You’re right, the matplot lib import is no longer required. In a previous version I plotted the schedule, but have since removed that code.
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Does your code still exist? Your gitlab link 404s
The code is here now https://gitlab.com/librespacefoundation/satnogs/satnogs-auto-scheduler
WARNING this is highly experimental code 
Okay. (And I know very well how experimental it is. 
I helped write the send to server part originally.)
Very new to Satnogs, but very comfortable in the command line.
As a new user, scheduling passes to test and refine the station gets old real quick!
Could someone please just give me a nudge in the directions of how to use this script?
Do I just git it into my home directory?
How does one go about using it over the usual webpage for scheduling sat passes?
Thanks.
Yes, you install it locally. It can run it on the machine which operates the ground station.
I myself run it from two cronjobs. A daily cronjob to schedule Meteor MN-2 LRPT passes for the next 3 days, as I prioritize those passes, and an hourly cronjob to fill the gaps in the schedule for the next hour and 15 mins. The latter approach allows others to schedule passes on the station, but ensures that it isn’t idling.
However, the current implementation of the auto-scheduler relies on the old network.satnogs.org authentication system, which you will most likely will not have an account for. We are starting to think about implementing a scheduling API to get around this, so please be patient.
Here is the output from the terminal;
2019-05-02 21:52:12,940 - root - INFO - Requesting scheduled passes for ground station 702
2019-05-02 21:52:14,458 - root - INFO - Scheduled passes for ground station 702 retrieved!
2019-05-02 21:52:14,465 - root - INFO - Found 2 scheduled passes between 2019-05-02 21:51:52 and 2019-05-02 22:51:52 on ground station 702
2019-05-02 21:52:14,467 - root - INFO - 4 passes scheduled out of 17, 1909 s out of 3195 s at 59.747% efficiency
2019-05-02 21:52:14,468 - root - INFO - GS | Sch | NORAD | Start time | End time | El | Priority | Transmitter UUID | Satellite name
2019-05-02 21:52:14,469 - root - INFO - 702 | 1 | 40057 | 2019-05-02T21:51:57 | 2019-05-02T21:56:16 | 77 | 1.000000 | nP9SjSXhoLLLi4Xso84aER |
2019-05-02 21:52:14,470 - root - INFO - 702 | | 40379 | 2019-05-02T21:59:58 | 2019-05-02T22:12:24 | 38 | 0.392667 | PMnr7eXunTq4zsS3WnbqxV | GRIFEX
2019-05-02 21:52:14,471 - root - INFO - 702 | 1 | 39430 | 2019-05-02T22:21:39 | 2019-05-02T22:25:34 | 72 | 1.000000 | ULXxBCypZh4f2qPnJeg6WH |
2019-05-02 21:52:14,472 - root - INFO - 702 | | 43192 | 2019-05-02T22:34:02 | 2019-05-02T22:45:11 | 33 | 0.124667 | C4XkUsJZiPC9HfyrW6Ur2G | FENGMANIU 1 (FMN-1)
2019-05-02 21:52:15,402 - root - INFO - Authentication failed
2019-05-02 21:52:15,403 - root - INFO - Checking and scheduling passes as needed.
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2019-05-02 21:52:17,997 - root - INFO - All passes are scheduled. Exiting!
I take it that the failed Authentication is what you are mentioning?
Or am I missing a setup step somewhere since it does seem to get me most of the way there?
Note, it states that all passes are scheduled, but they are not.
EDIT. I have an account on the network.satnogs.org, so I am unsure what else I need to do…
BTW, does it only work if your station is not in testing mode?
EDIT. Taking the station out of ‘testing’ mode does not make any difference.
What Authentication is it that is failing?
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No, you are using it correctly.
That’s a bug. Thanks for reporting it. I raised an issue to fix it.
The authentication to the network. Right now we’re using the old authentication system in a hacky way, and this needs to change. Hence, the plan to implement a scheduling API that will add this functionality.
Just rephrasing what @cgbsat already said in another way:
New users who only ever used the new shiny Auth0 Single-Sign-on (SSO) don’t have accounts in the old deprecated network.satnogs.org authentication system (although they are able to log-in to satnogs.network.org, using the new SSO).
So they are not able to use the auto-scheduler currently unfortunately.
update: The content of this post might be wrong, see following posts.
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That’s not entirely true.
I’ve just registered my account a few weeks ago and I am able to use the auto-scheduler.
I did get 2 emails to validate my email address after using the auto-scheduler the first time and then after validating it I was able to use the auto-scheduler
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Hello from SatNOGS Network!
You’re receiving this e-mail because user on3rvh has given yours as an e-mail address to connect their account.
To confirm this is correct, go to https://network.satnogs.org/accounts/confirm-email/xxxxxx/
Thank you from SatNOGS Network!
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@on3rvh: Many thanks for your post! I can also confirm your findings.
I just created a new account and station in network-dev.satnogs.org and can confirm that it was possible to use the auto-scheduler for scheduling this station. (I got only one account verification mail though, the one from auth0, but this doesn’t seem to have been a problem).
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Hi all,
I have successfully installed ‘Satellitetle’ and cloned the ‘satnogs-auto-scheduler’ github but I cannot for the life of me get it to install.
I am assuming ‘sudo pip install XXXX’ is how it’s just the ‘XXXX’ I cannot work out.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Michael
Did you read the README?
Pierros,
I did read it. After
‘sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
pip install -r requirements.txt’
I tried
‘schedule_single_station.py -s ground-station-ID -n’
(obviously with my station ID substituted in) to be told schedule_single_station.py was not a command!?!
Stuck!
well… did you try
python3 ./schedule_single_station.py -s ground-station-ID -n
?
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Doh!! Senior moment. Thanks Pierros
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Question: Where is “.env”? Trying to perform this step:
Copy the env-dist file to .env and set your legacy SatNOGS Network credentials.
I find things by the following command;
sudo find / -name .env
When I do that, for me, its here;
/home/pi/satnogs-auto-scheduler and indeed has my username and password in the file.
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