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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Tom,</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">for the RX888 to be functional under Windows you have to install the Cypress USB driver for Windows - Simon Brown has detailed instructions in this page: <a href="https://www.sdr-radio.com/rx-666">https://www.sdr-radio.com/rx-666</a> under the 'Drivers' section (his instructions refer to a similar and older model, the RX-666, but they apply to the RX888 too).</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Franco K4VZ</span>
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On 07/25/2023 5:38 PM EDT Tom McDermott via TangerineSDR <tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org> wrote:
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Thanks, Dave, Bob, Franco.
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Using the syntax Dave specified above, radiod starts, brings up the RX888, downloads it, and says that it has started streaming. VID=0x04B4 VID=0x00F3.
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Now it's time to start learning monitor, et al....
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PS: I tried SImon Brown's SDRConsole V3.2 on WIndows 10 on this same computer but it is not able to discover the RX888 MkII plugged
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into the same USB3 connector.. The SDR Console build number is sufficiently current that the instructions say it should work.
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Windows does not see my RX888 MKII enumerate at all.
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-- Tom, N5EG
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 1:47 PM Bob Stricklin via TangerineSDR <<a href="mailto:tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org">tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org</a>> wrote:
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All,
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Regarding the rx888 devices that are not working…
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Reviewing the information in the EZ-USB FX3/FX3S boot options posted by Franco:
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Section 6.1 indicates the device only supports USB 2.0.
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Also the USB descriptor may change depending on the boot option selected with the three jumper pads and masked firmware progression in the device.
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<span style="font-family: SourceSansPro; font-size: 11pt;">VID=0x04B4 and PID=0x00F3 is an example ID of I2C rolling over to USB boot.</span>
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<span style="font-family: SourceSansPro;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">In ubuntu use “lsusb" to view the USB devices on your system. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: SourceSansPro;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">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.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: SourceSansPro;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Bob</span></span>
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On Jul 25, 2023, at 9:32 AM, Bill Engelke via TangerineSDR <<a href="mailto:tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org</a>> wrote:
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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<u></u><u></u>
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<strong>From:</strong> TangerineSDR <<a href="mailto:tangerinesdr-bounces@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tangerinesdr-bounces@lists.tapr.org</a>> <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Tom McDermott via TangerineSDR
<br><strong>Sent:</strong> Monday, July 24, 2023 9:37 PM
<br><strong>To:</strong> TAPR TangerineSDR Modular Software Defined Radio <<a href="mailto:tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org</a>>
<br><strong>Cc:</strong> Tom McDermott <<a href="mailto:tom.n5eg@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tom.n5eg@gmail.com</a>>
<br><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [TangerineSDR] [EXTERNAL] RX888D - how to start ?<u></u><u></u>
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Hi Bill. I do not know about edits to the makefile, are those documented somewhere?<u></u><u></u>
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I ran make (and make install) on the makefile as distributed by git (unedited) and it completed without errors. It created<u></u><u></u>
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rx888.o but no file called rx888d.something<u></u><u></u>
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-- Tom, N5EG <u></u><u></u>
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 6:31 PM Bill Engelke via TangerineSDR <<a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u>
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Tom – did you edit the makefile and run a make? You have to compile rx888d – 73- Bill<u></u><u></u>
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<strong>From:</strong> TangerineSDR <<a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:tangerinesdr-bounces@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tangerinesdr-bounces@lists.tapr.org</a>> <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Tom McDermott via TangerineSDR
<br><strong>Sent:</strong> Monday, July 24, 2023 6:40 PM
<br><strong>To:</strong> <a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:hamsci@googlegroups.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hamsci@googlegroups.com</a>; TAPR TangerineSDR Modular Software Defined Radio <<a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org</a>>
<br><strong>Cc:</strong> Tom McDermott <<a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:tom.n5eg@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tom.n5eg@gmail.com</a>>
<br><strong>Subject:</strong> [EXTERNAL] [TangerineSDR] RX888D - how to start ?<u></u><u></u>
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The RX888D MKII has been received, installed ka9q-radio, created fft nwisdom, installed & started avahi.<u></u><u></u>
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In trying to start rx888d as standalone, and as daemon, there seem to be missing some files. <u></u><u></u>
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./rx888d g5rv & - fails no such file or directory<u></u><u></u>
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The only things $find / -name 'rx88*' found are:<u></u><u></u>
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<a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://connect.xfinity.com/appsuite/mailto:/home/tom/ka9q-radio/rx888d@.service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">/home/tom/ka9q-radio/rx888d@.service</a>
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Thus the command(s) to run rx888d fail. Was an rx888d executable supposed to be generated?<u></u><u></u>
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