RPi cron not working for me
I'll preface this by saying that I am not a Linux expert but I can usually get by OK. I have DW installed and running fine on my Rpi 4/Bookworm (CLI only - I'm using SSH to access the Pi). "Running fine" meaning that I can start DW from the command line thusly: /home/abc/dw-start.sh >/dev/null 2>&1??? After 15 seconds or so, DW is up and running in Screen.? But I just cannot get it to run from cron.? Right now I'm using "sudo crontab" but I've tried it without sudo as well.
Contents of crontab -l:
1,15,30,45 * * * * /home/xxx/dw-start.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
Permissions:
-rwxr-xr-x? 1 abc? abc ? 5894 Feb 29 15:51 dw-start.sh
What could I be missing?
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Re: How does one change fonts in the XASTIR maps?
I agree with Rob here as this Direwolf forum is not
the place to get help with Xastir.? That said, I'm also on the
Xastir email list and this has been discussed there many times.? I
recommend to search the archives and try some of the previous
solutions other people implemented.? If none of those work for
you, then it would be time to create a new post about your issue,
what you've tried, and what you need specific help with.? Good
luck!
--David
KI6ZHD
Agree that this is not the correct forum to discuss Xastir specifically. That said, there is an option labeled "text on black" or something of that nature that IMO is much easier to read.
73, Lee K5DAT
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Re: How does one change fonts in the XASTIR maps?
I agree with Rob here as this Direwolf forum is not
the place to get help with Xastir.? That said, I'm also on the
Xastir email list and this has been discussed there many times.? I
recommend to search the archives and try some of the previous
solutions other people implemented.? If none of those work for
you, then it would be time to create a new post about your issue,
what you've tried, and what you need specific help with.? Good
luck!
--David
KI6ZHD
On 03/01/2024 07:04 AM, Rob Giuliano
via groups.io wrote:
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Although there are probably many Direwolf users that
also use Xastir, ...
I have to believe that you will get a much better set of eyes
looking at an Xastir font issue in an Xastir forum.
Just a thought.
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Rob KB8RCO
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Re: How does one change fonts in the XASTIR maps?
Although there are probably many Direwolf users that also use Xastir, ...
I have to believe that you will get a much better set of eyes looking at an Xastir font issue in an Xastir forum.
Just a thought.
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Rob KB8RCO
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What is your soundcard interface?? Also, you mentioned a short transmission.? Depending on how short, that may be normal.? Sending a connect-request with the default 1200-baud would be pretty short normally.
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Re: MFJ-1270 and AX2.0 repeats the data
David,
Thanks for the input. I have been busy with a few other things and just got back to this issue.
The results were the same when I tried AGW. I was watching BPQ in a window and saw that BPQ shutdown almost immediately when ¡°stats¡± or other large block of data was requested. The following is the port definition for the Direwolf and soundcard AGW port:
;----- AWG Radio Port Definition -----
PORT
?PORTNUM=2
?ID=AGWPE Port 1 Soundcard Left
?TYPE=EXTERNAL
?DRIVER=BPQtoAGW
?IOADDR=1F40
??CHANNEL=A
?QUALITY=192
?PACLEN=128
?TXDELAY=400
??FRACK=7000
??RESPTIME=1500
??MAXFRAME=4
??RETRIES=6
?FULLDUP=0
?SLOTTIME=100
?TXTAIL=30
?PERSIST=63
ENDPORT
This port definition was originally from John¡¯s documentation for BPQAGW. However, BPQ would disconnect after one or two exchanges. I added the other settings, everything afer CHANNEL=A, from my KISS definition.
To recap the issue: A client MFJ-1270B with early firmware and default settings crashes BPQ when large blocks of data are transmitted from the BBS. The offending command is "AX25L2V2 OFF" which sets the TNC to level 2 AX.25. I¡¯m not looking for a solution to run level 2, I¡¯m looking for a solution to preventing BPQ from crashing if someone else does this.
For now, I am going to set this aside. I agree that using an MFJ-1270B is an unlikely scenario, but I was hoping for a solution. I may post it on the BPQ group just to see what pops up.
Thanks for all of the ideas.
73
Dave
WB9TEN
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Greetings.? Sorry if this question seems very basic to most, but I'm kind of lost here.
Running a Yaesu FT710, Windows 11.? All work fine thus far on my different software.? I do a lot with VARA (free version).? I tried to set up UZ7HO Soundmodem and I don't have something right on the settings I'm afraid as I only get a very short transmission.? So, since I have very good luck with Direwolf on UHF/VHF figured I'd give it a try on my HF side.? But, my issue is that it has been so long since I set it up on my other computer I really don't recall all the steps to make things work.? I am comparing settings on my UHF/VHF Direwolf file and working on the HF version, but I am now to the point of PTT and the Direwolf Radio Interface .pdf guide says use Hamlib.? Downloaded that (I think), and I now have come to the conclusion that I'm lost.? No idea where to go from here.
