Transmitter Software Capabilities and Issues (Jessie)

[G3UEQ]

Hi Dave
Have upgraded and have a few questions. When I go to Pattern and TX, I do not get test cards on screen. If I go to Camh264 or cammpgeg2 with no camera connected I get what I had before upgrade, the BATC Logo. Also the bottom two rows have lost their text and have large letters, bottom line row of 5 Ms, next line up row of 5 SRs!
I upgraded from last update 20170306. I should add that initially after upgrade the screen looked as it was before the upgrade, after a reboot it lost the symbol rates and frequencies, also had to enter call sign, screen type etc.
Cheers
Andy G3UEQ

[G8GKQ]

Hi Andy

Sounds like the configuration file has been lost or corrupted. This happens occasionally, but I have not been able to find out why. Please could you think of anything that might have caused this?

To cure it, you should do a factory reset (advanced setup, option 9). You will then need to re-enter your call sign and locator, but everything else should go back to normal.

Dave

[G3UEQ]

Hi Dave
Done as you suggested and so far normal service resumed. Cannot think of anything that would have triggered this after upgrade, shutdown correctly etc.
One thing I did notice after entering locator, it took a while to update with a message "unary exception" or something like that.
Cheers
Andy

[G8GKQ]

New Software Release

I've just issued a new release 201704080. This is a minor update, but it should fix the issue which has caused many users' displays to inadvertently revert to the TonTec display. It also introduces support for the Waveshare Type B display (select in the display menu and reboot) and German language menus.

Thanks to Ken W6HHC for pinpointing the TonTec issue, Rob ZL3TCM for testing the Waveshare B solution and Rainer DG8KD for the German translations.

There is no point in upgrading if you don't need any of these features, but it should be a more reliable build.

Dave
G8GKQ

[ZL3TCM]

Hi
just went to upgrade and got this msg? I upgraded a few days ago had no issues, added the changes to allow my Waveshare 35b to work and all was well now this .........


The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Tue Apr 11 03:06:39 2017 from rob-pc.lan
--2017-04-11 03:10:42-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Briti ... ersion.txt
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 151.101.164.133
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|151.101.164.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10 [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘latest_version.txt’

latest_version.txt 100%[=====================>] 10 --.-KB/s in 0s

2017-04-11 03:10:42 (3.46 MB/s) - ‘latest_version.txt’ saved [10/10]

/home/pi/rpidatv/scripts/check_for_update.sh: line 43: [: 201704080: unary operator expected
/home/pi/rpidatv/scripts/check_for_update.sh: line 80: [: 201704080: unary operator expected
There has been an error, or the installed version is newer than the published version
The installed version is .
The latest version is 201704080.




regards rob ZL3TCM

[ZL3TCM]

Oh BTW the reason I'm posting is I don't know if its a fault of the new software of some thing this end

Rob

[G8GKQ]

OK Rob

You are the second person to report this. I'm thinking about the cause and will get back to you. In the meantime, I hope that your Portsdown still works?

Dave

[ZL3TCM]

Oh yes should of said that all fine

Rob

[G3UEQ]

Dave, just done 20170408 upgrade and works fine, no errors unary or otherwise.
73
Andy G3UEQ

[ZL3TCM]

sorry same issue





login as: pi
pi@192.168.1.112's password:

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Tue Apr 11 03:14:11 2017 from rob-pc.lan
--2017-04-12 18:36:59-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Briti ... ersion.txt
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 151.101.164.133
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|151.101.164.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10 [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘latest_version.txt’

latest_version.txt 100%[=====================>] 10 --.-KB/s in 0s

2017-04-12 18:36:59 (1.89 MB/s) - ‘latest_version.txt’ saved [10/10]

/home/pi/rpidatv/scripts/check_for_update.sh: line 43: [: 201704080: unary operator expected
/home/pi/rpidatv/scripts/check_for_update.sh: line 80: [: 201704080: unary operator expected
There has been an error, or the installed version is newer than the published version
The installed version is .
The latest version is 201704080.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $


regards Rob ZL3TCM