going to create a new raspberry Pi 4 8gb looks good. 73 from Chino Valley, AZ. Interested in rv and ham radio. look forward to your videos. W6CEF going on 43 years now.
Before I got in to HAM, someone had me image HamClock on a Pi for him, not knowing what any of it was. Then he sent me photos of it being used in his shack, and I thought it was pretty cool. Now that I’ve got myself in to deep with radios, I want to dive deeper, and do something I’m familiar with like the Pi.
So this is where I say "Man I gotta get me some of that". Looks like this is my next move for SDR and field work. Thanks for pushing the hobby forward.
This looks interesting. There is another brilliant Amateur radio setup for the PI by Jason, KM4ACK. Jason has equally done a great job with his 'Build a Pi' Its what I now use for home and portable operations on my 2 off Pi4 4Mb devices. 73 Bruce G4ABX
I'm wondering how it does in comparison to the pi build script from KM4ACK. In the sense of which one would you prefer, Kevin. Otherwise it looks interesting.
Jason's build is more field and emergency coms related. Build a customised scalpel versus install an end boss leatherman tool. Having said that, to compliment my headless, bugout Build A Pi, I'll be setting up HamPi for exclusive use in the shack.
So I've had a chance to go through this. I will say it is excellent in terms of ease. Pretty easy. Just image a sd card and you're off to the races. Very little fuss. I was a bit annoyed at the QSLWare - an annoying pop up message that the author will show you how to get rid of AFTER you send him a qsl card. Easily undone if you know what your doing. Most people don't. I also didn't like the fact that this build will use my unused CPU cycles to look for aliens or whatever. Give me a choice. Don't just do something like that. I ended up wiping the SD card clean, and trying out KM4ACK's build a pi script. A bit more involved, but I get choices as to what gets installed. No annoying pop ups, and nothing I didn't ask for gets installed or configured. This is the 2nd time I've tried it and it is much improved and the results are pretty cool. I would encourage people to experiment and use what best works for them!
Thanks Kevin. I had actually downloaded this awhile back, but found how to load flrig and WSJT-X so I could run wspr with my 7300 (thanks for to your video on that also). Your video gave me the push to learn to flash an image (well that wasn't so hard) and install it on my Pi.
I already have my Pi4 configured as my shack and mobile ham PC using the excellent KM4ACK Build-A-Pi script. However, I do love the concept of the pre-configured HamPi image. Great job Dave. The menu organization looks very easy to use. I'm surprised you didn't know that VOACAPGUI is an HF prediction program. I guess even the experts haven't seen everything. 😀
Great talk on HamPi Kevin. I have been active on FT8 for over 3 years. Bought a IC-7300 a year back and just received the HamPi 4B 8G version after Kevin’s Utube. Connected USB configured FT8 out of the box and within 5 minutes had my first QSO. Outstanding, simple very cost effective way to get active on WSJTX, WSPR and other digital modes. G4PEY. Extra. Found to be as good on FT8 as my i5 Dell. It is less prone to RFI.
Great review Kevin, thanks very much. I've been messing around with installing HAM radio software on a Raspberry Pi 3 and struggling to get it all to work. HAM Pi looks like it will be ideal for me, especially for mobile operations.
Yo Kevin:! Great video as usual ..I wondered when you & Josh would combine . A lot of the binary talk is Greek to me tho ... Motor on & be safe! 73's ! de seeker Jeffrey WA7LFP
Thanks! This brought me back to the year 1994 when I bought my first Amsoft callbook CD loaded with ham programs. It sure is about time! Awesome video!
Hi, do you have an image for doing the same in a normal pc? I would like to make a bootable pendrive with packet radio tools configured and working? What do you suggest? 73´s Diego LU2DVY grid locator GF05MT
Wow, thanks Kevin, and thanks Dave. Excellent video. I had real trouble setting up gqrx on x86 machines in Ubuntu so that's already a bonus. I'm replacing a full desktop with a Pi so I WILL be using HamPi after seeing this. Brilliant 👍🏻 73s M7GTX P.s. I am a software developer, but also like to keep things simple 👍🏻
Out standing I believe in love to give into this and see what it's all about I've heard a lot about Linux so maybe this be the way through the door but what else do I need to go with it that I don't know thank you have a good day
Thanks for video Kevin. Hats off to Dave W3DJS. I will give this distro a go as there are one two apps I have not tried. This is a great idea which saves lots of time downloading, installing and tweeking which all the usual hams apps tend to require on different hardware/distros. Making it easy", this is where I feel Linux could still be better in terms of attracting folk away from Windows and MacOS? This distribution makes it easy and I wouldn't be surprised if it proves to be quite popular.
Thanks for the presentation Kevin! And I too would to talk Dave for his painstaking effort. I backed off of Ham on my Pi3 because of the effort it takes getting software installed, and I heard the micro SD cards don't last very long before they go bad. Great video!
I’ve been using v. 1.0 for a couple of months, and like it alot. The OS has a VNC server built in, so I run it headless. I overclock to 2ghz and that makes it considerably more responsive. I’m using a pi 4 with 4gb of ram. I haven’t seen ram usage go over 2 gb. Some people run the digital mode programs on pi 3, so we have a lot of flexibility re hardware.
