Re: #aprs
#aprs
You are getting close. You are transmitting and an IGate station is sending your packets to the APRS-IS servers.
Let's look at your most recent transmission. After the part with addresses we find: :KO4BCZ :11 16:46:28 EDT KO4BCZ mesg_beacon test from host asawizard on port udr0 Seq: 1<0x09><0xe7> The first character of the information part is ":" meaning "message." In APRS, the term "message" has a very special meaning. You can think of it like a mobile phone text message. Suppose you sent a text message to the number for a phone that has never been powered on. The telephone network would not know how to forward the message. It is the same situation here. The APRS-IS servers will try to forward this message to IGate stations near the last known location of "KO4BCZ". There is no known location for that station. The error message "KO4BCZ was not found in the location database." is exactly what you would expect in this case. You can only send an APRS "message" to a station if the APRS-IS servers have recent information about where it is. "Successful IGate Operation," found here https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/tree/dev/doc , briefly describes how APRS messaging works. If you want to advertise your location, use a "Position Report." Look in your direwolf.conf file and use an existing PBEACON example as a starting point.
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Re: #aprs
#aprs
Andrew P.
Have you sent a position packet yet? Just because you transmitted an APRS text message doesn't provide anyone with your station position.
Andrew, KA2DDO author of YAAC ________________________________________ From: udrc@nw-digital-radio.groups.io <udrc@nw-digital-radio.groups.io> on behalf of Paul Noa <pauljnoa@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 4:18 PM To: udrc@nw-digital-radio.groups.io Subject: [draws and udrc] #aprs I have just completed a new and clean install of NWDR15 due to some strange IPtable issues which seem to be resolved now. Attached are outputs from commands used in VERIFY_CONFIG.md It appears everything is working but I do not know enough to understand why no aprs.fi location? # I see this on the server T2PR: Port Username Address Verified Up Last in Software Packets Tx Packets Rx Bytes Tx Bytes Rx Tx/Rx bytes/s OutQ MsgRcpts Filter 4580 KO4BCZ 174.227.144.238:3629 Yes 17m 28s Dire-Wolf 1.6 1 0/0/0 4044 145 0 / 0 0 0 # On APRS.fi Raw Packets: 2020-04-11 15:54:30 EDT: KO4BCZ-11>APUDR1,WIDE1-1,qAO,K4GDG-10::KO4BCZ :11 15:54:28 EDT KO4BCZ mesg_beacon test from host asawizard on port udr0 Seq: 0"<0x92> aprs.fi · KO4BCZ · Log out KO4BCZ was not found in the location database.
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#aprs
#aprs
Paul Noa
I have just completed a new and clean install of NWDR15 due to some strange IPtable issues which seem to be resolved now.
Attached are outputs from commands used in VERIFY_CONFIG.md It appears everything is working but I do not know enough to understand why no aprs.fi location? # I see this on the server T2PR:
Port Username Address Verified Up Last in Software Packets Tx Packets Rx Bytes Tx Bytes Rx Tx/Rx bytes/s OutQ MsgRcpts Filter
4580 KO4BCZ 174.227.144.238:3629 Yes 17m 28s Dire-Wolf 1.6 1 0/0/0 4044 145 0 / 0 0 0
# On APRS.fi Raw Packets:
2020-04-11 15:54:30 EDT: KO4BCZ-11>APUDR1,WIDE1-1,qAO,K4GDG-10::KO4BCZ :11 15:54:28 EDT KO4BCZ mesg_beacon test from host asawizard on port udr0 Seq: 0"<0x92>
aprs.fi · KO4BCZ · Log out
KO4BCZ was not found in the location database.
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Re: Backups and Updates
john.chabalko@...
Thanks Basil, what i was trying to use is provided by mDNS - which seems to work after initial setup but not during initial boot.
Last night i tried to do that with a couple of images and then gave up and plugged it into a TV where the IP address was displayed on the screen. Makes me think i missed something. Once i had the IP i was able to connect fine remotely and complete the setup after i connected it back to my radio. I thought this worked before but it's been a while since i've set up DRAWs. It does work correctly on a pi-star setup. I was going to do it via a wired connection and couldn't find my long ethernet cable - which i of course found right after i got it sorted out ;) 73 -john
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Re: Backups and Updates
John D. Hays Kingston, WA K7VE
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Re: Backups and Updates
You can also run the GUI through VNC to make the copy :)
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:08 PM Basil Gunn <basil@...> wrote:
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John D. Hays Kingston, WA K7VE
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Re: Backups and Updates
If you are running a monitor with your RPi, Gayland's suggestion of
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using the Raspbian 'SD Card Copier' is by far the easiest. It even resizes to accommodate the size of the target mSD card. Nice. /Basil n7nix Gayland Gump <kg7gcf@gmail.com> writes:
On your pi under Raspberry Menu/Accessories/SD Card Copier assuming that
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Re: Backups and Updates
Ed Bloom, KD9FRQ
Thank you.
