This is driving me crazy. Every time windoze 11 does software updates, it changes the registry device id of my Digirig Lite/usb audio. I have to go into Graywolf and redefine the channels every time redrum decides I must obey them and update. Anybody else seeing this and found a work around?
Short of replacing it with a Pi?
More details:
After windows software update Graywolf complains:
graywolf-modem: failed to resolve output device_id=5 ({0.0.0.00000000}.{949da259-73e1-4879-b619-f046120ec229}): output device not found: {0.0.0.00000000}.{949da259-73e1-4879-b619-f046120ec229}
graywolf-modem: start_audio failed: input device not found: {0.0.1.00000000}.{eaa384e6-2f7c-4501-a534-a63b6a7d3b01}
Config before update:
After update:
Note the internal id’s have changed. I now have to delete the old channel, create a new one with the “new” devices.
Actually, just figured out I can “edit” the channel, so it’s only about half as bad, but still sucks.
Immediately have saving, Graywolf reports:
graywolf-modem: PTT configured for channel 2 (cm108)
audio output: device does not support 1ch, using 2ch (will extract single channel)
graywolf-modem: PTT configured for channel 2 (cm108)
Indicated it was happy with the “new” devices.
Bad words have been said (only not on the air…Part 97 doesn’t like that)…
audio output: device does not support 1ch, using 2ch (will extract single channel)
Thanks for adding the categories. Tech Bros really have me down right now… ;-(
If nothing else, lay it down to Claude and ask for a Python script that restores the settings in one click after Windows steps on them again.
My degree is in Computer Science. I don’t do claude, but thanks.
Problem isn’t the settings. What it looks like is that it actually changes the registry entries (like, delete the old entries by guid, add new ones with new guids). So Graywolf, can’t find the configured entries by guid. Guids are generally better than comport name, so long as m$oft doesn’t change them, but well they do.
I can understand the animosity if degree is recent.
I coded professionally for decades everything from assembly on obscure 8bit MPUs to serverless Node.JS on AWS. Years back I got over not checking machine code after compiler generated it from my source and soon will get over not checking the source after agents generated it from my prompts.
Just don’t forget “make no mistake” at the end of the prompt 
graywolf-devfix-usage.pdf (5.2 KB)
graywolf_devfix.zip (5.7 KB)
You are a good man, Charlie Brown. You earn everything I and others say about you (and that’s no AI or BS…you have a great reputation among DR community). Thank you.
I’ve got roughly the same bona fides as you. Was one of the first four COOP graduates in ICS from GA Tech. Put a VAX/VMS boot track back together by hand once.
Was an MVS systems programmer for years and became an IBM Certified Network Computing Architect.
I am not opposed to AI perse—I worked with Expert Systems with IBM in the 1980’s–just the current ilk of dubiously trained and overhyped stuff by guys that only care about making another $B. I have seen the training material that Google used 3-5 years ago and know one of the photographers whose work was stolen to train some of their systems, but do not know Claude was trained with it, just that it’s made by a company that doesn’t act ethically.
However, I was wrong to say anything in the forum. We each have to make our decisions, but I should never question someone sincerely trying to help someone else, and especially in public.
And then there’s that other company-who-shall-not-be-named. Being a -ix and OS/2 guy has always jaded me some, and I strongly supported Apple until it became just like it’s evil step-sister. I actually thought for a while that they got better with -11, but nah, same old-same old.
And to sum up my mea culpa, I spent last night setting up a Radioditty DB25 which seems to be decent technology (likely stolen…), but a pain in the neck to setup & use—and I haven’t even tried hooking it up to a DR yet! Software seems vibe coded, but perhaps with fewer data centers worth of AI. But it might make a nice companion to a rPi and a DR for APRS tracking of a research project I’m doing next year on an Atlantic barrier island estuary.
We both probably grew up with the tech bros. I didn’t like most of them then and like them less today ('Cept Woz…).
But I very much appreciate folks who do honest, and sometimes hard, work. We are, though, a dying breed.
Again, you’re a good man and sincerely, thank you for the help.
72/73 de Mike, KO4WX
“Every act of art is an act of resistance.” - Tom Morello
Peace and be kind,
Michael Boatright, M. Photog., CPP, GSD
So far, so good. Step one worked hunky dory. TNX
