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Radioconsole Install Notes

Install Raspberry Pi OS onto your card and boot up.

Is your touchscreen upside down? Add lcd_rotate=2 to /boot/config.txt and reboot. There's some dispute between different case manufacturers about which way is up, and the Raspberry Pi foundation changed their mind as well.

Don't use display_rotate if you're using the official touchscreen - that will rotate in software which is slower.

SSH setup

Run sudo raspi_config and set the following:

  • Menu 1 -> Change your password
  • Menu 2 -> Set up your WLAN network
  • Menu 3 -> Set boot settings to console-only with no auto-login
  • Menu 3 -> Disable wait for network on boot
  • Menu 5 -> Enable SSH

Generate a SSH key, making sure it is in PEM format. The current stable version of paramiko does not support the new openssh format keys.

ssh-keygen -m pem

Copy the key generated under the pi user to root.

sudo cp -R ~/.ssh ~root/

Allow the root user to connect back in as pi over SSH (used for raspi_status)

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Install libraries

Install some of the required libraries through apt-get to allow downloading binaries rather than building from source, saving a bit of time.

sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-numpy python3-pygame cython3 libfftw3-dev librtlsdr-dev python3-scipy python3-paramiko

Install Radioconsole

sudo apt-get install git
git clone [email protected]:gm-stack/radioconsole.git
cd radioconsole

Install the rest of the dependencies

sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Install the driver for FT5406 touchscreen controllers

git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/python-multitouch
cd python-multitouch
sudo ./install

Configure

Edit config.yml (ok, you don't have to use vim).

sudo apt-get install vim
cp config.yaml.example config.yaml
vim config.yaml

Start at boot

Install the SystemD service for radioconsole to make it start on boot:

sudo cp radioconsole.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable radioconsole
sudo systemctl start radioconsole

Panadapter config

If using the rtlsdr panadapter (if you don't know what that is, you probably won't) - also, this can go on another Pi if the rtlsdr isn't plugged into this one:

cp waterfall_server.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable waterfall_server
systemctl start waterfall_server

Boot speedups

Add disable_splash=1, dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt (if on pi3), boot_delay=0 to /boot/cmdline.txt to save about 5-7 seconds on boot.