[TangerineSDR] [EXTERNAL] RX888D - how to start ?

[Bob Stricklin]

All,

Regarding the rx888 devices that are not working…

Reviewing the information in the EZ-USB FX3/FX3S boot options posted by Franco:

Section 6.1 indicates the device only supports USB 2.0.

Also the USB  descriptor may change depending on the boot option selected with the three jumper pads and masked firmware progression in the device.

VID=0x04B4 and PID=0x00F3 is an example ID of I2C rolling over to USB boot.

In ubuntu use “lsusb" to view the USB devices on your system.

Note there are three logical states on the boot option select pads, 0, 1, and Z.  This is a trick used to provide more options on a small number of programming pins. The implementation of the Z obtain in the IC is important and may have an issue in the device. There are 9 possible states and they have listed 5 of the states. The others probably put the dice in test modes or un-documented operational modes.

Bob





On Jul 25, 2023, at 9:32 AM, Bill Engelke via TangerineSDR <tangerinesdr at lists.tapr.org<mailto:tangerinesdr at lists.tapr.org>> wrote:

Tom – Actually, my advice on this (from yesterday) very likely is obsolete; KA9Q has made major changes to the system, so I don’t know if the earlier guidance on how to build the system still works. Potentially, Franco’s info is better at this time…   -73- Bill

From: TangerineSDR <tangerinesdr-bounces at lists.tapr.org<mailto:tangerinesdr-bounces at lists.tapr.org>> On Behalf Of Tom McDermott via TangerineSDR
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Subject: Re: [TangerineSDR] [EXTERNAL] RX888D - how to start ?

Hi Bill.  I do not know about edits to the makefile, are those documented somewhere?
I ran make (and make install) on the makefile as distributed by git (unedited) and it completed without errors. It created
rx888.o   but no file called rx888d.something

-- Tom, N5EG



On Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 6:31 PM Bill Engelke via TangerineSDR <tangerinesdr at lists.tapr.org<mailto:tangerinesdr at lists.tapr.org>> wrote:
Tom – did  you edit the makefile and run a make? You have to compile rx888d – 73- Bill

From: TangerineSDR <tangerinesdr-bounces at lists.tapr.org<mailto:tangerinesdr-bounces at lists.tapr.org>> On Behalf Of Tom McDermott via TangerineSDR
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Cc: Tom McDermott <tom.n5eg at gmail.com<mailto:tom.n5eg at gmail.com>>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [TangerineSDR] RX888D - how to start ?

The RX888D MKII has been received, installed ka9q-radio, created fft nwisdom, installed & started avahi.

In trying to start rx888d as standalone, and as daemon, there seem to be missing some files.

./rx888d g5rv &   - fails no such file or directory

The only things $find / -name 'rx88*'    found are:

/home/tom/ka9q-radio/rx888d at .service<mailto:/home/tom/ka9q-radio/rx888d at .service>
/home/tom/ka9q-radio/rx888.h
/home/tom/ka9q-radio/rx888.o
/home/tom/ka9q-radio/rx888.c
/home/tom/ka9q-radio/rx888d.conf

Thus the command(s) to run rx888d fail.  Was an rx888d executable supposed to be generated?

-- Tom, N5EG
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