Digirig and Raspberrypi

[Larry]

Digirig and FT-897 will not connect to raspberrypi. Connects to Windows machine fine. Digirig does not create a serial port.

[Drew_Rinella]

Check out this post for how one person resolved this issue:

Trouble (and solution!) connecting Digirig to a Raspberry Pi

I ran into some trouble using Digirig with my Raspberry Pi that turned out to be unrelated to the Digirig itself. I thought I’d share what I learned here in case it’s helpful to others. I used KM4ACK’s excellent Build a Pi script to set up a Raspberry Pi for radio tasks. I made some homebrew cables, after carefully studying the Digirig schematic and adding some important modifications to my old Icom IC-751A. Before connecting the Digirig to the transceiver, I set up the rig in fldigi, making s…