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v1.813 June 14, 2025

  SNR measurement changes: (thanks VA3ROM et al)

    Additions to admin control tab, SNR section:

      New measurement intervals: 1, 5, 10 minutes and custom interval.

      Remaining minutes to next measurement shown.

      One custom band definition with frequency/zoom fields.

      Checkbox to also measure ham bands and AM broadcast band.

      Checkbox to force measurement after an antenna change.

    Discussion:

    The custom band, if setup, is added to the current default bands appearing in the

    my_kiwi:8073/snr query JSON result. There is no user interface feedback if you enter

    invalid values into the custom band fields. So check your combination of freq lo/hi and zoom

    carefully to make sure they result in a freq range that fits entirely within a single

    waterfall span. Otherwise the custom band will be ignored and not appear in the JSON result.

    The ham/AM band checkbox adds all 12 ham bands and the AM broadcast band to the JSON result.

    The ITU setting determines the upper freq limit of some bands (e.g. 40m 7200 vs 7300 kHz,

    AM BCB 1602 vs 1700 kHz).

    When "measure on antenna change" is active there is a 5 second delay after the last antenna

    selection before the measurement starts.

    JSON output changes to the /snr URL interface:

    The measurement interval field "ihr" (hours) is now "imin" (minutes).

    A new field "ant" shows the antenna that was selected when the measurement was made.

    A value of zero means antennas are grounded or the antenna switch is not configured.

    Note that for antenna mixing setups only the last antenna switched is given. Not all the

    antennas cumulatively.

  Changes to support camp mode by kiwirecorder: (thanks Ben)

    You may know that when all channels are full, and you try to connect, you are presented with

    a camp/queue panel that allows you to "camp" onto another listener's channel and hear what

    they are hearing. But without being able to control anything (except volume/mute).

    Kiwirecorder now has this capability. Changes were needed on the Kiwi side to support this.

    The envisioned use case is as follows. You have an application running on another computer

    that processes streamed audio via the netcat option of kiwirecorder. But you want to use

    a regular Kiwi connection and its full user interface. You just want the netcat stream to

    "follow" what the Kiwi UI is hearing so your external application can process the same audio.

    An example of such an application might be a modulation classifier that could never run on

    the Kiwi itself due to the limited processing power of the Beagle. To achieve this you

    simply tell kiwirecorder which Kiwi channel number to camp on. In camp mode kiwirecorder

    will do this instead of making a new, separate connection to the Kiwi. Communication over a

    separate stream back to the Kiwi with application results is still to be implemented.

  Fixed problem with Debian 11 upgrade function on admin backup tab. (thanks 2E0SXX)

  DRM extension: Improved sorting when station schedules are displayed by time.

  Fixed bug preventing timezone setup when only source of lat/lon was IP address geolocation info.

v1.805 March 9, 2025

  Mobile improvements:

    Keyboards shortcuts work again, e.g. a Bluetooth keyboard connected to iPad. (thanks DL3LED)

    Popup keyboard dismissed properly after "return" key pressed (e.g. on "ident" fields)

    Disabled input field auto complete, auto correct, auto capitalize.

  Antenna switch:

    Buttons now turn green for Kmtronic-2ch switch. (thanks Fernando)

    Multiuser/mixing denial notification working again. (Thanks Steffen)

  CW Skimmer extension: New. But consider it experimental as there are a number of problems.

  SSTV extension: Fixed MP mode height issue. (thanks VK3HK, VK3KHZ)

  DX label filter panel: Reset button now clears ident & notes fields.

  Update to satellite table to reflect recent Galileo changes. (thanks F4FPR)

v1.801 February 5, 2025

  Admin page: Now works on small-screen devices. The admin page will now scroll left/right and

    up/down to display the full content that you would normally see using a desktop browser.

    The layout of the admin content is the same as for desktop. The browsers on older devices

    (e.g. iPad 2) will not work with this scheme and cannot be fixed. Please use a newer device.

    There will no doubt be small problems and details to be worked out with this new feature.

    Small-screen support for user connections is much more difficult and still TBD.

