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Re: Solar 2.0 Released
开云体育Scott,Nice flow. ?Thanks for sharing and for all of the hard work. ?Very nice and good directions. 73, Jim W4TE ______________________ Jim Kauten, MD, W4TE kautenmd@... ______________________
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Re: SteppIR Flows
开云体育I’ll post the one I just wrote for an SDA100 and MonstIR. It is based on Alan’s base flow. I plagiarized his work.?I will send an admin notice to the group once it is posted.? 73 Dave wo2x Sent from my waxed string and tin cans.? On May 6, 2025, at 12:20?PM, Tim Vandagriff via groups.io <wa5yom@...> wrote:
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Solar 2.0 Released
I am pleased to release a major upgrade to my Solar weather flow -- Solar 2.0.
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On the surface, it doesn't look all that different than the 1.x flow, but under the hood it has been completely rewritten from the ground up. There are numerous enhancements, but the star of the show is that you no longer have to average the data from nearby ionosondes to get an estimate of MUF and foF2 for your QTH. Instead, I am now doing a direct lookup of MUF and foF2 for your QTH based on the sophisticated interpolation that Andrew Rodland, KC2G, is doing on his excellent web site . I reached out to Roland a couple of months back and he graciously agreed to make an API available that will take your latitude and longitude (or Maidenhead grid) and return an estimate of MUF and foF2 for that location. This is much more robust because it does not rely on nearby ionosondes being active to do the estimate and Roland's interpolation routine is more sophisticated that what I was doing. This API works anywhere on the planet and does not require you to maintain a list of ionosondes. Thanks to Roland for this excellent resource. Keep in mind that the MUF you will see is directly overhead at your location, not necessarily the MUF along a path between you and a distance station.
Since we no longer need to display the status of nearby ionosonde's, I repurposed that space for displaying recent X-ray flux data in the form of peak solar flare intensity over the past 24 hours (left number) and 2 hours (right number). In the screenshot shown, the maximum flare in the past 2 hours was a C5.4 classification. This was also the largest flare in the past 24 hours, so the two numbers are the same in this example. The solar flare classifications and the color scheme I am using throughout the flow can be found here:
I have updated all of the readings (other than MUF and foF2) so that they now pull data from NOAA instead of 3rd-party sources. All of the displays have been modified such that the color scheme and thresholds match NOAA standards (as best as I could determine). The space weather conditions R, S, and G (as defined in the link above) have also been rewritten, particularly what is displayed ?for the "Predicted" values. This one has always been tough, since the NOAA does not predict precise values for R and S, instead giving a range of probabilities. This is difficult to display in the space allotted. In the new flow, I do a better job of representing this information. The display for predicted R can be R0, R1/2, R2/3, or R3/5. For example, if R1/2 is displayed that means the most likely peak R value in the next 24 hours will be R1 or R2. NOAA provides less granularity for the S prediction so the two possible values are S0 or S1/+, the latter meaning that the most probably S value in the next 24 hours will be S1 or above. For both R and S predicted values, the display is further color coded to represent the expected intensity. ?
The headings for all of the fields (except for the gauges) are clickable and will take you to a web site with more information about that measurement.
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As always, check out the README node for information about how to use the flow. In particular, you have to set up some environment variables with your latitude and longitude, otherwise you will be getting the MUF and foF2 for my location instead of yours. If you don't want the header "Solar Conditions", just delete the Solar Title node. This flow was developed and tested with Node-RED 4.0.2, but it should work fine with 3.x.
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73,
Scott
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Re: SteppIR Flows
开云体育Just a note - the bottom connector can go to Node Red or FRStack but not both. I prefer Node Red as it allows for more customization such as having tracking available only when SteppIR port on AG is active. Or have a Track/Manual button on Node Red dash to toggle SDA100 in and out of tracking mode.?I recently rewrote my SteppIR flow for the MonstIR and SDA100 due to an SD card failure and stupid me not having a backup. (“It will never fail”) ?The new flow works better than the original one I was using. It gets Flex frequency from the global.TXFreq context variable from my Flex Radio flow.? Nice thing about Node Red is you can take someone’s flow and customize it to your needs.? PSA (public service announcement) - Export all of your flows in case you need to reinstall Node Red. Also make note of any additional nodes you have installed in the Node Red editor.? 73 Dave wo2x Sent from my waxed string and tin cans.? On May 3, 2025, at 10:32?AM, Alan Blind, WA9WUD via groups.io <a.alan.blind@...> wrote:
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Re: SteppIR Flows
Wow, Alan....that would be perfect to add to my flow....I am using the Optimizer...
