SatNOGS-Monitor

SatNOGS Software
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I built/installed the SatNOGS-Monitor from https://wiki.satnogs.org/SatNOGS_Monitor into my UHF ID-724 RPi SatNOGS ground station.

Thank you to those who shared an excellent tool for my station.
It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. However…
It runs by issuing via SSH & Putty the command satnogs-monitor -l 175
I got a crude wold map and some Station status on the left. I replaced the 175 with my station ID in the /config/satnogs-monitor/config.toml file which I had to edit with sudo nano instead of edit config.toml. Don’t know why, don’t care, it worked with nano.
here is my ~/config/satnogs-monitor/config.toml file content.

data path = “/temp/.satnogs/data” do these " " have to be there?
satnogs_id = 724 a space before and after the = is OK?
local = true
sat_footprint = true
spectrum_plot = true
waterfall = true

Now I get a crude map, a little blue dot roughly where my QTH should be but but no spectrum, waterfall or satellite footprint.

I think, please correct me where I’m wrong.
The crude map is because I have to address this— The monitor makes heavy usage of braille unicode characters so make sure your terminal emulator uses a font which includes those glyphs. The screenshot at the top shows alacritty[3] with the tewi-font[4]. Take a look at nerd-fonts[5] if you’re unsure about which font to use. You could also use a forked version of yaft[6] created by the same person as SatNOGS Monitor, which uses the Lucy Tewi font by default.

I’m not clear what I have to do here to fix it, Please advice me. I’m not a programmer.

As for the, no spectrum, waterfall or satellite footprint. I think nothing to see unless I or someone schedules some observations on my station 724

Thanks for you time to help someone who is in it way over his head again.
Bob vk2byf

Update: BHUTAN-1’s footprint just popped up with 3 orbit paths visible and it is updating itself.

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Hi,

if you have problems with the font rendering in putty (wrong colors, missing characters) check that you have the latest putty version and a font with all glyphs. See SatNOGS station monitor v0.3.x

Check your data_path configuration:

  • there is an underscore between data and path not a space
  • the default data path on the SatNOGS RPi image is `/tmp/.satnogs/data
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Thank you wose
One problem fixed, I left out the _ in data_path
shame on me I should have been able to find that myself.

Downloaded " the latest" putty 7.3 but ended up with 0.70-4. have to keep trying but now I know I have to configure putty for the right fonts.

I’ll report back later how I go. It already looks better with more data on the left side.

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I installed version 4 right after it was released and it worked great for at least a week. I had to set it aside for several days and when I started satnogs-monitor on my ground station again I received the following error:

Error occurred: Failed to deserialize data on struct (in GET or POST): missing field ‘location’ at line 1 column 473

The command line I have been using is:

satnogs-monitor -s 201 --data-path /tmp/.satnogs/data/ --waterfall --spectrum

Has anyone else seen this?
Am I doing something silly?

Bob, KO2F

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There was a small API change on network side. You’ll need to update to version 0.4.1.

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Thanks, that took care of the problem!

:slight_smile:Bob, KO2f