Extracted wfview-1.o.linux.tar.gz … Extracted to a folder. Now what? I see a install.sh but doesnt do what I would expect as nothing happen when I select the wfview icon in file.
?? Ideas ?
Allen
Hi Allen,
I think the install.sh script just copies wfview in to your system. You can then launch wfview as you usually would, and remove the files from fview-1.o.linux.tar.gz.
Copy/paste the text in here if that does not work.
Thanks,
–E
de W6EL
Put the tar.gz build of wfview-1. Ran sudo ./install.sh. Got the usual “install in root”, said yes.
Found the file in menu. Dragged to desktop. Clicked and selected open. Nothing happened.
When I extracted the file it put all in a “dist” folder. Is that normal? Thats where all the files were.
HERE IS RESULTS:
pi@wb7sww-pi:~/Downloads/dist $ ls
CHANGELOG install.sh qdarkstyle wfview.desktop
INSTALL_PREBUILT_BINARY.md Makefile wfview wfview.png
pi@wb7sww-pi:~/Downloads/dist $ sudo ./install.sh
This script copies the following items into your system:
icon: wfview.png to /usr/share/pixmaps/
wfview application to /usr/local/bin/
wfview.desktop to /usr/share/applications/
qdarkstyle stylesheet to /usr/share/wfview/stylesheets
This script MUST be run from the build directory. Do not run it from the source directory!
Do you wish to continue? (Y/N): y
Copying files now.
Done!
pi@wb7sww-pi:~/Downloads/dist $
Wfview icon is on desktop. click “open” nothing happens.
Allen
Hi Allen,
It looks like you followed the directions correctly. I don’t see any issues with what you pasted in.
There could be an error with how wfview is accessing various system libraries, can you please drop to a terminal and just type wfview and hit enter? See if you can launch it from the terminal, it may show you a useful error.
Thanks,
–E
de W6EL
if you type “wfview” in a terminal/console, what error does it spit out?
what os do you use?
I wish I did get an error statement. Nothing happens, hourglass icon is there for a few seconds, then nothing.
This is a new build on RaspberryPi 4B, Rasbious Buster, 2021-03-04. Clean install, then used software by KM4ACK called “Build-a-Pi”, which installs programs of your choice to be built onto the pi. Lots of Ham type software ,(WSJTX, FLDIGI suite, Pat, ARDOP, etc) as well as several useful programs. The install works, just cant get wfview to kick in. The pi 4B is 8G system 64bit. Like I said this is a “new” build.
Allen
Normally using Elliot script it will install in the Internet folder of the start menu. try starting wfview from there or right click and add desktop shortcut.
Peter
That is where I got the desktop icon. All seems ok, just nothing is launching, not even an error
message.
I have the same problem on a pi4. The response at the terminal is “cannot execute binary file: Exec format error”
Gary
W9TD
I installed version 1.0 on w10 latest release (21H1), i use it via my wireless lan. When i start wfview everything looks ok, but it WFVIEW suffers from many interruptions on the LAN and then after a while stops working, after disconnecting and connect again in the settings tab, the whole story starts again. The strange thing is that RS-BA1 on the same computer with the same configuration runs very smooth without interruptions. I don’t understand why one program runs fine and the other not. I have to mention that 2.4Ghz here in the town is very crowded!! But why is one program having problems with is and the other not? I prefer WFVIEW its UI and the way it functions are build.
73 de PA0GSM
Hi Gary.
There is currently no binary available for Raspberry Pi, your only option is to compile from source at the moment. INSTALL.md · master · Elliott Liggett / wfview · GitLab describes the process.
One change though, due to the limited RAM of the Pi, you need to run “make -j2” not “make -j”
73 Phil
Hi Gerard.
It is very difficult to say, generally in testing we have found wfview to be more tolerant of unstable network connections than RS-BA1.
Log file | wfview Has information regarding running in debug mode and collecting logs. You should then be able to post the log file here and we can have a look at what is happening.