Thanks Kevin! I want one! I've shied away from Pis in the past because of all the Linux stuff but this seems more my style. This Pi might actually help me get on the air.
That is a great setup and nice to have all the software already there. But, you should check out KM4ACK channel and his Build - A - Pi script that he has seup. All sorts of amateur radio software. You can do FT8, APRS, JS8 Call, pretty much everything that is there. I have been using it for 2 years now. Saved my Raspberry Pi from the garbage can. It has the capability for going out and looking for updates for the software. Juddie - WD8WV
The link you have in the description is not a link to the img file. The "source code" link is just that - source code. I did a quick search and found the Groups dot io group for Ham Pi and found a link to the latest prebuilt image there, just fyi. Maybe update it in the description. Edit: Thanks for the update, great video. I sent a note to my local club, I think this might just be one of our discussion topics at next month's meeting. We're still doing meetings via Zoom, I think this sort of topic works well with online meetings.
Kevin, thanks for the review. You forgot to mention one very important point, which I only discovered just as I was about to write the image and was reading the README.docx. This statement - QUOTE: "ATTENTION: So I don’t get publicly tarred and feathered for not disclosing this openly, please be aware by running this image on your Raspberry Pi that you consent to giving your idle cpu cycles to radio telescope research, such as looking for pulsars. If you do not agree with this, do not run the image. Again, this will not interfere with your usage - this only uses cpu cycles when your Raspberry Pi is idle. Disk use is also minimal. (1/1000 or less) (For what it’s worth, I also operate my Raspberry Pi 4 this way.) Note that an exception to this requirement has been added for EMCOMM (ARES/RACES) and Field use where no AC power is available." No option - you can only not bother to install if you don't agree - I am planning to use a RaspPi in the field primarily and am making a man-pack portable setup, so this is now useless... Not to mention I will not use on principle as this goes against one of my most strongly held principles for Linux - CHOICE. I'd probably try it and see how it was IF I HAD A CHOICE. I know it isn't your fault, but I think it should be mentioned. Since I don't have a choice I will simply not bother wasting my time. I'll instead clean install RaspbianOS and use Jason KM4ACK's github script to install everything I need. I'm familiar enough with Linux and RaspPi 's to install whatever else I need if I'm missing something. You might want to check out his script and review it also.
This! Man, I was just coming here to comment on this. I was poking around the file system and noticed it was loading boinc (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) on every boot. It's not that I don't think it's a good cause, but some people plan to operate in the field, perhaps on a mobile tethered network that's data capped, plus SD cards are notorious for wearing out quickly. He could at least allow some sort of tick box to enable/disable the "feature". That said, if you would like it disabled, it's a very simple task. Open a terminal (CTRL+ALT +T) then follow these instructions: enter: sudo nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart delete the line with : @/home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/boinc.sh save the file by pressing CTRL+O followed by CTRL+X then enter: sudo reboot This will prevent boinc from being launched after boot up. PS There's another "nagging" line in there that may be of interest to some too ;)
Ha Ha know the feeling. I've got it in my study study study sack. I've got a 3+ I'd love to set up. These little power houses could do everything I need. They would free up laptops and probably work better. One would run my 7300, mostly with JS8 (which is included) but occasionally going over to FLDIGI to do some other modes.
Very interesting. I've got a pi3b+ and wanted to be accessing it more often when I sit down in the shack, can you direct me how to install this. I greatly appreciate it.
The image you downloaded needs to be written to an micro-SDcard which you then install in the Pi. There are many ways to write the image to the card, depending on which OS you run. You're not copying the file to the card, you're writing the file to the card, bit by bit. Here's one of many guides. learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/sd-cards-and-writing-images/all
Update on my previous comment, I'm finally getting around to installing my new 8 Gig Pi, just downloading HamPi. Distro now 3.5Gig download :-) 73s M7GTX
I've been recently working on putting good apps onto an Ubuntu Laptop for use with HamRadio, but this looks quite intriguing. I have a spare RaspberyPi on a shelf that I was thinking about for a wall-mounted kitchen computer, but this may be a better use for it.
Thank you very much for this video Kevin. I've been sitting on the edge of the fence deciding whether to jump in. You just cleverly nudged me off my perch.
Thanks for the info! Now why had I never seen mention of this distro anywhere?! I'll have to give this a try. I've heard of DragonOS, and I run piSDR OS, but those are general radio oriented. I will have to run HamPi and just install those other packages.
I believe there is APRS software included, obviously you would need some kind of rig interface to connect your radio. Something like a signalink or my own Duinovox.
Looks really good! Guess I need a Pi to try :) I recently tried the Skywave 4 distro......what a disappointment. The software included is great BUT the choice of window manager (i3) is terrible. Programmers should stick to coding.....and not make decisions on the interface. I was able to get it going....but it was VERY unfriendly. Thanks! de KG4CNA
Kevin thanks for reviewing and sharing! Wow there's a lot of stuff going on there. How much space does the entire program require? Thank's again to you and Dave! 73
Great Video and Great work ! there is also the "build a pi" from KM4ACK full with all the ham radio programs that run also on RPIpi 3 and 4 but there is no SDR programs and drivers installed. I build it on top of the rasperry pi image from SDR Play. Stay Safe Kevin :) 73! DE1CTL.
