Xiegu

[@temporarilyoffline]

With newer firmware there is an even easier way to do this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4ucc6uio5akhbc

[@mickgatz214]

Steve, I just watched HamTech's video and that got the Console up and logged in! I'M VERY HAPPY I achieved thIs! 😜 Now, Let's do this!👍 Cheers!

[@temporarilyoffline]

Have fun!

[@mickgatz214]

@@temporarilyoffline Oh well, feel a little sheepish now. my SSID had a space in the name. No more having to enter pw every single time. Anyway, I tried again to reconnect and I actually took radio and nestled it right next to router. It still wouldn't connect. At least Fixing SSID no is a small step forward. :).....been a lonnnn night, Gotta rest, Seeya!

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@mickgatz214 sleep well!

[@ToumalRakesh]

Built-in JS8call would be great. Or adding direct typing of messages into RTTY/PSK instead of changing memory presets.

[@temporarilyoffline]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKuYZmSqj6yLars

[@amercalifa5592]

X6100 with November 2022 firmware works very well and there is much less noise.

[@temporarilyoffline]

Sure does!, there is also an easier openTX mod on the newer firmware.

[@kennethnoyes2692]

Been watching your mods, great stuff, have you got ft8 working in your Linux on 6100 load? I saw wsjx

[@temporarilyoffline]

Yep kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKuYZmSqj6yLars

[@AG7SM]

Clearly it should be running Doom.

[@temporarilyoffline]

Lets start out with zork and work our way up

[@Paddy_Roche]

Now you’re talking.

[@forgetyourlife]

@@temporarilyoffline yes, more classic portrait mode games and a Nifty stand. Xevious #1

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@forgetyourlife Xevious! Nice Pick. I've got a USB game pad, I'm ready.

[@dennis8019]

would be great if cb bands where working on the Xiegu

[@temporarilyoffline]

They are!

[@nachrichtentechnik]

Great! Thanks for this great lesson. Works on first try! 73 from HB9

[@temporarilyoffline]

Nice work! Glad it helped.

[@nachrichtentechnik]

@@temporarilyoffline did you got charging Problems after the Hack? It shutdowns the Radio by reaching 8.0 to 8.1 V but it didnt charge it over 8.2V... before was ok. Maybee its a coincidence. Did you know something about?

[@temporarilyoffline]

My radio has been going thru the 4x charging cycle setup

[@Andy2e0ree]

I do think would add in the UK 4m I,e 70meg if that worked then try and add up to VHF and UHF up to 500m de 2e0ree

[@temporarilyoffline]

Always gotta start somewhere. Might require a hardware swap to go above 50MHz

[@K1STG-Fred]

I'd see if I could port, Digger, one of my favorite Tandy 1000 games from childhood to it. It's a low budget Dig-Dug knockoff.

[@temporarilyoffline]

That would work great!

[@Lee-il5kc]

*cups hand to ear* I hear fudds reeeeing in the distance.

[@temporarilyoffline]

yeah, fudds are all around us

[@Lee_Adamson_OCF]

@@temporarilyoffline Maybe I am actually an undercover fudd, trying to entrap you!

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@Lee_Adamson_OCF you're too late

[@Andy71]

Great work BTW!

[@temporarilyoffline]

Thanks Andy!

[@ERICtheLATE]

Can you be like the ECM dude, and people just send their units to be customized? Now that you have really cracked the top 5 mods: open tx, firm updates, getting in to the Linux, de-particlate the screen layers, retrieving update or version swap via sd card... The screen graphics need some fun. Of course anything but the green blue priority hue, flipping colors of specific sprites or backgrounds, a screensaver, skins, like a HW-101 rig face for example, on the display or ect, make it play Tetris or Etchisketch. Also, play any mp3s or whatever format of music on an sd card mounted. How much space does it even have?

[@temporarilyoffline]

I can do that in the future, sure. The internal storage in mine is 16GB, but you can plug in flash drives and SD cards to add to it.

[@digitaldreamer5481]

Aloha Steve, I like to see you add 220 mhz for TX/RX on the X6100. Will it do that? Better yet, how about 2 meter SSB? Oh, how about a real challenge, cell phone signals, lol! Yes, I’m having fun with you but I’m willing to bet you could do also anything with firmware you set your mind too, lol. Todd

[@temporarilyoffline]

I think it will need a hardware mod to go above 6m, and thanks!

