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Stopping Portsdown MeteorView server?

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 4:38 pm
by gu6efb
Hi All

Whilst playing with the Portsdown MeteorView I have started the MeteorView server.
How do I stop this? Now the Portsdown boots straight to this app every time the Pi is started.

73 Keith GU6EFB

Re: Stopping Portsdown MeteorView server?

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 9:00 am
by G8GKQ
Hi Keith

This was a special-purpose undocumented feature that was only supposed to be used for selected meteor beacon receiver sites. Designed to always start with no way out, so that unattended meteor receivers would not need human intervention. The next release will have a more user-friendly equivalent.

To get back to normal operation, you need to edit the /home/pi/rpidatv/scripts/portsdown_config.txt file. The line commencing

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startup=
should be edited to read

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startup=Display_boot
Then reboot and all will be back to normal.

To edit the file, the following commands should work from the command line:

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nano /home/pi/rpidatv/scripts/portsdown_config.txt
Use the down arrow to get to the required line. Edit the text and then press ctrl-x, then y, then enter.
Back at the command prompt, a

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sudo reboot now
will sort you out.

73

Dave

Re: Stopping Portsdown MeteorView server?

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:38 pm
by gu6efb
Hi Dave

Many thanks for the help all sorted now.

73 Keith GU6EFB