I just got my Raspberry Pi up and running with VNC on my Mac and on my iPad. I watched your videos countless times, but I'm in. Your videos are a godsend! Fantastic!

Great video, instructions, web and github pages. You're performing a great service for fellow hams. Look forward to part 2.

You are providing a wealth of information to help hams. Thank you.

I had problems for a long time trying to operate VNC viewer on my MAC, you have made it easy with your videos. Thank you for your time in making the Pi videos.

Just finished watching all 3 videos in this series. Actually more than once and have picked up a little more with each viewing. I think my New Year's resolution is to incorporate a pi into my go box. Thank you for all your time and efforts in this education of using a pi in ham radio. Gerald - KG0VA

Many thanks for the video. I have yet to buy a Pi-4 and may not but I am finding this extremely informative.

Very clear and consice

For new people... i would suggest google articles on using the Terminal to create the sd card image, the ssh file and the WiFi autoconfig files to automatically connect to my WiFi. As someone else here suggested that saved me so much time in getting it up and running.

Jason = my hero

Thank you so very much.

You certainly put a lot of time and effort into this project. great job! I finally got everything up and running and even figured out how to change to my new vanity call. Thanks for all your help. Now I'm going to see if I can figure out how to move the conky display to the center of the screen.

Thank you Jason.

Hey KM4ACK. Your videos are great. This is what I need. Thank you very much. 👍🏻

Jason thanks again for an awesome instructional video. this instructional video will help our operators! Sharing again.

Thank you for the video and blog that proceed in a logical sequential order that makes it easy for script kiddies. I'm a lazy old geek, so I'm waiting on the Raspberry Pi image with all of the amateur radio software pre-installed - fldigi, flrig, winlink, JS8call, etc. :-)

Very nicely explained. Well done.

Excellent! I might have to make the change to the RPI4. I know this took a lot of time to put together and it is much appreciated. Keep up the good work. 73 de KF7VUT

This is exactly what I was looking for! Awesome thank you!

Great video and it will help many to get a pi up and running.

This is SO COOL a SCRIP Jason and WONDER TUTORIAL ..... thank you very much for your hard work =)

Thank you for the excellent information. I am building SHTF comms with 128 encryption, very informative and I got some really good idea's from this video. God Bless America, God Bless You....TRUMP 2020 #AmericanLivesMatter

Jason, first let me say I think you are doing an amazing thing creating all of these videos. I have watched most of them at least once. I was following this guide series, and it occurred to me there is an easier way to connect to wifi that doesn't require first connecting to a wired connection. Here is an excerpt from www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=254526 : I usually pre-configure the card with ssh and wpa_supplicant.conf files in the small FAT32 "boot" partition. No need for a keyboard, screen or Ethernet connection (completely headless system setup). Write a Raspbian image to the SD card with Etcher. Remove and reinsert the card, so your Windows/Mac OS PC can see the "boot" partition (ignore/canel format warnings). Add an empty file named ssh (or ssh.txt). Add a pre-configured wpa_supplicant.conf file. Safely eject the card and use it to boot the headless Pi computer. The wpa_supplicant.conf file should contain the following. Code: Select all ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 country=GB network={ ssid="WiFi SSID" psk="WPA/WPA2 passphrase" key_mgmt=WPA-PSK } Edit country=, ssid= and psk= with your information and save the file (use the 2 letter country abbreviation in CAPS). When Raspbian finds a wpa_supplicant.conf file in the "boot" partition it will move it to its correct location and use it to connect to the network. If there was a previous wpa_supplicant.conf file, it will be overwritten, so this can also be used to update WiFi connections if you get a new router or change your router settings.

A really great YT.. I tried once to setup a PI, but never really got to grips. One thing I remember, don't you need to "Expand File System" during the config setup..?? Looking forward to follow on YT's

Thanks Jason for all the hard work you've put in to these instructional videos. Would you be able to include WSJT (not WSJT -X ) in your build, or give instructions on how to download & install it? There are a couple of legacy modes that are in WSJT, but not included in -X, particularly FSK441. I'm a complete Newbie to LINUX, and need to be led by the hand, for now. Best regards, Stewart GM0GTU

I followed the instructions to the letter, and everything worked fabulously! Then I got playing with it and some how completely locked myself out. Can not get in on the network, or hotspot!! :( So I just redid the card with buster, and tomorrow I will do this again. This time ill do backups after each step!!!!

Thank you for doing this, it will definitely bring more people into HAM radio and digital modes. I appreciate your time. I'm curious if you will include setup of BPQ32 node on RPi as well, that is something I'd really like to see done this simple way you are showing it.

You are the bomb! Just what I needed! Thank you!

Just discovered your channel - great job!

Thank you thank you and a million of thanks. Finally will maybe able to have a working device. Any extra step to make it work with DRAWS?

so I have an AOC Disply Link USB video monitor that seems it would be a good thing to use with a PI for feild ops as it is powerd off USB. But so far PI OS does not recognize and display. Displaylink does have an FAQ for the PI driver. have you done anything with a usb display on PI400 ???

Jason, with others I have to add my feedback that your time/effort putting these vids together is GREATLY appreciated! What a cool thing it is to live in an era of Internet Elmers! So...here's a question for you. One of the things I notice is that when it comes to doing a VNC connection from my Mac Mini to my R-pi, ....*every time*... I have to SSH in first and enter the vncserver command, $ vncserver :1 -geometry 1920x1080 -depth 24. Then, and only then, am I able to VNC into the Pi. If I fail to do the SSH thing first, I get "The connection was refused by the computer" when I try to VNC into the pi. I've googled this, but everything I see seems to indicate that it's a simple matter of enabling VNC in the config once, then shazzam, you can VNC in any time w/o issues. Not me. :-( Thoughts?

good job with the video!! 73 and happy new year.