[@Lee-il5kc]

Maybe if it has a way to bypass the finals (like the transverter port on older radios), you could get a low amplitude vhf/uhf signal out, and then use external finals tuned to those higher freqs? I dunno.

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@Lee-il5kc if I had money, I'd get a second one and swap in some guts, one for HF, one for not HF

[@tonygarcia5964]

Another great video !! . 73's W4KWS

[@temporarilyoffline]

Thanks Tony!

[@n1kkri]

Do you think there will be a WIndows interface to perform the hacks you have been talking about?

[@temporarilyoffline]

PuTTY works fine for this

[@n1kkri]

@@temporarilyoffline Do you think there will be a more involved "How to" video. A step by step process or a Windows program letting you select the mod/hack you want to do. Simple executable scripts pre configured to do the hack/s ?

[@temporarilyoffline]

Yeah, I'm working on a bootable SD card, so you can remove it and go back to stock with a reboot. Day job is getting in the way though

[@n1kkri]

@@temporarilyoffline That sounds good. Similar to the bootable SD card for a Pi-star hotspot. That gave me the drive to build several hotspots. I did play with the raspberry pi for a while but I found it frustrating when installing programs that most of the time didn't work because the writer of the program assumed you knew more than you did and for example didn't include the missing pieces. Plus, unless I did it all the time I would forget all the statements/commands that could be several lines before the program would work. I found the raspberry pi great for doing a single task. It was reliable and cheap vs. tying up a Windows laptop/Desktop.

[@snarfusmaximus]

It'd be cool if it could decode SSTV to the LCD.

[@temporarilyoffline]

That would be fairly cool. Talk to R1CBU, he might be able to add that feature.

[@Andy71]

Are you guys going to release info for users to do this as well?

[@temporarilyoffline]

Join us on TOADs discord, the binaries are in the chat room for everybody. 👉 TOADs Discord: discord.gg/97tkMEc

[@twohandsandaradio]

The Chinese hack all of our stuff....kind of refreshing to see someone hack the Chinese stuff.

[@temporarilyoffline]

TOADs army!

[@ronc9743]

Different Screen UI for the Radio. On Screen HF Digital Mode operations. Remote Control of local or remote Radio over IP Bluetooth Headset, Mouse & Keyboard. RoIP SIP Radio Control - aka Advanced Remote Radio Controls. I&Q Output to External PC for Advanced Modes. Since the RF Deck probably is a

[@temporarilyoffline]

Great ideas!

[@joshhayes9570]

Is there a way I can get full transmit on internal battery power 10 Watts, and is it safe for the battery to do so?

[@temporarilyoffline]

Not really, you're running into laws of physics where there isn't enough voltage coming out of the battery to produce the rf wattage out. "More" probably, but not great. I don't think it will do any damage (but I'm not that kind of expert). This is some of our original work back when the radio first came out: github.com/TemporarilyOffline/X6100-TOADs/tree/main/firmware use at your own risk.

[@joshhayes9570]

@@temporarilyoffline thank you

[@4X4-RADIO]

Create a custom standalone DigiMode TX/RX..?? Ideally with a Bluetooth Mini Keyboard log to adif file or output via udp..?? But I'm guessing not enough CPU power/Memory

[@temporarilyoffline]

I think it will do it so far. 4-core 1.5ghz ARM CPU

[@iguanachannel4113]

Thanks for the video, a question where I download the qt application to be able to enter the radio, excuse me but I am very slow with computer science and I want to learn to do it, thanks again for the video and 73 Hector

[@temporarilyoffline]

There is a link in the description to the github repo that contains the files. Have you worked with Raspberry Pi's before?

[@iguanachannel4113]

@@temporarilyoffline No thanks for answering and triste is New to me,could you make a video on how to use the Raspberry Pi's !! Thanks

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@iguanachannel4113 I've made a few. Let me know what else you'd like to see: kzbin.infosearch?query=raspberry%20pi

[@CapeCodCNC]

Do you think the UI will be modifiable? Again great job! You da man!

[@temporarilyoffline]

Yeah, we can change just about anything... or start over. Lots of potential.

[@kb5elv]

I want voice readouts of settings, menus, etc. Even using a small TTS like espeak would be super awesome.

