Re: FR Stack on Pi questions
The only thing I have left to configure is to get the StreamDeck talking to FR Stack again. I'm guessing it's a URL issue since none of the Rest command buttons are working??
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Re: FR Stack on Pi questions
Dave, understood and good to point out for max exciter power in operate. The response also addresses FRStack configuration on RPi which i think was Patrick's question.
Ron WB2WGH?
Ron, ? This is a safety feature and can be changed to the maximum power you would want the PG XL to see. 100 would be too high and if a person was running 100 watts in amp standby and forgot to turn the power down it would hit the amp with 100 watts and fault the amp (and potentially damage it). This should be set to the maximum power drive you need on any band. ? Excessive input power is the #1 killer of LDMOS devices. ? 73 Dave wo2x ? ? Patrick, FRStack on RPi is configured via a text file,?appSettings.json. Look at the following link and search for the file name. A few weeks?ago I assisted Laci, HA8RD, with exactly the same issue. We changed the parameter from 50 to 100. I can't speak to the StreamDeck question. "PgxlRadioMaxPower": "50", // this is MAX radio power level when AMP is OPERATE 73, Ron WB2WGH ? I wanted to make sure I understand how this will work before I commit to trying it as I just got my NR all swapped over to a new Pi. I admit it would be nice to have one less program running on my PC.? - If I chose to run FR Stack on my RaspberryPi instead of on my shack PC then can I still VNC into the Pi and adjust settings in FRStack with a graphical interface? Reason I ask is the default FRStack settings for PGXL limit drive power to 50w and it needs to be changed.??
- I'm assuming this would still allow me to run my StreamDeck Rest commands because they'd be sending those to the Pi instead of the shack PC yes??
Anyone who is running FRStack on a Pi I'd love to hear your experiences. I have no particular issues with it running on my PC, but I love the idea of having one less program running in the background on the PC.?
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Re: FR Stack on Pi questions
I got it figured out. I must have mis clicked and enabled an old CSS example flow you made. Once I disabled that it went away.?
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So, FR Stack is up and running on the Pi now. It's talking to the correct Flex, and I got the PGXL max drive power set.?
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Now I just need to get my StreamDeck working again as that is not functional anymore?
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Re: FR Stack on Pi questions
Nope.?
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Mine is already set to "use Node Red Theme Everywhere"
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Re: FR Stack on Pi questions
Did you load the contest dashboard flow? Whatever they did in adding stuff to the head section has caused issues for some people.?
In the editor go to dashboard and on top in Site where you set colors, set to Use Node Red Theme Everywhere instead of Angular. See if that helps.?
A note to people using a UI Template to add info to the head section. This will be globally across all flows so be careful.?
73 Dave wo2x Sent from my waxed string and tin cans.?
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On Apr 27, 2025, at 1:00?PM, Patrick Lenn via groups.io <nwmtech@...> wrote:
? Ok so I'm up and running. I got the FR Stack flows imported into NR and have confirmed that they are connecting to the radio properly.?
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First issue is it changed my entire background coloring on my NR Dashboard. I checked in the UI and it's still set to the custom colors I have, but something in those flows is changing the entire background so I need to find that first.?
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Re: FR Stack on Pi questions
Ok so I'm up and running. I got the FR Stack flows imported into NR and have confirmed that they are connecting to the radio properly.?
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First issue is it changed my entire background coloring on my NR Dashboard. I checked in the UI and it's still set to the custom colors I have, but something in those flows is changing the entire background so I need to find that first.?
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Re: FR Stack on Pi questions
Ron, ? This is a safety feature and can be changed to the maximum power you would want the PG XL to see. 100 would be too high and if a person was running 100 watts in amp standby and forgot to turn the power down it would hit the amp with 100 watts and fault the amp (and potentially damage it). This should be set to the maximum power drive you need on any band. ? Excessive input power is the #1 killer of LDMOS devices. ? 73 Dave wo2x ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ronald Panetta, WB2WGH via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2025 12:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [nodered-hamradio] FR Stack on Pi questions? Patrick, FRStack on RPi is configured via a text file,?appSettings.json. Look at the following link and search for the file name. A few weeks?ago I assisted Laci, HA8RD, with exactly the same issue. We changed the parameter from 50 to 100. I can't speak to the StreamDeck question. "PgxlRadioMaxPower": "50", // this is MAX radio power level when AMP is OPERATE 73, Ron WB2WGH ? I wanted to make sure I understand how this will work before I commit to trying it as I just got my NR all swapped over to a new Pi. I admit it would be nice to have one less program running on my PC.? - If I chose to run FR Stack on my RaspberryPi instead of on my shack PC then can I still VNC into the Pi and adjust settings in FRStack with a graphical interface? Reason I ask is the default FRStack settings for PGXL limit drive power to 50w and it needs to be changed.??