It can't be overstated that updating the software without having to re-image the desktop and re configure the software to update which KM4ACK's scripts allow. "Build A Pi" is a great alternative.
So the ham pi image has all the ham software, PLUS the raspian operating system, all included, is that correct? One would just need to download the ham pi image and would have raspian as well?
Thats awesome. Thank you sir, for the information, and for your RUclips channel. I subscribed. VERY VERY interstate information there. Thank you. Have a great weekend. Andy KI5TGZ
Additional to WSJTX and WSPR as on Ham Pi. WSJTX performed as good as my Full Windows 10 PC the only shortfall I have found is when the band is fully utilised, on receive and decoding, it can take awhile to display all the QSOs. This can be overcome by switching the Display tab to display CQ callsigns only. The other minor problem is the TUNE function does not work - but only on 20m. (Might be a good thing). On WSPR the multi band setup tends to crash when switching to another band.
You can speed up the decoding by changing the decode depth under one of the menus. Take it down a notch and it will be very much faster and not really miss any stations.
No. Hampi is for the raspberry pi, which runs on an ARM cpu. Your laptop is an X86 cpu, intel or AMD based. The author of Hampi has been working on a version for X86 cpu based hardware. It will be out some day.
The author just announced that he released a version for the raspberry pi 5. It's missing a few utilities due to compatibility with a certain library or two, but it's mostly there. Go to their website for details.
Downloading this now! I've been using my Pi 4 as my only pc for about a year now using Twister OS, if you're ever looking to make a switch to a low powered off grid capable pc replacement, the pi 4 is an awesome machine for that. Can power it from a simple battery pack, including my portable monitor. Offgrid/power loss ready computing :D
Hi Kevin, Thanks for all the great videos. Can you please do a video on how to setup and run packet radio using the software TNC Direwolf? Thanks Kevin
There are some others that are doing about the same thing. KM4ACK has something about the same. I have not done any of them yet, I just ordered my Raspberry Pi 4,and not sure witch one to start with. I want to thank all who are working on this and other things that are making things better for all of us and I hope that they are working together to help each other with things. It is all for the betterment of Ham Radio! Thanks to all that put in long hours making things better for us and Thanks to the people that put in hours making videos to help get the information out for all of us newer Hams to learn from!
Caught it!! Set Task Manager to "show other tasks" and the culprit finally showed itself. To stop the 100% cpu spurts, just uninstall everything associated with "boinc". Once removed and rebooted, all the other apps still seem to work. DE KG5AR
Fully agreed about Skywave Linux...After 3 times of trying - eventually get on my PC. And after playing about 3 hors my conclusion is the same - it's fully garbage.
Thank you so much. Just started to use my Tech license and one of my focuses is Computer interfaces. This is the swiss army knife of software for just that purpose. Extra credit for using a RPi for the computer. SDR works out of the box, yep I'm doing this. 73's Keep broadcasting !!
Kevin, could you please compare Pi3B and Pi4 ? From my knowledge Pi4 has more powerful CPU and more RAM but it's also consume more power and require fan cooling. I wonder if Pi3B would be enough for HAM application ?
I am pretty sure you can't. Hampi is written for the ARM processors and wouldn't run on a standard pc. You might (I'm not sure) be able to run it in a VM. But I'm not sure there is an ARM emulator. Now, if you have a portable computer that has an ARM processor then it should. (But that is what a pi is!)
No. It's an image for the Pie, which is a small single board computer based on the ARM processor. Your laptop is almost certainly X86 based. (Intel, AMD.) However, all of the software used is available in the Ubuntu repositories. You can install them by searching in Synaptic package manager or the software center.
@@loughkb @LA3CLA @J. Williams I have created HamPi in Ansible, and it is installable under Ubuntu or other desktop Linux, but I have not yet found the right desktop Linux which will allow me to have a ham radio menu like on Raspbian.
Newbie question: If I install this image, and I want to update an application, does the apt get update command work or do I have to download a whole new image? Thanks for the great video. Steve
I understand this uses unused cycles in the processor to do Radio Telescope work in the background. Is that right? A ham friend said it is in the terms and conditions.
The Readme and license both mention BOINC is installed. It is performing radio telescope research -- looking for pulsars. The new license allows you to opt out of it. de W3DJS
Don, look at the KM4ACK "Build a Pi". I prefer to be able to easily update the Ham software without re-imaging the SD card every time and reconfiguring the HAM software again. Jason makes all that very easy.
@@CodeMasseur Without loosing the configuration of the software? Fully scripted with little to no effort from the operator? When I saw it demo'd, that was not possible.
@@CodeMasseur So have to reimage the pi and the SD card every time? I think I'd rather just run a script for the updates and rebuilds. I am a linux admin and software developer. This is how updates are done. Not a complete reimage of the HD for each application update. BTW, this is not anything against the image. I think there are reasons for it but there are reasons against it. I like Jason's approach and I just want to distinguish it from the HamPi image.
