Hi John (et al), For my display with this one I’m using the original HDMI-Pi screen — the original was not a touch screen but measures 9 inches on the visible diagonal — with its own PSU (12v into it drives the screen and supplies 5v for the Pi) and case. The bad news is that, although the case looks lovely being made of coloured plastic, it seems to be totally transparent to anything from the Pi/screen that might cause any sort of QRM. Oh well!
The case design is OK but it leaves the USB pointing downwards with little space for the KX3’s USB lump. However, a pair of right-angle USB 3 adapters from Amazon fixed that one for me. Being a Pi-3 I use the internal WiFi for internet and the rest, leaving one USB spare when I have one for wireless keyboard/mouse, one for the the KX3 and one for a Signalink-USB as the soundcard. I’m using the Ubuntu Mate version of the OS on the Pi and the only issue I have/had with WSJT-X is that it sometimes fails to start at all unless it’s run with administrator privileges. But that’s only happened since the last library update so it’s obviously a permissions thing I’ll need to fix "one day”. As you might guess, at the moment I need the internet for the RTC synchronisation for JT65/JT9. However, I’ve ordered an add-on board that includes a better RTC as well as UPS functionality. I have another Pi (a Pi 2) with a 5-inch touch-screen from Amazon (actually a company called Waveshare) BUT the screen has its own special drivers which don’t seem to be available for versions of the Pi OS since last May. They’ve made pre-built OS images with all the stuff included available for download but the images are “ancient” (and won’t work right with a Pi 3) and include a load of stuff I don’t want. The company don’t seem to want to respond to requests for driver information either so I’d avoid that particular screen is you can. Anyway, I hope your experimenting goes well too. Would you vote for the KX3 utility available for the Raspberry Pi? — Regards Andy, G8TQH > On 7 Apr 2016, at 16:03, John Pitz <jo...@brig-elec.com> wrote: > > I am well on my way toward a similar goal. Have wsjtx running but am having > trouble with it popping up a warning about a missing 'kvasd'. Have not had > the time to rectify that one. Also plan on once everything is setup the way > I like it, making an image file of the card and making the card read only, > that way if power is interrupted suddenly the file system will not have any > issues. Been also thinking of making printed circuit boards for such things > as RS232 line driver, and one for the IO lines. May also make one to provide > a real time clock. Not sure though if there would be a market for such a > thing. Hams really don't want to pay much for their equipment(think cheap > Chinese radios) so I would have to sell a bazillion of them to make anything > back. > > For my project I am using a 7" touchscreen. What are you using for a > display? What about a case? > > > > On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 15:50 +0100, Andy McMullin wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I’ve had a go at searching back through the archives, but couldn’t find the >> question being asked, let alone the answer so here goes…. >> >> The Linux versions of the utilities are for an X86-based machine. Has anyone >> asked for them to be recompiled for an ARM machine? In particular, now that >> the Raspberry Pi 3 is about — with astounding performance for the price (at >> only £25) — for Raspbian? >> >> I’ve got my Raspberry Pi 3 running WSJT-X and FLDIGI just fine to my KX3. >> With a small screen and suitable supply it makes a fine 12v-based portable >> system. It would be nice, therefore, if I could also use the same small >> machine for any firmware updates, Macro settings and to work CW etc direct >> with the KX3. >> >> BUT, is it just me? Anyone else interested? >> >> — >> Regards >> Andy, G8TQH >> ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