Helpful hints anyone???
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Re: How does one change fonts in the XASTIR maps?
I don't know if this is the right fix Dennis, but I was finding
the Mapnik tiles in Xastir were quite jagged, along with the font.
I read that the fix was to press the F4 key, something about
realigning the Mapnik scales.
Sorry I have no further detail as to the reason etc, but it
certainly worked on a Debian Bookworm laptop.
Cheers Bob VK2YQA
On 1/3/24 17:14, Dennis Blanchard via
groups.io wrote:
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I'm running a Raspberry Pi 3, with Direwolf and Xastir. The fonts
in the Xastir are just about unreadable on a seven inch screen. Is
there a reasonable way to change the fonts to some very plain? The
defaults have a shadow on them that totally blur things.
Dennis, K1YPP
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How does one change fonts in the XASTIR maps?
I'm running a Raspberry Pi 3, with Direwolf and Xastir. The fonts in the Xastir are just about unreadable on a seven inch screen. Is there a reasonable way to change the fonts to some very plain? The defaults have a shadow on them that totally blur things.
Dennis, K1YPP
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Re: Multiple Sound cards on Raspberry Pi 1200 / 9600.
Rather than speculating, let's do some proper troubleshooting.
Add this to the direwolf command line so we can observe the communication with the client applications and the PTT control.
-d no
73,
John WB2OSZ
P.S.???? Doing this is not recommended:
PTT CM108 3 /dev/hidraw0
The hidraw number can change especially if you add a keyboard or mouse.
Use this simpler form:
PTT CM108
gpio 3 is the default when not specified.? Direwolf will automatically determine the corresponding hidraw device for the soundcard reference.
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Re: Multiple Sound cards on Raspberry Pi 1200 / 9600.
I am curious if the main channel PTT is going active or "no" PTT is going active?
I had issues with my Fe-Pi sound card (using the Nexus DR-X board with separate PTT LEDs) and applications transmitting on both channels.
? ?I did both separate channels ((Nexus method with 2 ADEVICES and CHANNEL 0 and 2) and combined (1 ADEVICE and CHANNEL 0 and 1).?
To troubleshoot this, I ran 2 separate applications connected to?Direwolf using 2 separate radios over 2 TCP/IP KISS (or 2 AGW).
Each separate application properly caused the correct "channel" to TX.
Then I tried a single application running 2 "streams" to indicate which radio did not work.? Some applications always TX'ed on CHANNEL 0, others didn't active either for the second audio channel.? BUT, I would argue it was the application, not Direwolf that was the problem - or at least the communication between them.
Running separate applications was my solution.
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Robert Giuliano
KB8RCO
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Re: Multiple Sound cards on Raspberry Pi 1200 / 9600.
Hi Heber,
If you already haven't, try running a separate instance of Direwolf for each soundcard.? From what I've seen, the same CPU % is used either way, whether it's a single instance running two channels, or two instances running one channel.? For two separate instances of Direwolf, the BPQ radio ports would both be set to Channel A.
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Re: Multiple Sound cards on Raspberry Pi 1200 / 9600.
David?
Still PTT is not working for channel 2, I changed my config of the UHF to 1200 while debugging the PTT problem to rule out any 9600 settings.
Changed the Sound card to DRA-30 same result,? channel 2 (hidraw1) can receive and decodes it, but it wouldn't transmit.? I also have tested using a GPIO pin 25 from the Pi without success.
Regarding the call sign this is provided by BPQ32 that's why there are not in direwolf.
Thanks
Heber
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I replaced the USB-A male on the Nooelec SDR and it solved the problem. Turns out it's a known issue, at least among the 1-star comments on Amazon. For US folks, these inexpensive USB-A male connectors work fine:?https://amzn.to/3uR6mtY
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I have found that the weight of the SDR on the Pi port can cause the dongle to "sag" and cause connection problems.?
If you connect the RTL dongle to a short USB cord (a couple of inches like the ones many older sound cards included), there is any where near the connection issues.
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Robert Giuliano
KB8RCO
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Re: Viewing Direwolf Output
Thanks everybody for your suggestions and comments. I rummaged through
the junkbox and found a Signalink and managed to get that cobbled up and
working, sort of. Didn't have quite the problems with RF(?) as the CM108
dongle, but it would still shut off the AGWPE port after a few
transmissions.
