Need help debugging my setup

SatNOGS Software
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I installed satnogs on a raspberry PI3. It is running in the container. But SatNOGS Network shows

Applied to Station: pending… No scedulled satellite is observed.

Something went wrong. What is missing? SatNOGS shows my station as online…

Regards Frank

My debug information:

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{
“versions”: {
“satnogs-client”: “unknown”,
“satnogs-ansible”: “unknown”,
“satnogs-flowgraphs”: “unknown”,
“gr-satnogs”: “unknown”,
“gr-soapy”: “unknown”,
“gnuradio”: “unknown”,
“satnogs-config”: “1.0”
},
“state”: {
“is-applied”: false,
“pending-tags”: null
},
“system”: {
“date”: “2025-01-27T13:20:08.600116+00:00”,
“platform”: {
“system”: “Linux”,
“node”: “satnogs-config”,
“release”: “6.6.51+rpt-rpi-v8”,
“version”: “#1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.51-1+rpt3 (2024-10-08)”,
“machine”: “aarch64”,
“processor”: “”
},
“memory”: {
“total”: 951336960,
“available”: 639381504,
“percent”: 32.8,
“used”: 250200064,
“free”: 119201792,
“active”: 387940352,
“inactive”: 328773632,
“buffers”: 23420928,
“cached”: 558514176,
“shared”: 454656,
“slab”: 58318848
},
“disk”: {
“total”: 30916444160,
“used”: 7604269056,
“free”: 21721939968,
“percent”: 25.9
}
},
“configuration”: {
“satnogs_antenna”: “Turnstile”,
“satnogs_api_token”: “[redacted]”,
“satnogs_rf_gain”: “15.7”,
“satnogs_rx_samp_rate”: “2.048e6”,
“satnogs_soapy_rx_device”: “"driver=rtlsdr"”,
“satnogs_station_elev”: “430”,
“satnogs_station_id”: “3897”,
“satnogs_station_lat”: “48.531”,
“satnogs_station_lon”: “8.867”
}
}
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2

Your station, with respect to connection to the network, looks fine!

I guess you are looking at the ‘Configuration’ tab of your station which shows the configuration when you manage your station from the Network, a feature that is not fully implemented yet.

3

Did you successfully schedule and complete any observations on your station?

4

Welcome @frank_schirpke !

This is a misleading message in the SatNOGS web service and should be ignored.
(@sfou: Can we hide the “Configuration” tab until this feature is finished, to avoid confusion?)
It is not related to the problem of your station, as @Acinonyx suggested already too.

Debugging: Current status

  • satnogs-client is fetching jobs and is uploading observation metadata successfully, e.g. most recently in 11000114.
  • no waterfall image is produced or uploaded, nor any audio file or telemetry frame

Debugging: Error Logs

You can see the most-recent log messages with this command:

sudo docker logs --since 10m --follow --timestamps satnogs_satnogs-client

( If you share log messages via this forum, enclosing them by a leading and trailing line with triple-backticks will help with formatting the text as “code block”).

for some context: This ansible&docker-based variant of the satnogs station software stack is new. It is tested and running on a few stations, but nevertheless it’s something new to learn. E.g. only yesterday I’ve installed a station using this stack successfully for the first time (details in my SatNOGS speedrun 2025-01 write-up).

Possible solution

Your configuration seems to have an escaping error in SATNOGS_SOAPY_RX_DEVICE. When entering the value via satnogs-setup, it should be driver=rtlsdr, without quotes. In 10939094, the current value is \"driver=rtlsdr\".

I hope this helps with bringing your station up!

If there are any other questions, feel free to ask here!

Sincerely,

“kerel” / Fabian Schmidt

5

Hi!

in the latest observation, 11010621, can see that you updated the configuration, fixing the SATNOGS_SOAPY_RX_DEVICE configuration variable (set to driver=rtlsdr). Unfortunately while doing so you introduced a different misconfiguration now: The SATNOGS_RX_SAMP_RATE is set to 96000. It should be one of the values supported by your SDR, the recommendation here when using an rtl-sdr is 2.048e6.

I wish you good luck with the station bring-up!

Sincerely,
Fabian

6

@frank_schirpke : Congratulations for your first successful observation (11014799)!

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Thanks for assistance. I moved from Raspberry ansible to Raspberry legacy and setup my station again. Now I received cw and fm transmissions.

Many thanks

Frank

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