Hi, I’m trying to setup Digipi with Digirig lite and a Raspberry Pi Zero W, when I run the software its coming up with a message it cant find the sound device. Also tried to setup Aprsdroid with the Digirig lite but failed. Is the Digirig or cable faulty?
As a sanity check I would try your Digirig with a Windows PC. Both of the computing devices you attempted are not optimal for troubleshooting. Pi Zero on the account of underpowered minimalistic hardware and Android on the account of limited diagnostic options.
That being said you can at least run lsusb in console of your Pi and see if system seed Digirig’s sound card.
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I’ll give that a try.
Best 73
So I’m going through similar issues with my Digirig lite and a Pi Zero 2 running Direwolf.
I have found that the Pi will recognize the USB device, but it will not assign it to the typical “ttyUSB0” device in the /dev directory, it was assigned to ‘hidraw0’.
use the command ‘lsusb’ like stated above to see if the device is being seen by the Pi. if not, make sure the adapater cable you are using is a data cable and not a power only cable.
If the digirig is being recognized it should show up as C-Media Electronics audio device or something similar. then, in order to find the device assignment it should create a new device in the /dev directory. use ‘ls /dev’ to find what new device was created and that should be your Digirig
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I just got a digirig-lite, intending for it to replace the digirig-mobile that I currently use with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 for portable use. However, it appears unreliable for this use.
It often takes plugging it in, disconnecting, and trying again multiple times before it is recognized by the Pi. I saw another forum msg that suggested perhaps the problem is that the lite is more sensitive to the USB voltage.
When not recognized by the Pi, the green power LED still comes on, but neither the audio devices nor the /dev/hidraw0 cm108 device are usable nor are mentioned in dmesg.
When used with a Windows laptop, the lite is always recognized on the first try.
Using a powered USB hub, y-cable, or something else to provide more reliable power isn’t a useful solution since my hope was to simplify my hardware system (compared to the digirig mobile), not add more parts.
Peter LaRue
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