Kiwi BBAI software installation instructions [updated 9-Feb-22]

rz3dvp

With D9 kiwid works without problems, I wrote about D10 & BBAI.

On my previous message I posted logs from same BBAI board with same D10 OS but different KiwiSDR version.

jks

@rz3dvp Okay, I see what's wrong and will have a fix for you soon to test.

jks

@rz3dvp Please try a change I just made by doing this (from a Linux root shell):

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I think that should do it.

Thanks

jks

It's a slightly long story. But basically the BBAI-64 changes cleaned up a bunch of code that determines which Beagle and Debian version are being used.

In your logs see how with v1.539 (which works) it says BBAI DEBIAN-9 USE_SPIDEV and /etc/debian_version 10.11 ? Well, the DEBIAN-9 part is obviously wrong and got fixed in v1.545 to correctly report BBAI Debian 10.11 USE_SPIDEV

But this triggered a bug. When someone tried D10 on a BBG/B a while ago (maybe it was you or Jim, I can't remember) it was found that the BBG/B D10 kernel started using spidev0 instead of spidev1 for some unknown reason (maybe a device tree change?). So code got added that used spidev1 only for Debian <= 9.

This code ended up getting used for BBAI as well. But it seems the BBAI kernel always wants to use spidev1. So the code added for BBG/B should not be used for BBAI. v1.539 worked because it was incorrectly detecting D9 which forced spidev1 to be used..

rz3dvp

@jks Thank you John, now v.1.547 start without any problems:

05:47:55 kiwid[26105]: BBAI Debian 10.11 USE_SPIDEV
05:47:55 kiwid[26105]: Starting kiwid
05:47:55 kiwid[26105]: BBAI uses custom Kiwi device tree loaded via U-boot
05:47:56 kiwid[26105]: Start kiwid: OK
05:47:56 kiwid[26105]: Fri 29 Jul 2022 05:47:56 AM MSK
05:47:56 kiwid: 00:00:00.795  KiwiSDR v1.547 --------------------------------------------------------------------
05:47:56 kiwid: 00:00:00.795  compiled: 2022 05:35:07 on kiwisdr-ai
05:47:56 kiwid: 00:00:00.795  /etc/debian_version 10.11
05:47:56 kiwid: 00:00:00.795  background mode: delaying start 30 secs...
05:48:26 kiwid: 00:00:30.880  reading configuration from file /root/kiwi.config/kiwi.json: 1783 tokens (21.3k bytes)
05:48:26 kiwid: 00:00:30.883  reading configuration from file /root/kiwi.config/admin.json: 127 tokens (3.0k bytes)
05:48:27 kiwid: 00:00:31.270  reading configuration from file /root/kiwi.config/dx.json
05:48:27 kiwid: 00:00:31.281  DX: 887 label entries
05:48:27 kiwid: 00:00:31.282 ..............        firmware: SDR_RX14_WF0
05:48:27 kiwid: 00:00:31.283 ..............        firmware: rx_chans=14 wf_chans=0
05:48:27 kiwid: 00:00:31.283 ..............        firmware: RX bufs=16 samps=48 loop=84 rem=0 intr_usec=4000
05:48:27 kiwid: 00:00:31.284 ..............        firmware: WF xfer=9 samps=911 rpt=50 loop=18 rem=11
05:48:27 kiwid: 00:00:31.284 ..............        webserver: listening on port 8073/8073 for HTTP connections
05:48:27 kiwid: 00:00:31.291 ..............        webserver: OK, port [::]:8073
05:48:27 kiwid: 00:00:31.531 ..............        ### using SPI_DEV /dev/spidev1.0
05:48:28 kiwid: 00:00:32.277 ..............        FPGA version 1
05:48:28 kiwid: 00:00:32.753 ..............        using DC_offsets: I -0.020000 Q -0.020000
05:48:29 kiwid: 00:00:33.188 ..............        bl_GET: running..
05:48:29 kiwid: 00:00:33.279 ..............        PROXY: NO dom_sel_menu=0
05:48:29 kiwid: 00:00:33.328 ..............        UPDATE: check scheduled (startup)

jks

Okay, thanks for testing.

WA2ZKD

Jim, but running Debian 9 or 10?

If D10, does your log say ### using SPI_DEV /dev/spidev0.0 or /dev/spidev1.0 ?

9.0, my oversight in replying

jks

Okay, just wanted to be sure. I think this issue should be squared away for now.

Thanks