Great success! You are the man, @AG7GN! I just applied the ALSA registry edits and tested both apps connected at the same time pinging to my primary QTH gateway station. It WORKS!
In review, here’s what I did:
- I did your ALSA hack.
- Configured
direwolf.confto have the lineADEVICE digirig-rx digirig-tx - Applied ALSA device registry edits per your other reply.
- Selected the new rx and tx devices in VARA FM running in wine.
- Loaded direwolf and VARA FM, they didn’t complain, then loaded linbpq to tie them together (still fine-tuning that config).
- Ran a VARA FM ping test to my other gateway, WORKS!
- Saw the beacon from linbpq to my other gateway’s Soundmodem log, IT TRANSLATES the packet!
I still feel like I need to fine tune the audio levels for VARA and packet to work together, but that’s outside scope of this problem.
Here are some screenshots of what I did:
Thank you for your expert help despite (perhaps intelligently) avoiding Wine. I hope this thread is helpful to others who want a dual-mode Winlink gateway station in linux.