Antenna switch installation failed
lou-lovo opened this issue · 1 comments
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
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 !