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eHam Forums => Microcontrollers for Ham Radio (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.) => Topic started by: IW5CWC on December 15, 2021, 02:51:21 PM
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If Santa will bring me what I have been asking him for ::) the goal is to setup a portable digital radio station with my FT-818 connected to a Raspberry PI 4 through the SCU-17 Yaesu interface.
However I saw that to make the SCU-17 to work under MS Windows it is needed to install a USB virtual com port driver before connecting the SCU-17 to the PC (at least the instructions from Yaesu say to follow this procedure up to Win 8, I presume the same applies also to later versions...).
I am wondering if something similar has to be done on the Raspberry and there is some driver to install before connecting the SCU-17, too or not.
I googled for that but didn't find very much. Can someone give directions for the above setup to work?
Thanks.
73
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I'd start here:
https://www.silabs.com/developers/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers
If you get the drivers to work (source code may be available for Raspbian recompiling or so says my quick-and-dirty look), then software on Linux can treat it like any other serial "TTY" style device.
The cabling appears to be a standard USB cable. It's just a question of support for the particular chip used in the Yaesu rig.