I downloaded and installed the HamPi image. With no apps running, the cpu temp is 10C higher than the stock Raspian OS for my Pi 3b+. Also, something abruptly runs the cpu usage to 100% for anywhere from 10 sec to a minute. It effectively locks the system; I cannot identify the app that's doing it (and running the cpu temp up another 10C. Anyone else see this?
It's probably that background program that does a seti at home kind of thing. I've asked Dave to include an opt-out feature for that piece, haven't heard back from him as yet. There's a small document on the desktop that talks about what it is.
KEVIN.....question. Would it be possible to install HamPi onto the micro sd card for the raspberry pi, and then piggyback an image file onto thst in order to launch an AllStar node? Can we have both of these on one sd card using one pi?
This CD does not contain any useful programs that cannot be installed by the Raspbian software center itself. All other scripts and terminal programs are at least 20 years old and no longer compliant for today's computers or even the Raspbian PI.
I think you're missing the point. This project provides an excellent entry point for people who are not computer professionals. It's a load and go convenience for them.
@ON2WI Wim Not true. The Raspbian Software Center does not have many of the applications that HamPi installs. And for the rest which are in the software center -- they are outdated. HamPi installs the latest stable builds of everything. de W3DJS
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going to create a new raspberry Pi 4 8gb looks good. 73 from Chino Valley, AZ. Interested in rv and ham radio. look forward to your videos. W6CEF going on 43 years now.
You couldn't have dropped this video at a more perfect time. Looks like he's using the latest 2020-8-8 version of Raspi OS too!
Before I got in to HAM, someone had me image HamClock on a Pi for him, not knowing what any of it was. Then he sent me photos of it being used in his shack, and I thought it was pretty cool. Now that I’ve got myself in to deep with radios, I want to dive deeper, and do something I’m familiar with like the Pi.
So this is where I say "Man I gotta get me some of that".
Looks like this is my next move for SDR and field work.
Thanks for pushing the hobby forward.
This looks interesting. There is another brilliant Amateur radio setup for the PI by Jason, KM4ACK. Jason has equally done a great job with his 'Build a Pi' Its what I now use for home and portable operations on my 2 off Pi4 4Mb devices. 73 Bruce G4ABX
Great video,
I was still waiting for a ARM version of skywave and there it is.
Thanks for showing.
Ruud
PA3RW
Thanks! Just subbed on the strength of this video. I'm thinking I need a Pi based laptop for field ops! That's a great idea you mentioned.
I'm wondering how it does in comparison to the pi build script from KM4ACK. In the sense of which one would you prefer, Kevin. Otherwise it looks interesting.
Keven, I'd be interested in hearing you do a comparison of the two builds also.
Jason's build is more field and emergency coms related. Build a customised scalpel versus install an end boss leatherman tool.
Having said that, to compliment my headless, bugout Build A Pi, I'll be setting up HamPi for exclusive use in the shack.
Built my own one app at a time. What a pain! I'm ordering another pi and will give this a shot! Thanks!
So I've had a chance to go through this. I will say it is excellent in terms of ease. Pretty easy. Just image a sd card and you're off to the races. Very little fuss. I was a bit annoyed at the QSLWare - an annoying pop up message that the author will show you how to get rid of AFTER you send him a qsl card. Easily undone if you know what your doing. Most people don't. I also didn't like the fact that this build will use my unused CPU cycles to look for aliens or whatever. Give me a choice. Don't just do something like that. I ended up wiping the SD card clean, and trying out KM4ACK's build a pi script. A bit more involved, but I get choices as to what gets installed. No annoying pop ups, and nothing I didn't ask for gets installed or configured. This is the 2nd time I've tried it and it is much improved and the results are pretty cool. I would encourage people to experiment and use what best works for them!
Thanks Kevin. I had actually downloaded this awhile back, but found how to load flrig and WSJT-X so I could run wspr with my 7300 (thanks for to your video on that also). Your video gave me the push to learn to flash an image (well that wasn't so hard) and install it on my Pi.
I already have my Pi4 configured as my shack and mobile ham PC using the excellent KM4ACK Build-A-Pi script. However, I do love the concept of the pre-configured HamPi image. Great job Dave. The menu organization looks very easy to use.
I'm surprised you didn't know that VOACAPGUI is an HF prediction program. I guess even the experts haven't seen everything. 😀
Thank you! de W3DJS
Great talk on HamPi Kevin.
I have been active on FT8 for over 3 years. Bought a IC-7300 a year back and just received the HamPi 4B 8G version after Kevin’s Utube. Connected USB configured FT8 out of the box and within 5 minutes had my first QSO. Outstanding, simple very cost effective way to get active on WSJTX, WSPR and other digital modes. G4PEY.
Extra. Found to be as good on FT8 as my i5 Dell. It is less prone to RFI.
Great review Kevin, thanks very much. I've been messing around with installing HAM radio software on a Raspberry Pi 3 and struggling to get it all to work. HAM Pi looks like it will be ideal for me, especially for mobile operations.
Yo Kevin:!
Great video as usual ..I wondered when you & Josh would combine .
