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What is Kiwirecorder?
I see the occasional threads about Kiwirecorder, but what is it? Is it the audio recorder that starts when I click the "red-arrow-chasing-its-tail icon or is it something else?
Don't worry, I have plenty more stupid questions where that came from!
Ken VE3HLS
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Ken,
I'll try a shot at a simple explanation. Kiwirecorder is a component of the larger Kiwiclient package. I use the terms component and package loosely to help convey a mental image here. You download the Kiwiclient package from github. (Search the forum for how to do that.) The whole concept of Kiwiclient is to access a local or remote KiwiSDR using a non graphic, command line based process.
An example is that I wanted to record a specific radio transmission during the eclipse last Saturday. I set up the script with the necessary information and then used the Linux "cron" capability to run the script at the proper time. This happened while I was attending an out of town meeting. When I returned to the computer later, the .Wav file was waiting to be played.
The exact details of how to do that along with a lot more is contained in the Kiwiclient package.
Mike
I'll give it a try too. Kiwiclient / kiwirecorder is an alternative, programatic way of connecting to the Kiwi server running on the Kiwi board / Beaglebone combination.
So the usual way looks something like this:
(Browser + Kiwi Javascript client) --- (Network/Internet) --- (Kiwi server)
With kiwirecorder it could be something like:
(Application e.g. WsprDaemon) --- (Kiwirecorder) --- (Network/Internet) --- (Kiwi server)
In the case of WsprDaemon it runs unattended for a long period of time and uses kiwirecorder to download 2-minute long WSPR recordings from multiple Kiwis, saving them into wave (.wav) files.
Thanks guys!
I know nothing about programming and even less about Linux. Looks like I stumbled into hostile territory. I'll retreat and continue using the little record button on the control panel.
Thanks anyway for the explanation guys! Sorry to waste your time.
Ken VE3HLS
Never a waste of time. Lots of people find these threads useful. Sometimes much later on.