LInux: FW 2.00u One cable digi ops

[LMJ]

After watching Manuel's latest YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PydB0b37Ibo on the single USB cable digital mode I started trying it on my Ubuntu setup. I got the new Beta firmware 2.00u and flashed my radio.

I got the driver from Guido's Github https://github.com/threeme3/trusdx-audio.
There's good instructions in the `README.md`.

I ran into an issue with connecting the radio's UART to the Linux box. I can see the driver is loaded with `dmesg`.

I typically use FLrig with JS8Call. Although I'm tempted to try the built Hamlib with JS8Call for the Kenwood.

I was able to set up the audio OK following the readme from the driver page. I was not successful getting CAT control via the UART to work.

I'll report back later today with details. I pretty sure I messed up somewhere and re-reading everything this morning.

[LMJ]

I've been reading the driver code and it's not too hard to understand, although low level devices are not my expertise.

The driver creates two pseudo terminals that act like pipes for binary data. It filters out the audio stream from the CAT commands and sends them to different sinks.

Without the driver running in the back ground, I can connect my radio via CAT in JS8Call using the Kenwood TS-440 configuration. I connect to ttyUSB0, or whatever the port happens to be as discovered with `lsusb` or `dmesg`

When I run the driver, it spits out a connection to `/dev/pts/1`. I'm not certain, but thought that corresponds to `/dev/ttyS1` a pseudo tty.

However, when I set the JS8Call config to use that port, Hamlib fails immediately.
Trying `/dev/pts/1` also fails.

[LMJ]

Well I was wrong...it works !

I did need to use CAT port /dev/pts/1 with BOTH DTR and RTS un-selected. I didn't realize they could be set to None, it's just an empty space on my GUI.

[LMJ]

I've created a Github gist documenting how I got the firmware 2.00u installed and how to use WinLink with PAT and VARA.

I'm totally new to Winlink, so I cannot confirm this all works.

https://gist.github.com/toomanycats/b5c ... 0ca8164312

[Cthulhu]

I've created a Github gist documenting how I got the firmware 2.00u installed and how to use WinLink with PAT and VARA.

I'm totally new to Winlink, so I cannot confirm this all works.

https://gist.github.com/toomanycats/b5c ... 0ca8164312

Can't you run it without wine? The wine way is not a good idea

[LMJ]

VARA is only built for Windows. PAT has native Linux implementation being written in GO.
The Pat doc says that VARA works well with WINE. I don't know for sure.
From what I can tell, VARA is written with .NET and works well with MONO.

So WINE could work quite well, mono is fast. Recall that WINE is not an emulator, more like a container.
So as long as the mapping to Linux resources works, should be OK....I hope.

[ki6bty]

The WineTricks way for Vara is the only way that I'm aware of. KM4ACK's Build-a-Pi and 73 Linux scripts use this method, if memory serves.