[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hello,
I just wanted to let you know that the current build (1.1.0) has been updated to be compatible with the Raspberry Pi 3 as well as the RPI2. You can find this on our downloads page. Other than that nothing has change in the build…same version of ORP. Stay tune for a later announcement of our next release we are currently working on. I’ve tested and everything seems to be functional. Make sure you are plugging in via ethernet initially.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

I’m not sure that I completely follow. If your HT cannot receive the distant repeater and your base can, I am not certain how ORP will function in your setup. A standard Mobile/Base rig with cross band functionality would probably be your best bet. Those are bidirectional capable for that purpose where ORP is unidirectional. Hope that makes sense. You are certainly welcome to experiment as that is part of the fun of Ham Radio.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

I will see what I can answer at the time, but I have some questions for you about your use. If you want to extend your coverage from your property…being able to roam around with an HT and have your base retransmit at higher power, why not just use a base/mobile rig that has a cross-band repeat function in it? You won’t need all the bells and whistles if that’s your intent. Don’t get me wrong I am excited to have you interested in the project, but I am just wondering if it is too much for your needs.

If you do want to go this route I would recommend doing a one-way cross band repeater setup. In other words, you would receive on one band (i.e 70cm) and transmit on another (i.e. 2M). This would eliminate having to have duplexers/cans/filters to be able to achieve same band repeat. You’d just set your handheld up to transmit on 70cm to your one-way cross band repeater, then listen straight to the repeaters output that you are repeating to.

As far as the easy digi, you should need only one as it has two channels on it. Make sure that you don’t get the VOX model. You want one with the optocoupler on it to handle your PTT on the TX side. On the RX side you will probably need to mod that radio and add a COS output to it and do some simple interface circuitry to the COS gpio pin.

Don’t worry about the TTL adapter, you don’t really need that. It’s just another way to connect to the board..instead of network/ssh or a monitor/keyboard.

As for the RPI, you will probably be OK getting a RPI 3 if you want. The current build doesn’t support it just yet, but I just got my RPI 3 in and I am working on rebuilding the 1.1.0 release to work on both. The next release will be a little ways off. But if you are planning to use it around your property, one of the new features will be relay control, so that would be an advantage of going this route if you wanted to control things around your property with DTMF tones.

Hope this is of help.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Just thought of this. The COS pins default operation is active low, in other words when the COS GPIO pin is grounded then that sets the COS to active, when it is high (3.3v or so) then it is inactive. Make sure that you have a pull up resister on your input pin so that when the pin is not grounded it get pull up to the voltage from a 3.3v pin. This will prevent the pin from floating in value. This is my guess as to what might be happening. When the pin is released, once in a while it floats closer to ground (0v) and keeps the input active until the transmitter times out. TX time out is a built in function to protect the the Transmitter. Hope that helps.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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If you are referring to the inclusion of “extensions=memcache.so”, There should be a modules section you can put it under, but it doesn’t really matter. I put my toward the end of the file. Above the comment where it says :end.

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Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Sounds good.

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Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Are you using ethernet to connect to the Pi? Wifi is not officially supported in the script. You would need to use ethernet for the initial setup then you can configure wifi after all is setup.

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Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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That is correct. There are two board options. One PCB with nothing on it, and one PCB with the watchdog SMD chip already mounted. You choose one of those and then buy the part packet, or if you are resourceful you can gather/order the parts yourself.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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Juan is currently just starting to offer them as kits. He is just ordering the first batch. I think he has an option to order the board with the SMD chip for the watchdog circuit premounted.

I think Richard might be looking at assembling some to sell complete. I will check with him.

As the project matures, I hope others will come on board to offer ready to go options.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

If you could share some of your log that might be helpful. It is located here: /var/log/svxlink

You can also watch it realtime using this KB article:
Watching the SVXLink Log (Real Time)

I seem to recall that you are on a Raspberry Pi 2, correct? And using ORP 1.1.0?

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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