wsprdemon on Kiwi
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Hans V alphen
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.
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Jim Lill
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
On 2/13/22 05:32, Hans V alphen via
groups.io wrote:
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Rob Robinett
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
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Hans V alphen
Hi Rob, I just found a Pi3 laying around for future use, so I will give it a go and try to get it running.
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John
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
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Hans V alphen
Hello Rob, Sorry to bother you but I am trying to get WSPDaemon installed on my RPI 3. I have the output feedback of the Putty, perhaps you can see what is wrong.
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Hans V alphen
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 !!!???
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Rob Robinett
Hi Hans, I'm aware that the new bullseye Pi OS has dropped that qt5 package. We are testing WD v3.0 installation on bullseye and a WD 3.0 beta which supports it should be available soon.Until then, install buster on your Pi if you want to install WD v2.10k Rob
Hi Rob, --
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Hans V alphen
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
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