's driver patches for the DRAWS/UDRC hat where being
> accepted into the mainline Linux kernel. After all the patches made it
> into the kernel everything worked well. Unfortunately the patches
> dribbled in and things were unstable for a few months beginning last
> summer.
>
>>      I updated not long after getting it and there was a conflict (at
>>     the time) with the audio driver so reverted back to the base image
>>     at the time
>>     - Is there a list, or document, describing which relevant config files
>>     should be backed up to be able to restore my system in the event of a SD
>>     card failure?
> Depends on what applications you configured, so no.
>
>>        - Or is there a script that collects the files and spits out a
>>        tarball?
> Nope. I could probably do it for packet ie. ax.25/direwolf/RMS
> gateway/paclink-unix but the HF programs configuration do not follow any
> established convention ... that I am aware of.
>
>>        - I've run 'prog_refresh -c' a few times lately and it shows updates
>>     available for a couple of software packages, but when i then run
>>     'prog_refresh' it doesn't update them
> I would have to see console output to comment on this.
>
>>        - I have run 'git pull' prior to 'prog_refresh -c'
>>
>> Any pointers to messages about this stuff would be fine too, i was
>> searching through groups.io and haven't hit pay dirt yet.
> To be clear, I don't back-up most of my SD cards. However, since I know
> how to squish the file system & compress the image I tend to store
> complete SD card images. ie. a 16 GB SD card image can be reduced to
> about a 2.5GB image file. This image file can be used to (re)create any SD
> card equal to or greater than 16GB. Building & burning images is done on
> a Linux workstation.
>
> The reason I don't back-up is that with the scripts I have made available I
> can start from a fresh mSD card and install/configure anything in
> around 30 minutes. For instance I can create a 1200/9600 baud
> point-to-point or RMS Gateway Winlink packet station in that time.
>
> /Basil n7nix