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How to connect via wifi
Look carefully at the BBG-W. Seeed violated the BeagleBone cape spec and the Kiwi board can't even physically plug into it (those double-high USB connectors physically interfere). As a result there has been no software development for it.
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KiwiSDR fails to update from 1.390 to current 1.442 [bad filesystem, fixed]
It's a huge headache to construct sd card images of the current release. So I don't do it often. v1.390 was the last. We all depend on the autoupdate over the network.
The build is progressing now, but very slowly. Something seems to be taking a lot of cache space in main memory. I don't understand why. There are no processes that seem out of place.
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How to connect via wifi
A USB-to-WiFi dongle is a lot of work and grief unless you know what you're doing.
A much easier solution is to use a wired-Ethernet to WiFi mini-router: https://www.tp-link.com/en/home-networking/wifi-router/tl-wr802n More info here: http://forum.kiwisdr.com/index.php?p=/discussion/1653/connecting-kiwi-via-wifi/p1
The worst problem there is dealing with the required 5V power input as the supplied adapter is a potentially noisy switcher. Although you might be able to get 5V from the BBG/BBB USB-A "host" port. Anyone actually doing that?
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Ham Band Limits for ITU Region 1 are not correct (40 Meter Band [should be fixed in v1.440]
There is a fix for this in the next update. It's tricky because Kiwi owners may have arbitrarily edited the definition of bands[] in config.js in ways that my fix may not have anticipated. Although my fix tries to take this into account.
The whole situation will be better addressed when the contents of config.js are absorbed into the admin user interface and config database. But that's a complicated change that will not happen anytime soon.
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My KiwiSDR has Died [power supply problem]
Hi Kevin. When the BBG is running alone, and Ethernet cable hooked up, do you get green and yellow LEDs lit on the Ethernet RJ45 jack? What are the 4 blue status LEDs on the BBG doing?
On the Kiwi board by itself, can you measure the resistance of the round jack power center pin to ground? Except for an inline choke and 4 caps the power trace goes straight to two pins on the P9 header which feeds the BBG. So when not connected to the BBG it should measure open, more or less. Schematic: http://kiwisdr.com/docs/KiwiSDR/kiwi.schematic.pdf
