Hello Bob, That project hasn't had any maintenance for some time, so it might need a few tweaks to get it up and running again. It was running quite reliably down in Sunbury (VK3) for a few years, and they have some plans to get it up and running again too.
Hmmm I don't even think we have moved it across to GitHub yet, and the SVN Codec 2 repo mentioned in the README is now a year out of date. You're on the right track with the 700D change, it might be something simple like a buffer size thing. So probably the first step is to get it into Github, and build against a recent version of codec 2. So if you're keen on getting a beacon up and happy to do some testing for me - pls email me direct and I'll work with you get it up and running again. Cheers, David On 18/4/20 4:40 pm, Bob Wisdom wrote: > I’ve been experimenting with Freebeacon > http://www.rowetel.com/wordpress/?p=4820 to see if we could get a few > of our club members to try out FreeDV by setting up a local reverse > beacon – but we have run into a few issues. > > It’s testing on a Raspberry Pi4 as the host, but I’ve seen the same > issues on a build for a Pi3. > > 1) The system hangs intermittently with 100% CPU (one core) – I think > it’s possibly USB issue as the ttyUSB0 port often disappears after > killing the process. > > 2) The 700D mode doesn’t seem to be able to acquire at all – it nearly > syncs, but never makes it. It will function as expected as a reverse > beacon in 1600 mode (with issue 1 above). > > To make the software build I added these lines to freebeacon.c > > #define fifo_create codec2_fifo_create > > #define fifo_read codec2_fifo_read > > #define fifo_write codec2_fifo_write > > #define fifo_destroy codec2_fifo_destroy > > Also, the 700D mode was attempted by changing the following line:- > > // f = freedv_open(FREEDV_MODE_1600); assert(f != NULL); > > f = freedv_open(FREEDV_MODE_700D); assert(f != NULL); > > I just wondered if anyone can offer any guidance, or has a more updated > fork to share of the code? > > Thanks, bob VK4YA > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetel-codec2 mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 > _______________________________________________ Freetel-codec2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2
