Portsdown 4 & Picotuner

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M1ASR
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Portsdown 4 & Picotuner

Post by M1ASR » Mon Jan 12, 2026 2:25 pm

Good afternoon. I have 3 Portsdown 4's and my Picotuner works fine on one of them. It also works on Opentuner, however it is not recognised by my other 2 Portsdowns. Any ideas, the PD4's work normally in all other aspects.

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Graham M1ASR

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Re: Portsdown 4 & Picotuner

Post by M1ASR » Mon Jan 12, 2026 2:40 pm

Update!

Problem cured by plugging another dongle (Audio) into PD4. Works fine now, no idea why, something going on in USB Bus I guess.

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Re: Portsdown 4 & Picotuner

Post by M1ASR » Mon Jan 12, 2026 3:00 pm

I have to leave the Audio Dongle plugged into the RPi, for the Picotuner to be recognised on boot up. Work around for now, but wonder what's going on?

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Re: Portsdown 4 & Picotuner

Post by g0mjw » Mon Jan 12, 2026 3:15 pm

Perhaps you have the dongle selected for audio out ?

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Re: Portsdown 4 & Picotuner

Post by M1ASR » Mon Jan 12, 2026 5:41 pm

I've tried with rpi and HDMI selected with the same result. I'm assuming it needs some device connected, or it won't be recognised. I wanted just monitor video, it appears to be an issue. As soon as I plug the audio dongle in, the PIcotuner is immediately recognised.

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Re: Portsdown 4 & Picotuner

Post by g0mjw » Mon Jan 12, 2026 6:07 pm

I don't have the same issue. so it is something different. Did you try setting no audio?

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Re: Portsdown 4 & Picotuner

Post by M1ASR » Mon Jan 12, 2026 6:18 pm

Yes tried no audio, seems an issue on all 3 PD4's - Picotuner only works with usb audio dongle. wonder if I need to update firmware?

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