Time zone

[96611229]

Hi!

Absolutely great work on this! I've just set it up but i'm a little confused about time zone config, is it enough if I set just my city?

Thanks for the great work!

[reynico]

Hi! The timezone is setup using your relative shift to UTC. i.e. for Argentina is -3.

[96611229]

Thank you for such a fast response! Excellent, good to know.

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Hi!

The timezone is setup using your relative shift to UTC. i.e. for Argentina is -3.

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Hi, I hope you don't mind me responding to this thread about another question. Didn't want to spam you with new ticket :)

I ran the script as root, was that a good call? As root I first did "cd $HOME" and then installed the script. This bit concerns me, running crontab -l shows:

1 0 * /home/pi/raspberry-noaa/schedule.sh

If I do nano or edit that path, it opens a new file. Meaning, it cannot find it. So I am not sure if it will work. The full path appears to be at:

~/raspberry-noaa/schedule.sh

So did I make a mistake by running as root? Is this script supposed to be installed from pi user?

Thank you!

edit:

Looks like that was the case, I had to run it as pi account instead! Now I've got several passes scheduled. Looking forward to seeing those images!

[reynico]

Hi! The script is intended to be run as pi user

[96611229]

Thanks! I realized that and installed it... however no files show in the browser under IP of the device. I ran it whole day and the following folders are empty:

Index of /image/2020/08/31/ Index of /image/2020/08/31/

Is there a log I can see failures in? I did some testing and I saw:

• when adding time zone, I couldn't do +2 or 2+, instead it only accepted "2" as a time zone. Is that correct? I'm in UTC+2.
• when testing "./test_reception.sh 90.3" it first didn't work, it would be "Canceled by user" because it was missing mp3 sox or something like that. After a little googling I fixed that dependency and installed it.
• I'm running the following raspios 2020-08-20-raspios-buster-armhf-lite - is this ok?

Thank you!

[reynico]

Check the file sun.py, your timezone must be inverted. If you are in +2 then timezone should be timezone = -2

[96611229]

Just checked and it does show timezone = -2 however it only shows it when I enter 2 and not as +2. If I enter 2 it will say synthax error. Not a big deal. In the meantime I reinstalled completely and I think there may be an issue when running as pi user and not root.

I ran test reception command and I get:

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/audio/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image’: Permission denied

`The server is in testing mode tuned to 90.2 Mhz!
Open a terminal in your computer and paste:
ncat 202 8073 | play -t mp3 -`

Found 1 device(s): sox FAIL formats: no handler for given file typemp3' `0: , d??~đ?~???~???v@P?v???v, SN: T??~pi?v``

Using device 0: Generic RTL2832U OEM usb_open error -3 Please fix the device permissions, e.g. by installing the udev rules file rtl-sdr.rules Failed to open rtlsdr device #0.

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In addition to my previous comment, running the cronjob shows a number of permission denied errors:

pi@raspberrypi:~/raspberry-noaa $ /home/pi/raspberry-noaa/schedule.sh mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/audio/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/audio/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image’: Permission denied INFO : Pass prediction in progress INFO : Pass prediction in progress INFO : Pass is above 30, that is OK for me METEOR-M2 20200901-200122 89 warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 1 at Tue Sep 1 20:01:00 2020 INFO : Pass prediction in progress mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/audio/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image’: Permission denied NOAA19 20200901-181417 83 warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 2 at Tue Sep 1 18:14:00 2020 mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/audio/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image’: Permission denied NOAA18 20200901-212509 83 warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 3 at Tue Sep 1 21:25:00 2020 mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/audio/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/meteor’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image/’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/wx/image’: Permission denied NOAA15 20200901-190120 61 warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 4 at Tue Sep 1 19:01:00 2020

[reynico]

Hi! Seems like permissions were screwed up when schedule.sh ran with root user. Do a

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wx/

to fix the permissions and try again

[96611229]

That worked, thanks. I ran the schedule.sh as pi now and got the following output:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /home/pi/raspberry-noaa/schedule.sh INFO : Pass prediction in progress INFO : Pass prediction in progress INFO : Pass prediction in progress INFO : Pass is above 30, that is OK for me METEOR-M2 20200902-194135 61 warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 5 at Wed Sep 2 19:41:00 2020 INFO : Pass prediction in progress NOAA19 20200902-180235 79 warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 6 at Wed Sep 2 18:02:00 2020 NOAA18 20200902-112619 37 warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 7 at Wed Sep 2 11:26:00 2020 NOAA18 20200902-211323 66 warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 8 at Wed Sep 2 21:13:00 2020 NOAA15 20200902-183636 36 warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 9 at Wed Sep 2 18:36:00 2020

Not sure why it threw those permission denied errors the first time, when I ran it as pi (not as root at all before). This was on a clean install. Is there a specific version of raspbian, now called raspios, that you tested this script agains?

Anyway, it scheduled jobs and I'll wait to see the results.

Thank you for your help!

[reynico]

I'm using Raspbian on my nodes

Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description:    Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:    10
Codename:   buster

[reynico]

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