Hello,

I am searching for the way to install wsprdeamon on my Kiwi SDR. Until now I did not find if this is possible or how this should be done. The only procedure I find is to install the wsprdeamon on a Raspberry PI. Can I use this procedure to install wsprdeamon on the beagle from the Kiwi sdr or is this not good.

It's not clear if wsprdeamon should be installed on the Kiwi and I don't have enough experience with installing software on the Kiwi and RPI to just try something I don't understand or have a good feeling about.

I hope someone in this group can help me in the good direction.

Also I know that some Ham's use a RPI to combine the spots of more than one receiver to sort the umique decodes before forwarding the spots to wsprnet. Is that software available for use by others or should it be build by myself. I am afraid that I don't have that experience for that. Any help with this would be highly appreciated.

Many thanks, 73's  DL/PA0EHG
visit my website at: www.pa0ehg.com

WD must be run on a platform separate from the KiwiSDR.  There are simply not enough MIPS in the kiwi, ven with a BBAI

wa2zkd

Hello Hans,

I CPU on the Kiwi is 100% consumed by the Kiw's software, and it was at the suggestion of John Seamons (the author of teh Kiwi) that I started developing wsprdaemon as a stand alone program to be run on a separae computer.  That wsprdaemon computer is frequently a  Pi 3 or Pi 4, but WD installs and runs even better on a x86 class Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Among its features, WD allows one to configure it to receive spots from 2 or more antenna+receiver systems, select the best set of spots from them and record that best set of spots to wsprnet.org.  Many of the top spotting sites run WD in that configuration.  WD can also be configured to at the same time upload all spots from all those systems to a database at wsprdaemon.org from which Arne's wspr.live pages can generate graphs which compare the spots between the antenna+receiver systems at your site  and/or your site against other WD reporters.

I am working on WD 3.0 which among things add support for additional SDRs ion the hope that it will encourage hams to deploy wspr beacons and receive systems on the VHF/UHF bands.

73,

Rob

Hi Rob,

Thanks very much for your reply, it confirms the feeling I had but just was not sure enough.

I just found a Pi3 laying around for future use, so I will give it a go and try to get it running.

73's  Hans

Hans,
There are some KIWI configuration options that make the KIWI -- Wsprdaemon  setup work better.
You will most likely not have your KIWI not available to the public side of the internet. Configure for more channels, 8 no waterfall, static RFC-1918 IP address, and easy local
admin access. Set your location and other local display headings. You will see that all the channel schedule control settings are in the wsprdaemon configuration file.
Have fun/
73
John
TI4JWC

Hello Rob,

Sorry to bother you but I am trying to get WSPDaemon installed on my RPI 3.
I keep having the same problem and I just cannot find the solution.
Could you help me with a hint what to do.

I have the output feedback of the Putty, perhaps you can see what is wrong.
To me it looks like it is trying to connect to a location to download software which is not available.


login as: pi
pi@...'s password:

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Mon Feb 21 14:10:03 2022 from hptouchsmart.fritz.box

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ~/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon.sh -a
wsprdaemon.sh Copyright (C) 2020  Robert S. Robinett
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type './wsprdaemon.sh -h'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  execute'./wsprdaemon.sh -h' for details.
wsprdaemon depends heavily upon the 'wsprd' program and other technologies developed by Joe Taylor K1JT and others, to whom we are grateful.
Goto https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html to learn more about WSJT-x

WARNING:  LC_NUMERIC 'nl_NL.UTF-8' on your server is not the expected value 'en_US.UTF-8'.
          If the spot frequencies reported by your server are not correct, you may need to change the 'locale' of your server
Geraakt http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie InRelease
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie InRelease
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie Release.gpg
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie Release
Geraakt http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/main armhf Packages
Geraakt http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/ui armhf Packages
Genegeerd http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/main Translation-nl_NL
Genegeerd http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/main Translation-nl
Genegeerd http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/main Translation-en
Genegeerd http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/ui Translation-nl_NL
Genegeerd http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/ui Translation-nl
Genegeerd http://archive.raspberrypi.org jessie/ui Translation-en
Fout http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/main armhf Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
Fout http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/contrib armhf Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
Fout http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/non-free armhf Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
Fout http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/rpi armhf Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/contrib Translation-nl_NL
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/contrib Translation-nl
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/main Translation-nl_NL
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/main Translation-nl
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/main Translation-en
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/non-free Translation-nl_NL
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/non-free Translation-nl
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/rpi Translation-nl_NL
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/rpi Translation-nl
Genegeerd http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org jessie/rpi Translation-en
W: Ophalen van http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/dists/jessie/main/binary-armhf/Packages is mislukt  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]

W: Ophalen van http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/dists/jessie/contrib/binary-armhf/Packages is mislukt  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]

W: Ophalen van http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/dists/jessie/non-free/binary-armhf/Packages is mislukt  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]

W: Ophalen van http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/dists/jessie/rpi/binary-armhf/Packages is mislukt  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]

E: Ophalen van sommige indexbestanden is mislukt. Deze zijn of genegeerd, of er zijn oudere versies van gebruikt.
Pakketlijsten worden ingelezen... Klaar
Boom van vereisten wordt opgebouwd
De statusinformatie wordt gelezen... Klaar
De volgende NIEUWE pakketten zullen geïnstalleerd worden:
  bc
0 opgewaardeerd, 1 nieuw geïnstalleerd, 0 te verwijderen en 105 niet opgewaardeerd.
Er moeten 96,3 kB aan archieven opgehaald worden.
Na deze bewerking zal er 195 kB extra schijfruimte gebruikt worden.
WAARSCHUWING: De volgende pakketten kunnen niet geauthenticeerd worden!
  bc
E: Er zijn problemen en -y was gebruikt zonder --force-yes
FATAL ERROR: Failed to install 'bc' which is needed for floating point frequency calculations
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Hi Rob,

Now I started from scratch with also new installed OS and now I run to the problem:

Package qt5-default is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'qt5-default' has no installation candidate
FATAL ERROR: Failed to install 'qt5-default' which is needed to run the 'jt9' copmmand in wsprd V2.3.xxxx

I read that there is a problem with "The 'qt5-default' package was removed from 'bullseye'."

To be honest I am totally lost !!!???

--

Hi Rob,

Just wanted to let you know that I had succes and it is working now.
Still have to learn quite a lot on setting up the wsprdaemon.conf file but the first step is working.
Thank you for you mentioning that I had to install buster on my Pi, it was the first part of the succes.

Now I will let it run for a while so that I can compare the performance off this setup to my previous setup.

Appreciate your work, many Thanks.

73's  DL/PA0EHG