This is key, NON-RADIO Nerds will have a learning curve if they don’t do some research.
Also… your not going to receive anything on your couch with any antenna directly attached.
I can generally pick up about 12 boats with it sitting on my workbench in my office. It I sit it out on the porch railing, I can see about 109 with the farthest being about 50km away.
Can anyone advise? For some unknown reason, the AC1200 card is no longer detected when plugged directly into the internal USB-C port. It works fine in the external port, and also in the internal port via an extension cable? Maybe unrelated, but yesterday I had a brown-out on battery over discharge, as it seems like one battery doesn’t sit well anymore (compressed spring).
Sounds like a bad connection !. Maybe try in a few other devices and wiggle slightly while in use to see if you can narrow down where the bad contact is. USB-C is a much better design than predecessors yet manufacturing standards vary greatly (quality and accuracy of parts, thickness of the gold plating etc).
After 3 days of jacking around with stuff, I finally have 3 out of 4 things working. SDR worked right out of the gate, as did TAR1090. Finally got GPS working today, but Meshtastic is fighting me fiercely. Here’s what I’ve tried:
Meshtastic Web won’t load. Just says Unable to connect. Lora is turned on
Meshtasticd status always reports Failed to start meshtasticd.service. Log says this:
Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/meshtasticd: No such file or directory
Any tips? I’m so close!
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reinstall, somehow you are missing the binary
inspect the board for damage. additionally does any usb device work? maybe a thumb drive
I uninstalled Meshtastic and reinstalled and that didn’t work. All other things work correctly. Have been using thumb drives and a USB mouse since the trackball is pretty much worthless.
Also just noticed that the error refers to the binary being located in the sbin folder but I checked and it’s not there. It’s in the bin folder.
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A sanded glass ball and the qmk firmware makes the trackball usable.
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It has its own thread already:
We need sticky’s in this forum…
I pushed an update today. Kudos to @Chris_McIntosh for his contribution towards it.
This update brings rails-on-boot level power control over the aiov2, as well as GUI improvements to manage that. The system now also correctly checks for the status of each io/rail on boot).
Just run the usual –update or gui update facility to catch up.
If you’re stuck updating this was caused by a recent history rewrite on our end, apologies for the inconvenience!
Your local repository diverged from the remote, which prevents the normal fast-forward update.
Quick Fix:
Run these commands to reset your local copy:
cd ~/aiov2_ctl
git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/main
chmod +x aiov2_ctl.py
sudo ./aiov2_ctl.py --install
After that, aiov2_ctl --update will work normally going forward.
We force-pushed a fix to the main branch, which rewrote the commit history. If you had already pulled the previous version, your local branch no longer matched the remote causing the “Cannot fast-forward to multiple branches” error.
The latest version also includes a fix to make updates more robust going forward. We’re also merging into contributions for testing via our dev branch to avoid future issues with repo history changes.
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SDR++brown working well so decided to move onto TAR1090. Turned on SDR power, extended the telescopic aerial and launched TAR. Web interface appears and set the map to my local airport. Waited for ten minutes, virtually nothing. At one point stated 1 aircraft with position 0 but nothing on the map !.
Am I missing some setup ?
PyGPS (CM5)…
Enabled GPS power and ran minicom to check GPS output. As expected lots of commas initially but outside it soon populated. GROK interpreted the numbers and gave my location within a meter or two of where I was standing 
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Ran pygpsclient (from icon and sudo in terminal), clicked the usb/uart button and… Nothing at all. What am I missing ?. Yes flipped back to minicom and full data was still spewing out.
have you tried the second serial port?
For the CM5 pick the second serial device from the list then click the USB/UART icon.
Lol I chose the Uconsole one, yes working with the second AMA0 !.
Need to sort a UK local map now, any advice on where from and how to add ?
Found a low resolution UK map that’s supposedly geoTiff yet pygpsclient claims rasterio libraries are not installed (yet rasterio certainly is). Map coordinates not on the website either 
I decided to start with a fresh install and now everything works. I skipped a ton of the steps shown on the Hacker Gadgets AIO V2 install page, and it went so much faster and everything works great. I just need to remember to always turn the Lora radio on before launching Meshtatic, otherwise I get the failed to connect error.
Think I might try to install AIOV2_ctrl to make it easier to turn devices on and off.
Fwiw I think the latest commit on aiov2_ctl will restart meshtasticd for you when you enable lora.
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@rex … PyGPSClient has a dependency issue. If importing a custom map there’s a warning that rasterio libraries are not installed (yet I installed the latest rasterio). Hence coordinates are not automatically extracted from the image and it fails to load.
Sweet! Gonna install it today. Hoping the GUI works. That will be so much easier than always having to go to a terminal and type the commands in.
Has the timezone bug been fixed?