A lot of the binary talk is Greek to me tho ... Motor on & be safe! 73's !
de seeker Jeffrey WA7LFP
Great video & informative. Acorn Computers - BBC Micro - Acorn-Advanced RISC Machines - ARM - Raspberry Pi for the WIN! ;-)
On OrangePi work?
Thanks! This brought me back to the year 1994 when I bought my first Amsoft callbook CD loaded with ham programs. It sure is about time! Awesome video!
Hi, do you have an image for doing the same in a normal pc? I would like to make a bootable pendrive with packet radio tools configured and working? What do you suggest? 73´s Diego LU2DVY grid locator GF05MT
holy moly !!! thats what im looking for a while now, gonna load dat image and havin' some fun :D
Does someone could explain me why it's impossible to me to installa Hampi 3.3.32 on my raspberry PI 400 ?
VOACAP is an amazingly useful propagation program
Wow, thanks Kevin, and thanks Dave. Excellent video. I had real trouble setting up gqrx on x86 machines in Ubuntu so that's already a bonus. I'm replacing a full desktop with a Pi so I WILL be using HamPi after seeing this.
Brilliant 👍🏻
73s M7GTX
P.s. I am a software developer, but also like to keep things simple 👍🏻
hello from Alberta Canada.
I could not see the link to purchase this? Can you please send to me.
Thanks,
George
I'm looking for one of these distributions which will work on a 32bit laptop.An old ACER one.
Dave is currently working on an X86 version of this distro. I'll be reviewing it once it's ready.
I’ll let you know how it runs on Pi 0 W- was about to set up hamclock. Thanks again for your info-love the antenna tips. Enjoy the fall! 73
Out standing I believe in love to give into this and see what it's all about I've heard a lot about Linux so maybe this be the way through the door but what else do I need to go with it that I don't know thank you have a good day
Now I have to buy a new Raspberry Pi 4! AE5DW.
Looks like a good program by every time I try to extract it I get a failure. Even in terminal it fails.
I saw your video, installed HamPi and have not looked back. It is awesome! Thanks to W3DJS!!!
You're welcome! de W3DJS
Thanks Kevin, great review. I will definitely be checking this out. DE WA1KLI
Kevin, check out Build a Pi by KM4ACK. He has a script for updating all programs.
I wonder, do I still need the external sound card or do pi’s have that on board now?
Has anyone run Ham Pi on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W ? Did it work ?
Thanks for video Kevin. Hats off to Dave W3DJS. I will give this distro a go as there are one two apps I have not tried. This is a great idea which saves lots of time downloading, installing and tweeking which all the usual hams apps tend to require on different hardware/distros. Making it easy", this is where I feel Linux could still be better in terms of attracting folk away from Windows and MacOS? This distribution makes it easy and I wouldn't be surprised if it proves to be quite popular.
Thank you, Steve! de W3DJS
Thanks for the presentation Kevin! And I too would to talk Dave for his painstaking effort. I backed off of Ham on my Pi3 because of the effort it takes getting software installed, and I heard the micro SD cards don't last very long before they go bad. Great video!
You can use an external USB drive , Hard drive via USB or SSD which will be faster and a lot more reliable
I’ve been using v. 1.0 for a couple of months, and like it alot. The OS has a VNC server built in, so I run it headless. I overclock to 2ghz and that makes it considerably more responsive. I’m using a pi 4 with 4gb of ram. I haven’t seen ram usage go over 2 gb. Some people run the digital mode programs on pi 3, so we have a lot of flexibility re hardware.
Thanks Kevin! I want one! I've shied away from Pis in the past because of all the Linux stuff but this seems more my style. This Pi might actually help me get on the air.
This is the easiest way to get ham radio programs on your raspberry pi. This is the fastest way to start and I have found it very useful.
That is a great setup and nice to have all the software already there. But, you should check out KM4ACK channel and his Build - A - Pi script that he has seup. All sorts of amateur radio software. You can do FT8, APRS, JS8 Call, pretty much everything that is there. I have been using it for 2 years now. Saved my Raspberry Pi from the garbage can. It has the capability for going out and looking for updates for the software. Juddie - WD8WV
The link you have in the description is not a link to the img file. The "source code" link is just that - source code. I did a quick search and found the Groups dot io group for Ham Pi and found a link to the latest prebuilt image there, just fyi. Maybe update it in the description.
Edit: Thanks for the update, great video. I sent a note to my local club, I think this might just be one of our discussion topics at next month's meeting. We're still doing meetings via Zoom, I think this sort of topic works well with online meetings.
Fixed now (thanks Kevin!), I can see the link now points to Sourceforge.
Nice review video, very informative thanks 👌👏👏
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Kevin, thanks for the review. You forgot to mention one very important point, which I only discovered just as I was about to write the image and was reading the README.docx. This statement - QUOTE:
"ATTENTION: So I don’t get publicly tarred and feathered for not disclosing this openly, please be aware by running this image on your Raspberry Pi that you consent to giving your idle cpu cycles to radio telescope research, such as looking for pulsars. If you do not agree with this, do not run the image. Again, this will not interfere with your usage - this only uses cpu cycles when your Raspberry Pi is idle. Disk use is also minimal. (1/1000 or less)
(For what it’s worth, I also operate my Raspberry Pi 4 this way.) Note that an exception to this requirement has been added for EMCOMM (ARES/RACES) and Field use where no AC power is available."