I did have some issues with the AGWPE port "shutting off due to lack of
activity". Don't know what was up with that. If I went into the YAAC
configuration to the edit port page, click SAVE and close, it came right
back up.
It did work for receive, but was only decoding about 50% of the received
packets. Don't know what was up with that.
Turns out that even with a 5/8 wave antenna in the window, I was unable
to receive anything from any area digipeaters, only decoded a few
stations that were in our immediate vicinity. Next time, I probably
should try to configure my truck for a digipeater for these kinds of things.
All in all, the presentation went well tonight. Lots of people were
impressed with APRS and some are planning on setting up their own stations.
This whole package is going into a bag and a box and back to the shelf
until I get bored or ambitious enough and get some incentive to pull it
out and fool with it again. Of course the problem is, by then I will
have forgotten everything discussed here.
I'll pull all of these messages together into a file and put them in my
APRS folder and hopefully find them and continue another day.
Thanks again everybody.
73,
Michael WA7SKG
David Ranch wrote on 2/27/24 9:14 PM:
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Hello Michael,
For now, just run direwolf from the command line and see if it will
start up.? If it fails, copy/paste the startup and error output to this
email thread.
--David
KI6ZHD
On 02/27/2024 03:00 PM, Michael WA7SKG wrote:
Well, now I'm even more confused than ever. Not a surprise with me these
days, as I am very easily confused.
quadra@inovato:~$ pstree -sTp `pidof direwolf`
²õ²â²õ³Ù±ð³¾»å(1)©¤©¤©¤»å¾±°ù±ð·É´Ç±ô´Ú(1573)
quadra@inovato:~$
?This leads me to believe in my meager understanding that it is running
as a service, however:
quadra@inovato:~$ sudo systemctl status direwolf
¡ñ direwolf.service - Direwolf Sound Card-based AX.25 TNC
???? Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/direwolf.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
???? Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2024-02-27 10:37:09
PST; 3h 56min ago
??? Process: 1699 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/direwolf -c
/home/quadra/direwolf/direwolf.conf (code=exited, status=203/EXE>
??????? CPU: 12ms
Feb 27 10:37:09 inovato systemd[1]: direwolf.service: Scheduled restart
job, restart counter is at 5.
Feb 27 10:37:09 inovato systemd[1]: Stopped Direwolf Sound Card-based
AX.25 TNC.
Feb 27 10:37:09 inovato systemd[1]: direwolf.service: Start request
repeated too quickly.
Feb 27 10:37:09 inovato systemd[1]: direwolf.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Feb 27 10:37:09 inovato systemd[1]: Failed to start Direwolf Sound
Card-based AX.25 TNC.
Feb 27 14:32:53 inovato systemd[1]:
/etc/systemd/system/direwolf.service:30: DefaultInstance= only makes
sense for temp>
quadra@inovato:~$
seems to tell me that the service failed. But, it is running and
decoding packets.
I'm about two seconds for chucking the whole thing, except that I'm
supposed to do a presentation on APRS at the club meeting tonight.
Michael WA7SKG
Brent WG0A wrote on 2/27/24 11:21 AM:
Try this command. It may help figure out what started direwolf.
?? ?pstree -sTp `pidof direwolf`
Note: those are backticks in the command (upper left hand corner of
keyboard).
Here is example output from my Pi where systemd , to the left, starts
direwolf, to the right.
?? ?systemd(1)©¤©¤©¤direwolf(871)
Your output may be different if you are using another means to start
direwolf. But the general pattern is, the processes on the left start
the processes to the right.
What output do you see?
-Brent WG0A
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BTW, the base problem is the Nooelec SMArt-V5 SDR. The unit has a poor USB-A male connector. If you wiggle it when connected, it's intermittent. I have three of them and they all have the same problem. Other USB-A devices (with better male connectors) don't do this. I've ordered some replacement connectors that should arrive tomorrow. We'll see whether or not I destroyed one of the SDRs removing the bad connector! In any case, I want to implement some of David's suggestions as the intermittent behavior is unacceptable. Be careful with your Nooelec SDRs!
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Good tips, David. Thanks.
