jks

http://www.kiwisdr.com/ks/troubleshooting.pdf

Seeed has been forced to raise Kiwi prices on their website by 15% due to the ongoing semiconductor supply issues.

But there are still plenty of units at old the old prices from distributors. So do some shopping around. Remember that Mouser offers free international shipping to many locations for orders over $50. And be careful to consider shipping, tariff/import, VAT/GST and other costs which these days is a large fraction of the device cost (and the latest sign of our failure as a society/species -- but I digress).

From the new OpenWebRX fork developer I think: https://rx-tx.info

The Kiwi protocol requires the client to send "keep alive" messages at least once every 60 seconds. Otherwise it is assumed the client (Javascript in the browser usually) isn't really running even if the web socket connection is still open for some reason. This had to be done in order to prevent connections from remaining open for long periods of time even through no one was really there. If no keep alive is received the connection is closed.

I don't know if it helps, but I was able to make web socket connections and send Kiwi commands and receive Kiwi sound and waterfall binary data using a program called websocat (web socket concatenate). See: https://github.com/vi/websocat There are binaries available for Windows, Linux and Mac and I was able to run the Mac one without problems.

So, to connect to a Kiwi and get sound data do something like this from the Mac command line:

cat snd.ws.txt | websocat_mac -n ws://my_kiwi:8073/12345678/SND

Where my_kiwi is the name of the Kiwi and the file snd.ws.txt contains these commands to send to the Kiwi:

12345678 is a number and needs to be unique for each connection (hence a timestamp in msec). The websocat -n argument keeps the connection to the Kiwi open after all the commands in the file are sent. But note the connection will still close because additional SET keepalive commands are not being periodically sent.

What you will receive from the Kiwi will be a combination of messages and data looking something like this:

You can do something similar for the waterfall with the command line:

cat wf.ws.txt | websocat_mac -n ws://my_kiwi:8073/12345678/W/F

And the wf.ws.txt file:

And you'll receive the waterfall data:

MSG rx_chans=4

MSG chan_no_pwd=0

This discussion is not complete because we need to talk about the parameters for the various SET commands and also the content of the returned binary data. These details are all handled by the kiwiclient / kiwirecorder Python code and that's why you should really try and make an effort to understand it.

Hi Kevin. When the BBG is running alone, and Ethernet cable hooked up, do you get green and yellow LEDs lit on the Ethernet RJ45 jack? What are the 4 blue status LEDs on the BBG doing?

On the Kiwi board by itself, can you measure the resistance of the round jack power center pin to ground? Except for an inline choke and 4 caps the power trace goes straight to two pins on the P9 header which feeds the BBG. So when not connected to the BBG it should measure open, more or less. Schematic: http://kiwisdr.com/docs/KiwiSDR/kiwi.schematic.pdf

Changing the external SMPS is fine. But there is another issue that is more difficult to deal with. The use of internal DC-to-DC converters (that are also SMPS) directly on the PCB of the device.

These days it seems a lot more devices, including PC motherboards, are powered with higher voltage from the primary supply. Then high-efficiency "point of load" DC-to-DC converters are used right at the consuming load. In the case of your router the external SMPS is now 12V instead of 5V and there is almost certainly a 12V-to-3.3V (or even less) converter internally (chips don't run on 5V these days and in many cases don't run on 3.3V either except maybe for I/O).

mu is an alias for make users And doing make -n users reveals that it does a:

zcat /var/log/user.log.4.gz > /tmp/kiwi.log;
zcat /var/log/user.log.3.gz >> /tmp/kiwi.log;
zcat /var/log/user.log.2.gz >> /tmp/kiwi.log;
cat /var/log/user.log.1 >> /tmp/kiwi.log;
cat /var/log/user.log >> /tmp/kiwi.log;
cat /tmp/kiwi.log | grep -i leaving | grep -vi kf6vo | grep -vi 192.168.1
rm -f /tmp/kiwi.log

So /var/log/user.* are the log files you'd want to search and copy information from. As usual with Unix there are a dozen different ways of doing this sort of thing depending on the result you want.

Okay, after way too much effort I think attachment links are working again. There were 584 such attachments in the database and I have been spot checking the comments containing them. If you notice anything amiss please let me know.

Both issues, "cable brownout" and lab-grade power supply voltage drop due to current limiting, have happened to me personally and were totally unexpected at the time. That's why they are documented: http://kiwisdr.com/quickstart/index.html#id-power

Welcome to the new KiwiSDR forum, hosted on kiwisdr.com and running the latest Vanilla 3.3 forum software.

All of the forum content from valentfx.com was copied over including attachments, avatars, inboxes etc.

The most problematic issue will be external links from other places pointing to specific forum posts. Forum links were previously of the form valentfx.com/vanilla/discussion/... and need to be changed to the form forum.kiwisdr.com/discussion/... This is of course impossible for immutable (non-editable) content like links embedded in Twitter tweets. It was not possible to automatically redirect references from the Valent forum for various reasons. So if you have editable links into the old forum please update them. However, links to old posts on Valent will continue to work as long as Valent hosts the old KiwiSDR content.

Also, the time to edit your posts is not limited on this forum (previously the limit was one day). So if your post contains a link back to Valent you can simply edit it to correct the link per the above. In theory this shouldn't be necessary as the database was scrubbed very carefully to update all the links.

The forum has a slightly different look but basically the same features. The biggest change is editing posts. There is no longer a "preview" button. When using the new paragraph icon on the left margin, and also when double-clicking on words and making text selections, the formatting changes are immediate. It is a "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) interface. Experiment and you'll see how it works.

The search box is at top right. Use the "Mark All Viewed" button on the top bar as all the previous viewed information has been reset.

If you are having any problems (e.g. can't login, can't post, getting error messages, etc.) please email support@kiwisdr.com