[@4X4-RADIO]

Does it have USB Codecs built in for Digi Modes, or will it require standard audio leads..?? Thanks

[@temporarilyoffline]

It has a built in usb codec, I've been running ft8 with it from the beginning

[@tommasocastelli91]

That's great! Always a great job! I'm still trying to figure out why sometimes the power output goes to 0 and I have to reboot it to have back my 10 watts.

[@temporarilyoffline]

We've seen this. Does your battery show 0.0 and your waterfall is dead? If so, just press (not hold) the power button to wake up the software.

[@tommasocastelli91]

@@temporarilyoffline i usually reboot it. I also have another issue. On all bands I have 5w with batteries exept 40m and 15m (where I only get 2w). However with the external power source I get 10w everywhere. This does not make sense since it does not seems to be a radio problem nor a battery issue.

[@temporarilyoffline]

Firmware updated?

[@tommasocastelli91]

@@temporarilyoffline yes, I also tried a factory reset.

[@temporarilyoffline]

Mine doesn't do that, check out my power output vid if you haven't seen it

[@deanmeredith4537]

Can you give a step by step how to get to your beginning screen to start the mod process. I have found different videos and it all starts from about same screen but you dont mention and say how to get to that. For some of us we need a step by step. For instance on Putty SSH program what do you do to login in to even begin seeing the radio

[@temporarilyoffline]

What is your source machine? Windows, Mac, Linux, etc?

[@deanmeredith4537]

i have manage to get to the point of changing it from where you change it from disable to enable. From there i cant get to the botttom of the page to finish up to restart like you mention to write the new change. You dont mention or say how you do that you just do it. I have been trying to get to that last little step past couple hours and i am about to throw the damn thing out the window

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@deanmeredith4537 making progress is good! There is a newer method here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4ucc6uio5akhbc

[@jamespurser357]

I wonder if there is a maintenance profile that opens tx up like on the anytone radios.

[@temporarilyoffline]

I haven't seen one yet.

[@84rafaelkld]

Hello. Have you tried how it receives and transmits on AM and FM? I just received the equipment and I have opened it for the CB27 band and when I use FM they receive me well but I receive with a lot of distortion and in AM they neither receive me well nor do I receive well. I love Esraradio but it does very strange things. Thank you.

[@temporarilyoffline]

This radio does do very strange things. If you want to hear how you sound, tune to a matching frequency on a websdr and CQ call yourself ;-)

[@LiborTomsik]

What about adding a wspr beacon?

[@temporarilyoffline]

That would be great!

[@robc3863]

Good video! So is all the source code available, or just the binary and config files?

[@temporarilyoffline]

No Xiegu code is a available. In future videos you can do the mars mod with a configuration file change, and in even more future videos, we have a complete working Linux distro running on the radio. This is a great playground!

[@robc3863]

@@temporarilyoffline is that "no, Xiegu code is available", or "no code is available"?

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@robc3863 xiegu hasn't released their code.

[@robc3863]

@@temporarilyoffline okay thanks, pity, I'd definitely be interested if I could play with the source code

[@temporarilyoffline]

Me too! Lots of things to fix.

[@MikesPOV]

How about open transmit on 2m and 70cm?

[@temporarilyoffline]

I don't think the radio has the hardware to transmit in that region. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though.

[@cwonair]

HI i can' ct tx the cw bank memorized , how can i play the cw memories?

[@temporarilyoffline]

This is on my radar to play with, I'll have a video out once I get it sorted.

[@helenomacielborchartt7494]

Olá amigo queria saber se e possível desbloquear o xiegu g106c pra usar nos 27mhz?

[@temporarilyoffline]

I'm sure it is, but I haven't seen anybody do it yet.

[@helenomacielborchartt7494]

@@temporarilyoffline obrigado quando conseguir faz um vídeo por favor

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@helenomacielborchartt7494 You bet!

[@peterdekeles.]

yet another Easter Egg. How many more will you find......?

[@temporarilyoffline]

All of them!

[@mimiheaven1951]

Anyone else getting transmit reports that you sound tinny and very narrow sounding on your transmit? And the internal mic is even worse apparently ….. any ideas why??

[@temporarilyoffline]

There are a lot of mic settings. The internal speaker is very tiny. Listen to yourself on a websdr to help tune your TX audio, try an external speaker and see if it sounds better.

[@phildurall7466]

NOOOOO ...... THANK YOU! .... FOR BEING AWESOME!! 73 - KF6IF

[@temporarilyoffline]

Thanks Phil!

