FT5DR Programming Software on Pi using Wine

Chirp and Chirp-Next are still lacking support for the FT5DR and even though I’d rather use one of those I decided to load the official ADMS 14 software on to my Pi. Since Wine was already installed (with Vara) I figured at worst there would be just a couple tweaks required. I wasn’t disappointed.

Started by downloading the software to my downloads folder and unzipping:

-$ wget --output-document adms-14.zip 'https://www.yaesu.com/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=17549&FileCatID=42&FileName=FT5D%5FADMS%2D14%5FENG.zip&FileContentType=application%2Fx%2Dzip%2Dcompressed'

--output cut--

-$ mkdir adms-14
-$ unzip adms-14.zip -d adms-14

--output cut--

-$ cd adms-14
-$ cd FT5D_ADMS-14_ENG

Then launched the installer with:

-$ wine setup.exe

The desktop and menu link added don’t work to launch the software so I drilled down in ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Yaesu Mosen/FT5DR ADMS-14 EXP and ran the software manually.

-$ wine ADMS14.exe

Software launched OK. But some of the headings were illegible. Probably missing font(s) from the looks of it.

Classic winetricks territory:

-$ winetricks allfonts

This winetrick downloads fonts from various web sources. Some from the internet directly. Some by downloading/extracting them from powerpointviewer. Others from github. Still others from some other sources. In the end you have a complete (or nearly complete) list of fonts available to all windows users, and in turn windows software. After it finished I had (what appears to be) a fully functioning install. I'll need time later to test and verify the app runs correctly.