During my WFH lunch hour, I was able to successfully use that method and copy the SD card that was used to boot the Pi.
I swapped the cards and the Pi booted as expected.
Now...…………..to get the extra 2m antennas up.
Ed Bloom, KD9FRQ
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From: John D Hays - K7VE <john@...> To: udrc <udrc@nw-digital-radio.groups.io> Sent: Fri, Apr 10, 2020 1:03 pm Subject: Re: [draws and udrc] Backups and Updates The method Gayland provided runs directly on the Pi with a GUI enabled. You need to attach an SD Card Reader/Writer
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 9:57 AM Basil Gunn <basil@...> wrote:
John D. Hays
Kingston, WA K7VE
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Re: Backups and Updates
john.chabalko@gmail.com writes:
Thanks Basil, i followed your advice last night and went ahead with aYes. I need to make a new image that updates all the packages. I started it kind of late and just let it run into the night.Sure. This works fine as the DRAWS/UDRC driver is now part of mainline Linux There are a couple of wonky things in the setup instructions (To be expected until you do a reboot. * I was able to use a wpa_supplicant.conf and to enable ssh on the sdssh pi@<ip_address_of_pi> Works from first boot with an Ethernet cable If you want to use a machine host name then: * Add an entry to /etc/hosts ie. <ip_address_of_pi> hactar hactar.localnet * Since the ip address comes from a DHCP server this address will last until you have a power failure or reboot your router. * To change you RPi to have a fixed ip address on your Ethernet device only. * look at your router config to see where the DHCP range starts. * Run fixed_ip.sh script to change ip address of your RPi. Usage: fixed_ip.sh [-l][-s][-w][-y][-d][-h] last_ip_octet or complete ip address Default to setting a static ip address -y --dhcp set Ethernet device to use DHCP -l --link show all devices that have link -s --show show all devices with ip4 addresses -w --wifi set wifi address -d --debug set debug mode, will not change any files -h display this message I don't see an updated hostname in the setup doc?? run hostname from a console prompt. and that's what it used to be called from my notes. ITo find ip address of a headless RPi * Look in the dhcp table of your router * Run the following command from another (Linux) machine. - This will port knock the SSH port number on your subnet. - requires the root ip address of your subnet. nmap -p 22 --open -sV <first_3_octets_of_subnet>.* -Pn ie. nmap -p 22 --open -sV 10.0.42.* -Pn Thanks for your help - here's the current state of my OS and applications, and everything's working great with radio control and audio routing.
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Re: Backups and Updates
The method Gayland provided runs directly on the Pi with a GUI enabled. You need to attach an SD Card Reader/Writer
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 9:57 AM Basil Gunn <basil@...> wrote:
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I ended up renaming the draws-manager folder to draws-manager-old I used Git to clone the latest version and the following steps. sudo git clone https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/draws-manager.git cd draws-manager sudo cp draws-manager.service /lib/systemd/system sudo cp draws-manager /etc/default cd webapp sudo /usr/bin/npm install #this will take a while sudo systemctl start draws-manager Now I am back in Business! -Kb5zur David
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:17 PM Mike B <kf5dey@...> wrote: Could you list what actions you did that solved the problem or problems...in case someone else has the same or similar problem?
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Mike B
Could you list what actions you did that solved the problem or problems...in case someone else has the same or similar problem?
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I got it going. Thanks
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 6:17 PM John D Hays - K7VE <john@...> wrote:
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Re: Backups and Updates
Now that I have a stable config with NWDR-15 : How do I use a USBThe answer to this question depends on which operating system you are using on the machine with the USB device, Linux/MAC/Windows. If you google this topic you will get a lot of responses for things to try and some of them might even work. I make a LOT of images using my Linux workstation so my notes reflect that. I have a number of friends that use a MAC and we have found a solution when using that OS as well. For Windows there is a lengthy thread on the RaspberryPi-4-HamRadio groups.io group that might be helpful. I can't really comment on the Windows solution since I never use it. Please read a file that I've recently added to our github repo with some notes so that you can see what I recommend. How to make an SD card image backup https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/n7nix/blob/master/docs/SDCARD_BACKUP.md /Basil
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Re: Backups and Updates
john.chabalko@...
