I was having trouble with my hard drive filling up while pulling images from GOES-16 and GOES-17 satellites. 32gb filles up really quick on my odroid! So I wrote a ghetto little script that removes files older than 2 days, every day, except for the full color/ full disk images which are the ones I want to keep. I also leave the national weather service images since they take up very little space....
Today I received my SDRPlay RSPDx device and decided to get it running on my remote radio server. I’m still not sure if I’ll run this remote or locally, but, wanted to have the option for whatever I do decide to do. The setup is pretty painless and involves a few commands. I’m going to assume you already have your Armbian server setup and can SSH to it and have a special user called ‘radio’ setup to run all of this as....
Ubuntu 20.x comes with GnuRadio 3.8 which is based on python 3, and, the latest and greatest. However, sometimes you may need to install the older version of gnuradio instead of the latest 3.8 release. Here are my notes on doing just that First, you have to install python2 and pip sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo apt update sudo apt install python2 curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py sudo python2 get-pip.py Then, you have to install the dependencies for GnuRadio...
Recently I’ve gotten into RTL-SDR / HAM Radio and have been working on getting this cool package of scripts working that’ll automatically grab NOAA / ISS and METEOR data and decode it! Ran into an issue today with wxtoimg. Since it’s abandonware it’s not possible to compile it, and the only binaries are for 32bit arm, not 64bit, which is what my Odroid N2+ is. Here’s the quick way of making it work on your 64bit arm computer....