WFViiew not connecting "Seatching CI-V bus for connected radios"

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Operating system : Mint 22
Method of download: Debian Build Script (recommended)
https://gitlab.com/eliggett/scripts/-/blob/master/fullbuild-wfview.sh

Radio make and Model: IC 7610

Method of connectivity: Ethernet
FAQ and Manual checked

Radio: IC 7610
CI-V USB Baud rate: 19200
CI-V USB ECHO BACK: ON
CI-V address: 98h
CI-V Transceive:ON
Network USER ID : W0SP
Network USER ID password: inserted
Network radio name: IC 7610
When “Connect to Radio” WFView app returns “Searching CI-V bus for connected radios”
Lower right hand corner of WFView app responds with “NONE”

Computer does ping the radio:
fred@hamshack:~$ ping -c 5 192.168.0.10
PING 192.168.0.10 (192.168.0.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=4.36 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=9.74 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.76 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=3.69 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.10: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=13.7 ms

— 192.168.0.10 ping statistics —
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3.689/7.046/13.680/4.012 ms

Log link:/tmp/wfview-20250217125020.log

I did manage to get WFView, WSJT-X, Grid tracker and AC log to connect and work
beautifully on Win 10 so I’m really excited to get this to work on Mint as I cant
wait to ditch Windows :slight_smile:

Thanks for your development and reponse…
F…

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Can you verify that:

  1. CI-V Transceive is turned on, on the radio’s menu?
  2. You have not checked any of the CI-V options in wfview.

—E
de W6EL

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  1. CI-V Transceive is turned on, on the radio’s menu? Yes
  2. You have not checked any of the CI-V options in wfview. True
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It is worth checking the log, but my suspicion is that wfview isn’t receiving a response back from the radio, which is often caused by a networking issue, potentially a firewall on your PC is blocking the traffic coming back from the radio?

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Phil thanx for the response. The firewall does sound suspect. Ill give that another look.
73… Fred

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Phil… you were right ON! Thanx… l kept looking at my radio settings and found that my radio IP address was 192.168.0.10. When I checked with the router I found that it had set my ICOM to192.168.1.18😁 Problem solved. WFView now works as advertised. Im very pleased… thanx for the help…73 Fred

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