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KiwiSDR antenna switch extension
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Antenna switch installation failed #23

Closed lou-lovo closed 6 years ago

lou-lovo commented 6 years ago

Helo!

I have a KiwiSDR with a BeagleBone Green labeled BBG217021635. Got it from Seedstudio.com in January 2018.

The kit is connected to my LAN (192.168.0.110:8073) and works just fine. Now I want to use Kari's "KiwiSDR-antenna-switch-extension" with the Beagle-gpio-backend. I intend to use my own solution of interface with opto-coupled relays etc.

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I have tried to install the software 5 times but haven't succeded to get this extension functioning.

1:st try: -------------------------------

I followed this instruction...

cd /root git clone https://github.com/OH1KK/KiwiSDR-antenna-switch-extension.git cd KiwiSDR-antenna-switch-extension bash ./ant-switch-extension-installer

On the question:

"which backend you would like to use ?"

I just hit Return and got the "ms-s7-web" backend version, and got the message:

"Rebuilding KiwiSDR. This will take about 13 minutes."

Then nothing happend, I had to switch off and on the Kiwi but no Antenna switching was installed.

2:nd try: -------------------------------

I followed the above instruction chain but chose the

beagle-gpio alternative.

I got the same negative result, ie:

nothing happend, I had to switch off and on the Kiwi but no Antenna switching was installed.

3:d try: -------------------------------

I reloaded the original BBG software from the SD-card and went through the above procedure, but negative...

4 and 5:th try: -------------------------------

I did slight variations on the above procedures, and again...negative !

During the tries there was no hardware attached to the gpio-pins, does that prevent the switch-extension from being installed ? In such a case is there a collission between the use of gpio-pins? gpio-pins #70-71 and #78-86 are dedicated to other functions in certain modes!

As I see are: 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 checked in the "ant-switch-backend-beagle-gpio" ?!

("Error. GPIO pin $GPIOPIN failed to initialize.")

What can be done ???

Wkr / Lou-lovo

lou-lovo commented 6 years ago

A friend of mine pointed out that the connection had to be through SSH or PuTTY and not the Console in the Kiwi !!! This could maybe pointed out in the "OH1KK/KiwiSDR-antenna-switch-extension" page ? just to help newbies as me ;-) Thank You Kari ! I will make a donation soon !