No option - you can only not bother to install if you don't agree - I am planning to use a RaspPi in the field primarily and am making a man-pack portable setup, so this is now useless... Not to mention I will not use on principle as this goes against one of my most strongly held principles for Linux - CHOICE. I'd probably try it and see how it was IF I HAD A CHOICE. I know it isn't your fault, but I think it should be mentioned.
Since I don't have a choice I will simply not bother wasting my time. I'll instead clean install RaspbianOS and use Jason KM4ACK's github script to install everything I need. I'm familiar enough with Linux and RaspPi 's to install whatever else I need if I'm missing something. You might want to check out his script and review it also.
This! Man, I was just coming here to comment on this. I was poking around the file system and noticed it was loading boinc (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) on every boot. It's not that I don't think it's a good cause, but some people plan to operate in the field, perhaps on a mobile tethered network that's data capped, plus SD cards are notorious for wearing out quickly. He could at least allow some sort of tick box to enable/disable the "feature".
That said, if you would like it disabled, it's a very simple task.
Open a terminal (CTRL+ALT +T) then follow these instructions:
enter:
sudo nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
delete the line with : @/home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/boinc.sh
save the file by pressing CTRL+O followed by CTRL+X
then enter:
sudo reboot
This will prevent boinc from being launched after boot up.
PS There's another "nagging" line in there that may be of interest to some too ;)
BEdmonson85 That’s a good point, and I appreciate your tip on how to remove boinc. My fan was on all the time before I removed it.
I've passed this critique on to Dave. Maybe he'll add an opt-out icon to the desktop or something, we'll see.
@@loughkb Thank you Kevin much appreciated.
@@stewartrv I added a Field operations and EMCOMM operations opt-out in HamPi 1.1. And for HamPi 1.2, I added an opt-out for everyone. de W3DJS
Just got a RasPi 400 so will try this disty on that.
It will work fine. I bet you'll enjoy it.
can this work with Le Potato Libre pc boards also
Thanks Kevin I agree HamPi is a great linux program.
Do you think it's possible to run this on a Le Potato?
Too early for this. My body is up but the mind is still sleeping. I'll review to later after several cups of coffee.
Ha Ha know the feeling. I've got it in my study study study sack. I've got a 3+ I'd love to set up. These little power houses could do everything I need. They would free up laptops and probably work better. One would run my 7300, mostly with JS8 (which is included) but occasionally going over to FLDIGI to do some other modes.
Very interesting. I've got a pi3b+ and wanted to be accessing it more often when I sit down in the shack, can you direct me how to install this. I greatly appreciate it.
The image you downloaded needs to be written to an micro-SDcard which you then install in the Pi.
There are many ways to write the image to the card, depending on which OS you run.
You're not copying the file to the card, you're writing the file to the card, bit by bit.
Here's one of many guides.
learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/sd-cards-and-writing-images/all
thank you for this wonderful video. Its exactly what I'm looking for. 73 - PU2UAO.
Update on my previous comment, I'm finally getting around to installing my new 8 Gig Pi, just downloading HamPi. Distro now 3.5Gig download :-) 73s M7GTX
I've been recently working on putting good apps onto an Ubuntu Laptop for use with HamRadio, but this looks quite intriguing. I have a spare RaspberyPi on a shelf that I was thinking about for a wall-mounted kitchen computer, but this may be a better use for it.
I've been chatting with Dave, he's currently working on an X86 version of hampi.
@@loughkb That'd be great. I'll keep my eye open for it.
Thank you very much for this video Kevin. I've been sitting on the edge of the fence deciding whether to jump in. You just cleverly nudged me off my perch.
I am having issues with access. I am being asked for password and none of the known inital rpi passwords work?
It was a while ago that I made this video, I'm not sure what might have changed since, but you might have to ask on their website.
Thanks for the info! Now why had I never seen mention of this distro anywhere?! I'll have to give this a try. I've heard of DragonOS, and I run piSDR OS, but those are general radio oriented. I will have to run HamPi and just install those other packages.
Thought that until I tried Build a Pi!
Excellent, solves so many problems. Thanks for the info!
can i use it with my windows pc
in a network
Can it run and TRANSMIT on a baofeng with APRS?
I believe there is APRS software included, obviously you would need some kind of rig interface to connect your radio. Something like a signalink or my own Duinovox.
Looks really good! Guess I need a Pi to try :) I recently tried the Skywave 4 distro......what a disappointment. The software included is great BUT the choice of window manager (i3) is terrible. Programmers should stick to coding.....and not make decisions on the interface. I was able to get it going....but it was VERY unfriendly. Thanks! de KG4CNA
Kevin thanks for reviewing and sharing! Wow there's a lot of stuff going on there. How much space does the entire program require? Thank's again to you and Dave! 73
I think I mentioned that in the video. Uncompressed, the image is just over 12 Gig, so a 32Gig SD card would be the minimum size to use.
