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Posted: **Sat 03 Jul 03 2021 5:19 pm**

Enabled ddclient

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Ddcli ... f_ddclient

Posted: **Mon 12 Jul 12 2021 10:41 am**

The FT8 decoder basically runs on cron with a few defined functions - decoding, uploading, and so on.

You can add python3 by way of:-

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apk add python3
apk add python3-setuptools
apk add py3-pip

Additionally, the STEMlabs 125-14 differs from the 122.88-16 in that it has a high impedance input, thus requiring the impedance transformer, whereas the 122.88-16 has that transformer built in and the input is already at 50ohms. For the former, you need to set the jumpers to the middle position (2-5).

Posted: **Mon 12 Jul 12 2021 10:52 am**

The 125-14 gets quite hot while running (122.88-16 supposedly gets even hotter). In order to monitor the temperature, the following script can be used:-

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#!/bin/sh
#
# from www.kkn.net/~n6tv/xadc.sh
# updated by Michael Hirsch, Ph.D.
#
# works in Ash (Red Pitaya ecosystem 0.95) and Bash (ecosystem 0.97)

# path to IIO device
XADC_PATH=/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0

# Note: used "cat" to work in Ash instead of the typically recommended Bash "<".

OFF=$(cat $XADC_PATH/in_temp0_offset)
RAW=$(cat $XADC_PATH/in_temp0_raw)
SCL=$(cat $XADC_PATH/in_temp0_scale)

FORMULA="(($OFF+$RAW)*$SCL)/1000.0"
VAL=$(echo "scale=2;${FORMULA}" | bc)
echo "in_temp0 = ${VAL} °C"

I created a directory in ~/apps called tools and made this into temp.sh

In order to automatically run this script at ssh login, you edit or create a file /etc/ssh/sshrc containing:-

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#!/bin/bash
./apps/tools/temp.sh

Posted: **Mon 12 Jul 12 2021 10:58 am**

In order to make changes that persist, you will need to enable writes to the mounted partition using:-

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rw

and make it read-only afterwards with

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ro

To commit other changes, use:-

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lbu commit -d

Posted: **Mon 12 Jul 12 2021 11:54 am**

Some useful test information can be found here:-

https://www.qrz.com/DB/ON7YI
https://www.redpitaya.com/159/impendance-transformer
https://groups.io/g/redpitaya/album?id=13443

Posted: **Wed 21 Jul 21 2021 11:11 pm**

The decode process dumps the output to the /dev/shm directory. Temporary files also show up there and are subsequently deleted. It is possible to scan this directory for new receives directly.

The file of interest is ~/apps/sdr_transceiver_ft8/upload-ft8.sh which gets run under the control of ~/apps/sdr_transceiver_ft8/ft8.cron

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* * * * * cd /dev/shm && /media/mmcblk0p1/apps/sdr_transceiver_ft8/decode-ft8.sh >> decode-ft8.log 2>&1 &
*/6 * * * * cd /dev/shm && /media/mmcblk0p1/apps/sdr_transceiver_ft8/upload-ft8.sh >> upload-ft8.log 2>&1 &

So if we want to process the data, we need to insert a command into upload-ft8.sh at the point before the REPORT file is deleted.

Posted: **Thu 22 Jul 22 2021 12:32 am**

To enable Wi-Fi for multiple SSIDs, you will need to add multiple entries into /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf using:-

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wpa_passphrase SSID PASSOWRD >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

This will append the entries which then need to be committed using

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lbu commit -d

Additionall, you need to edit the /etc/network/interfaces to be:-

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auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
        hostname ft8mon

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
	hostname ft8mon
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Note that Wi-Fi association might not be immediate at boot so give it a little time to work things out.

Posted: **Mon 26 Jul 26 2021 7:54 pm**

To select the bands - 7 at a time for the StemLABS 125-14 board - edit the write-c2-files.cfg

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// frequency correction, from -100.0 ppm to +100.0 ppm
corr = 0.0;

// comma separated list of bands
// trailing commas are not allowed
bands = (
//  { freq  =  1.841500; chan = 1; },
  { freq  =  3.574500; chan = 1; },
//  { freq  =  5.358500; chan = 1; },
  { freq  =  7.075500; chan = 1; },
  { freq  = 10.137500; chan = 1; },
  { freq  = 14.075500; chan = 1; },
  { freq  = 18.101500; chan = 1; },
  { freq  = 21.075500; chan = 1; },
  { freq  = 24.916500; chan = 1; },
  { freq  = 28.075500; chan = 1; }
//  { freq  = 50.314500; chan = 1; }
);

Posted: **Sat 07 Aug 07 2021 9:21 pm**

To change the hostname, you need to edit the script that sets it:-

/etc/conf.d/hostname

You need to perform and rw before and ro afterwards, as well as an lbu commit -d

I simply added:-

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echo ft8mon > /etc/hostname

after commenting out the original line

Posted: **Fri 13 Aug 13 2021 10:33 am**

To use the RP with Wi-Fi, you need to set it to client mode as it goes into host mode by default. To do this, you run:-

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/root/wifi/client.sh

You may want to run lbu commit -d after this just to be sure it sticks though I'm not absolutely sure it is needed.

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