? ?...doug
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Hello Doug,
Linux's USB stack generally doesn't work that way.? If an active
device is removed from a running program, a Unix pipe, etc, bad
things usually happens and the application will crash.? This
definitely happens to Direwolf when the rtl_fm process dies because
the USB device was removed.? If you want to make Direwolf more
resilient to USB failures, consider starting Direwolf through some
automation:
?? - Wrap the start of rtl_fm and direwolf pipe in a shell script
that loops forever trying to start a new direwolf process if the
last one exited
?? - Follow the Direwolf User Guide recommends to use a mixture of
the start-dw.sh script and cron
?? - Start direwolf via systemd with the systemd unit file tracks
the presence of the SDR USB device
--David
KI6ZHD
On 02/27/2024 11:44 AM, Doug Kaye
(K6DRK) wrote:
I'm running direwolf 1.7 on a Pi Zero 2 W with a
Nooelec SDR. Everything is fine until I disconnect the SDR and
reconnect it. direwolf seems to give up and never tries to
reconnect to the receiver. Is there a way to get direwolf to
automatically reconnect to the audio source? Or a way to detect
that it has stopped processing that input? It's interesting that I
don't get "End of file" from stdin, which is what happens if
there's no receiver at startup.
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Hello Doug,
Linux's USB stack generally doesn't work that way.? If an active
device is removed from a running program, a Unix pipe, etc, bad
things usually happens and the application will crash.? This
definitely happens to Direwolf when the rtl_fm process dies because
the USB device was removed.? If you want to make Direwolf more
resilient to USB failures, consider starting Direwolf through some
automation:
?? - Wrap the start of rtl_fm and direwolf pipe in a shell script
that loops forever trying to start a new direwolf process if the
last one exited
?? - Follow the Direwolf User Guide recommends to use a mixture of
the start-dw.sh script and cron
?? - Start direwolf via systemd with the systemd unit file tracks
the presence of the SDR USB device
--David
KI6ZHD
On 02/27/2024 11:44 AM, Doug Kaye
(K6DRK) wrote:
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I'm running direwolf 1.7 on a Pi Zero 2 W with a
Nooelec SDR. Everything is fine until I disconnect the SDR and
reconnect it. direwolf seems to give up and never tries to
reconnect to the receiver. Is there a way to get direwolf to
automatically reconnect to the audio source? Or a way to detect
that it has stopped processing that input? It's interesting that I
don't get "End of file" from stdin, which is what happens if
there's no receiver at startup.
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Re: Viewing Direwolf Output
Hello Michael,
For now, just run direwolf from the command line and see if it
will start up.? If it fails, copy/paste the startup and error
output to this email thread.
--David
KI6ZHD
On 02/27/2024 03:00 PM, Michael WA7SKG
wrote:
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Well, now I'm even more confused than ever. Not a
surprise with me these
days, as I am very easily confused.
quadra@inovato:~$ pstree -sTp `pidof direwolf`
²õ²â²õ³Ù±ð³¾»å(1)©¤©¤©¤»å¾±°ù±ð·É´Ç±ô´Ú(1573)
quadra@inovato:~$
?This leads me to believe in my meager understanding that it is
running
as a service, however:
quadra@inovato:~$ sudo systemctl status direwolf
¡ñ direwolf.service - Direwolf Sound Card-based AX.25 TNC
???? Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/direwolf.service;
enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
???? Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2024-02-27
10:37:09
PST; 3h 56min ago
??? Process: 1699 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/direwolf -c
/home/quadra/direwolf/direwolf.conf (code=exited,
status=203/EXE>
??????? CPU: 12ms
Feb 27 10:37:09 inovato systemd[1]: direwolf.service: Scheduled
restart
job, restart counter is at 5.
Feb 27 10:37:09 inovato systemd[1]: Stopped Direwolf Sound
Card-based
AX.25 TNC.
Feb 27 10:37:09 inovato systemd[1]: direwolf.service: Start
request
repeated too quickly.
Feb 27 10:37:09 inovato systemd[1]: direwolf.service: Failed with
result
'exit-code'.
Feb 27 10:37:09 inovato systemd[1]: Failed to start Direwolf Sound
Card-based AX.25 TNC.
Feb 27 14:32:53 inovato systemd[1]:
/etc/systemd/system/direwolf.service:30: DefaultInstance= only
makes
sense for temp>
quadra@inovato:~$
seems to tell me that the service failed. But, it is running and
decoding packets.
I'm about two seconds for chucking the whole thing, except that
I'm
supposed to do a presentation on APRS at the club meeting tonight.
Michael WA7SKG
Brent WG0A wrote on 2/27/24 11:21 AM:
Try this command. It may help figure out
what started direwolf.
?? ?pstree -sTp `pidof direwolf`
Note: those are backticks in the command (upper left hand corner
of
keyboard).
Here is example output from my Pi where systemd , to the left,
starts
direwolf, to the right.
?? ?systemd(1)©¤©¤©¤direwolf(871)
Your output may be different if you are using another means to
start
direwolf. But the general pattern is, the processes on the left
start
the processes to the right.
What output do you see?
-Brent WG0A
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Benson
Jeff KP3FT
Dennis Blanchard
Michael WA7SKG