[amsat-bb] FoxTelem with Linux?

Hans BX2ABT hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net
Wed Oct 24 14:04:03 UTC 2018


I assume it is a distro running PulsAudio and that all audio is working. 
In your next post please tell us what distro you're using, that would be 
helpful.

1) First install pavucontrol. Fire it up and also start GQRX and Foxtelem.

2) Pavucontrol has 5 tabs, go to the "Recording" one.

3) You will see something like "ALSA plug-in [java]: Alsa Capture     
from .....". (Foxtelem is a Java application, hence the mention of Java).

4) Click on the rectangle that comes after "from" and you will get a 
number of choices depending on the number of sound cards. It will 
probably be two options only.

5) pick the options with "Monitor of" in front of it. If correct you 
will see the VU-meter below it come to live, which means that Foxtelem 
should be picking up audio.

6) Be proud of yourself for putting an old laptop to good use and start 
enjoying it.

If it doesn't work out mail me directly and I can provide you with some 
screen shots. The method that Paul N8HM mentioned will probably also 
work, but  you will lose audio output from your speakers.

HTH,


Hans

BX2ABT

On 10/24/18 11:42 AM, Wendy and Terry Osborne wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have just got an old Toshiba A100 laptop running on Linux.
> I have GPredict, gqrx and FoxTelem running.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to get gqrx feeding audio to FoxTelem?
> Thanks,
> 73,
> Terry Osborne ZL2BAC
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