@@loughkb Thank you sir, I'm sure you did but I missed it. Thanks again!
Great Video and Great work ! there is also the "build a pi" from KM4ACK full with all the ham radio programs that run also on RPIpi 3 and 4 but there is no SDR programs and drivers installed. I build it on top of the rasperry pi image from SDR Play. Stay Safe Kevin :) 73! DE1CTL.
It can't be overstated that updating the software without having to re-image the desktop and re configure the software to update which KM4ACK's scripts allow. "Build A Pi" is a great alternative.
@@don_n5skt HamPi includes a document on how to easily upgrade to the latest version of HamPi.
Outstanding. Thanks for posting.
wow.... nice find !!!!
Thanks for this video! Awesome 🤩
Just found this video..Have been playing with Pi for a while..Will most certainly go for HamPi after seeing the video.. Excellent !!
Excellent! Thanks Kevin!
So the ham pi image has all the ham software, PLUS the raspian operating system, all included, is that correct? One would just need to download the ham pi image and would have raspian as well?
Yes. It's the OS and all utilities and software, ready to go with just the one image.
Thats awesome. Thank you sir, for the information, and for your RUclips channel. I subscribed. VERY VERY interstate information there. Thank you. Have a great weekend. Andy KI5TGZ
oops, sorry found it lol🙂
This is .FREAKING. awesome!
🤜🏻👍🤛🏻♡♡♡
Additional to WSJTX and WSPR as on Ham Pi. WSJTX performed as good as my Full Windows 10 PC the only shortfall I have found is when the band is fully utilised, on receive and decoding, it can take awhile to display all the QSOs. This can be overcome by switching the Display tab to display CQ callsigns only. The other minor problem is the TUNE function does not work - but only on 20m. (Might be a good thing).
On WSPR the multi band setup tends to crash when switching to another band.
You can speed up the decoding by changing the decode depth under one of the menus. Take it down a notch and it will be very much faster and not really miss any stations.
Once again, I really appreciate your help! You rule!
KJ7NUX
Hi.....dude ....your channel is very inspiring.....and I was subscribed your channel...and I want to discuss for raspi....with you...soon.....
I have a laptop with Debian, can I put Hampi on that computer?
No. Hampi is for the raspberry pi, which runs on an ARM cpu. Your laptop is an X86 cpu, intel or AMD based.
The author of Hampi has been working on a version for X86 cpu based hardware. It will be out some day.
At last.
will it work with with raspberry pi 64 bit? Raspberry pi 5
The author just announced that he released a version for the raspberry pi 5. It's missing a few utilities due to compatibility with a certain library or two, but it's mostly there. Go to their website for details.
Downloading this now! I've been using my Pi 4 as my only pc for about a year now using Twister OS, if you're ever looking to make a switch to a low powered off grid capable pc replacement, the pi 4 is an awesome machine for that. Can power it from a simple battery pack, including my portable monitor. Offgrid/power loss ready computing :D
Hi Kevin, Thanks for all the great videos. Can you please do a video on how to setup and run packet radio using the software TNC Direwolf?
Thanks Kevin
There are some others that are doing about the same thing. KM4ACK has something about the same. I have not done any of them yet, I just ordered my Raspberry Pi 4,and not sure witch one to start with. I want to thank all who are working on this and other things that are making things better for all of us and I hope that they are working together to help each other with things. It is all for the betterment of Ham Radio! Thanks to all that put in long hours making things better for us and Thanks to the people that put in hours making videos to help get the information out for all of us newer Hams to learn from!
Caught it!!
Set Task Manager to "show other tasks" and the culprit finally showed itself. To stop the 100% cpu spurts, just uninstall everything associated with "boinc". Once removed and rebooted, all the other apps still seem to work. DE KG5AR
Not a culprit -- it's mentioned very clearly in the README and the license.
Fully agreed about Skywave Linux...After 3 times of trying - eventually get on my PC. And after playing about 3 hors my conclusion is the same - it's fully garbage.
Dave is currently working on an X86 build of hampi. I'll be reviewing it once it's ready.
Thank you so much. Just started to use my Tech license and one of my focuses is Computer interfaces. This is the swiss army knife of software for just that purpose. Extra credit for using a RPi for the computer. SDR works out of the box, yep I'm doing this. 73's Keep broadcasting !!
Have a look at my cheap to build USB computer interface.
Seach my channel for "Duinovox".
is there a method to download the everything in the ham radio folder at once on an existing linux build?
If you're running a raspberry pi, have a look at the "build a pi" project from KM4ACK.
@@loughkb i found a script to download a lot in one package. Pretty much everything that is contained in the HamPi "Ham" folder.
Kevin, could you please compare Pi3B and Pi4 ? From my knowledge Pi4 has more powerful CPU and more RAM but it's also consume more power and require fan cooling. I wonder if Pi3B would be enough for HAM application ?
Oh sure. The 3 series is plenty fast enough for it. I'd still at least put heat sinks on the chips on the 3 though.
Can you boot the HamPi image from USB/nvme (i.e. on a Pi 3B+), like Raspi OS will?
If the standard raspbian image can be booted that way, then this can also.
