Stations Offline

[Admin]

Hi All,

I have a program which monitors all PilotAware OGN stations to see when they are on/off-line, the live report can be seen here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lsp4fhx1jlg4l64/ogn-r.txt?dl=0

I have noticed that the following have been down for a few days, I am not sure who maintains these stations, the Date/time they were last seen as online

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1  PWAldersh  Thu Apr 19 21:41:39 BST 2018 DOWN + 297970
10 PWDiss     Sun Apr 22 00:45:31 BST 2018 DOWN + 114138
16 PWEGNO     Fri Apr 20 11:25:19 BST 2018 DOWN + 248550
20 PWFordham  Sat Apr 21 15:50:57 BST 2018 DOWN + 146212
29 PWRadley   Mon Apr 16 20:39:38 BST 2018 DOWN + 560891
30 PWRedhill  Sat Apr 21 15:35:06 BST 2018 DOWN + 147163
38 PWUKDOG    Sat Apr 21 17:58:13 BST 2018 DOWN + 138576
45 PWUKRAT    Sat Apr 21 18:37:42 BST 2018 DOWN + 136207
46 PWUKRUT    Sun Apr 22 13:14:15 BST 2018 DOWN + 69214


[Moffrestorer]

Hi Lee,

Would it help if all owners/ maintainers of OGN-R stations were asked to registered their details via yourself or Keith and undertook to update you if changes took place?

Regards,

Chris

[Ian Melville]

That would sound sensible, but not sure how you can enforce it?

[Admin]

Hi Lee,

Would it help if all owners/ maintainers of OGN-R stations were asked to registered their details via yourself or Keith and undertook to update you if changes took place?

Regards,

Chris

I think this info is supposed to be kept on the OGN website itself
Thx
Lee

[Keithvinning]

I suspect that half of these are sites that are in progress awaiting bridges and will light up when they are delivered Rutland Dolgellau fall into this

[Ben Smith]

Lee and all,
I hold my hand up as guilty for PWaldersh, I had to reboot it a few days ago and it is refusing to start correctly, I suspect that the easiest thing will be a full reinstall, only the OGN RF service appears to have started, when I SSH in it tells me “/usr/sbin/service: basename: not found” (twice) and also won’t recognise sudo, any command requiring sudo returns “-bash: sudo: command not found” (this means that I cannot remove the RO flag, so I cannot edit anything!)
I see data on telnet localhost 50000, but both 50001 and 50002 return “unable to connect to remote host: connection refused”
Regarding contact emails, if you look at the OGN station list, many owners have a link to send an email (I do), if you remove the leading PW from the name you should be able to identify the OGN name.
Ben.

[Admin]

Thanks Ben :-)

A word of note, Paul Ruskin found a bug in the way the OGN waits for NTP to get up and running
he has a fix/workaround you may want to contact him about this. I do plan to add this into the standard installer

Thx
Lee

[John Parker]

Hi

I'm sure our station at Fenland isn't working correctly. I have re-booted it and unplugged and checked everything but no joy. Any advice, please

[T67M]

Redhill tower has had internet connectivity problems recently - the fibre running under the runway broke! A new fibre has been installed and hopefully we should be up from now on.

Mike.

[T67M]

Thanks Ben :-)

A word of note, Paul Ruskin found a bug in the way the OGN waits for NTP to get up and running
he has a fix/workaround you may want to contact him about this. I do plan to add this into the standard installer

Thx
Lee

Redhill also suffered with this big, however the fix didn't really work either. I have a revised fix in place which seems to be reliable thus far.

[PaulRuskin]

We have a fix that works now - it's in the latest OGNR software release.

Paul

[Admin]

Yes the fix seems to work very well.
I could extract this out and give you a copy if you wish

By the way paul, I contacted Seb about adding this to the standard release, and he is taking a look, in parallel he has already looked at fixing this himself

https://github.com/snip/OGN-receiver-RPI-image


thx
Lee

[Ian Melville]

Is there a OGN-R station at Maypole, Kent? It's on the Google map, but nothing on OGN range reports.

Just curious 

[Keithvinning]

Hi Ian

Yes there was one but it has been offline for a while. I'll contact them when I get time

Keith

[T67M]

I noticed that Redhill has been down a lot again recently, and despite having the latest software installed, it still refused to reboot correctly due to the rtlsdr-ogn service continually stopping and restarting the NTP daemon, never actually giving it time to synchronise before stopping it and restarting it again. I have now modified the init.d script to make NTP a pre-requisite before starting the rtlsdr-ogn service, and commented out the "while" loop in the rtlsdr-ogn service script which was continually restarting the NTP daemon. Reboots are now (a) much faster and (b) always seem to start both NTP and rtlsdr correctly. Watch this space!!!!