Hi Glenn
*Fantastic* to hear from you, sounds like you are enjoying retirement. I daresay the digital modes have evolved quite a bit since you got back in. There are also numberless digital modes on HF most of which at least in the ham bands are no wider than a voice channel, and can be accessed using a PC interfaced to a conventional HF transceiver.
As discussed recently in another thread there is no easy way to have the boatbod version installed concurrently on the same machine with the version from the osmocom repo. The command lines and TSV files are (mostly) compatible between the two so if you already have one or the other up and running it should be a snap to switch.
The first step is to remove the old version. To do so, cd to the 'build' directory of the installed version which should be one level down from the top level directory of the cloned repo. Then run "sudo make uninstall". This won't delete the contents of the repo but it will delete the libraries and include files and such that were installed in the system libraries under /usr/local/.
Then (after 'cd' back to your home directory, outside of any op25 directory), clone the osmocom repo with
Code:
https://git.osmocom.org/op25 "directory"
The reason for adding "directory" at the end of the clone command is that the default, op25, may already be a directory name under your home directory, and we don't want to overwrite it. It can be any name, such as "osmocom-op25"...
Then
Code:
cd "directory" # # # name of directory named in clone command
./install.sh
Once this is done you should be able to start op25 (rx.py) as before - make sure to use the "-l http:127.0.0.1:8080" command line options, then open the browser to URL "
http://127.0.0.1:8080" and click the "View" tab to enable the dark mode.
The above assUmes all will go well. If you have trouble please don't hesitate to reach out. Don't worry about being a "Linux lightweight".
Graham has done a lot of work on DMR support in OP25 so that version might be a better fit if you're doing, say, DMR trunked system monitoring. If you want both versions, you might need another PI (I get no commission from them
Also OP25 supports transmitting DMR although only as a base station, and some form of SDR or FM RF transmitter is required.
Let me know how you make out, and perhaps there is some way we can connect over ham radio. There are a few DMR linked repeaters that do a think called "echolink" but I haven't played with it at all. Maybe they can provide a route between us...
73
Max