[@Subgunman]

I would find someone who knows what they are doing and pay for their service. I am not the type who can get in there and change values within the firmware.

[@temporarilyoffline]

Not a bad idea

[@chadbruce8534]

Radioddity had this on their email awhile back... nothing new..

[@temporarilyoffline]

Interesting. Can you point me to it?

[@AG7SM]

Write software to run an RTTY BBS completely on the unit. Or whatever digital protocol -- but it runs the BBS completely on the X6100.

[@don_n5skt]

I would love to have bootable loads via the SD card. One for Winlink, WSJTX, FreeDV, etc. Basically, one SD card for each mode so I just have to boot the radio and instant Winlink machine complete with Radio.

[@temporarilyoffline]

That would be fun

[@temporarilyoffline]

That's a good idea Don!

[@4X4-RADIO]

@@don_n5skt Why not have a choice(prompt) at switch..?? Instead of juggling SD Cards..?? Just a thought

[@don_n5skt]

@@4X4-RADIO Because then I have to create a button or choice prompt via serial. I would rather it be as automated as possible from radio power on to fully running app. Also, I think these need to be small images to run within the code space so having all those apps could prove to large. However, I am completely open.

[@joshhayes9570]

Is there a way to do this with windows?

[@temporarilyoffline]

Sure thing, You can use PuTTY and connect over IP or Serial. But before you do that, there is an even easier way: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4ucc6uio5akhbc

[@joshhayes9570]

@@temporarilyoffline thank you very much I’m hoping to buy the Xiegu X6100 one day!

[@temporarilyoffline]

Great, be sure to use my discount code in the description to save some cash!

[@joshhayes9570]

@@temporarilyoffline nice thank you very much!

[@davenewmyer3735]

Add M17 digital voice to the available modes......de n0km

[@temporarilyoffline]

Very nice!

[@stevek2ty557]

Where is the user UI called during startup?

[@temporarilyoffline]

/etc/init.d/S99usrinterface start (or something similar), its just a linux app.

[@stevek2ty557]

Thank you.

[@larrygrigar3793]

Do you know if this can be done in the X5105.

[@temporarilyoffline]

Not using this method, no

[@larrygrigar3793]

The x5105 is only 5 watts so i would like to tx on 11 meters but "can't find any" info on this.

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@larrygrigar3793 From what I hear, if you open the radio up, there is an arrow pointing at the component that needs to be removed. I don't have any experience with this one though.

[@chrispierce53]

i need to get into the program file so i can do a mars mod,can you help

[@temporarilyoffline]

There is an easier way with the new firmware: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4ucc6uio5akhbc

[@Suzuki_Akira]

How to open console to do this in windoze?

[@temporarilyoffline]

Try using PuTTY.

[@Suzuki_Akira]

@@temporarilyoffline Tried but I entered the radios IP on my WiFi and will not connect. Also tried via DEV port but on 2 different PC, neither will load the drivers for the COM ports, tried loading CH340 manually but still will not recognize / show a driver for these 2 ports. All audio and others loaded but not the 2 COM ports. I do not have or know about the Pi method but feel this would not work either if PC will not recognize the COM ports... What am I missing???

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@Suzuki_Akira do you have a raspberry pi handy? That's what I've been using.

[@Suzuki_Akira]

@@temporarilyoffline After much more digging, I found the issue is the serial chip is really a CH342 and the newest CH343 drive is needed to provide full functions to both COM ports on DEV access. Now a simple terminal connected to the lowest COM port number eliminates the need for Pi and Terminal Emulation. HOWEVER, after 20211227002 Firmware, the extra files are NOT their anymore and the MOD can NOT be done now....

[@temporarilyoffline]

@@Suzuki_Akira the github link or TOADs discord has links for each firnware version

[@kennethlapham9054]

Please try getting hifi essb 4k xmit 4k receive .that is my Xmas wish ...thanks bro your killing it .ke6iev 73

[@temporarilyoffline]

If I understand you correctly, that can be done in software, but it's above my pay grade. Eventually we should be able to run any SDR Linux software

[@kennethlapham9054]

Really hoping for help on expanding the bandwidth to 4k a qrp hifi rig any help would be appreciated ke6iev......digitally challenged operator

[@temporarilyoffline]

Join us over on TOADs discord, I don't know if there is a reason why we couldn't do that with a hex edit. Ask in the x6100 room.