I have a Pi4, with fresh install. Direwolf is configured and works a digi and igate.
I originally used a simple USB audio device and attempted to use VOX, with the expected poor performance.
I purchased a digirig mini and the Pi saw it once. Then direwolf could no longer see the mini and terminated.
I have read the PTT help and see that RF may have been the problem while testing on the bench and have made corrections, but now the Pi will not start the mini. I have restarted and tried all USB ports on the PI.
Is your Digirig Lite still recognized by the PC? If it is, then it is not damaged.
There were some reports of Raspberry PI computers, specifically Pi Zero not recognizing Digirig Lite’s sound card when connected directly. Having a hub or other device to condition the USB lines resolved the issue. Digirig Mobile and DR-891 have hubs internally and don’t experience this issue.
I have some of the same issues where digirig will work on the cat side but not on the sound side. Using digipi 1.9.3 with wsjtx . I’ve used all the options given in the audio tab but no luck. Same digi rig setup works fine with laptop on wsjtx for cat and sound in windows Radio is a Yeasu ft 900. I’m not real computer sharp. Probably a simple fix but been at for the last few hours. Looking for some advice. Thanks in advance.
I too had issues with the DigiRig Lite using rPi 4, ended up having to use a hub to get it to work as suggested or go to rPi 3 which has served me great.
I can’t get the DRL to recognize on my Pixel 7 Pro, my MacBook, or my RPis. lsusb shows nothing and dmesg doesn’t show anything as well. Tried using a hub in between as well with the same results. The only thing I’ve gotten it to be recognized on was an old OnePlus 8 I had laying around. Wondering if more recent kernels have dropped support for the CM108.
@CowboyPilot thanks for posting and welcome to the forum. Can you please specify the version of the raspberry pi that you’re using? The hub that I used to get my digirig to work wasn’t powered, however it was a very strange hub to use. I don’t have a powered hub to test with maybe someone else does and can weigh in on the conversation.
I have tried a Pi Zero 2W, 3B, 5, as well as a Macbook running the latest OS and a laptop running Linux Mint. Windows 11 will see that there is a device but won’t load the correct drivers and gives an error regarding driver descriptors.
Matt,
Please keep in mind that Digirig Lite doesn’t expose any serial ports. There is only a standard sound card device which does not require any drivers installed.
Worth noting in this case that you would still be looking for the sound device to add and remove. Depending on the OS this would be found in different locations.
linux just after plugging the device in you should see something in the output ofthe following.
dmesg
Windows:
Within device manager
Mac OS - maybe someone else has tested this as I haven’t.
Correct but it won’t even load the sound card. It sees a device but never brings it up where it is accessible as a sound input/output device much less exposing the GPIO3 for PTT control. The Digirig Mobile populates both the soundcard and the serial interface on all the machines (to include the mac). It’s supposedly a CM108 in both devices so it makes very little sense why one works and the other doesn’t except that the one in the mobile version is clearly behind some sort of internal hub since it only had one USB connection. The hub seems to fix the lite for some folks but it hasn’t made a difference for me.
@CowboyPilot, if none of the systems correctly recognize the interface, there is a good chance that the issue is with the Digirig itself. You can reach out via the support form on the website to arrange the service.