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I have configured several Kiwis for wifi access by attaching an inexpensive router configured as a Wifi client to the ethernet port of the Kiwi. This $25 TP Link has worked well for me:
https://smile.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-Portable-Travel-Router/dp/B00TQEX8BO/ref=sr_1_14?keywords=tplink+wifi+router&qid=1548188019&sr=8-14
In principle one could enable the internal BB Wifi or attach a USB wifi adapter, but I am reluctant to fiddle with the Kiwi's OS.
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Yes that Kiwi is set for DHCP and my router gave the Kiwi's ethernet port the address 192.168.158.73. I can ssh to that Kiwi at that address and I see no evidence of the self-assigned address. Perhaps the Kiwi rebooted when my ethernet switch was …
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Wed Dec 29 23:23:54 6d:06:01:58.227 .... [00] PWD isLocal_if_ip: flg=0x18 fam=2 socktype=1 proto=6 addrlen=16 192.168.158.85 Wed Dec 29 23:23:54 6d:06:01:58.227 .... [00] L PWD isLocal_if_ip: FALSE IPv4/4_6 remote_ip 192.168.158.85 ip_client 192.1…
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Hi John, In your auto-update please ensure that a malicious user can't blacklist 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8 or 172.16.0.0/12. Thanks, Rob
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You can use the reverse tunnel feature of ssh built into the BBG to provide remote access. On the BBG run: ssh -R 8073:localhost:8087 user@somepublicserver.com
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In otherwise quiet installations, the wired LAN connection is a RF ground loop path which can introduce RFI. In a now abandoned attempt to break that LAN loop, I had added a USB wifi dongle to each of the Kiwis, but I found that even with a nearby …
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OK, I finally found and fixed the root cause. The problem was a bad IP route after power cycle caused by the wifi dongles I have attached to the Kiwis. I thought those dongles were disabled, but after a power cycle they were active. Someone (not me…
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I have power cycled the Kiwis several times. root@kiwisdr:~# ku systemctl --full --lines=100 stop kiwid.service || true systemctl --full --lines=100 start kiwid.service || true root@kiwisdr:~/Beagle_SDR_GPS# This is not a router problem. As I exp…
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The 'dead' Kiwis can ping each other and ping 'google.com', so the problem is not at the IP HW or IP routing level. All symptoms suggest that 'kiwid' is ignoring open requests from IP addresses outside its LAN: root@kiwisdr:~# ping google.com PIN…
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Yes, the DHCP leases are correct, and the WD Pi on the same LAN can access all of the Kiwis 72...78 at their corresponding LAN addresses To restore KPH to some semblance of public access, I am forwarding public port 8073 to Kiwi74. As you suggested…
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Thanks for the blacklist feature John! How will we know when you have updated your master copy?
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Thanks for the quick replies. I found your manual update instruction on the Quick Start guide and 'cdp;up' worked perfectly
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One of the KPH Kiwis was unfortunately set to auto update and now doesn't present an Admin page. I can ssh to it, but there is no 'update_fix' command. What should I do?
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Each uncompressed wpsr 12 Ksps rx channel audio consumes about 220 Kbps. My KPH Kiwis output 1.53 Mbps for the 7 channel Kiwi and 1.31 Mbps for the 6 channel. Compressed audio consumes about 60 Kbps but for WSPR decoding you need uncompressed.
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On the Kiwi, be sure to turn off the audio compression when using a browser to feed audio to WSJT-x. In the default 'COMP' audio mode, the Kiwi compresses the audio before sending it over IP to the user's browser. Uncompressed audio sounds better …
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Goodness, when are you going to label a release V2.0 ;=)
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In our experience, at many quiet QTHs like KPH and KFS, the Kiwi's sensitivity is limited by its internal noise figure above 10 Mhz. With 15 dB of gain in an LNA and a high pass pre-emphasis filter which attenuates 10 dB below 10 MHz in front of th…
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I have recently added FRP to my wsprdaemon service. It isn't widely deployed yet, but the installation and operation at a few alpha sites has been easy and reliable.
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Thanks John, I look forward to being freed of blacklist maintenance. My Kiwis are still running v1.461 from Aug 16th. Will there be a new build or a new version which includes your auto-blacklist feature? Rob
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Here is the blacklist I am using at KFS and KPH: 1.160.0.0/16 39.105.0.0/16 46.165.245.1/24 46.165.245.1/24 47.240.0.0/14 47.240.23.0/24 47.74.181.109/32 47.74.181.109/32 47.88.219.24/24 69.251.12.188/24 94.190.209.0/24 110.87.0.0/16 110.87.122.99/…
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At KPH with 7 Kiwis and KFS with 5 Kiwis I have an extensive IP blacklist on the Kiwis and as a result currently have no bots hogging any of them.
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Wow John, that is all I wanted in this feature. I don't appear to be getting 'new post' emails from the forum, so I just noticed your response and efforts. Thanks
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John, you may not remember that you donated one of the 7 Kiwis in operation at KPH. Also check out the KFS site http://kfs.wsprdaemon.org:81/ which has 4 antennas but only 5 Kiwis. The SW log periodic antenna at http://kfs.wsprdaemon.org:8075/ is a…
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The fans wore out on my Maui Kiwis. So I removed the internal fans, took off the SMA-end metal plate, and positioned two 4" USB powered muffin fans to blow much more air through the case than was blown by the internal fans. As a extra tweak, I …
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I am once again finding RX1 empty but unusable. I find only this suspicious line in the logs tab: Sat Jun 12 02:02:39 1d:03:29:10.414 01234567 1 PWD kiwi W/F ALLOWED: no config pwd set, allow any (45.63.115.181) What is the process for finding …
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Perhaps that is a Fast Reverse Proxy connection which allows remote access to your Kiwi and for John to log on to your Kiwis. I am adding that as a configurable option in wsprdaemon.
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I'm sorry, it was pilot error on the cmd line. I had mis-typed the URL, and apparently also mis-typed the raw IP address. But I like learned about the debug level flag. Thanks
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Your wspr extension is still the best view into how the wspr protocol works. But as WSJT-x has extended that protocol, there is no way the Kiwi SW could hope to keep up. Nor can any BB CPU process all the new WSPR modes. By implementing kiwircord…
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The wsprdaemon.org system does exactly what you describe. If it loses access to the internet it caches spots in local storage on the server. Once internet connectivity is restored it uploads the cached spots in batches of 1000 spots until the loca…
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Masking 11175 did drive him away. I found the forum notice emails were being put in my spam folder, so that problem was at my end.
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Thanks John. I have added that Alaibaba range to the other 4 KFS Kiwis and suppressed multiple logins from the same IP. That blacklist is long enough that I wonder if we could maintain a blacklist database on a web server from which a button on th…