Find your Kiwi using my.kiwisdr.com
Got a Kiwi (running v1.330+) on your local network with an unknown local IP address? Like a new Kiwi out-of-the-box? Now from a browser on the same local network you can connect to my.kiwisdr.com and be automatically redirected to the Kiwi. The local IP address of the Kiwi will then show in the browser address bar.
This feature is similar to that provided by other IoT devices. It requires that the Kiwi have access to the Internet when it starts up. And that the computer running the browser is on the same local network as the Kiwi. If there are multiple Kiwis on the network the browser will display a table of Kiwis by serial number and a link that will connect to each one.
Our documentation lists 5 different methods of determining a Kiwi's IP address. But each has its limitations and disadvantages. Now there is a sixth method that is particularly convenient.
If you want to opt-out of your Kiwi sending this information to kiwisdr.com each time it starts then set the switch on the network tab of the admin page to NO: "Register this Kiwi on my.kiwisdr.com on each reboot?".
This feature has not been tested with IPv6 or mixed IPv4/IPv6 local networks. So there is likely some debugging required.
This feature is similar to that provided by other IoT devices. It requires that the Kiwi have access to the Internet when it starts up. And that the computer running the browser is on the same local network as the Kiwi. If there are multiple Kiwis on the network the browser will display a table of Kiwis by serial number and a link that will connect to each one.
Our documentation lists 5 different methods of determining a Kiwi's IP address. But each has its limitations and disadvantages. Now there is a sixth method that is particularly convenient.
If you want to opt-out of your Kiwi sending this information to kiwisdr.com each time it starts then set the switch on the network tab of the admin page to NO: "Register this Kiwi on my.kiwisdr.com on each reboot?".
This feature has not been tested with IPv6 or mixed IPv4/IPv6 local networks. So there is likely some debugging required.
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One advantage of doing this, rather than running only mDNS, is that you can still discover a KiwiSDR whose name has been changed from "kiwisdr.local". I have had to do that when there's more than one on my network.
Attachments:
https://forum.kiwisdr.com/uploads/Uploader/80/0b036368a5ae7d9d9663157f17ec3b.txt
https://forum.kiwisdr.com/uploads/Uploader/be/3528b548e05f8c2abfe512a17f2424.txt
My kiwi is fully updated, has the correct switch set on the admin networking page ,and won't respond to the my.kiwisdr.com request, or to the kiwisdr.local one. It never has done. I just get a message saying No KiwiSDR(s) found for your public ip address:*******.
As far as I know, everything is set up properly. It works very well in every other feature that I have tried. It's a bundle of fun. Glad I bought it.
I.E. does the browser get to the internet through the same gateway as the Kiwi?
The MDNS/Avahi thing (kiwisdr.local) is unreliable when used from Windows. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
I just tried this again to verify it works.
As I mentioned earlier the only registration from a Kiwi for the service using that Kiwi serial number was from the .214 ip on Feb 11.
Yes the IP address has changed again. We have been having winter storms and there have been some very short interruptions of power supply so I guess that may account for public ip address changes in the router as it is knocked over by the momentary power cuts.
The debug page shows the correct, up to date address. I am using your proxy service for access outside the local network. That works fine so the kiwi must be logging in when it reboots.
I have it set to reboot each night.
Odd to say, but the mykiwisdr.com command now works as it is supposed to. It REALLY wasn't working when I made that post.
The other one, http://kiwisdr.local:8073/admin returns a message that the site can not be reached.
I am mostly using a chrome book for access, also an android tablet and sometimes an android phone, though the only one I've tried the kiwisdr.local:8073 has only been used with the chromebook.
No big deal John. I don't waant you to go to great lengths to debug this. I'm sure you have enough to do already.
Cheers
By the way - I wrote previously about GPS difficulties caused by my weird location, sheltered from the sky. I disconnected the antenna and in a stable temperature environment, it doesn't matter at all. The thing is dead stable. I check it daily on WWV on 10 mhz and it has been dead on frequency for four days since I made the initial correction manually.
Great product.