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  • My kiwiSDR (one of the originals) stopped working for no apparent reason -- no LEDs. The BBB (without kiwiSDR board) booted when powered from the USBmicro port. Seems that one side of the choke had gone open-circuit. Bridging that (with a length o…
  • I put together a 7805 regulated supply to power a KiwiSDR from a 12v accumulator. Standard circuit with 220nF bypassing of regulator input and output, and 100uF across the output. As John has warned, the BeagleBone Black draws high initial curren…
  • I have a Kiwi running Debian Jessie that was stuck at v1.664 I tried "re-clone sorces" from the Admin page and it repeatedly failed: https://forum.kiwisdr.com/uploads/886/7PS4SR7IDX9A.txt There's no further indication of the reason for fai…
  • Tunnelling with ssh to an internet-accessible host works OK, but the problem is that the KiwiSDR is remote, and any interruption to the tunnel can't be fixed remotely. The solution I've found is autossh on the BeagleBone [apt install autossh], invo…