The original firmware offered by HF Signals for thr uBITX was quite basic, and the idea was always for other hobbyists to take the lead in expanding it. Dr. Ian Lee (KD8CEC) developed an enhanced version of the firmware for Farhan’s most popular radio! Now this was 3.5 years back! Unfortunately, and unlike all the rest of the KD8CEC family of software, the source code to the uBITX Memory manager was never released nor was it natively ported to platforms other than Windows. The last release of the tool (V1.110) happened around 3.5 years back. This firmware provides improved graphical user interfaces based on Nextion touchscreens and more features than the original firmware. However, the enhanced functionality of the KD8CEC software is of limited value without a tool to easily customize it to the user’s requirements. For instance, setting the CW keyer speed through the GUI is feasible, but modifying other parameters like automated keyer messages, using the uBITX as a WSPR beacon, or informing your external linear amplifier of the band you’re sending on is not practical at the radio itself. Therefore, a tool is necessary to tailor the uBITX’s settings to meet your needs. Now that’s that’s exactly where AJ6CU – Mark Hatch comes in. Mark is able to reverse engineer & fix the bugs from the original uBITX Manager and the best part is – We now have a fully open source cross platform GUI tool to easily manage all the intricacies of this world’s most popular hackable radio. uBITX Memory Manager provides the means to manage the system parameters that the KD8CEC software maintains in EEPROM ( that’s the Arduino Nano Chip). As of the now, this project hopes to make this tool work with other microcontrollers and not just stick with the Nano. Mark’s uBITX Memory Manager also provides the critical ability to backup and restore the contents of the EEPROM. Here’s the links you need to get this started. Happy Modding! 73s https://github.com/AJ6CU/uBITX-EEPR...-beta-1/uBITX.Settings.Editor.User.Manual.pdf https://github.com/AJ6CU/uBITX-EEPROM-Manager/releases
Did some renaming of repositories on github and the link above no longer works The correct new link is: https://github.com/AJ6CU/uBITX-Settings-Editor. I have also expanded the system info section in beta 2. Unfortunately, to get access to this new info, you need to have made one of my boards with an i2c eeprom: https://github.com/AJ6CU/32bit-Raduino-Board_Designs and be running KD8CEC V2 (beta) requiring build from the repository: https://github.com/AJ6CU/KD8CEC-V2.0-for-uBITX Hopefully by summer this will be all straighten out and it will be easier to get this combo. But here is a tease of this additional functionality: (grayed out means definitions in the config file but they are not operational in the current build config.) 73 Mark AJ6CU
Thank you Mr. Hatch! Can't wait to dig in this. My build has an issue where LSB and USB are reversed in the filters and I really want to straighten that out. I was hopeful that the KD8CDC Software build would solve it, but "no"... this may be a hardware issue. I need to look hard at the PC Board and follow the print. May something in the crystal filter got reversed during board loading. Thanks again to Mark Hatch! Chuck W1AEK QUOTE="VU3HZW, post: 6480445, member: 1034484"]The original firmware offered by HF Signals for thr uBITX was quite basic, and the idea was always for other hobbyists to take the lead in expanding it. Dr. Ian Lee (KD8CEC) developed an enhanced version of the firmware for Farhan’s most popular radio! Now this was 3.5 years back! Unfortunately, and unlike all the rest of the KD8CEC family of software, the source code to the uBITX Memory manager was never released nor was it natively ported to platforms other than Windows. The last release of the tool (V1.110) happened around 3.5 years back. This firmware provides improved graphical user interfaces based on Nextion touchscreens and more features than the original firmware. However, the enhanced functionality of the KD8CEC software is of limited value without a tool to easily customize it to the user’s requirements. For instance, setting the CW keyer speed through the GUI is feasible, but modifying other parameters like automated keyer messages, using the uBITX as a WSPR beacon, or informing your external linear amplifier of the band you’re sending on is not practical at the radio itself. Therefore, a tool is necessary to tailor the uBITX’s settings to meet your needs. Now that’s that’s exactly where AJ6CU – Mark Hatch comes in. Mark is able to reverse engineer & fix the bugs from the original uBITX Manager and the best part is – We now have a fully open source cross platform GUI tool to easily manage all the intricacies of this world’s most popular hackable radio. uBITX Memory Manager provides the means to manage the system parameters that the KD8CEC software maintains in EEPROM ( that’s the Arduino Nano Chip). As of the now, this project hopes to make this tool work with other microcontrollers and not just stick with the Nano. Mark’s uBITX Memory Manager also provides the critical ability to backup and restore the contents of the EEPROM. Here’s the links you need to get this started. Happy Modding! 73s https://github.com/AJ6CU/uBITX-EEPR...-beta-1/uBITX.Settings.Editor.User.Manual.pdf https://github.com/AJ6CU/uBITX-EEPROM-Manager/releases[/QUOTE]