This is one fine piece of code, Jason! Just got all the parts yesterday, and I'm sitting at the bench watching GCC do it's magic. One question..my FTDX-10 isn't supported in the hamlib 3.x build, and I have no clue on how to upgrade to the 4.1 release which does support it. What mojo do I have to use to get it working? Much thanks and kudos for this terrific app! 73, Ted, K4TML

Ive spent countless hours trying to get this gps usb to work to no aval. Even tried multiple different installs. Heck even tried it on windows 10 and nothing. Plug it into a wall usb and it work though. So weird.

I have followed all your directions and am able to view the Pi on my laptop and my iPad using VNC all great - for the first time I tried the pi remote and it went into hotspot mode great and I was able to log onto the wifi signal from my iPad, however when I fired up VNC on the iPad I got an error message, it could not connect. I guess because the ip address changed ??? I noticed when I put the pi back in my office everything was OK. I had an IP address for the wireless connection in my home and another on the screen for the hotspot, it said 10.10.10.162 iPad2 Not sure what I should do Jason, probaly missing a simple trick but my 75 year old brain is not as sharp as it was. 73 Graham M7POS

Jason, for this build, what is the hardware setup you will be connecting to the RPi4? TIA W6TUX (I know the radio but USB Signalink? GPS dongle? That kind of thing).

You are a great teacher! I was hoping you could do an addendum on how to intergrate all this to use with a Kenwood TH D74. I have not been able to get it all to function together, as there are very few resources I could find. If you ever get a chance give me a call on the N5BZM echolink node in Port Arthur, TX. 73---Steve (N5BZM)

Hi Jason, I ran into a problem: I followed your guide to establish a hotspot. Everything worked without any error messages. But when I change the ssid for my home wifi in the .conf file and restart the autohotspotN, the respberry still remembers the old setting and doesn't establish its own hotspot. Even better - it changes the entries in the config file by its own so that next time I look into it the correct settings for my home wifi are reentered. What am I missing?

One comment to make. On your site in the guide, you might want to add target=_blank to your links. Otherwise, people leave your site to go to the places you recommend.

Awesome video...superb

I think I'd like to build one for ham-puting, as Jeff states I'm "new" to Linux but also remember the days of DOS. So disappointed in ham-ware that so much is now Win-only, whereas it used to all be DOS or nothing. So I'll adapt and get something like this going, I really hope to never use MS operating systems again. ever. Open Source for the ultimate win.

thank you I ike the Hot Spot that helps me

GPS install - using a GPS/GLONASS USB have installed your script getting the following on GPS test: Systemct1 is active GPSD - shows inactive Systemct1 is active Chronyd - shows active Cannot get GPSD to indicate active - any thoughts? 73 Gerry, VE4CP

Would it be possible to put software such as XClass for Unix on HamPi to control a Ten-Tec RX-320D receiver since the only way to control it now is with software on a PC but it's so old that it mostly only runs on Windows 7. @t

The latest firmware in the Pi's and the latest versions of Raspberry Pi OS have screwed me up on using my Pi 4 for digital modes. Is it time to update this?

A fantastic job Jason on all your videos, I have watched them all and started working thru them. VK3EME

it maybe too late to ask this, but I'm playing around a laptop with i5 and so far setup buster desktop and now doing the commands in your guide , do you think it might work ?

i keep getting a fail when i run systemctl is-active gpsd. Any way to fix this?

ssh is included in windows

What does it mean when (after the GPS install) systemctl is-active gpsd returns "inactive" instead of "active"? It appears that my date and time are being set correctly. These videos are well put together. Thank you. It would be helpful if you could cover what to do when something goes wrong. John, KC3YS

Another great video. Just one question; when I have the Pi running as a hotspot, what IP address do I use for VNC? Keep up the good work.

If i use a monitor directly connected to the Pi can i skip the steps for SSH and VNC??

I got it up and ryunning but at my office how do i get it to change wifi to my home ssid, it keeps going in the hotspot mode even with keyboard I can not access the settings.

I've lost my "Pi 4 Build Notes"....how can I get them from you again? Thanks Very Much, Mike

After the first reboot and after your VNC Viewer connected to the Pi, did you unplug the cat 5 cable? I remained plugged in and the find wifi box of the wizard never appeared. I tried to force it by right clicking on the double arrows but only my eth0, wired, connection was accessible. KB8AMZ

SD card: 8GB or 16GB? Looks great! Looking forward to part 2 and 3. :)

Hi, im stuck in the part where im suppose to connect by VNC, VNC connects but says "Cannot currently show the desktop". i went back and changed the resolution to default to see what happens but still the same. Any idea?

Trouble with some of these easy solutions that are quick to set up but unfortunately too chrono plastic for my tastes . I mean what is the point of putting all that brain meat to work , into your system today only to find out two weeks later that the new system is not retro compatible ? That's one of the reasons I opt for Riscos 5.22 although it is nowhere near as popular as Linux. Oh I see! You have just answered my question . You have got 7 pi s connected on tcp and I assume you have a different release of raspian on each one , clever .

In a late-night session of stepping through this first video, I accidentally installed the GPS script prior to having the GPS on-hand. I ordered the one you are using and it delivered today. When I plugged it in this evening, it flashed a green light one time and then goes blank. I removed the GPS and attempted to uninstall the script using " sudo dpkg --list " and " sudo apt-get --purge remove libgps23:armhf " I then entered " sudo apt autoremovey point-rpi " No luck... I do have a backup but it will only take me back to the point prior to me trying to remove all this. Ugh... I'm a total noob to this... the GPS just won't lock on... any help would be greatly appreciated. W5ZYM

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I already have 2 Pi 3. Do I really need to change to the Pi 4?

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