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Well that's not in the spirit of radio now is it?

Would like to Say also Unless your Meter is listed in the selected Meters that are approved, it might be hit and miss if this will be of any use to you. I was able to get it to run on Windows 11, And pick up Data of meters. But none of the meter ID's it picked up, was mine (Even though my meter was 5 feet from the antenna). So even though it does work by collecting data, power, ect. It fails to have an ID for my meter.

Here is the windows release compiled: github.com/bemasher/rtlamr/releases/download/v0.9.1/rtlamr_windows_amd64.zip

@@SignalsEverywhere Thanks ... That's Half the Battle.. (Copied All the RTLSDR.dll and RTL_TCP.dll) 64bit zip ones. to the same folder ... Now all I just need to do is figure out (How to make it .go.) no pun intended.. (So.. I'll Give you two ❤❤ ).. But .. No Kiss just yet. 🤯❓

@x_CrossHair_x maybe I can do a windows tutorial in the future if you're still having issues

@@SignalsEverywhere That would be nice 👍🙂 (I can handle a Batch File) and have Enough knowledge regarding command switches... (No clue about "go") so.. (Hopefully it can be optional).. Plus it's late 2 AM.. Time for a Sandwich.. And Bed.. 💋💋<< Kisses in advance for a Tutorial..

great video!!

Power line communication is the worst for our RF bands for sure! With your antenna make sure it's not too big, this is all 900mhz ISM band so a larger antenna is actually going to make reception harder. Tune the antenna if it isn't already and see if that helps.

Thank you so much

You can absolutely run it from a raspberry pi or other Linux machine. Remotely it does not have to be local

How can I make it easier?

​@@SignalsEverywhere you cant, unless you invent and sell a device that does is with the press of a button. a that point, the problem here seems to be more about being scared about doing that (wich many peoples are about code) or the access to the device. convincing peoples to "do the step" is always the most difficult.

I'm interested, just need to get my hands on more gear so I can build the necessary tools

Thanks for watching Chris! Good to have you here.

@@SignalsEverywhere It's good to have YOU here! I was worried for awhile.

@@chriholt Things were rough for a while, but I'm finally taking care of myself again.

I'm trying :)

Yes I believe you can do that in the sound modem but you'll have to form the packet yourself in Python

@@SignalsEverywhere cool, thanks, I'll try it.. Good to hear from you again! :)

Thank you, it's great to be back. Thanks for your effort and service as well in regards to OP25 development. It really is some amazing software.

Thank you for your kind words.

Hopefully I'll get some stuff together and do a linux video on soundmodem. The AX25 stack under linux is amazing and even allows for TCP/IP connections!

A patron had an earlier version of it running, I've made a lot of changes since and have not had anyone to give it a test outside of myself. If you give it a go please let me know if you run into any issues and I'll be happy to assist

AGWPE was difficult for me, which is why I went with KISS TCP. Thankfully soundmodem supports both :)

Thank you, let me know if you run into any issues :)

thank you :)

Please let me know what you come up with!

Thank you, it's a fairly basic application and ended up being a short video but I thought perhaps someone would find it useful

It's a work in progress, I hope to get audio out to the control head but haven't yet figured that out.

Thanks, getting ready to announce automatic site switching

Image was outdated and I haven't made a new one yet so I reverted to just using the script, I may set up torrents for hosting these

The script should be run on a fresh install, sounds like your installation previously was configured to connect to your home wifi and that's conflicting with the hotspot.

@@SignalsEverywhere Sorry I wasn't entirely clear in my details. I've been using a fresh install each try. What I meant by it connecting to my home wifi is that is the wifi I used to setup and run the OP25 new_installscript. Or am I supposed to use a wired connection for the setup? I'm using the 32-bit version of Raspbian Bookworm. I tried the 64-bit version twice before but it always hung up at 89%.

@@SignalsEverywhere I might know what happened. When I used RPI Imager to image my SSD I configured my home wifi in it, which wrote something to the install. I'm gonna have to try it without doing that. I'm pretty decent with Linux and stuff like this, but sometimes little details can be a killer lol.

An update. I have tried this install another handful of times. If I use a wired Ethernet connection, I can select option 2 and it will finish, but at that point I lose connection to the web and can't finish option 3! So, it seems a wifi connection is all that will work, at least for me. When it finishes, it reboots and the OP25MCH hotspot shows up for about ten seconds and then it all connects to my home wifi network yet again. I love this concept, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to like me. I'm gonna try a couple more things and then I'm throwing in the towel. 😖

I have SOLVED my issue and got it working! So after the last install, I apt installed midnight command (mc) and went looking for the wpa_supplicant.conf file, but apparently they did away with it this release. I found a file with my home wifi name in the /etc/NetworkManager folder and deleted it. Rebooted the Pi and the OP25MCH hotspot came up, and stayed up! And the android app successfully connected! So if anyone else has this issue that I've had, here's a hopeful solution! 😎

Thanks for being here! It's good to be back.

Thank you, it's great to be back

Thank you, I'm glad to be back!

Technically yes most of this will run under Linux directly, you could run it on the pi with a display I just haven't set up the instructions for that. But yes, if you were to load the repo and run this locally it would work, the server and such would still need installed though. It's also possible to build an iOS app for it but I am not familiar with iOS and don't have a device to test with currently

I'm making progress, it's not perfect but I'm happy to see it's up to snuff enough for others to get it running :)

Happy to be back at it again!