Help! how do I to tell is the pi see's the funcube or airspy dongle

SatNOGS Software
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Hi All,

I have just installed the satnogs pi image and have the network connection running and I can schedule jobs from the web site, and they are sent to the pi and execute as expected.

https://network-dev.satnogs.org/stations/143/

I am not 100% sure how I know the pi is talking or RXing from the funcube or air spy dongle. Is there a way I can check this, the pi image does not have a GUI so I am a little bit stumped how to check via CLI?

looking forward to getting this up and running and collecting ad reviewing the satellite data soon.

thanks for your help and support

James / M0JFP / WO2I
Chertsey Radio Club MX0MXO:

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James,

I don’t know if this will help or not, but I came across this in my logs last night:

Sep 29 04:54:22 satnogsVHF satnogs-client[549]: built-in source types: file osmosdr fcd rtl rtl_tcp uhd miri hackrf bladerf rfspace airspy soapy redpitaya
Sep 29 04:54:23 satnogsVHF satnogs-client[549]: Using device #0 Realtek RTL2838UHIDIR SN: 00000001
Sep 29 04:54:23 satnogsVHF satnogs-client[549]: Using 32 buffers of size 16384.
Sep 29 04:54:23 satnogsVHF satnogs-client[549]: 2017-09-29 04:54:23,076 - satnogsclient - DEBUG - Sending message: F 137102987
Sep 29 04:54:23 satnogsVHF satnogs-client[549]: 2017-09-29 04:54:23,076 - satnogsclient - DEBUG - Received message: RPRT 0

These are accessed via “journalctl -u satnogs-client.service” or “journalctl -u -f satnogs-client.service”.

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Thank you, I think it’s probably to do with the name of the device in the configuration.
When I used default the RTL device, although its not working I got a water fall out.
I changed it to funcube or airspy and now don’t get the water fall after the schedule.

So just wanted to see if there was a way to talk to the device and prove its working.

maybe need to call it fcd and airspy and see if that helps at all.

Thanks for the log / lost of devices its a great place to start…

James.

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Gotcha. I just stumbled across that when looking for something else and thought it may be a decent starting point.