? Hello to the group, I received my Pi4 yesterday and got FRStack up and running last night thanks to Dave's and Mark's information.?

Having a fellow Ham friend that is building a FRStack / Pi box?and having issues following the Documentation Maybe I can make a suggestion?for some of the guys out here that are not in the mix of things, in the Documentation maybe add some way other then Bold text that separates the "commands" or content of the "X11" file from the comments,? The checkBoxes?like Elecraft or HeathKit used may be a great way to do it BUT THIS is JUST an Idea and really appreciate Dave's hard work on the Documentation.

I have a question for you Gurus, What Flows are compatible?with FRStack and which ones aren't and not needed specifically?I have the?following hardware?and Flows

FLEX6700 "Flexradio"?

FLEX6600M? "Flexradio"?

PGXL Amp? "PG-XL"

HF-Auto? "HF Auto & GHE"

DLI Power Switches? "DLI Switch" (OLDER FLOW non API"

W2 WattMeter? "W2 Wattmeter"

Other Flows I use

Hosts Monitor

VITA49

Raspberry Monitoring

W2 WattMeter

Thanks again guys and I am learning just slow for me between work and home duties?

73

Bret

WX7Y

One thing I want to start working on this afternoon is to see if I can replace the VITA49 and FlexRadio flows with info available in FRStack. I have high confidence this can be done.?

I noticed when FRStack and Flex Radio flows were both binded to my client I had “pops” during FT8 TX and RX. I disabled the VITA49 and FlexRadio flows and left just FRStack Pi talking to the radio. Popping went away. I think having both binded was too much, causing packet drops (popping).?

Since FRStack provides so much more than I have written into the FlexRadio flow I will use FRStack Pi.?

I want to incorporate the KPA1500 meter data in place of the PG XL meter info in the meter panel.?

74

Dave wo2x

Sent from my waxed string and tin cans.?

On Jul 30, 2020, at 12:18 PM, Alan Blind <a.alan.blind@...> wrote:

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Bret

You asked about what can be displaced with pi FRStack?

Mark has opened up the sky in possibilities?for us Node-Red users by making his FRStack server available to Node-Red.? I now see it is possible to "separate" the FRStack "server" from the Node-Red flows because the server and each Flex API function can be accessed with FRStack HTTP commands directed to the ip:5025 address of the server, from any device.? You can see a list of the commands in Mark's instructions.? More on this in the future.

I am going slow, testing out each new idea.? Mark's flows are informative, but I am using them as a template to design my own flows.? I have "disabled" all of Mark's flows?to ensure they do not interfere?with my Flex's operation in ways I may not understand yet.

Since I operate my station in multiplex (two clients), I am waiting for Mark to make changes to the client selector, which is not working for me yet.

I have written my own Node-Red flow for meters, which uses the web socket from Mark's flow.? Working well so far.? I just imported Mark's meter flow to my "production pi" and changed the ip address of the socket back to the FRStack pi.

I also moved my HF-Auto frequency to pi FRStack,?using its UDP broadcasts. ? Mark's UDP broadcast delivers an "N1MM" format, which has all of the slices and their frequencies.? Here are the details to configure the pi FRStack;

-In Mark's instructions, at the bottom, he shows the "configuration file". ?

?

Using your terminal program to access the pi with FRStack, make changes to the "UDP Settings":

?-Enter the command, "sudo nano /user/local/frstack/appsettings.json"

This will give you super user, nano text editor, pointed to the settings file.

?-Make the changes, then control (key) "o" to save the file. ?(see the list of commands on the bottom of the text editor)

-Re-boot your pi.

<Screen Shot 2020-07-30 at 11.26.40 AM.png>

For reference, here is what the configuration looks like in Windows FRSTack:

<Screen Shot 2020-07-30 at 11.42.33 AM.png>

Be sure to "disable" the UDP broadcast node from Dave's flow?to HF-Auto, from Node-Red.? You can keep the Green Heron UDP broadcast to maintain that function.

Here is what you will see in HF-Auto:

<Screen Shot 2020-07-30 at 11.38.59 AM.png>

?Alan

WA9WUD

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:00 AM Bret Mills <bret.wx7y@...> wrote:

? Hello to the group, I received my Pi4 yesterday and got FRStack up and running last night thanks to Dave's and Mark's information.?

Having a fellow Ham friend that is building a FRStack / Pi box?and having issues following the Documentation Maybe I can make a suggestion?for some of the guys out here that are not in the mix of things, in the Documentation maybe add some way other then Bold text that separates the "commands" or content of the "X11" file from the comments,? The checkBoxes?like Elecraft or HeathKit used may be a great way to do it BUT THIS is JUST an Idea and really appreciate Dave's hard work on the Documentation.

I have a question for you Gurus, What Flows are compatible?with FRStack and which ones aren't and not needed specifically?I have the?following hardware?and Flows

FLEX6700 "Flexradio"?

FLEX6600M? "Flexradio"?

PGXL Amp? "PG-XL"

HF-Auto? "HF Auto & GHE"

DLI Power Switches? "DLI Switch" (OLDER FLOW non API"

W2 WattMeter? "W2 Wattmeter"

Other Flows I use

Hosts Monitor

VITA49

Raspberry Monitoring

W2 WattMeter

Thanks again guys and I am learning just slow for me between work and home duties?

73

Bret

WX7Y