73 Phil M0VSE
Phil,
As requested, the last part of the logfile:
2021-05-26 17:06:35.588 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2512 to 251a
2021-05-26 17:06:35.588 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2520 to 2520
2021-05-26 17:06:35.588 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2522 to 2524
2021-05-26 17:06:35.588 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2526 to 2528
2021-05-26 17:06:35.741 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 252f to 2532
2021-05-26 17:06:35.741 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2535 to 2535
2021-05-26 17:06:35.822 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2539 to 253b
2021-05-26 17:06:35.822 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 253d to 253d
2021-05-26 17:06:35.822 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 253f to 253f
2021-05-26 17:06:35.822 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2542 to 2542
2021-05-26 17:06:35.863 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2544 to 2548
2021-05-26 17:06:35.863 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 254a to 254e
2021-05-26 17:06:35.863 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2550 to 2550
2021-05-26 17:06:35.863 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2552 to 2553
2021-05-26 17:06:36.061 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2555 to 2555
2021-05-26 17:06:36.061 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2557 to 2557
2021-05-26 17:06:36.061 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 255a to 255a
2021-05-26 17:06:36.061 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 255d to 255f
2021-05-26 17:06:36.182 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2565 to 2568
2021-05-26 17:06:36.182 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 256b to 256e
2021-05-26 17:06:36.182 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2570 to 2576
2021-05-26 17:06:36.182 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2578 to 2578
2021-05-26 17:06:36.182 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 257b to 257e
2021-05-26 17:06:36.182 INF audio: Output Missing audio packet(s) from: 2580 to 2588
2021-05-26 17:06:36.580 INF audio: Output Audio now in stopped state: 0 packets in buffer
2021-05-26 17:06:36.599 INF audio: Input Audio now in stopped state: 10 packets in buffer
2021-05-26 17:06:36.599 INF udp: Closing UDP stream : “192.168.2.4” : 50003
2021-05-26 17:06:36.599 INF udp: Closing UDP stream : “192.168.2.4” : 50002
2021-05-26 17:06:36.599 INF udp: Sending token removal packet
2021-05-26 17:06:36.599 INF udp: Closing UDP stream : “192.168.2.4” : 50001
Have a RaspberryPi 4B 8gig of ram comming. See if that puppy works with same SD Card img.
Thumbs crossed…
Allen
Hi Allen,
In my experience, switching a card between two Pi machines only works if they are exactly the same model. I tried going from a 3 to a 4 once and the Pi 4 corrupted the image and the Pi 3 could not longer use it… Times may have changed, but it is risky business. On the other hand, if the only change is the ram you should be ok (I would think…).
–E
de W6EL
Have etched a backup … been burned before 
That did the trick!! Guess the old ways sometimes work the best, even if not the easy way. I also used your script and saved it.
ow to install wfview
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Install prerequisites:
(Note, some packages may have slightly different version numbers, this should be ok for minor differences.)
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install qt5-qmake
sudo apt-get install qt5-default
sudo apt-get install libqt5core5a
sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev
sudo apt-get install libqt5serialport5 libqt5serialport5-dev
sudo apt-get install libqt5multimedia5
sudo apt-get install libqt5multimedia5-plugins
sudo apt-get install qtmultimedia5-dev
sudo apt-get install git
Now you need to install qcustomplot. There are two versions that are commonly found in linux distros: 1.3 and 2.0. Either will work fine. If you are not sure which version your linux install comes with, simply run both commands. One will work and the other will fail, and that’s fine!
qcustomplot1.3 for older linux versions (Linux Mint 19.x, Ubuntu 18.04):
sudo apt-get install libqcustomplot1.3 libqcustomplot-doc libqcustomplot-dev
qcustomplot2 for newer linux versions (Linux Mint 20, Ubuntu 19, Rasbian V?, Debian 10):
sudo apt-get install libqcustomplot2.0 libqcustomplot-doc libqcustomplot-dev
optional for those that want to work on the code using the QT Creator IDE:
sudo apt-get install qtcreator qtcreator-doc -
Clone wfview to a local directory on your computer:
cd ~/Documents
git clone https://gitlab.com/eliggett/wfview.git -
Create a build directory, compile, and install:
mkdir build
cd build
qmake …/wfview/wfview.pro
make -j
sudo ./install.sh -
You can now launch wfview, either from the terminal or from your desktop environment. If you encounter issues using the serial port, run the following command:
if you are using the wireless 705 or any networked rig like the 7610, 7800, 785x, there is no need to use USB so below is not needed.
sudo chown $USER /dev/ttyUSB*
Note, on most linux systems, you just need to add your user to the dialout group, which is persistent and more secure:
sudo usermod -aG dialout $USER
Thanks Again!
Allen WB7SWW
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Yes, didnt install that section.
RaspberryPi 4B 8gig RAM arrived today. Got it in a case with fan and put in the SD card imaged for the other pi4 and it ran, and FLDIGI worked, except to VFO tracking. Was able to decode CW on 20 meter.
Now both are working with FLDIGI. Maybe a gremlin in the shack. I thought maybe a memory thing. Then ran free -h and got these results on each.
NEW PI 4B
pi@wb7sww-pi:~ $ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7Gi 451Mi 6.9Gi 72Mi 390Mi 7.0Gi
Swap: 99Mi 0B 99Mi
pi@wb7sww-pi:~ $
PI4B OLD
pi@wb7sww-pi:~ $ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7Gi 453Mi 6.8Gi 90Mi 442Mi 6.9Gi
Swap: 99Mi 0B 99Mi
pi@wb7sww-pi:~ $
Interesting stuff,