New Trixie and full AIOv2 package installed after locale messed up somehow. SDR working well. Time to install AIOv2_CTL again from…
Seems easy to follow yet 2 queries…
Quote “The recommended install location is `/usr/local/bin”… how do I chose install location ?, there’s nothing implied by the python install command line. Git cloned to my downloads folder.
The wiki at…
Also talks of modifying the eeprom config and boot config.txt yet may be out of date. All I notice is the line “ignore_lcd=0” is currently set to “1”.
You have to manually cd into that location and then, once there, install the aiov2_ctl.
so you would boot up, open terminal, then use:
cd /usr/local/bin (if that’s where you’d like to install it), then go through the install steps.
From there, using it also requires navigating to that directory until you configure it to be run from anywhere (adding to path, making sim links, etc).
so next time you boot up, you would navigate there:
cd /usr/local/bin/aiov2_ctl
Then run: python3 aiov2_ctl.py —help
to see usage. Note that it’s - - (with no space) before the help.
It’s a script to help power up aspects of the AIOv2 board which are powered off by default.
Some common uses for me:
python3 aiov2_ctl.py usb on. You can swap usb for lora, gps, and sdr to power those up.
To check what’s running:
python3 aiov2_ctl.py — status
Again, - - with no spaces between dashes, or between the dashes and status.
just adding a note: the script won’t work with Kali because Kali has moved on to python 3.13 and removed 3.12 from repos, while quite a couple of the dependencies are still on python3.12
