xlxd/ambed

Created by Jean-Luc Deltombe (LX3JL) on 09/07/2017.
Copyright © 2017 Jean-Luc Deltombe (LX3JL). All rights reserved.
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VERSION: 1.3.2 Hardware compatibility.

This version of ambed is compatible with:

• DF2ET's AMBE3003USB opensource device (https://github.com/phl0/AMBE3003USB)
• LX3JL's USB-3006 opensource device (https://github.com/lx3jl/usb-3006)
• DVSI's USB-3000 device
• DVSI's USB-3003 device
• DVSI's USB-3012 device
• NWDR's ThumbDV device
• NWDR's ThumbDV-3 device
• DVMEGA AMBE3000 device
• DVMEGA AMBE3003 device
• TEAM6160 AMBE3000 device Available transcoding channels per device:

device			 DMR->DSTAR		DSTAR->DMR		Nb Of concurrent channels
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3000(pair)		    1				1			2
3003			    1				1			2
3003(pair)		    3				3			4
3003-3000(pair)	            2			        2		not tested
3006			    3				3			6
3012			    6				6			12

Multiple devices can be used at the same time. You need to use 3000 by pairs or paired with a 3003 Do not to use USB hubs as they have proven making system behaviour unreliable. Instructions:

1. Installation of FTDI drivers Download from FTDI web site the latest D2XX driver package http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm Follow FTDI provided documentation for installation and testing of the drivers. For macchine x86 x64

# wget http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX/Linux/libftd2xx-i386-1.4.8.gz
# wget http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX/Linux/libftd2xx-x86_64-1.4.8.gz

For raspberry ARMv6 ARMv7

# wget http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX/Linux/libftd2xx-arm-v6-hf-1.4.8.gz
# wget http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX/Linux/libftd2xx-arm-v7-hf-1.4.8.gz

Extract files

# tar xfvz libftd2xx-XXX-1.4.8.tgz
# cd /release/build
# cp libftd2xx.* /usr/local/lib
# chmod 0755 /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so.1.4.8
# ln -sf /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so.1.4.8 /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.s

2. installation of g++ compiler

# apt-get install build-essential

Only Debian 7

# apt-get install g++-4.7

2. download and compile ambed

# git clone https://github.com/LX3JL/xlxd.git
# cd xlxd/ambed/
# make clean
# make
# make install

Remove module kernel

# rmmod ftdi_sio
# rmmod usbserial

3. configuring ambed startup service

# cp -r ~/xlxd/Systemd/ambed.* /lib/systemd/system/
Edit file ambed.service for change IP if xlxd run other PC
N.B If ambed is running on same machine than xlxd, use default 127.0.0.1
otherwise use the machine own IPs
# pico /lib/systemd/system/ambed.service
Update sevice list
# systemctl daemon-reload
Enable service autostart
# systemctl enable ambed.timer

4. running ambed note: Due to specific FTDI driver implementation, ambed must be running with root privilege, and cannot be run as a daemon. So ambed will display the information and error messages in the terminal it has been started from Command of start/stop/restart/status service

# service ambed start
# service ambed stop
# service ambed restart
# service ambed status