v1.807,808

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• nitroengine

  April 10 edited April 10

  Just noticed this with a couple of public Kiwis that have updated to v1.807. The waterfall smears when zoomed all the way into WF14 (which I use often to watch and track down offsets). It's fine from WF13 and out. These Kiwis are running 4 channel mode. I haven't yet updated mine to v1.807 so not sure if it affects 3 channel mode.

  Edit: Yes, it also affects 3 channel mode Kiwis.

  
  

  

  

  
  
• jks

  April 10

  Thanks. I had to rebuild the FPGA code for this release. Something I haven't done in quite a while. This problem seems to be related to that.
• jks

  April 10 edited April 10

  Yep, a typo made in the Verilog code last July if you can believe that. Didn't show itself until I built v1.807. Fixed in v1.808..

  Due to a technical problem there is no binary release for this version. So all Kiwis will have to rebuild from source this time around.

  
• fabrys

  April 10

  GOOD MORNING

  I probably have a problem understanding the update to debian11:

  1- I have a kiwi v.1 Debian 8.5

  2 - I created an update SDcard using the procedure in the [backup] tab, operation completed without errors.

  3 - I turned off the Kiwi and then I turned the power back on with the SDcard but the device does not update.

  4 - in the [concole] tab ---> [monitor build progress] nothing appears except:

  CONSOLE: open connection
  root@kiwisdr:~/KiwiSDR# tail -fn 500 /root/build.log
  ======== checking for update
  Thu Apr 10 10:51:13 UTC 2025
  ======== version check complete
  ^C
  root@kiwisdr:~/KiwiSDR#  
  

  5 - in the [status] tab you can see that the debian version has remained at 8.5

  [KiwiSDR 1, v1.808, 4 SDR channels, 12 GPS channels | Uptime: 0:20:59 | UTC: 11:10 | Local: 13:10 Europe/Rome (CEST)

  Debian 8.5]

  QUESTION:

  a: Is it not possible to update my Kiwi1?

  b: Do I need to give any specific command?

  Thanks in advance for any help.
• F5AFY

  April 10

  Hi Fabrys,

  You may be in the case where you need to locate the boot button on the Beagle Bone, hold it and then finally apply power to the Kiwi so that the flashing process begins, as described here :

  KiwiSDR Operating Information

  I hope this may help...
• fabrys

  April 10

  

  Hi, F5AFY

  Thank you for the information, it seems that everything went well as attached image even if the update is v1.804, now I have to update it to the latest version.

  
• jks

  April 10

  Thanks. I wrote some instructions about the process here that also mention the possibility of having to use the boot/user button: http://kiwisdr.com/quickstart/index.html#id-D11-upgrade
• F5AFY

  April 10

  FYI @jks, after upgrading smoothly -> v1.807 -> v1.808 (I was already D11.11), I did the usual backup SD card without problems, I got to the Log tab, and saw the following ("SYS_PANIC"). Everything is working fine, though.

  Thierry

  ...

  Thu Apr 10 13:19:27 02:38:33.697 ... [00]  sd_backup: kiwi.platform=0 <cd /root/KiwiSDR/tools; cp /etc/beagle-flasher/beaglebone-black-emmc-to-microsd /etc/default/beagle-flasher; ./beaglebone-black-flasher.sh>

  Thu Apr 10 13:19:27 02:38:33.697 ...    rx_server_kick KICK_ALL rx=-1

  Thu Apr 10 13:19:33 02:38:39.198 ...    SYS_PANIC: "led write delay_on" No such device (dev/leds.cpp, line 124) No such device

  Thu Apr 10 13:19:32 02:41:44.119 ...   L GPS correcting time: 13:19:32.190 (+18) UTC 13:22:38.043 deltaT -185.853 SET

  Thu Apr 10 13:31:02 02:50:08.635 ...   L GPS correcting time: 13:31:02.070 (+18) UTC 13:31:02.576 deltaT -0.505 CHECK

  ...
• jks

  April 10 edited April 11

  I think this is a conflict between who controls the LEDs during the sd card backup script running. I believe it's on my list of things to fix.

  Update: Okay, fixed for the next release.

  
• fabrys

  April 11

  Sorry for the curiosity:

  My Kiwi v1 after the update with the SD card has debian 11.11

  

  while the high Kiwi v.2 after the 1.808 update has debian 11.9

  

  is everything normal or do I need to do some update that is not clear to me, taking into account [if I'm not mistaken, as I didn't open the case and therefore I'm going from memory] that the Kiwi 2 does not use an SD card for the update.
• jks

  April 11 edited April 12

  You can update the Debian minor version number from the command line (just not the major version number). Open the admin console tab. Then type:

  pkup (package update)

  pkug (package upgrade)

  reboot

  This should upgrade you from Debian 11.9 to 11.11. Each of the "pk" commands will take several minutes to run.
• fabrys

  April 11

  Thanks for the information
• VK3KHZ

  April 12

  Looks like mst stops the console connection so you cannot enter the subsequent commands ?
• jks

  April 12 edited April 12

  @VK3KHZ Thanks, fixed. I'm so used to doing those things via an ssh connection. Didn't help that I had been up since 3AM yesterday! lol
• jks

  April 12

  I just did this for a customer (D11.9 to D11.11) using the admin console and it took 30 minutes. With the server running and active user connections.
• VK3KHZ

  April 12

  Thanks John !