Those are beautiful pieces of art... Gotta get me one.... Still love my Pi's though...
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 1:37 PM Dan Clemmensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is the requested diagram for the FT-4. Note that the Baofang uses a > different cable. > > WARNING: Please do not blindly adapt this for other radios. This entire > scheme can probably be adapted for any radio that uses a 3.3V setial > connection, but if you plug in an older radio that uses higher voltages, > you can fry you little computer, and/or your radio. > > NOTE: if you use a serial port that is configured as a login port (a > "console") you OS can spew lots of stuff to the port. This can in theory > confuse your radio. This is true of any serial port the CHIRP uses in any > OS, but it may be more important to think about this when using itty-bitty > computers, since they tend to configure at least one serial port as a > "console" port. > > This scheme "should" work on any itty-bitty computer that can support > CHIRP and that has a 3.3V serial port. On a Raspberry Pi, your OS will be > richer. You will not need the X-over-SSH trick, and if you do use it you > will need less setup. On a Raspberry Pi, you use pins (6,8,10) as > (GND,TxD,RxD), and your OS will see the port as /dev/ttyS0). > > My NanoPi Duo is running the sun8xi linux distro provided by FrendlyELEC, > who manufactures the NanoPi. the distro is based on Ununtu, so you use > apt-get to install packages as needed. To support CHIRP, I installed xorg, > since the supplied image uses something strange. To actually use CHIRP, I > use ssh -Y from my Linux desktop computer to allow CHIRP to present its X > window to my desktop computer's screen via the magic of X-over-SSH. > > I'm connecting the radio to NanoPi's second serial port, which is on pins > labelled RX1 (pin 20) and TX1 (pin 22) and of course GND (pin 6) on the > NanoPi headers. This port is known to the OS as /dev/ttyS1. > Here is he requested diagram: > > NanoPi FT-4 > MIC plug > pin 6 (GND)---------------------------------------------------------- > sleeve > pin 20 (RX1)----------------+-----------------------------------------tip > | > pin 22 (TX1)---2K resistor--+ > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:33 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dan, >> >> I'm a little brain dead when it comes to hardware. Would you post a >> simple diagram of how you wired FT4 to NanoPi? Witch OS are you running on >> the NanoPi? >> >> Thanks >> Fred >> _______________________________________________ >> chirp_users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users >> This message was sent to Dan Clemmensen at [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send an email to >> [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > [email protected] > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > This message was sent to Chuck Hast at [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] -- Chirp + Editcp + MD380Tools on Linux Celestial!!! Chuck -- KP4DJT
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