  Added support for iframe content to tune Kiwi (i.e. frequency, passband, mode, zoom).

Try new entry "DX spots" in extension menu.

    Added SK6AW.net DX spots as the default iframe content if no prior iframe configuration

    had been setup. When you click on a spot frequency the Kiwi tunes and sets the mode.

    If your Kiwi needs to be configured for this open the admin extensions tab and select

        the iframe entry. Enter "URL" in the Source menu. Enter "https://spots.kiwisdr.com" in the

    URL field. Enter "DX spots" in the Extension menu entry field. Check the box

    "Allow iframe to tune Kiwi". If you already reference SK6AW.net directly please change to

    spots.kiwisdr.com to get the new tuning functionality. (thanks HB9TMC, DF6DBF)

  Select default antenna if antenna grounded from "ground when no users" mode when:

    1) Connection made from a non-Kiwi app like kiwirecorder, TDoA etc.

    2) SNR measurement occurs, including via URL or measure button on admin page. (thanks F5LFE)

  Option for RF attenuator slider/buttons to send arbitrary shell command instead of adjusting

    internal attenuator. E.g. a curl command to control external attenuator hardware.

    Attenuator UI permissions still apply. See admin config tab for details. (thanks S57RW)

  Fixed bad bug that restarts the proxy client when a non-proxy (e.g. local) admin connection

    switches from any non-connect tab to the connect tab. This causes all user connections

    using a proxy connection to get dropped. Can't believe this wasn't discovered sooner!

  ALE:

    During scanning the browser user interface focus will remain with the ALE extension.

    This means changes to the controls and cut/paste in the output window will not be disturbed.

    (thanks DK9FI)

    Added "KFOR" to milcom frequency list. (thanks Mark W)

  SSTV:

    Added "save images" button. Saves current image bar as a browser .jpg download file.

    (thanks barneyuk)

  FT8:

    Show total decode count. Cleared with "clear" button.

    Fixed broken ft8_lib URL on control panel.

  FSK:

    Fixed broken custom shift menu setting.

    Added SUBCOM VLF freqs to DX community database and FSK Milcom menu.

    (thanks Paulus via x.com/ParssinenPaulus/status/1865520723298533678)

  IBP:

    Added URL parameters and help button content. This means IBP DX label entries can

    specify these parameters to customize the IBP function when the label is clicked.

    For example, enter "ibp,all" in the label "extension" field to make IBP select the

    "All bands" menu entry when any IBP label is clicked. (thanks VK3KHZ)

  Fixed URL used for short-wave.info from right-click menu SWBC database lookup. (thanks smg)

  Fixed grid layout of DX label control panel.

  Fixed display of community database labels that have time/day-of-week info.

  Show Debian version in user control panel, stat tab.

  IP address blacklist update. (thanks Thierry et al)

  Added code to remove latest Linux virus. (thanks Mike)

  Added QZSS sat QZS-6. (thanks Yogicat)

v1.807,808 April 10, 2025

  Admin backup tab: Added button to create a Debian 11 upgrade SD card which includes all

    customizations from the current Kiwi. Intended to be used by Kiwi's still running Debian 8.x

    Greatly simplifies the upgrade process by automating these formerly manual tasks:

      Checks for sufficient free disk space.

      Downloads Debian 11 image file from kiwisdr.com with integrity check (checksum).

      Writes image to SD card.

      Copies configuration from Kiwi's kiwi.config directory to SD card.

      SD card is now ready to be use to re-flash this Kiwi to Debian 11 on the next restart.

      Including if you were to immediately restart after the sd card creation completes.

    => Everyone is strongly advised to upgrade to Debian 11 from Debian 8.

      At some point we will no longer provide software updates to Kiwi's running Debian 8.

  Complete rewrite of the admin webpage grid & location processing code. (thanks studentkra)  

  FSK extension: Added preset menu. Complements the existing ability to set presets in the URL.

  Reduced minimum name/callsign (ident) length from 16 to 8 characters. (thanks LIN)

  Admin status & antenna switch configuration page now displays antenna status. (thanks LIN)

  Updated to EiBi-A25 database. (thanks jgreentn)

  External extensions being present will always cause a compile from source. (thanks DL3LED)

v1.809 April 5, 2025

  The output from my.kiwisdr.com has been expanded to include additional information:

    Proxy links in addition to local IP links if proxy mode is setup and running.

