Noise Plots


Dean Shutt <al7cr@...>
 

I have an eight channel installation running with great success.  My local noise plot shows only a very few points however even though I have run the installation for several hours.  Is there a way to trigger production of a plot?  On what schedule are they produced?  Thanks for the help.


Rob Robinett
 

Hi Dean,

Use https://wspr.live/gui/d/ereVvgn7z/station-noise-stats?orgId=1&refresh=1m to get far more flexible displays of your noise levels and much more.

Rob 


Dean Shutt <al7cr@...>
 

That site looks great but all my plots give this error:

Code: 386, e.displayText() = DB::Exception: There is no supertype for types String, UInt8 because some of them are String/FixedString and some of them are not: while executing 'FUNCTION equals(band : 17, 10 : 19) -> equals(band, 10) LowCardinality(UInt8) : 20' (version 21.8.4.51 (official build))

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Rob Robinett
 

Are you configured to upload spots and noise to wsprdaemon.org?

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 8:48 PM Dean Shutt <al7cr@...> wrote:
That site looks great but all my plots give this error:

Code: 386, e.displayText() = DB::Exception: There is no supertype for types String, UInt8 because some of them are String/FixedString and some of them are not: while executing 'FUNCTION equals(band : 17, 10 : 19) -> equals(band, 10) LowCardinality(UInt8) : 20' (version 21.8.4.51 (official build))

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response:"Code: 386, e.displayText() = DB::Exception: There is no supertype for types String, UInt8 because some of them are String/FixedString and some of them are not: while executing 'FUNCTION equals(band : 17, 10 : 19) -> equals(band, 10) LowCardinality(UInt8) : 20' (version 21.8.4.51 (official build)) "
 
message:"Code: 386, e.displayText() = DB::Exception: There is no supertype for types String, UInt8 because some of them are String/FixedString and some of them are not: while executing 'FUNCTION equals(band : 17, 10 : 19) -> equals(band, 10) LowCardinality(UInt8) : 20' (version 21.8.4.51 (official build)) "
 
 



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Dean Shutt <al7cr@...>
 

I believe so.  Here is my conf file:

##############################################################
### The RECEIVER_LIST() array defines the physical (KIWI_xxx,AUDIO_xxx,SDR_xxx) and logical (MERGED_RX...) receive devices available on this server
### Each element of RECEIVER_LIST is a string with 5 space-seperated fields:
###   " ID(no spaces)             IP:PORT or RTL:n    MyCall       MyGrid  KiwPassword (NULL => none required)"
### In this simple example we will only connect to a single KiwiSDR. No changes are needed on your KiwiSDR to use wsprdaemon.
### Replace the ID G3ZIL_1 below with an identification for your receiver. Replace 10.0.1.89 with the IP address of your KiwiSDR on your network.  
### If you have changed your KiwiSDR from the default 8073 then you will need to make the change in your RECEIVER_LIST below.
### Replace G3ZIL with your callsign and IO90hw with your six character grid locator.
### If your KiwiSDR is on the same subnet as the computer running wsprdaemon you may not need a password, as here, so use NULL.
### If you are on different subnets then replace NULL with your KiwiSDR's password.
ls
 sudo g
declare RECEIVER_LIST=(
        "AL7CR_1                  192.168.0.119:8073     AL7CR      CN82ie    NULL"
)

### wsprdaemon.conf can run complex band scheduling, but in this simple example we use the simplest line with no schedule
### 00:00 is the start time for the schedule, leave as is
### There follows a list of your RECEIVER_ID then a comma then the band designator in metres. Note that options 60eu and 80eu are also available.
### Note that there is no comma between the band and the next RECEIVER_ID, just a space. The order does not matter.
### You can have up to 8 bands on a KiwiSDR with BeagleBone Green and up to 14 on a BeagleBone AI.

declare WSPR_SCHEDULE=(
    "00:00 AL7CR_1,80 AL7CR_1,40 AL7CR_1,30 AL7CR_1,20 AL7CR_1,17 AL7CR_1,15 AL7CR_1,12 AL7CR_1,10"
)

### These are options that you can change
CURL_MEPT_MODE=yes                 ### This is the recommended setting
SIGNAL_LEVEL_STATS=yes              ### Change to yes if you want noise level measurements stored in a signals.log file in each rx directory
                                   ###  and to enable a web page of noise graphs for the last 24 hours
SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_GRAPHS="yes"    ### If changed to yes, wsprdaemon will upload your noise graphs to http://wsprdaemon.org/graphs/CallSign
###                                    Change Callsign in the next line to yours
SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_ID="AL7CR"
SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD="yes"           ### change to yes to upload signal level data as part of extended wsprdaemon data, database fields rms_level and c2_level
SIGNAL_LEVEL_LOCAL_GRAPHS="yes"    ### change to no if you do not want LOCAl noise plots, on the computer running wsprdaemon at localhost/noise_graph.png
###
### Now run wsprdaemon in its directory using:
### ./wsprdaemon.sh -a
### and after a few moments check its status with
### ./wsprdaemon.sh -s
### and when you need to stop it
### ./wsprdaemon.sh -z
###

When I stop wsprdaemon and then restart using the -z and -a options a noise plot is made.  However no further data is added until I repeat the process.  I did not install as a seperate user, perhaps I have a permission problem.


