[Skimmertalk] new aggregator

[David Robbins]

Without cwsl_tee running it works now… I am sure I had tested that before and it still locked up.  it wasn’t just from the aggregator that locked it up, it would also lock up when using the edit settings button on the rtty skimmer window.

 

My thought was that if the aggregator shut off the rtty skimmer server like it does for the cw skimmer server instead of trying to switch bands on the fly that it would be safer and avoid any communications problems like the cwsl_tee is apparently causing.  There really is nothing gained by the rtty skimmer server on the fly switching since it has to restart all the decoders for the new bands anyway.

 

Just note, I never had hdsdr running when it was trying to change ini files, I would only start that for a few minutes while I was testing something then shut it off.

 

David Robbins K1TTT
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From: W3OA [mailto:w3oa at roadrunner.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 11:48
To: k1ttt at arrl.net; 'Pete Smith N4ZR'; skimmertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: new aggregator

 

Both your hardware and software configurations are unique to me.  Answers to the following questions may help me figure out what's going on.

1)  If you don't run HDSDR and don't use the tee will ini rotation work with the the Hermes and/or Red Pitaya?

2)  If you do run HDSDR with the tee will ini rotation work with a QS1R?

73 - Dick, W3OA

 

On 1/25/2017 4:26 PM, David Robbins wrote:

The rtty skimmer server is the primary, there is no other skimmer running on that box.  I do have cwsl_tee running so I can use hdsdr to look at the bands with that tool.  I have not set anything on the combined skimmers, secondary skimmers, or rttyskimserv tabs.

 

David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://wiki.k1ttt.net <http://wiki.k1ttt.net/> 
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://k1ttt.net:7373

 

 

From: W3OA [mailto:w3oa at roadrunner.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 20:42
To: Pete Smith N4ZR; k1ttt at arrl.net; skimmertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: new aggregator

 

Hi Dave - 

Please tell us something about your configuration.  Is RTTY SkimServ Agg's Primary Skimmer or a Secondary one?  If Secondary, is it on Port 8?  Or maybe you are using the Tee and running both CW and RTTY SkimServs.  If so, do you have a check in the check box on Agg's RTTY SkimServ tab?

73 - Dick, W3OA

On 1/25/2017 11:18 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:

Working on all of this, Dave.  Expect an announcement on the new Agg (and a new 3-character prefix pattern file later today.  Alex says that ini rotation "should" work with Hermes, but Dick's looking into this.

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On 1/24/2017 5:33 PM, David Robbins wrote:

I see there is a new version of the aggregator, any hints on what has changed?

 

With rtty skimmer server I can not use the ini file rotation stuff because it seems to hang the hermes or red pitaya so the skimmer loses data.  Can we get an option to do like the cw skimmer and have the aggregator stop the server, change the file, then restart it?  or can I fool it to do that now by telling it that it’s a cw skimmer, or will that break something else??

 

David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://wiki.k1ttt.net <http://wiki.k1ttt.net/> 
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://k1ttt.net:7373