maiden meadow
Hi all. New feeder (2 weeks in) and I've noticed that my feeder seems to reboot every Sunday around 2200 Local/0400 UTC. Is this built into the image? The problem is that it turns off my BiasT for my LNA and I have to manually do a bunch of tasks via SSH (stop readsb, enable biast, then start readsb again) in order to receive anything.
Any suggestions on avoiding this on a weekly basis? Screenshot shows the reboot last week at around the same time.
spare cobalt
Hi all. New feeder (2 weeks in) and I've noticed that my feeder seems to reboot ...
same thing, same time here, so i think it is in fact built into the image, maybe you could automate the process of turning off readsb > enable biasT > turning on readsb via the crontab ? (sudo nano /etc/crontab) ?
i think 30 4 * * 7 is the right cron schedule format
uh replace 7 with 1, 7 is sunday
it's happening in monday morning
So it will do the task every monday morning at 4:30
maiden meadow
i think 30 4 * * 7 is the right cron schedule format
Thank you!!
I'll have to dig into crontab some more. I just need it to execute each line and not all lines at once... which I think is what I was having it do before that wasn't working.
spare cobalt
well just put 3 cron job
30 is the minute, so i think 30 4 * * 1 to say stop readsb i think 31 4 * * 1 to start biasT and i think 32 4 * * 1 to restart readsb
or something like that
30 4 * * 1 root systemctl stop readsb
31 4 * * 1 root systemctl start biast
32 4 * * 1 root systemctl start readsb
or whatever is the command to start biast
(don't copy the 1 2 3 number in front)
then ctrl+O to save and hit enter
and it should work i guess
quasi ether
There's a better approach outlined at https://www.rtl-sdr.com/getting-the-v3-bias-tee-to-activate-on-piaware-ads-b-images/ - you'd have to adapt it for readsb, but the basic approach should work, I think
Actually ... haven't test it, but.... this script looks like it should set everything up ... https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-wiki/wiki/RTL-Bias-Tee
maiden meadow
Thanks fellow humans!
maiden meadow
I ended up chaining commands and setting it to run at any system reboot in case of power failure.
@reboot sudo systemctl stop readsb && sudo rtl_biast -b 1 && sudo systemctl start readsb
Pushed a manual restart and it worked a charm.
Thanks for the help again, friends!
spare cobalt
Nice 