Rob Robinett
 

Your conf file looks OK to me and any user with autosudo permissions should run with it.
But it would be good to create a user 'wsprdaemon' and give it sudo permissions.
I'll try your conf on my Pi in the morning and report back

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 9:03 PM Dean Shutt <al7cr@...> wrote:
I believe so.  Here is my conf file:

##############################################################
### The RECEIVER_LIST() array defines the physical (KIWI_xxx,AUDIO_xxx,SDR_xxx) and logical (MERGED_RX...) receive devices available on this server
### Each element of RECEIVER_LIST is a string with 5 space-seperated fields:
###   " ID(no spaces)             IP:PORT or RTL:n    MyCall       MyGrid  KiwPassword (NULL => none required)"
### In this simple example we will only connect to a single KiwiSDR. No changes are needed on your KiwiSDR to use wsprdaemon.
### Replace the ID G3ZIL_1 below with an identification for your receiver. Replace 10.0.1.89 with the IP address of your KiwiSDR on your network.  
### If you have changed your KiwiSDR from the default 8073 then you will need to make the change in your RECEIVER_LIST below.
### Replace G3ZIL with your callsign and IO90hw with your six character grid locator.
### If your KiwiSDR is on the same subnet as the computer running wsprdaemon you may not need a password, as here, so use NULL.
### If you are on different subnets then replace NULL with your KiwiSDR's password.
ls
 sudo g
declare RECEIVER_LIST=(
        "AL7CR_1                  192.168.0.119:8073     AL7CR      CN82ie    NULL"
)

### wsprdaemon.conf can run complex band scheduling, but in this simple example we use the simplest line with no schedule
### 00:00 is the start time for the schedule, leave as is
### There follows a list of your RECEIVER_ID then a comma then the band designator in metres. Note that options 60eu and 80eu are also available.
### Note that there is no comma between the band and the next RECEIVER_ID, just a space. The order does not matter.
### You can have up to 8 bands on a KiwiSDR with BeagleBone Green and up to 14 on a BeagleBone AI.

declare WSPR_SCHEDULE=(
    "00:00 AL7CR_1,80 AL7CR_1,40 AL7CR_1,30 AL7CR_1,20 AL7CR_1,17 AL7CR_1,15 AL7CR_1,12 AL7CR_1,10"
)

### These are options that you can change
CURL_MEPT_MODE=yes                 ### This is the recommended setting
SIGNAL_LEVEL_STATS=yes              ### Change to yes if you want noise level measurements stored in a signals.log file in each rx directory
                                   ###  and to enable a web page of noise graphs for the last 24 hours
SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_GRAPHS="yes"    ### If changed to yes, wsprdaemon will upload your noise graphs to http://wsprdaemon.org/graphs/CallSign
###                                    Change Callsign in the next line to yours
SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD_ID="AL7CR"
SIGNAL_LEVEL_UPLOAD="yes"           ### change to yes to upload signal level data as part of extended wsprdaemon data, database fields rms_level and c2_level
SIGNAL_LEVEL_LOCAL_GRAPHS="yes"    ### change to no if you do not want LOCAl noise plots, on the computer running wsprdaemon at localhost/noise_graph.png
###
### Now run wsprdaemon in its directory using:
### ./wsprdaemon.sh -a
### and after a few moments check its status with
### ./wsprdaemon.sh -s
### and when you need to stop it
### ./wsprdaemon.sh -z
###

When I stop wsprdaemon and then restart using the -z and -a options a noise plot is made.  However no further data is added until I repeat the process.  I did not install as a seperate user, perhaps I have a permission problem.



--
Rob Robinett
AI6VN
mobile: +1 650 218 8896


Dean Shutt <al7cr@...>
 

Thanks, I am reinstalling now.


Dean Shutt <al7cr@...>
 

If you are still around my new install throws this error:

./wsprdaemon.sh: line 235: /tmp/./kiwiclient.log: Permission denied

Any ideas?

Thanks


Dean Shutt <al7cr@...>
 

Deleted kiwiclient.log and also index.html then installation proceeded normally.  Problem caused by permissions from previous install.


admin
 

Interesting bug, but fixed by now.