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I recently pulled a long forgotten Build-A-Pi (3B+) out for some updates and noticed 73Linux is the new format. Decided to just do a new build. Install & updates went off without a hitch. As I was wrapping up I remembered there was a way to add solar data to the Conky pane. Followed the video on Youtube from 12/22/2020 as I didn't see an updated version. Ended up with two issues...

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First, when I manually run fetchsolar in the terminal to initially populate the fields I see the values plus some empty boxes:

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Second, even though I added the new/related crontab entry, these values don't appear when the Pi boots up.

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Did I miss a step or two? Thanks.

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- N1DAE

Solved the failure to populate at startup with an added @reboot line in the crontab. Does anyone have a thought regarding the small boxes?

/g/KM4ACK-Pi/topic/88592007#msg6997

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73, de KM4ACK

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I appreciate the link and don't know how I missed that post in a search... my apologies.

The script in the link is different, so do I have to replace the entire script with the newer one?

Couldn't really make sense of the posts in the linked 2022 thread as I didn't want images or think significant changes should be needed just get rid of the boxes. They appear to be caused by a stray carriage return (CR) left in the related text files. As someone still getting my feet wet with Linux, with a bit of research and some careful experimentation, a fairly simple solution was found.

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After , you don't have to replace the entire fetchsolar script. The only thing required is an easy edit to one line in each of the "clean up" sections (aindex, kindex, sflux, & sunspots). You can see where this file resides in the video starting about the 9:30 mark. The changes are highlighted in bold:

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original: sed -i 's/<\/aindex>//' $DIR/aindex.txt

new: sed -i 's/<\/aindex>.*//' $DIR/aindex.txt

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original: sed -i 's/<\/kindex>//' $DIR/kindex.txt

new: sed -i 's/<\/kindex>.*//' $DIR/kindex.txt

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Jason, please feel free to add these changes to the github pi-scripts fetchsolar file.

Worked like a charm.?

Thank You