IC-7610 no waterfall/control

Usage Questions
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Hi! First: WFView looks great! Second… I’m struggling to get anything other than audio when I setup WFView. I’ve seen other threads about setting CIV USB Baud to 115200 (done) and CIV Transceive to “ON”.

When I connect over lan, I get audio right away, but, no ability to control or no waterfall view. I’ve tried fussing with a few other settings and I note that if I check Radio Status, it shows CIV baud rate at 19200, which on my 7610 I have CI-V Baud Rate (first menu item in CI-V) at “AUTO”. Further down for CI-V USB Port, unlink, then, 115100, and Echo to “ON”

Here is a debug log: https://termbin.com/uumt

I fussed with using USB, but, couldn’t make that play at all. I feel that there is a setting in the rig I haven’t found yet :).

73,

Joe KC0VKN

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Hi Joe,

Can you try sending that log again? We seem to be missing the top half where I could tell a bit more about your setup.

Make sure the waterfall is showing on the radio. The Icom radios will not produce waterfall data unless it is shown on the screen.

Verify that you have not checked any of the CI-V related checkboxes under Radio Access.

Don’t use USB, the experience is much better with LAN.

We don’t need ECHO ON, but it should not matter for the LAN setup.

–E
de W6EL

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Thanks Elliott,

[Edit]
After responding, I went to another system, installed an older version of wfview out of it’s repos (1.64)–all is well. Control and waterfall are present.

Here is a fresh one that I didn’t clear: https://termbin.com/vf6u

Here I turned rig on, open wfview, then went to log, turned on debug, disconnected/reconnected rig.

Lower right says “NONE”.

wfview version: 2.04 (Git:28459f7 on Feb 25 2025 at 09:58:53 by
Operating System: Manjaro Linux (x86_64)
Build Qt Version 5.15.16. Current Qt Version: 5.15.16

I had only tried USB as a test to see if that would work when LAN didn’t.
I’ve tried no waterfall, single waterfall, dual waterfall on the IC display to no effect.

Thank you!

J

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The important things are these lines:

2025-02-27 05:21:36.584 INF rig: "No rig definition found for CI-V address: 0x98, using defaults (some functions may not be available)"
2025-02-27 05:21:36.584 WRN rig: No default rig definition found, cannot continue (sorry!)

This suggests that the default directory for rig files isn’t being found. This works fine on all Debian/Unbuntu/Mint and various other distributions, but I am not aware of anybody testing on Manjaro.

How did you install wfview? The default rig files should be installed in /usr/local/share/wfview/rigs (assuming /usr/local is your default prefix)

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Thanks Phil; I had noticed that, as well as this:

2025-02-27 05:21:19.794 INF default: Searching for radios with Manufacturer = 0
2025-02-27 05:21:19.794 WRN default: ********* Rig directory does not exist ********

This came out of Arch AUR, I note there hasn’t been much activity on that port in a couple of years, other than an update. I’ll investigate that.

For someone else, the port lacks /usr/share/wfview/rigs I simply pulled down the rigs.zip from the nightly builds folder and put it there and all works.

Thank you folks,

Joe KC0VKN

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Ahh ok, this is all made clear now :slight_smile: thank you for the details.

Looks like that AUR needs a minor update with regards to performing make install for the resulting system, which installs the stylesheets and the rig files.

Any chance you can leave a comment on the AUR package page for other users to notice?

–E
de W6EL

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I will; I was going to try and submit a patch to the maintainer.

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