One question can HamPi install direct on a laptop,,, just as a ubuntu
I am pretty sure you can't. Hampi is written for the ARM processors and wouldn't run on a standard pc. You might (I'm not sure) be able to run it in a VM. But I'm not sure there is an ARM emulator.
Now, if you have a portable computer that has an ARM processor then it should. (But that is what a pi is!)
No. It's an image for the Pie, which is a small single board computer based on the ARM processor. Your laptop is almost certainly X86 based. (Intel, AMD.)
However, all of the software used is available in the Ubuntu repositories. You can install them by searching in Synaptic package manager or the software center.
@@loughkb @LA3CLA @J. Williams I have created HamPi in Ansible, and it is installable under Ubuntu or other desktop Linux, but I have not yet found the right desktop Linux which will allow me to have a ham radio menu like on Raspbian.
Thanks Kevin for the video was just getting ready to set my PI4, looks like a great software package! de WQ1I 73'S
Just downloaded v1.2 and it looks great. Thanks 👍🏻
Newbie question: If I install this image, and I want to update an application, does the apt get update command work or do I have to download a whole new image?
Thanks for the great video.
Steve
It's a normal linux installation. Any changes you make will be persistent. Update away.
Just a note on the ham clock website they do not recommend pi zero because they say it needs multiple core pi3 or pi4.
I understand this uses unused cycles in the processor to do Radio Telescope work in the background. Is that right? A ham friend said it is in the terms and conditions.
That's correct. It's searching for pulsars. Btw, I just updated the license three days ago to be less restrictive.
Anyone figure out why Ham Pi goes to 100% cpu and memory every few minutes?
The Readme and license both mention BOINC is installed. It is performing radio telescope research -- looking for pulsars. The new license allows you to opt out of it. de W3DJS
Hi Kevin,
Looks like I should start my Linux training with a Pi4 and HamPi, when I have some expendable funds available. :-) Stay safe. WJ3U
Don, look at the KM4ACK "Build a Pi". I prefer to be able to easily update the Ham software without re-imaging the SD card every time and reconfiguring the HAM software again. Jason makes all that very easy.
HamPi includes a HOWTO on how to easily upgrade to the latest version of HamPi.
@@CodeMasseur Without loosing the configuration of the software? Fully scripted with little to no effort from the operator? When I saw it demo'd, that was not possible.
@@don_n5skt Yes, it shows how to back up the Home Directory from a prior version and restore it to the new version.
@@CodeMasseur So have to reimage the pi and the SD card every time? I think I'd rather just run a script for the updates and rebuilds. I am a linux admin and software developer. This is how updates are done. Not a complete reimage of the HD for each application update. BTW, this is not anything against the image. I think there are reasons for it but there are reasons against it. I like Jason's approach and I just want to distinguish it from the HamPi image.
I presume the nooelec models will work plug and play as well?
I downloaded and installed the HamPi image. With no apps running, the cpu temp is 10C higher than the stock Raspian OS for my Pi 3b+. Also, something abruptly runs the cpu usage to 100% for anywhere from 10 sec to a minute. It effectively locks the system; I cannot identify the app that's doing it (and running the cpu temp up another 10C. Anyone else see this?
It's probably that background program that does a seti at home kind of thing. I've asked Dave to include an opt-out feature for that piece, haven't heard back from him as yet. There's a small document on the desktop that talks about what it is.
@Bill Brown I added a Field operations and EMCOMM operations opt-out in HamPi 1.1. And for HamPi 1.2, I added an opt-out for everyone. de W3DJS
Good Morning ARIZONA ! Thank you Kevin.
KEVIN.....question. Would it be possible to install HamPi onto the micro sd card for the raspberry pi, and then piggyback an image file onto thst in order to launch an AllStar node? Can we have both of these on one sd card using one pi?
Not really, you'd just have to put the other image on another card and pop in the card to boot whichever you need at the time.
@@loughkb ....was afraid you were going to say that...lol
Thanks for the reply. May just look at adding a second Pi to the box kit
voacap is a band propgation deal
Now actually read the license: github.com/dslotter/HamPi/blob/master/files/home/pi/Desktop/HAMPI%20LICENSE.TXT
There's a real WTF 8 lines down.
I have been talking to Dave about that. He's agreed to change things, and include an opt-out option regarding BOINC and Einstien@home.
@@loughkb Good to hear-- the Free Software movement has "The 4 Freedoms", and that license goes contrary to all of them.
This CD does not contain any useful programs that cannot be installed by the Raspbian software center itself.
All other scripts and terminal programs are at least 20 years old and no longer compliant for today's computers or even the
Raspbian PI.
I think you're missing the point. This project provides an excellent entry point for people who are not computer professionals. It's a load and go convenience for them.
@ON2WI Wim Not true. The Raspbian Software Center does not have many of the applications that HamPi installs. And for the rest which are in the software center -- they are outdated. HamPi installs the latest stable builds of everything. de W3DJS
as my middle name is John Dave has the suffix i wanted
Does your country have vanity callsigns? de W3DJS
@@CodeMasseur no not at the moment they dont but offcom (same as your fcc) are thinking about it