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British Forum => OGN-R PilotAware => Topic started by: NATO on June 27, 2020, 11:37:25 am

Title: OGN Station update ?
Post by: NATO on June 27, 2020, 11:37:25 am
Hello all,

Was there an update last night ? My OGN station appears not to come up on the home page this morning, the radar 360 was working, but that now appears to have stopped as wee I have logged in and the Raspberry pie and it is working, what is the code to check the software version installed on the pi ?
Problem solved .......
There was an update last night....I did a hard reboot on the Pi and it is all now working as normal ? ( I have not had to do that before for an auto-update)

Regards,

Neil
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: steveu on June 27, 2020, 01:45:22 pm
A fair few of us may still be on timers, so any updates will get a hard reboot even though it's not necessary...
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: exfirepro on June 27, 2020, 01:48:03 pm
Hi Neil,

Yes there was an update last night, though your station should have uploaded it automatically and installed at reboot. Just a thought - Do you have your station on a timer?

Mine uploaded and restarted fine (it is on a timer). - Just seen Steve’s post on this same line of thought.

Peter
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: AlanG on June 27, 2020, 02:48:02 pm
There is definitely something not right with this update.  The status page keeps locking up if you try to change to Metars and they don't come up or you leave it sitting on the metars page and something happens that they disappear and you are then unable to get back into the status page.  I have a separate shortcut to the radar page and this still works fine.
Mine would initially not change to metars this am and I had to pull the plug to get it back to the initial status page.
Later the metars did start working and all was ok for a while then having left it sitting on the metars I noticed that they had gone blank and there was no way back to the status page again. 

Alan
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: NATO on June 27, 2020, 04:49:16 pm
Gent's

You are correct, I have removed the timer, after a post on the forum suggested it was no longer required.......
A manual reboot did correct all the faults that Alan has posted, my station had all those problems first thing this morning.

Regards,

Neil
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: AlanG on June 27, 2020, 05:41:08 pm
Unfortunately the fault will likely come back as I have rebooted several times now and still keep getting locked out of the status page.
Alan
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: AlanG on June 27, 2020, 06:15:46 pm
Update

Just witnessed a Ryanair leaving EGPH recorded in the OGNR status page after a reboot but did not appear on the ATOM radar screen.  It was tracked on the 360Radar contributors VRS screen ok.

I thought I witnessed this earlier this morning but with the status page locking up I was not certain.  Several GA aircraft logged on the status page were not on the ATOM VRS.

Alan

Edit:

Just tried to refresh the ATOM Radar and it will not load either from the button in the status page or from my desktop shortcut.
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: NATO on June 27, 2020, 06:27:27 pm
I very rarely get aircraft showing on the status page and on the 360 radar page, I thought that was due to lack of other ATOM stations in the area, my radar 360 screen always looks quit blank compared to my FR24 screen.
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: NATO on June 28, 2020, 08:41:12 am
Update
Just tried it again this morning, the metar’s page has locked out, reboot required to get it working.
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: exfirepro on June 28, 2020, 08:46:36 am
Hi Neil,

My station was playing up last night, but working OK this morning - until I tried swapping screens, which caused it to lock up. I am in touch with Lee about this.

Which is your station please?

Peter

 
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: steveu on June 28, 2020, 09:02:31 am
I'm at my strip today but not to fly.

I'll boot up my kiosk Pi and check that my system is working. I use a kiosk Pi for aircraft owners to see the VRS without needing to get it on their phone. I do METAR/VRS in 45 second chunks with an auto switch of tabs in Chromium.

I'm still on a time switch.  I don't propose to change this as I think everything is working.
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: exfirepro on June 28, 2020, 09:42:29 am
Hi again All,

I have just run some tests locally and from these it appears that the issues we are seeing are instigated when we are manually switching between screens while monitoring the Ground Station locally - i.e. connected to it by browser via its local IP. Lee is aware of this and will investigate later, but in the meantime I suggest NOT manually switching between screens as the system seems to run and uplink to Rosetta / Classic PAW as intended when left to its own devices.

If you are experiencing issues, a manual reboot seems to restore normal operation provided no further screen swapping is undertaken.

Regards

Peter

Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: Moffrestorer on June 28, 2020, 09:55:54 am
I very rarely get aircraft showing on the status page and on the 360 radar page, I thought that was due to lack of other ATOM stations in the area, my radar 360 screen always looks quit blank compared to my FR24 screen.

Hi NATO,

My station was the same until I read in one of Keith Vinning’s documents that you have to apply via him to gain access the 360Radar MLAT feeds. Sent him a PM and it was quickly all sorted and suddenly lots of traffic showing on the VRS.

Hope this helps,

Chris

Edit: It is on page 23 of the March 2020 ATOM Station Build Instructions
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: Admin on June 28, 2020, 11:54:51 am
Hi Neil

Not sure how old your initial installation was - it does not appear on our GRID, can I suggest the following

login to pi
cd rtlsd-ogn
./PilotAware-OGN.reinstall.sh

wait 20 mins or so for it to download full image and reboot.

Thx
Lee
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: NATO on June 28, 2020, 02:15:14 pm
Hi Lee,

All updated, is it now showing up on the grid network?

Regards,

Neil
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: steveu on June 28, 2020, 03:58:14 pm
My kiosk Pi worked as normal, VRS screen working as usual and METAR refreshing at intervals.

Screen dump attached.

You can also check a ground station by looking at:

https://www.gliderradar.com/
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: Vic on June 28, 2020, 07:09:57 pm
'My' site (EGSL) appears to have stopped working since last Thursday at 17:15 according to the OGN network. Any hint of CPU temps just before this happened?

**EDIT**   A reboot has sorted it. Suspect temperature related on what was the hottest day of the year so far.
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: NATO on July 01, 2020, 09:22:27 am
Update....

New update 20200630 Appears to work all OK now.

Many thanks,

Neil
Title: Re: OGN Station update ?
Post by: exfirepro on July 01, 2020, 09:43:55 am
Thanks to a lot of hard work by Lee over the past few days....

...an annoying (and apparently very difficult to find) bug has been found and removed.

All stations should now be updating automatically to Version 20200630. If not, your station software is probably too old to support auto updates and a full manual software update will be required. If you need help, advice can be obtained by contacting ogn@pilotaware.com

Regards

Peter