Open Repeater & PI-Repeater 1x Software settings

[Aaron, N3MBH]

Without the i2c working you are also not going to have the 500 number gpio pins available either. Meant to mention that in my last post.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Dan, KG7PAR]

Yes we do test the boards before shipping, specifically for the audio and gpio expanders functionality.

You suggestions are right Aaron, the next step is to confirm which board is bad if possible by installing on another pi and running the i2cdetect command again. This should be the last test to confirm which board is having problems

[Edward, KB2UNZ]

Hello Aaron,

Worked with Dan today & it looks like bad GPIO pins.
Here is the email exchange we had.

Customer Service <support@ics-ctrl.com>
To:
Edward Donnelly

May 15 at 9:13 AM

From this info I can see the i2c device bus is gone. Now to establish if it’s the pi or the controller board.

Do you have access to a second raspberry pi that you could move the board and sd card image to long enough to run the i2cdetect command again?

I have had other customers that have had problems find their pi boards were bad from various gpio damage so I would like to confirm this first before I send you a new board.

Dan

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Edward Donnelly <vteddie13@yahoo.com>
To:
Customer Service

May 15 at 4:49 PM

Hello Dan,

I think you hit the nail on the head!

Please see the output from another raspberry pi:

pi@RBPI-K2WMA-R:~ $ sudo aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Audio [Fe-Pi Audio], device 0: Fe-Pi HiFi sgtl5000-0 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: 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 1: 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
pi@RBPI-K2WMA-R:~ $ i2cdetect -y 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
00: — — — — — — — UU — — — — —
10: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
20: UU — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
30: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
40: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
50: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
60: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
70: — — — — — — — —
pi@RBPI-K2WMA-R:~ $
So it does see the Fe-Pi Audio now…..
I took a heat gun & re-flow the raspberry pi GPIO pins and now that seems to work now.
So it was a bad GPIO after all! Very nice tech work!

I will replace the raspberry pi 3 with a new one. I see the 3+ is out. Have to see if Aaron can make a new image of open-repeater with the Fe-Pi Audio and the new 3+

I will hook up the repeater tomorrow as a bad thunderstorm in upon us.

Thanks again,

73

Ed — KB2UNZ

[Aaron, N3MBH]

Glad you were able to get it working. A Pi3b+ should be supported in the next release. I’m working on build scripts now.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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