How to update SoapySDR on remote site?

[timo12357]

I just updated the Soapy SDR module with

apt install soapysdr-module-sdrplay3

on my remote RSPdx on Raspberry PI4. Seems like this update should be done with the RSP disconnected from the Raspberry, as now my RSP did not start up. Even after three reboots the RSP did unfortunately not start. Is there a way to get it up without having to actually physically disconnect the RSP from the Raspi? As the RX is in a remote location I would rather not have to make the trip there.

[timo12357]

Found some errors in the log, seems the SoapySDR library can not be found: `● openwebrx.service - OpenWebRX WebSDR receiver Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/openwebrx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-04-22 16:01:55 EEST; 4s ago Main PID: 1795 (openwebrx) Tasks: 1 (limit: 3720) CPU: 660ms CGroup: /system.slice/openwebrx.service └─1795 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/openwebrx

Apr 22 16:01:55 openwebrx systemd[1]: Started OpenWebRX WebSDR receiver. Apr 22 16:01:55 openwebrx openwebrx[1795]: 2023-04-22 16:01:55,894 - owrx.main - INFO - OpenWebRX+ version v1.2.11 starting up... Apr 22 16:01:55 openwebrx openwebrx[1795]: 2023-04-22 16:01:55,898 - owrx.config.migration - DEBUG - migrating config from version 1 Apr 22 16:01:55 openwebrx openwebrx[1796]: soapy_connector: error while loading shared libraries: libSoapySDR.so.0.8-2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Apr 22 16:01:55 openwebrx openwebrx[1795]: 2023-04-22 16:01:55,912 - owrx.sdr - ERROR - The SDR source type "sdrplay" is not available. please check the feature report for details. Apr 22 16:01:55 openwebrx openwebrx[1795]: 2023-04-22 16:01:55,920 - owrx.main - INFO - No SSL certificate, using http:// protocol. Apr 22 16:01:55 openwebrx openwebrx[1795]: 2023-04-22 16:01:55,920 - owrx.main - INFO - To enable https://, supply SSL certificate: Apr 22 16:01:55 openwebrx openwebrx[1795]: 2023-04-22 16:01:55,920 - owrx.main - INFO - /etc/openwebrx/cert.pem Apr 22 16:01:55 openwebrx openwebrx[1795]: 2023-04-22 16:01:55,920 - owrx.main - INFO - /etc/openwebrx/key.pem `

[luarvique]

No, you do no need to physically disconnect the RSP when installing this package. As to the missing library message, it is unusual, but should be fixable by installing that library package.

[timo12357]

What library should be installed and how? There seems to be no way to install the soapy-connector that owrx would recognize.

[luarvique]

What library should be installed and how? There seems to be no way to install the soapy-connector that owrx would recognize.

libsoapysdr0.8

[timo12357]

There is no such package in the repo. How to install?

Is this correct: sudo apt purge soapysdr0.7-module-sdrplay3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: soapysdr-module-sdrplay3* soapysdr0.7-module-sdrplay3* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 146 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. soapysd-module-sdrplay3 has a dependency to soapysdr0.7-module-sdrplay3. Is this a conflct?

[luarvique]

Sorry, but at this point I have no idea what you are doing. For what it is worth, soapy_connector asked for libSoapySDR 0.8, not 0.7. You must be doing something very wrong.

[timo12357]

I am on RaspberryPi 4, I removed the old install with sudo apt purge openwebrx sudo apt purge soapysdr-module-sdrplay3

Rebooted and then sudo apt install openwebrx sudo apt install soapysdr-module-sdrplay3

Digging into this a bit: $ sudo apt info libsoapysdr0.7 Package: libsoapysdr0.7 Version: 0.7.2-2 Priority: optional Section: libs Source: soapysdr Maintainer: Debian Hamradio Maintainers <debian-hams@lists.debian.org> Installed-Size: 319 kB Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.5), libstdc++6 (>= 7) Recommends: soapysdr0.7-module-all | soapysdr0.7-module Homepage: https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki Download-Size: 88.1 kB APT-Manual-Installed: no APT-Sources: http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian bullseye/main armhf Packages Description: software defined radio interface library SoapySDR is a library providing a common interface to SDR (software defined radio) hardware. Support for different hardware is added through external modules. . This package contains the shared library. And: $ sudo apt info libsoapysdr0.8 N: Unable to locate package libsoapysdr0.8 N: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libsoapysdr0.8' N: Unable to locate package libsoapysdr0.8 N: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libsoapysdr0.8' E: No packages found There is no libsoapysdr0.8 in the Raspbian repo.

[timo12357]

Removed the old install and reinstalled according to https://github.com/luarvique/ppa:

root@openwebrx:/home/timo# apt install soapysdr-module-sdrplay3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: soapysdr0.7-module-sdrplay3 The following NEW packages will be installed: soapysdr-module-sdrplay3 soapysdr0.7-module-sdrplay3 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 45.1 kB of archives. After this operation, 146 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y To me this looks like the dependency is calling for 0.7 not 0.8 version? Could it be that there is no version 0.8 for armhf in your repository? Here is my Raspbian version:

lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Raspbian Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Release: 11 Codename: bullseye

[luarvique]

You might be installing from Ubuntu repo rather than Debian. Please, read instructions carefully.