Log FT8 spots

davemwavedavemwave
in Software release information

Hi, I am enjoying my KiwiSDR. Is there an easy way to log FT8 spots on a separate computer (I don't want to fill up the Beaglebone file system)? I have two Kiwi's, each listening to a different antenna. I want to simultaneously log FT8 spots on several bands to compare antenna performance. I could scrape the html traffic from each channel and save it to a file, but is there a simpler way?

Thanks, Dave W1SZ

Comments

  • jksjks

    As long as the "log decodes to syslog?" switch is set to "no" the filesystem won't fill-up. You'll still see the last decodes in the in-memory log of the admin log tab. But they will not be saved.

    Some time ago a remote logging solution was posted on the forum. But finding it may not be easy. The forum search function is pretty bad.

  • jksjks

    There is a mention of external network logging here: https://forum.kiwisdr.com/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/11069/#Comment_11069 And a post at the end of that thread.

    But it is light on detail. And there is always a risk of running other programs on the Beagle. They may take too many cpu cycles away from the Kiwi server which may cause the audio to break.

  • HB9TMCHB9TMC

    If you have a separate computer running, you could use as well use the ft8 decoder from WSJT, for example using wsprdaemon or digiskimmer. It should give a fair bit more decodes.

    Nate_R
  • davemwavedavemwave

    Thanks for the replies. I am running Digiskimmer on a separate computer, and after learning the code, there is an option in the top of settings.py to log spots to file. If you set "LOG_SPOTS = True", it will log spots to a file. It does a good job of ingesting 8 channels worth of FT8 spots from the amazing KiwiSDR.

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