Open Repeater & PI-Repeater 1x Software settings

[Aaron, N3MBH]

Ed,
The following should be the settings that you are after. I would imagine that you are using the current public available version 1.1.0 which should work find as it only supports one port in that version. I believe it should have the driver support in there for the onboard audio chip. Let me know if you are not seeing the Fe-Pi Audio in the drop down menus.

RX GPIO: 26 with active low
TX GPIO: 506 with active high
Audio In (RX): Fe-Pi Audio Right
Audio Out (TX): Fe-Pi Audio Right

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Edward, KB2UNZ]

Thanks Aaron,

I will try this this weekend.
I also have a raspberry PI Zero. Will your image work on it?
If not do you know what would need to be done?

73,

Ed — KB2UNZ

[Edward, KB2UNZ]

Hello Aaron,
I had a few minutes to enter in the GPIO pins & I am still not seeing the Fe-Pi Audio in the drop down menus.

73,

Ed — KB2UNZ

[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hi Ed,
I am thinking that the FePi drivers may not be enabled in the 1.1.0 version. There may be a way to enable, but that may be too much to explain. I was thinking back to an older development version that had the support. I will try to email you a link that has a dev version that should work and we will go from there.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Edward, KB2UNZ]

Hello Aaron,
I downloaded the dev version that you sent the link to.
In the drop down I am only seeing:
OUTPUT: Loopback (Right)
OUTPUT: Loopback (Left)
OUTPUT: Loopback (Right)
OUTPUT: Loopback (Left)

Any thoughts?

73
Ed — KB2UNZ

[Aaron, N3MBH]

Can you run the aplay -l command from shell? Also what does the “advanced” pop up say under ports. That’s and aplay wrapper.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Edward, KB2UNZ]

Here is the command output:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Loopback [Loopback], device 0: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]
Subdevices: 8/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: Loopback [Loopback], device 1: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]
Subdevices: 8/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7

[Aaron, N3MBH]

Try “i2cdetect -y 1” and post your results.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Edward, KB2UNZ]

pi@raspberrypi:/ $ i2cdetect -y 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
00: — — — — — — — — — — — — —
10: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
20: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
30: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
40: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
50: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
60: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
70: — — — — — — — —

[Aaron, N3MBH]

That appears to be why you are not seeing your sound channels. They are not being detected on the i2c bus. You should have two items showing in this table: the sound chip and the GPIO expander chip. They should show under 0x20 and Ax00.

This leads me to believe that either your i2c on your Pi may be fried, or there is an issue with the connection or the 1X board itself. I believe Dan tests these for basic functionality before they ship out.

If you want to rule out software and something with my IMG file, then try ICS basic start IMG and run the same i2cdectect command. If you get the same thing, try running this with a different Pi board. Hope that helps.

I understand Dan is emailing with you as well, he is also welcome to join in here.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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