VarAC on Linux Mint 21 1

[@temporarilyoffline]

Its a fun mode. We played with it on Nuggets a while back. I like a lot of its features.

[@FunInSC]

Thus helped with a couple of things I was trying to do! Thanks! I had some issues with the dotnet install (it hung overnight) but I ran it a couple of times and it seems to be working good.

[@KM4ACK]

Glad it helped!

[@CrittendenIV]

I have been waiting for your help with this. Lol. THANK YOU. If I may ask, do I need to have VaraHF and VaraFM installed with 73linux first? Or, will this tutorial give me what I need to have a functional VarAC install? Once again, thank you!

[@KM4ACK]

Welcome. Glad it helped! I started with VARA installed with 73Linux. I can't confirm it will work otherwise but as long as you backup in advance, there's no worry of messing up a good system.

[@ldocull]

I have it running on Mint Cinnamon but transmitted packets are being doubled or cut off making things like QSYU unreliable. Any thoughts on what is causing this?

[@randyshell3892]

Some of these links seem to be invalid now.

[@klausraske4795]

hi Jason I'm using varac based on your description, runnning very fine. Now I updated to mint 22.2, where a part of your description is't running anymore. Do you have an updated description for mint 22.2? vy73 de Klaus, dc2jr

[@jesi1619]

No luck so far. Settings are not stored, when closing VarAC😢

[@DidierMagne-e1n]

Hello, New ham radio, new to linux, new with vara... your video helped me a lot!!! Now it works well, but... I have regularly errors which stops vara, and the only solution is to restart the pc. Can you give me some advice on how or where to search to understand the problem? Thanks sorry for my french english...

[@KM4ACK]

Try plugging the error messages into Google and see if others have had the same issue.

[@jebthereb2]

I saw you one evening not to long ago. I just didnt get a chance to ping you. I am enjoying varac so far. I have been making regular contacts so i can start trying to send files/data.

[@oudeheer]

Thanks a lot! Very helpful walkthrough. Small issue: when i select Linux compatible mode and restart, it will not work properly. I got two dot-net errors, and it will not start VARA modems. Once I deselect it, it works again. Is there a way to control the rig from the program with CAT? I can see only 'COM' ports listed, to which I cannot connect. Do I need to install FLRIG for this purpose?

[@KM4ACK]

I prefer using FLRIG. I did a video just a few weeks ago that covers linking com ports in Linux - kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4q8g4era9KsiMU It should point you in the right direction.

[@oudeheer]

@@KM4ACK Thanks. Will check that out. In the mean time I have hooked up flrig to VarAC and it works like a charm

[@fredhulesii1435]

Hello Jason! Thanks for this tutorial. Will your process work with Bullseye on a RaPi4 running 73 Linux?

[@KM4ACK]

Not sure. The Pi 4 will also involve Box86 and I haven't had a chance to test it.

[@hawkeyeCH53E]

first couple steps did not work so i quite.

[@hawkeyeCH53E]

tried loading to a pi 4 with bullseye 32 bit - nope!

[@richdin]

Wouldn't it be better to run in Virtual Box rather than wine?

[@KM4ACK]

If you run Windows, maybe. I don't. So far this is running great under wine.

[@StuttgartHD]

Modem is missing with this instruction, how to install it?

[@KM4ACK]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIrJhKmJj8mdq6s

[@digitaleeify]

Will you be adding your Hotspot to Linux Mint or 73Linux? Lee NC4LM

[@KM4ACK]

Mint already has a hotspot built in by default.

[@digitaleeify]

@@KM4ACK so I discovered after my post. Thanks

[@KeepEvery1Guessing]

Does your shell not support $USER ?

[@KM4ACK]

Yes it does but tunnel vision skewed common sense during the video.

[@KeepEvery1Guessing]

@@KM4ACK Or, even better in this application (and, I think, in a previous video) is $HOME .

[@rhodaborrocks1654]

I discovered VarAC quite recently and was initially interested but was disappointed that there is no native Linux version. I've been down the Wine path before and it's always been an exercise in frustration and disappointment, I didn't sign up for Linux to have to jump through all those hoops only to end up with something that was laggy, crashy and just plain unusable, so no, I'll leave this one to the Windows boys, not interested.

[@dkane0026]

thanks for the video!!! Great as always!!! I was having trouble with VarAC starting from the desktop shortcut as you mentioned it worked for some and not for others. When I launched from the desktop shortcut VARA HF and VarAC would both start but VarAC would give me a pop up saying no rig control was set up. When I went into the rig control settings in VarAC I would get a wine pop up error that wine could not find 'z:/home/USER/VarAC_cat_commands.ini and none of the setting in the rig control pain on VarAC would work. I fond that if I copied the "VarAC_cat_commands.ini" file from /home/USER/.wine/dive_c/VarAC to /home/USER/.wine/dosdevices/z:/home/USER/ that when I launched VarAC from the Desktop shortcut that everything would load up with no errors and work beautifully. Rig: FT-891 OS: Pop!_OS 20.04