I started up my BigIR installation yesterday with the Optimizer 2.0 using the S14 "Y" cable and the S12 cable for the Flex....I am tracking fine, but I am not connecting to the FRStack SteppIR app....so I need to get that working first...I tried DDUtilities too, same problem, so something is not right with communications....I can watch my FTDI output from my PC (my cable has indicator light), and I can see it is sending data to the controller...but nothing...
With the controller set to Kenwood.....for the Flex, is that interfering with the PC communications?
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After I get that working it would be nice to try and incorporate your flow...
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Also, I need to add to the Tuner Genius a "Bypass" indicator to my flow (which is mostly Dave's wo2x, work)...
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Thanks,
Tim
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Re: SteppIR Flows
On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM, Tim Vandagriff wrote:
Tim, yes, correct.
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Here is my SteppIR (bigIR and db11) and AG Node-Red dashboard. ? I have a SDA controller for each, and can command any Flex Radio Slice TX frequency to either SDA controller, either in auto, or manual.
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Re: SteppIR Flows
Thanks for providing direction on this......initially I think I will use the usb ports.....then after I get that running I will look at adding the steppir flows.
It seems to me that it doesn't make sense to let the Optimizer (in autotrack) to constantly ajjust the 2 SteppIR antennas when they may not be the antenna selected in the AG.
So if I go through Node Red I can track only when I have selected the SteppIr antenna in the AG....
Correct?
Tim
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Re: SteppIR Flows
开云体育You can have a link out from when the button for SteppIR port is active on AG flow to the SteppIR flow and use the payload to control tracking or no-tracking mode of the SteppIR controller. ? Custom stuff but definitely can be done. ? 73 Dave wo2x ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tim Vandagriff via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 10:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [nodered-hamradio] SteppIR Flows ? I am currently using as modified ( I added some things) version of Wo2x flows to control my station. I am modifying my antenna system which will have a StepIR Big IR Vertical and a Urban Beam. I expect to have the Vertical up in a week. Overall I will have 3 antennas with overlapping frequency coverage. I have a 8600, TGXL, PGXL, and a 8x2 AG. My understanding is the StepIR tracks frequency from the 8600 which means they track regardless of what Antenna I selected in the AG. Is that correct? If that is the case I want to add the SteppIR flows so that they only track the frequency when selected by the AG. Thanks, Tim wa5yom ? |
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Re: Smartlink server refresh rate
开云体育I used DuckDuckGo, (google bad, lol), results:
I tried this to confirm:
inject
anything triggers a msg.payload that includes "publicIPv4"?
public IPv4 ip address. So all you need to do is test with a
switch or a function for the two expected IP addresses, if ip
address WAN1 do this, else if ip address WAN2 do this. Have
node-red toggle a relay connected to the remote power on input on
your 6400, for that refer to
On 2025-04-30 11:52 a.m., Gary, KE8O
via groups.io wrote:
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Smartlink server refresh rate
They recently added a secondary WAN connection at the Red Cross where our Club has its remote flex 6400. ?Our equipment is only accessible when it is on the primary WAN connection since the secondary is using a Verizon wireless solution.
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What I am observing is that when it switches back to the primary smart link is not automatically detecting the failback. However, the raspberry pi that is running NodeRed detects the change much faster. ?So when the flex shows available in the radio selection window, but we are unable to connect because it is showing the secondary IP address. If I can login to NodeRed and power cycle the radio. When the radio comes back online, it will show the primary IP address and we are able to connect to the radio.?
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Now I'll get into the NodeRed question.?
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1) I am not sure how frequent the WAN connection switches from the primary to the secondary connection. Can something be setup to query and log the WAN connections IP in NodeRed??
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2) When NodeRed detects that the WAN address has failed back from the secondary WAN address to the primary WAN can it reboot the radio??
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SteppIR Flows
I am currently using as modified ( I added some things) version of Wo2x flows to control my station. I am modifying my antenna system which will have a StepIR Big IR Vertical and a Urban Beam.
I expect to have the Vertical up in a week.
Overall I will have 3 antennas with overlapping frequency coverage.
I have a 8600, TGXL, PGXL, and a 8x2 AG.
My understanding is the StepIR tracks frequency from the 8600 which means they track regardless of what Antenna I selected in the AG.
Is that correct?
If that is the case I want to add the SteppIR flows so that they only track the frequency when selected by the AG.
Thanks,
Tim
wa5yom
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Tim Vandagriff
W4TE
Patrick Lenn
Dave wo2x
Scott Dupuie
Gary, KE8O