Well, it had to happen. The Pi Zero reeiver at Evesham promptly refused to talk to our old server a while ago, and the Cheltenham receiver had been disconnected for some time whilst a workshop re-organisation went on.
This morning, the Evesham receiver, rebuilt with a Raspberry Pi 4, and now sporting Raspberry-NOAA-V2
It's really easy to install, with a couple of caveats.
When you run install_and_upgrade , it takes a long while to run, even on a Pi4. I thought it had hung up. It hadn't... ! If a setting is altered, it runs much quicker on subsequent occasions!
It failed to install the correct blacklist file. I simply copied the file from the old receiver, and all is well.
It's got a fabulous in-built web console, and it's currently configured to drop it's pictures automatically to a new web page at https://doznoaa.blogspot.com/
- UPDATE - I appear to have upset google, and had posting limited for both the noaa blog, and this one ... another solution is required! I've removed doznoaa... pity it worked well.
The Evesham antenna hasn't changed, and still produces noisy pictures, I doubt it'll ever decode METEOR M-2. I'm planning a QFH in Cheltenham one day !
I'll get the Cheltenham receiver up and running soon...
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