Hey everyone, I’m having a confusing issue here with getting the digirig lite to properly key up my baofeng radio when using direwolf.
For starters the digirig lite shows up in linux as /dev/hidraw0 (instead of /dev/ttyusb like the online forums say.) I’m using the BLACK (not green) baofeng cable purchased from digirig. I know the digirig is working properly with the radio because I’m able to get it keying up and transmitting APRS every minute with the baofeng and Tidradio (same pinouts) on Windows 11 with no issues. It’s just with Linux that it’s having the problem.
Here are the symptoms
It starts to key up, but doesn’t finish, and then direwolf immediately starts throwing “Audio input device 0 error code -19: No such device”
From what I can tell, After it attempts to key up, the /dev/hidraw0 device disappears from the linux OS and direwolf can’t find it anymore, hence the error -19 “No such device”.
This is the direwolf console printout:
Dire Wolf DEVELOPMENT version 1.8 D (Jan 23 2025)
Includes optional support for: gpsd cm108-ptt dns-sd
Reading config file direwolf.conf
Audio device for both receive and transmit: plughw:2,0 (channel 0)
Channel 0: 1200 baud, AFSK 1200 & 2200 Hz, A+, 44100 sample rate, Tx AX.25.
Using /dev/hidraw0 GPIO 3 for channel 0 PTT control.
Ready to accept AGW client application 0 on port 8000 …
Ready to accept KISS TCP client application 0 on port 8001 …
DNS-SD: Avahi: Announcing KISS TCP on port 8001 as ‘Dire Wolf on direwolf3’
GPSD: No location fix.
DNS-SD: Avahi: Service ‘Dire Wolf on direwolf3’ successfully registered.
GPSD: Location fix is now 2D.
GPSD: Location fix is now 3D.
[0L] KG7ORK>APDW18,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1:!#############
Audio input device 0 error code -19: No such device
Audio input device 0 error code -19: No such device
Audio input device 0 error code -19: No such device
Write to /dev/hidraw0 failed, n=-1, errno=32
ERROR: PTT for channel 0 has failed. See User Guide for troubleshooting tips.
Here are my direwolf settings:
ADEVICE plughw:2,0
CHANNEL 0
MODEM 1200
PTT CM108 (I have tried PTT hidraw0 with the same results)
DIGIPEAT 0 0 ^WIDE[3-7]-[1-7]$|^TEST$ ^WIDE[12]-[12]$ TRACE
GPSD
TBEACON EVERY=4 VIA=WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 SYMBOL=/k
SMARTBEACONING 60 2:00 5 15:00 0:15 30 255
I suspect that either the PTT settings(PTT CM108) for the digirig are wrong(even though all the forums show that), or that the ‘/dev/“device ID”’ for Linux is wrong and there is a better one. However what that is/could be I don’t know.
Again this is working just fine on windows with direwolf 1.7 (latest release available.)
I’m welcome to any advice or knowledge that one may have to offer.
Thanks
