New Stations Added

[Paul_Sengupta]

I like that antenna setup!

73 de G1YJY!

[Mike Mold]

PWEGTU is now installed at Dunkeswell, c/o the LAA Devon Strut. Thanks to Brian Lyford and Chris Parsons for the installation and to Brendan Proctor of Devon & Somerset Flight Training for the use of the clubhouse.
Mike Mold

[Admin]

PWEGTU is now installed at Dunkeswell, c/o the LAA Devon Strut. Thanks to Brian Lyford and Chris Parsons for the installation and to Brendan Proctor of Devon & Somerset Flight Training for the use of the clubhouse.
Mike Mold

Hi Mike
That is a pretty impressive antenna setup 
Thx
Lee

[Admin]

Hi Mike,

Looking on Spot the gliders and the APRS servers, I don't see PWEGTU appearing.
Have you confirmed this has appeared and connected to the servers 

I do see UKNHL appear very close to Dunkeswell

thx
Lee

[Mike Mold]

No, not yet, Lee. Can you point me to the test methodology, please? The station went in today and as the weather was lousy, there was no local glider activity. Mike

[Admin]

No, not yet, Lee. Can you point me to the test methodology, please? The station went in today and as the weather was lousy, there was no local glider activity. Mike

Hi Mike,

When the station is up and running it logs into the APRS servers, these are listed here
http://wiki.glidernet.org/aprs-server

As you can see there are 4 servers, and if you have named your station EGTU, then 2 entries will appear
EGTU (The Flarm Server)
PWEGTU (The PilotAware Server)

unfortunately it is trial and error to go through each of the server pages and search for the text in the page

Additional debug can be found as follows assuming your hostname is still called ognpaw (the default)
You should be able to point a web browser on the same network that is connected to the receiver

http://ognpaw.local:8080    - This contains FLARM RF Diagnostics
http://ognpaw.local:8081    - This contains FLARM Decoder diags, and will list the APRS Diags (This is useful)
http://ognpaw.local:8082    - This contains FLARM/PAW captured A/C diagnostics

So the first thing to look for is http://ognpaw.local:8081, and see if the APRS section indicates a connection to the servers.

Finally, if ognpaw.local does not resolve to an IP addres, then you will need to log in to the router to get the IP Address of the Receiver, and consequently http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8081, where xxx is part of the IP address

Hope that helps
Thx
Lee

[Mike Mold]

Thanks Lee. I'll report back.
Mike

[Admin]

Thanks Lee. I'll report back.
Mike

Hi Mike
Looks line PWEGTU has now appeared !
Do you know who runs UKNHL, it is very close to you

Thx
Lee

[Mike Mold]

We've still a few issues with not being able to interrogate our station but we've made progress. UKNHL is at North Hill, the site of the Devon & Somerset Gliding Club, just to the west of Dunkeswell. We originally requested locating our PAW station there last year but the GC committee didn't want us to jeopardise their flaky broadband connection, depite the reassurances provided by Keith.
Mike

[Chris Parsons]

I am one of the guys working with Mike Mold and Brian Lyford installing the OGN PAW Bridge at Dunkeswell Airfield (EGTU) ?

We completed the installation on Saturday but unfortunately were not communicating with the internet so went up there Sunday
to do some debugging - looks like the OGNPAW Bridge is connected to the internal network in the Devon and Somerset Flight Training
offices, I can ping the device which is identified as 192.168.1.67 or ognpaw on the router, but it looks like there is nothing running on
ports 8080, 8081 or 8082 ?

I have tried to telnet to the ports but get no response so it appears the firmware is not loading?

I have tried

http://ognpaw:8080
http://ognpaw:8081
http://ognpaw:8082

http://192.168.1.67:8080
http://192.168.1.67:8081
http://192.168.1.67:8082

I inspected the device and noticed that the SD card does not 'latch' in - you can slide it in
with no resistance (on my PAW the card is spring loaded to eject it) so I am wondering if the
socket in the Pi is faulty and the contacts on the card are not connecting - in any event the
firmware is not loading, although apparently we did appear briefly on the servers perhaps
when we were adjusting the SD card position and restarting?

I have the OGN PAW Bridge here at home (I live 20 miles from Dunkeswell) and intend returning
it to Keith Vinning for checking but wondered if there is anything else worth trying before I send it off?

Chris Parsons

[Ian Melville]

If it is still in the case, I would remove the Pi from the case band recheck that latching of the SD card, and that there is no debris in the socket. Also try a latching a different SD card just to check it is not the card that is at fault.

[Chris Parsons]

Yes, I tried this - the card will insert into the socket right up to the end with no resistance
with the Pi out of the case

Usually you can press the card in slightly to unlock it and then it springs out slightly to allow
it to be removed?

SD card was fine in my PAW?

Chris

[exfirepro]

Chris,

Not sure what is going on, and it's a while now since I set up my station (PWBalerno) but please note the following observations from your post above.

Re the Micro SD card fit, I would guess you are running a Raspberry Pi 3 - If so, note that RPi no longer use the standard 'latching' system for the Micro SD card on the Pi 3 - it just pushes into the slot with no latching. I got caught out with the first one I bought and ended up sending it back thinking it was faulty. It was only when I got the replacement and found that it was exactly the same that it finally dawned on me.

I would be very surprised if the PAW Bridge is the cause of the problem as it primarily runs the P3i transceiver and has very little to do with the OGN side and certainly nothing as far as I'm aware to do with passing info to the OGN servers. Also the fact that Lee could see PWEGTU on the net at just before 4pm implies that the Bridge was working at that time.

I can't access my ports via http://ognpaw:8080, etc., either. Try looking up the PAW ID on your router and connecting using that address - in my case the OGN-PAW URL is 192.168.0.8, so I simply type 192.168.0.8:8080, etc. in the URL bar and up come the relevant screens.

Hope this helps

Regards

Peter

[Ian Melville]

Well I never. I obviously have never taken the card out of my Pi3, as I had not noticed this. Glad you posted that as it will save me from grief in the future.

[Paul_Sengupta]

Does the OGN-PAW software work with a Pi 3? As I understood it there was a special trial version of the bridge software to work with the Pi 3...are these incorporated into the OGN-PAW software?