- I'm assuming this would still allow me to run my StreamDeck Rest commands because they'd be sending those to the Pi instead of the shack PC yes??
Anyone who is running FRStack on a Pi I'd love to hear your experiences. I have no particular issues with it running on my PC, but I love the idea of having one less program running in the background on the PC.?
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Re: FR Stack on Pi questions
You can edit the appsettings.json file in the FRStack folder located in the /usr/local/frstack folder ? The latest FRStack webapi install does not set the amp to 50 watts after tuning. (previous versions did) ? There is a setting for maximum power when amp is in operate which? defaults to 50, so if your radio was at 100 watts on 10 meters for example and you QSY to 10 meters, power would be set to 50. If you had power for 10 meters set to 40 before QSYing, it would be 40. This is only to help protect the amp if you have the power too high and forget to adjust it lower to prevent overdriving the amp. You can disable it by changing to zero or set to whatever maximum power you want, but it is for all bands. ? Here is the PG XL settings from the appsettings.json file ? "PgxlTuneStandby": "true", // this will set AMP to STANDBY when TUNE is activated ??? "PgxlModeRestore": "true", // this will return AMP to OPERATE after TUNE complete ??? "PgxlRadioMaxPower": "50", // this is MAX radio power level when AMP is OPERATE ??? "PgxlRadioStandbyPower": "100", // this is MAX radio power level when AMP is STANDBY ??? "PGXLOnAntenna": "0", // 0 or 1 or 2; 0 for both, 1 for ANT1, 2 for ANT2 ? 73 Dave wo2x ? ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Patrick Lenn via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2025 12:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [nodered-hamradio] FR Stack on Pi questions? I wanted to make sure I understand how this will work before I commit to trying it as I just got my NR all swapped over to a new Pi. I admit it would be nice to have one less program running on my PC.? - If I chose to run FR Stack on my RaspberryPi instead of on my shack PC then can I still VNC into the Pi and adjust settings in FRStack with a graphical interface? Reason I ask is the default FRStack settings for PGXL limit drive power to 50w and it needs to be changed.??
- I'm assuming this would still allow me to run my StreamDeck Rest commands because they'd be sending those to the Pi instead of the shack PC yes??
Anyone who is running FRStack on a Pi I'd love to hear your experiences. I have no particular issues with it running on my PC, but I love the idea of having one less program running in the background on the PC.?
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Re: FR Stack on Pi questions
Ok thanks Ronald. I may just give a shot today. Might be a fun project.?
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Re: FR Stack on Pi questions
Patrick,
FRStack on RPi is configured via a text file,?appSettings.json. Look at the following link and search for the file name. A few weeks?ago I assisted Laci, HA8RD, with exactly the same issue. We changed the parameter from 50 to 100. I can't speak to the StreamDeck question.
"PgxlRadioMaxPower": "50", // this is MAX radio power level when AMP is OPERATE
73, Ron WB2WGH
I wanted to make sure I understand how this will work before I commit to trying it as I just got my NR all swapped over to a new Pi. I admit it would be nice to have one less program running on my PC.?
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- If I chose to run FR Stack on my RaspberryPi instead of on my shack PC then can I still VNC into the Pi and adjust settings in FRStack with a graphical interface? Reason I ask is the default FRStack settings for PGXL limit drive power to 50w and it needs to be changed.??
- I'm assuming this would still allow me to run my StreamDeck Rest commands because they'd be sending those to the Pi instead of the shack PC yes??
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Anyone who is running FRStack on a Pi I'd love to hear your experiences. I have no particular issues with it running on my PC, but I love the idea of having one less program running in the background on the PC.?
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I wanted to make sure I understand how this will work before I commit to trying it as I just got my NR all swapped over to a new Pi. I admit it would be nice to have one less program running on my PC.?
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- If I chose to run FR Stack on my RaspberryPi instead of on my shack PC then can I still VNC into the Pi and adjust settings in FRStack with a graphical interface? Reason I ask is the default FRStack settings for PGXL limit drive power to 50w and it needs to be changed.??
