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v1.813 June 14, 2025

  SNR measurement changes: (thanks VA3ROM et al)

    Additions to admin control tab, SNR section:

      New measurement intervals: 1, 5, 10 minutes and custom interval.

      Remaining minutes to next measurement shown.

      One custom band definition with frequency/zoom fields.

      Checkbox to also measure ham bands and AM broadcast band.

      Checkbox to force measurement after an antenna change.

    Discussion:

    The custom band, if setup, is added to the current default bands appearing in the

    my_kiwi:8073/snr query JSON result. There is no user interface feedback if you enter

    invalid values into the custom band fields. So check your combination of freq lo/hi and zoom

    carefully to make sure they result in a freq range that fits entirely within a single

    waterfall span. Otherwise the custom band will be ignored and not appear in the JSON result.

    The ham/AM band checkbox adds all 12 ham bands and the AM broadcast band to the JSON result.

    The ITU setting determines the upper freq limit of some bands (e.g. 40m 7200 vs 7300 kHz,

    AM BCB 1602 vs 1700 kHz).

    When "measure on antenna change" is active there is a 5 second delay after the last antenna

    selection before the measurement starts.

    JSON output changes to the /snr URL interface:

    The measurement interval field "ihr" (hours) is now "imin" (minutes).

    A new field "ant" shows the antenna that was selected when the measurement was made.

    A value of zero means antennas are grounded or the antenna switch is not configured.

    Note that for antenna mixing setups only the last antenna switched is given. Not all the

    antennas cumulatively.

  Changes to support camp mode by kiwirecorder: (thanks Ben)

    You may know that when all channels are full, and you try to connect, you are presented with

    a camp/queue panel that allows you to "camp" onto another listener's channel and hear what

    they are hearing. But without being able to control anything (except volume/mute).

    Kiwirecorder now has this capability. Changes were needed on the Kiwi side to support this.

    The envisioned use case is as follows. You have an application running on another computer

    that processes streamed audio via the netcat option of kiwirecorder. But you want to use

    a regular Kiwi connection and its full user interface. You just want the netcat stream to

    "follow" what the Kiwi UI is hearing so your external application can process the same audio.

    An example of such an application might be a modulation classifier that could never run on

    the Kiwi itself due to the limited processing power of the Beagle. To achieve this you

    simply tell kiwirecorder which Kiwi channel number to camp on. In camp mode kiwirecorder

    will do this instead of making a new, separate connection to the Kiwi. Communication over a

    separate stream back to the Kiwi with application results is still to be implemented.

  Fixed problem with Debian 11 upgrade function on admin backup tab. (thanks 2E0SXX)

  DRM extension: Improved sorting when station schedules are displayed by time.

  Fixed bug preventing timezone setup when only source of lat/lon was IP address geolocation info.

v1.812 June 1, 2025

  Fixed DRM broken in last release.

  Fixes affecting point-to-point Ethernet connections, e.g. direct to laptop. (thanks Karl-Heinz)

  Improvements to D11 upgrade function regarding configuration copying. (thanks DK9SAS)

v1.811 May 29, 2025

  Web server:

    Return connection error until local IP known so local-IP exemption works. (thanks Palomar)

    Don't send Content-Length header since chunked encoding used. (thanks G7GSF)

  Don't apply admin shortcut keys when control/option/meta modifier keys used. (thanks F5LFE)

  SNR measurement now works even if admin control tab "disable waterfalls" is set. (thanks VA3ROM)

  When antennas are switched an auto aperture measurement is made, if enabled. (thanks jimjackii)