Another X6100 Hack!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Mars Mod, OpenTX, Better Colors, 10w on Battery, what could be better? Use at your own risk!
Thanks to Chuck KD9NUD!
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I need to change mine too. Thanks for this.
On a separate subject, if you have a G90 and X6100, make sure you label the mics. The G90 mic is much "hotter" and using it in the X6100 will cause severe over modulation. Cheers ZL1LC
Oh really, I have the 90, 5105 and now the 6100 and all mine are the same
Looks much better, nice work Chuck and thanks Steve for doing these X6100 videos.
Reminds me of my DOS days
Just dove into the WW CW contest on 20m with a dipole and 100w amp. Worked stations in EU and Carib, Receiver did well and TX was good. I used a Begali paddle that almost cost as much as the radio. The pan display was a big help. I heard the CR3 nicely on a whip with ground radials. In playing with it for a couple of weeks. I think it will need a carrying case or padded bag to keep down the wear and tear.
Here is the case I use with mine. Tight fit, but I wanted something I could put in a bag. th-cam.com/video/YL9icxTSg1g/w-d-xo.html
@6:02 "You can see it is white on red." Just giving you some loving attention. Love your updates.
Thanks Sam!
@@temporarilyoffline I just looked you up. I moved to NY from Superior, WI. We were practically neighbors!
@@SamtheoriginalClassic I usually attend the superior hamfest, I'll be the guy that looks like me, wearing my KM9G hat and probably a Temporarily Offline shirt under my winter bundle. 😀
@@temporarilyoffline unfortunately, I don’t make it back often. But it would be cool to meet up sometime
Hi great info, red is kind of annoying, white looks good, change back ground colors would be great,
black on white back ground could be better in some instances,
hopefully they might do a firmware change to whatever colors you want? Thanks
It's all possible!
Brill Thanks so much great work.
Anytime
A GREAT TNX for that!!! The red color was not readable in the sun, no chance!
I have to make a video on how to do the hex edits. Stay tuned.
@@temporarilyoffline It would be also cool, if the red color would be white within the system menu etc.
@@Andy-M938 I have a video coming out where I will show you how to fix this. Stay tuned!
Thank Todd we have some coders here hack this quirky radio. I guess if Xiegu does change the password, it may be possible to work around it. If they know what's good for them, they will leave it at 123. The radio being hackable- helps them sell more radios. The lack of shielding between boards internally will still plague us with ghost signals etc. Oh well.
Since the radio will boot from SD card, we can interrupt the boot cycle and insert our own code/reset the password that way. I'm fairly certain we are safe. Check out TOADs, we now have a working linux boot image available!
I wish we had a version of this for the newest firmware. I have old man eyes as well.
I don't know if this still applies, but there is a newer method here: th-cam.com/video/FalVifEduIM/w-d-xo.html
Our eyes don't perceive colors as equally bright. Red, green and blue are weighted as 21%, 72% and 7% respectively. After display gamma of 2.4, red is 0.21^2.4 = 0.0236 and blue is 0.07^2.4 = 0.0017 for a contrast ratio of 14.0. But blue-on-white is a contrast ratio of 1.00/.0017 = 588.
588 is much bigger than 14.
Sometimes Red on Blue even hurts a little.
Great for colorblindness!
Definitely! This means that all colors are changeable
That looks 1K times better!
But not 4k
Can this be done without the use of a raspberry-pi and over say the WiFi connection? Or maybe a windows PC plugged into the DEV port? Thanks for any and all help!
Yes, it can. All you need is the ability to connect a serial terminal.
Is there an hack that open 2 mt and 70 cm band?
Not currently. The hardware doesn't do it, but maybe a transverter?
Awesome work!
Thanks CCCNC!
Thanks for saying I'm awesome you to TO
Just for you brother!
Hey that does look better.
The old word perfect colors!
Hi is there an update for the latest version? thanks for the videos have enjoyed watching them. (and others)
We found a way to write a script and I need to make a video on how to do it with the latest firmware.
That would be awesome. I have managed to alter the hex code to change the red to white for volume and power (Kenny Wyss) but changing the power limit etc was beyond me. thanks and cheers.
I saw your video, you were peeking at its boot dmesg. Are you hacking it firmware??
Yes, I have a few videos about it on the channel
Can I use WinSCP to overwrite this file and get the white text?
I don't see why not. If it doesn't work, you can re-flash the firmware to fix it.
@@temporarilyoffline It worked, but apparently the white text ui file was compiled from 1.1.3 because it shows up that way in System, so it doesn't have the other 1.1.4 features, like the ability to turn off the peak hold meter feature and what not.
@@SheepdogPreparedness that makes sense, I don't know how to do the hex edits and Chuck has been busy
TO .... nice to see you have your Linux legs Sir! :) This is a nice add for screen readability. Chuck, you are awesome Sir! Tnx - 73 KF6IF
You haven't seen my other Linux videos? I'm an old school linux wonk!
Your video will be easier to follow if you would change your screen mode to black type over white or grey background, with much larger fonts. Just a thought. Jon, EA2SN / AE2SN
fyi... it's not old man eyes. red and blue are at far ends of visible spectrum. the red/blue combo will give you a headache trying to focus. doubt me?..... look into GUI dev standards. 73s
I don't doubt you at all!
Wait, what.... a hack to get 10w out of the internal battery? Or did I hear that wrong?
You heard correct. Link in the description - use at your own risk of course.
Did someone say 10W on battery ?
Shh! It's a secret 😉
Uu8ghhh i HATE github 😞
Can't please everybody I guess