- I'm assuming this would still allow me to run my StreamDeck Rest commands because they'd be sending those to the Pi instead of the shack PC yes??
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Anyone who is running FRStack on a Pi I'd love to hear your experiences. I have no particular issues with it running on my PC, but I love the idea of having one less program running in the background on the PC.?
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File /!1! Flows by Type/ANTENNA SWITCHES & ANTENNAS/AG2x8_V3.json uploaded
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The following items have been added to the Files area of the [email protected] group.
By: Dave wo2x <RocketNJ@...>
Description:
Flow for Antenna Genius with version 3 firmware. WILL NOT WORK on version 4!
(uploading at request of a member)
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Re: Flex Radio Auto AGC Flow.
Thank you Alan for the update. Appreciate all that you do. Best. C
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On Apr 25, 2025, at 5:11?AM, Alan Blind, WA9WUD via groups.io <a.alan.blind@...> wrote:
? Hi Craig
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Sorry for the delay, I was working on another non ham radio project.
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My Flex radio auto AGC flow remains he same now for several years. ?I think the new squelch feature built into the Flex firmware has overtaken the need for such a flow.
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Alan. ?WA9WUD
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Re: Capturing flexradio transmit band
I decided to modify the function node to work with sub TX and Slice.? ?The function node looks for 'freq' or 'RX_frequency' and adds the Band data to the payload object.? ?It will also pass the all objects originally passed to the node.? If 'freq' or 'RX_frequency' is not found then the node will pass the original message.? ?The node can be found here .? ?
4/25/2025, 10:57:57 AMslice/0 : msg : Object
type:?
client:?
topic:?
payload:?object
RF_frequency:?3.7424
wide:?0
lock:?0
band:?80
_msgid:?
4/25/2025, 10:57:57 AMtransmit : msg : Object
type:?
client:?
topic:?
payload:?object
freq:?3.7424
lo:?100
hi:?2900
tx_filter_changes_allowed:?1
band:?80
_msgid:?
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Re: Flex Radio Auto AGC Flow.
Hi Craig
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Sorry for the delay, I was working on another non ham radio project.
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My Flex radio auto AGC flow remains he same now for several years. ?I think the new squelch feature built into the Flex firmware has overtaken the need for such a flow.
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Alan. ?WA9WUD
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Re: Flex Radio Auto AGC Flow.
Hello Alan - could not tell by the dates of this correspondence and your reply if you are CURRENTLY working on an update to the AGC flow. I have your original AGC flow installed from a few years back and would love to get a current update if there are updates and improvements.? Thanks for doing this Alan.
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Re: Capturing flexradio transmit band
I could not sleep last night so I decided to redo the entire flow and ensure it works with the sub transmit messages.? ?The new flow will pass messages that do not have the frequency value.? The following 2 messages passes the band if the frequency is there but if no frequency is present it will just pass the message.??
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I have also added 160 - 6 meters and a GEN band if it does not fit those amateur bands.? ?
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Re: Capturing flexradio transmit band
I used your example to create the following flow.? ?My function node only has 3 bands defined.? You will need to add all the bands you need.??
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Here is the output:
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Re: ERROR - global.get("subport")
Contact me directly. I¡¯m good on QRZ
73 Dave wo2x Sent from my waxed string and tin cans.?
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On Apr 22, 2025, at 4:30?PM, Bill - N1HKO via groups.io <bill@...> wrote:
? Thanks, Dave. I had seen most of this. The two function nodes you mention (far right) appear to be after the get function causing the error. I have no errors with these functions. Clicking the button did successfully inject a new startup but changed nothing in result.
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Firmware is 4.1.8
AG app looks good. The Node Red flow appears functional other than the band names and button labels. At one point, I had disabled a few functions to "quell the noise" while troubleshooting and I did see radio 2 labels on the buttons.
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This one feels very odd.
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Re: ERROR - global.get("subport")
Thanks, Dave. I had seen most of this. The two function nodes you mention (far right) appear to be after the get function causing the error. I have no errors with these functions. Clicking the button did successfully inject a new startup but changed nothing in result.
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Firmware is 4.1.8
AG app looks good. The Node Red flow appears functional other than the band names and button labels. At one point, I had disabled a few functions to "quell the noise" while troubleshooting and I did see radio 2 labels on the buttons.
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This one feels very odd.
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Patrick Lenn
Dave wo2x
Craig