    Connection type & status (i.e. settings on admin page "connect" tab).

    Kiwi and Debian software versions.

    Kiwi product model and Beagle type.

    The Debian hostname is shown after the serial number if it has been customized from the

      default "kiwisdr". Useful if you have multiple Kiwi on your network and you want to

      distinguish them by name instead of solely by serial number.

  Admin network tab has new field "Debian hostname" to complement the my.kiwisdr.com change above.

    This changes the actual Linux hostname and is not just a Kiwi configuration parameter.

  DX label fixes (desktop):

    When an extension is open, and you click on a dx label specified to open the same named

    extension, the extension won't get closed and re-opened. Instead, any new extension

    parameters contained in the dx label are sent directly to the open extension for

    further processing. Example: clicking on a different LF time station causes the

    timecode extension to change its decoding setup.

    Label only turns magenta (indicting extension will be opened on click) when mousing over

    label _without_ a modifier key pressed (shift etc). For example shift-clicking a label

    opens the label edit panel. So it doesn't make sense to be turning the label magenta

    because an extension isn't going to be opened when you click it.

    The DX help panel is opened if the cursor is in the label area and "h" or "?" pressed.

    The stored DX database can now have a custom name, 15 chars max. (thanks Mauno WRTH)

    Change the first line of the dx.json file from:

      {"dx":[

    to:

      {"my-custom-name":[

    If this is of interest you presumably already have a custom dx.json file you're loading

    via the admin DX tab "import JSON" button. If not, just use the "export JSON" button

    to download a copy of dx.json and use a text editor to make your changes.

    The custom name will appear in all the usual places: The left end of the frequency

    scale, the various database selection menus, etc.

  When frequency scale offset is in use (i.e. using a downconverter) fixed broken behavior of:

    "VFO A/B" button. (thanks F5AFY)

    "Zoom-to-band" button.

    "--- +++" buttons when frequency scale offset was not a multiple of 1 kHz.

  S-meter URL query: Allow optional mode e.g. my_kiwi:8073/s-meter?14200usb (thanks F5AFY)

  Prevent Beagle LED control conflict when admin backup function running. (thanks F5AFY)

  Save/restore waterfall timestamp parameters in browser storage. (thanks nitroengine)

  Removed debugging print causing lots of "AJAX_STATUS ..." messages in admin log when

    wsprdaemon or similar application are in use. (thanks DL4ZBE)

  Admin local blacklist now disallows entry of subnets which would otherwise exclude local

    network addresses or the loopback IP address. (thanks G2YT)

  When the "device preset" menu of the "Mouse wheel / trackpad setup" section of the user tab

    is set to anything except "custom" the three fields below are disabled for input.

    Although they still show what the preset values are. (thanks ZL2P)

v1.802 February 7, 2025

  Added support for multiple iframe instances, up to 16. (thanks VK3KHZ)

    Admin > Extensions > iframe has a new button called "populate with standard entries" which

    will add 6 new iframe entries in addition to the new "DX spots" default added last release.

    They are: solar conditions, K-index, HF propagation, lightning map, and aurora.

 Fixed bug preventing change of proxy host name in certain cases.

v1.453,454 May 14, 2021

  Added default passband adjustment to admin page, config tab.

    As each passband parameter field is changed (low, high, center, width) the other

      fields will be automatically adjusted. So if you know you want a USB filter

      with a low frequency of 300 Hz that is 3300 Hz wide just enter those two fields

      and the high and width values will be derived. An error message will appear if

      you attempt to define an invalid passband.

    The former "CW offset" field has been removed. To set your desired CW offset

      simply set the default passband center frequency of the CW/CWN mode passbands

      to the offset value. E.g. If you want to hear a 1000 Hz tone in the CW modes

      set the passbands to have a 1000 HZ center.

    After the passband is changed on the admin page, existing user connections will have

      to reload the page to get the new passband values.