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by VE3RD
Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:40 pm
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Math utilty bc
Replies: 10
Views: 736

Re: Math utilty bc

I changed GroupsFile=nextionGroups.txt to GroupsFile=groups.txt The Raw image has no NextionDriver Section The problem ONLY arose when Robert set the screen type=Nextion and did an apply changes, This added the PiStar version of the NextionDriver Section, which I had to remove. If we run our IND42.s...
by VE3RD
Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:19 pm
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Math utilty bc
Replies: 10
Views: 736

Re: Math utilty bc

Thanks Andy Robert installed a clean 4.2.1 and could not get his screen to come alive. I played with the sequence he used to configure the hotspot and found that if there is no NextionDriver section in /etc/mmdvmhost and we set Display type to Nextion then Pi-Star sets a Nextion Driver section that ...
by VE3RD
Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:04 pm
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Math utilty bc
Replies: 10
Views: 736

Re: Math utilty bc

@MW0MWZ I revised our script to assume the nextion driver binary is already loaded and added a few things that were loaded by the on7lds install script and were not present in the image. Item 2 in the script must be run in order to get the nextion driver to function in a TGIFSPOT One thing that you ...
by VE3RD
Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:00 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Math utilty bc
Replies: 10
Views: 736

Re: Math utilty bc

Nextion Driver Version is 1.25, the same as in the image not sure of all the bc functions other than deg F/C conversions SendUserDataMask Choose for which pages all user data (if found) is sent. Set the bit for the corresponding page : For TGIF Spots we set 0b00000001 DStar - No 0b00000010 DMR - yes...
by VE3RD
Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:47 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Math utilty bc
Replies: 10
Views: 736

Math utilty bc

The nextion screens we use on the TGIF Spots requires "bc" to do some computations We run a script that sets the USB2Serial Interface, and sets either Degrees F or C and loads the NextionDrtiver section into /etc/mmdvmhost and sets SendUserDataMask=0b00011110 Then it loads bc and sets a fi...
by VE3RD
Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:16 pm
Forum: Pi-Star General Support
Topic: nextion.py - Python 3 conversion for 4.2.0 and 4.2.0
Replies: 3
Views: 190

Re: nextion.py - Python 3 conversion for 4.2.0 and 4.2.0

Thankyou Andy
I had a little twiddling on the setup script, but it all worked out
Works like a charm

Thankyou
Phil Ve3Rd
by VE3RD
Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:56 pm
Forum: Pi-Star General Support
Topic: nextion.py - Python 3 conversion for 4.2.0 and 4.2.0
Replies: 3
Views: 190

nextion.py - Python 3 conversion for 4.2.0 and 4.2.0

Just a followup

sudo python3 nextion3.py /home/pi-star/Nextion_Temp/NX3224K024.tft /dev/ttyUSB0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi-star/Scripts/nextion3.py", line 19, in <module>
import serial
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'serial'
by VE3RD
Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:12 pm
Forum: Pi-Star General Support
Topic: nextion.py on 4.2.0 and 4.3.0
Replies: 2
Views: 62

nextion.py on 4.2.0 and 4.3.0

I just installed the 4.2.0 DMRGateway(my version) working fine Nextion 2,4" Screen(TGIFSpot) working Fine The problem I ran into was a commandline python script to flash the nextion screen. (a new image can be flashed from the screen so this is no biggie) There is a script called nextion.py tha...
by VE3RD
Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:55 pm
Forum: DMR Specific Support
Topic: Pi-Star DMR Net Turns Red and Won't Connect to Private XLX Reflector
Replies: 16
Views: 12527

Re: Pi-Star DMR Net Turns Red and Won't Connect to Private XLX Reflector

Hostfilesupdate will just make changes to existing entries. However if you wish to add an entry, create a script as follows to run after Hostfilesupdate. Create a Script with the following code if [ -f "/root/XLXHosts.txt" ]; then cat /root/XLXHosts.txt >> /usr/local/etc/XLXHosts.txt fi . ...
by VE3RD
Thu Oct 26, 2023 1:58 pm
Forum: DMR Specific Support
Topic: Pi-Star DMR Net Turns Red and Won't Connect to Private XLX Reflector
Replies: 16
Views: 12527

Re: Pi-Star DMR Net Turns Red and Won't Connect to Private XLX Reflector

I am no expert on D-star, just a newbie myself. I have leaned a few things in the last week as I got myself onto several reflectors using different protocols. You mentioned a couple of things that have me puzzled. 1) I am very happy with is the ability to direct-connect DMR to XLX, without having to...