Connecting baofeng to phone/laptop with digirig

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Hello,

I’m trying to connect my radio (baofeng UV-5RM Plus), to a mobile/desktop app so that the app can emit & receive on the frequency.

So far, I’ve been able to receive from the radio using a TRS to TRRS cable. I’m trying now to get the radio to transmit, but I seem to be stuck.

My current setup is: Phone/laptop => usbc cable => digirig mobile (https://www.passion-radio.fr/interface-radio/drmob-2946.html) => digirig cable (https://www.passion-radio.fr/cable-interface-radio/bfengmobile-2962.html) plugged in the audio jack => radio.

I’m not able to receive the sound from the phone/laptop or emit.

I’ve tried to start debugging with wsjt-x following this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EtrkyisCnc), but still couldn’t figure it out, was able to do the hardware debug steps and confirm that the digirig & cables are working properly though.

The “tune” button is not emitting anything either.

Any idea how I could debug this further?

I’m rather new in the hardware/radio world (coming from a software engineering background), so forgive me if some questions might sound dumb :slight_smile: also happy to read more on whatever doc would be appropriate to learn more about those kind of setups.

Regards,

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Antoine,

Let’s continue with the troubleshooting you started using WSJT-X.

Can you please share the screenshot of the PTT settings? Also please provide the screenshot of the device manager showing Digirig’s serial port.

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Hey K0TX,

I have no clue how that happened, but while going into the settings to take the screenshot, I tried the tune “Test PTT” button, and this time it worked. Then tried again with on the mobile app, and now everything works perfectly, receiving & transmitting!

I really don’t see what I did differently from before, but at least now everything is ok so no help needed :slight_smile:

Thank you still for taking the time to reply!

Antoine

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