[Elecraft] What I need and meant

[Cameron]

This is all being made all too complicated.  The simple solution is to get
a Microsoft Surface Tablet (running W10) that will be a similar form factor
to an iPad, albeit running Windows.  Will your solar panel keep it
charged?  That I cannot tell you, but even if it does not, it will meet
nearly all of your requirements...worst case is that you need to buy an
external battery.

73

Cameron
KI4JDD


On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 1:56 PM John Marvin <jm-ec at themarvins.org> wrote:

> Running a full Windows OS under emulation on a Raspberry Pi, just to run
> one app is not a very good idea (as Adrian pointed out).
>
> An alternative would be to run QEMU on the Pi, which provides an x86
> execution environment, and then try to get the N3FJP software running
> under Linux Wine (Wine provides versions of the Windows libraries needed
> by a  Windows app that translate to linux libraries / system calls). I'm
> not saying this is an easy path to follow, but there are a lot of people
> who have succeeded doing this. The N3FJP software is simple enough that
> it would probably work reasonably well. Getting all the pieces in place
> though will be difficult, unless you can find an appropriate canned
> image for the RPi that already has Wine and QEMU installed properly.
> Here's a two year old one for a RPi 3 running Debian Stretch:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pi-qemu-wine/
>
> People have been successful getting WIne running on Qemu on the RPi4 and
> newer Linux distributions, but I haven't seen a canned image for use by
> those who are not linux / QEMU experienced users. Here's a link to a
> tutorial that was used to create the above canned image (including a
> youtube video).  People have adapted that to make things work on the
> RPi4, etc :
>
> https://www.novaspirit.com/2019/04/15/run-x86-arm/
>
> There used to be a (non free) x86 environment for the Raspberry Pi
> called Exagear Desktop, but that is no longer available (but there are
> plenty of articles on the web giving instructions on how to run Wine on
> Exagear Desktop, so don't go down that rathole).
>
> Anyway, there's a lot more web pages that discuss this, and perhaps
> there is one out there that is more recent that would allow you to get
> it all running on a RPi 4.
>
> 73,
>
> John, AC0ZG
>
> On 6/30/2021 10:38 AM, Mike Short wrote:
> > Atomic Pi is an alternative for this. I have one running Win10 and
> logging
> > app. 12v power.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 11:51 KJ7SOY <kj7soy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Unfortunately that’s a terrible idea. I’ve been using Pi’s for 8 years.
> I
> >> currently have 23 of them deployed managing our home automation,
> >> surveillance systems, and other assorted tasks. 12 are in a rack in my
> >> rackmount cabinet and the rest are deployed around our property (6
> acres).
> >>
> >> The two things they do NOT do well are run Windows and run Android. I’ve
> >> tested multiple times, on multiple Pi’s (up to and including the 8GB PI
> 4)
> >> with every variant that has ever claimed to run on the Pi. They don’t.
> >> Period. Either they lack drivers, or they run slower than molasses in a
> >> freezer. They have NEVER functioned, and given the Pi’s architecture and
> >> their library demands likely never will. Virtualization makes no
> >> difference. They just don’t work.
> >>
> >> Please don’t waste your time trying this. It’s truly not worth the time
> >> you’d spend getting it installed.
> >>
> >> 73
> >> -Adrian
> >> KJ7SOY
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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