Thanks Basil, i followed your advice last night and went ahead with a fresh rebuild - everything went fine and it also appears to have solved whatever was going on with prog_refresh not updating everything too. That dist-upgrade take a long time on a raspberry pi though ;) I started it kind of late and just let it run into the night.
The last time i did was during the time that the audio drivers were still being incorporated into the kernel - which i think was the root of my problem last year. So going forward is it recommended to manage the linux os updates as i would on any other machine - updating OS packages periodically and applying OS patches regularly? There are a couple of wonky things in the setup instructions i noticed
cheers, 73 -john pi@n3ap-p:~/n7nix/bin $ uname -a Linux n3ap-p 4.19.97-v7+ #1294 SMP Thu Jan 30 13:15:58 GMT 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux pi@n3ap-p:~/n7nix/bin $ cat /etc/debian_version 10.3 pi@n3ap-p:~ $ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="10" VERSION="10 (buster)" VERSION_CODENAME=buster ID=raspbian ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs" pi@n3ap-p:~ $ prog_refresh.sh -c js8call: current version: 2.1.1, installed: 2.1.1 wsjtx: current version: 2.1.2, installed: 2.1.2 Library: libflxmlrpc IS loaded. flxmlrpc: current version: 0.1.4, installed: 0.1.4 fldigi: current version: 4.1.11, installed: 4.1.11 flrig: current version: 1.3.50, installed: 1.3.50 flmsg: current version: 4.0.14, installed: 4.0.14 flamp: current version: 2.2.05, installed: 2.2.05 fllog: current version: 1.2.6, installed: 1.2.6 xastir: current version: 2.1.5, installed: 2.1.5 gp_verchk.sh: Detected gpsd package. gpsd: current version: 3.20, installed: 3.20
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Re: Backups and Updates
Gayland Gump
On your pi under Raspberry Menu/Accessories/SD Card Copier assuming that you've managed to pickup a usb sd card reader/writer when you've either purchased and SD card or bought one ( a very useful item in Pi World). Instructions for using it should be readily available with a bit of internet searching. This is the simplest, most straightforward method I know of. Have a few SD cards handy and when you make any significant changes to your system, use this to make a backup. Gayland KG7GCF
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 4:06 AM Ed Bloom, KD9FRQ via groups.io <ewbloom=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote: Follow up question.................
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Re: Backups and Updates
Ed Bloom, KD9FRQ
Follow up question.................
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Now that I have a stable config with NWDR-15 : How do I use a USB micro SD Card device to replicate the entire active SD card? Ed, KD9FRQ
On 4/9/2020 5:49 PM, Basil Gunn wrote:
Hi there, i have 2 questions related to the DRAWs hat on a RaspberryPi 3B+If you are running on an image that's about a year old I would recommend
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Re: Backups and Updates
Hi there, i have 2 questions related to the DRAWs hat on a RaspberryIf you are running on an image that's about a year old I would recommend starting from a current image. The reason is around May of last year some of Anna's driver patches for the DRAWS/UDRC hat where being accepted into the mainline Linux kernel. After all the patches made it into the kernel everything worked well. Unfortunately the patches dribbled in and things were unstable for a few months beginning last summer. I updated not long after getting it and there was a conflict (atDepends on what applications you configured, so no. - Or is there a script that collects the files and spits out aNope. I could probably do it for packet ie. ax.25/direwolf/RMS gateway/paclink-unix but the HF programs configuration do not follow any established convention ... that I am aware of. - I've run 'prog_refresh -c' a few times lately and it shows updatesI would have to see console output to comment on this. - I have run 'git pull' prior to 'prog_refresh -c'To be clear, I don't back-up most of my SD cards. However, since I know how to squish the file system & compress the image I tend to store complete SD card images. ie. a 16 GB SD card image can be reduced to about a 2.5GB image file. This image file can be used to (re)create any SD card equal to or greater than 16GB. Building & burning images is done on a Linux workstation. The reason I don't back-up is that with the scripts I have made available I can start from a fresh mSD card and install/configure anything in around 30 minutes. For instance I can create a 1200/9600 baud point-to-point or RMS Gateway Winlink packet station in that time. /Basil n7nix
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Re: NWDR15 Check
Thank you, Basil.Good work Ed! Ed, KD9FRQ
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Backups and Updates
john.chabalko@...
Hi there, i have 2 questions related to the DRAWs hat on a Raspberry Pi 3B+
Any pointers to messages about this stuff would be fine too, i was searching through groups.io and haven't hit pay dirt yet. 73
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