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Considering the devs aren't going to fix the audio sink issues with null-sinks i'll just have to adapt, setup loopback sinks for my SDRs via pipewire.conf.d

@abortretryfail: I can confirm the issue with no sound on TX or TUNE. Interestingly, it works with the AppImage from github: https://github.com/js8call/js8call/releases/tag/v2.3.1

I tried rubberduck's patch and it builds, but sound on TX or TUNE doesn't work, and stderr spams with this whenever the mouse is over the waterfall:

qt.qpa.wayland: 26-02-18T12:36:06.478Z: Failed to create popup. Ensure popup QWidgetWindow(0x565289067510, name="qtooltip_labelWindow") has a transientParent set.

Here's a diff for the 2.3.1 release if anyone wants to give it a go.
I think the dependencies need updated for qt6 still. I had to roll back to 2.2.0 because I was having issues with audio output on TX.

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index c5293e5..6addedc 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,25 +6,24 @@
 # https://github.com/michaellass/AUR

 pkgname=js8call
-pkgver=2.2.0
-pkgrel=5
+pkgver=2.3.1
+pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Software for ragchewing and message-passing based on WSJT-X"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
-url="https://bitbucket.org/widefido/js8call/"
+url="https://github.com/js8call/js8call/"
 license=('GPL-3.0-only')
 makedepends=(cmake asciidoc asciidoctor gcc-fortran)
 depends=(qt5-base qt5-multimedia qt5-serialport libusb libusb-compat libpulse libpng fftw hamlib)
 options=(!lto)
-source=($pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://bitbucket.org/widefido/$pkgname/get/v$pkgver-ga.tar.gz)
-sha1sums=('81bb9d0483e569fe4bba24f0f724ecfb9de70046')
+source=($pkgname-$pkver.tar.gz::https://github.com/js8call/js8call/archive/refs/tags/v$pkgver.tar.gz)
+sha1sums=('75b7b331360773dba328fa4319c5227777e93302')

 prepare() {
-    mv "$srcdir"/widefido-js8call* "$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver
-    mkdir -p "$srcdir"/build
+    mkdir -p "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/build"
 }

 build() {
-    cd "$srcdir"/build
+    cd  "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/build"
     cmake \
         -Wno-dev \
         -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 \
@@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ build() {
 }

 package() {
-    cd "${srcdir}"/build
+    cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/build"
     sed -i.bak0 '\%list(APPEND CMAKE_ABSOLUTE_DESTINATION_FILES%,+7d' cmake_install.cmake
     sed -i.bak1 's%file(INSTALL DESTINATION "/usr/share/applications"%file(INSTALL DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/applications"%' cmake_install.cmake
     sed -i.bak2 's%file(INSTALL DESTINATION "/usr/share/pixmaps"%file(INSTALL DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/pixmaps"%' cmake_install.cmake

@Bevan i asked about the SNR on the groups.io channel but the reply seemed like a lot of waffle to me

at the snr margins i got decodes at the standard x2 on 2.2.0 that i didn't get on 2.3.1

https://js8call.groups.io/g/main/topic/linux_users_2_2_0_vs_2_3_1/114335566

For now, I'll wait with the update to 2.3.1.

I found the issue report https://github.com/js8call/js8call/issues/26 which is probably yours? Could you also create an issue about the worse SNR? I could imagine this being caused by wrong/suboptimal audio settings, so it could be related to the already reported issue, but who knows...

@Bevan just been testing with my icom 7410 (Burr-Brown built in card) running both side by side, seeing consistent 4 to 5 dB worse snr with 2.3.1.

@Bevan yup installed, guess i'll have to make a github issue.

Hm, that's not good... One idea: The new version of js8call now uses Qt6. Do you have qt6-multimedia installed? Although I would expect the AppImage to come with all required libraries...