Christopher Holt

Thank you for sharing your crontab line. Including localhost appears to be the main difference. If I try again with crontab, I will try including that. Meanwhile, watch continues to work well in my case. Had that not worked, I might have looked into making a systemd timer. Such is the joy of Linux: so many tools to choose from!

I have now had Echoes 0.61-1 running on my Ubuntu 24.04 LTS system for several days. It is working well and detecting meteor forward scatter reflections with good sensitivity. Ebrow 0.3 also runs well in a venv from a terminal and, using ebrow --rmob, it uploads the data to rmob.org. I wanted to run ebrow --rmob hourly and attempted to do this using cron via a crontab entry. I was able to get ebrow to open under cron but it would not run properly. This seems to be because cron is for running background...

Thank you for your prompt reply. I have now downloaded and installed RMOBclient_aarch64. I think I have the laptop ready to connect to the SDR; however, I anticipate that it may take some setup time to have meteors detected satisfactorily. So the Echoes configured station may not appear on RMOB just yet! Chris

I am setting up Echoes and Ebrow on a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS laptop. I have installed Echoes and I have installed Ebrow within a venv. The documentation talks about RMOBclient being available for download as a binary; however, I can only see that on the Sourceforge download site for Windows installations. If I search for RMOB on the laptop, only some Python files are found. Do Linux installations need the RMOBclient and, if so, from where do I download it? Thanks for developing this software. Chris