Hello, I have a couple of new things to share with you. First, I've added a chatbot to the Echoes homepage where you can ask questions about the Echoes project in your native language. Second, on Saturday, March 21st, I'll be presenting the Echoes project in Grosseto at the XII Minor Bodies meeting, organized by the Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors research sections of the UAI (Italian Amateur Astronomers' Union), in a short talk lasting about twenty minutes. The meeting program and abstracts can be...
This release fixes a bug in Ebrow introduced during the release of version 0.4 on Pypi. I usually test the releases on my workstation before announcing them, but this time I didn't. I did test the changes to be released, but the package had a test number, 99.4.0, the one I use when publishing a package on TestPypi. It often happens that problems appear only after I've installed the program on the meteor station, because that runs under Linux 24/7 while the code is developed on a Windows laptop. When...
the problem with 0.4 was much more than simple typo, the entire file got corrupted
fixed broken version number assignment in 0.4, will be released as 0.5
Ebrow 0.4 officially released
updating debian packaging rules
Hello, This release collects some bugfixes applied since November 3, 2025, plus a few new features mainly aimed at improving the usability of the statistics section. The Windows zip file, containing the files to be replaced manually in a bundle installation, can be downloaded from files section. Please note that a bundle version (Echoes+ebrow in a single Windows installer) will not be released since Echoes 0.61 has not undergone any changes. For all other cases, Ebrow 0.4 can be installed from Pypi...
fixed bug found by JM Jacquart about echoes_ver conversion from TEXT to float
fixed 2 bugs
fixed sbKnorm style
Hi Christopher, this is the crontab line I use in my GABB station, running Opensuse Linux Tumbleweed: 20 * * * * DISPLAY=localhost:0 nice /home/zot/.local/bin/ebrow --rmob --verbose ebrow has been installed with pip and works nicely in this way and doesn't need a dedicated script but I remember at the beginning I faced your same problem with crontab. After many attempts, at the end I solved by placing DISPLAY=localhost:0 before the command. Thank you anyway for your alternative, you did well to point...
I hope to see your station on RMOB soon! p.s. In fact your Echoes station, since I see you're already there!
Hi Chris, sure you need that client for linuxes too. There are two files under "Linux Binaries": aarch64 is for intel 64bit architecture while arm64 is for for arm 64bit. These are binaries you can place where you want, then from Ebrow's preferences tab you can locate that file, so Ebrow can run it when needed. I hope to see your station on RMOB soon! Giuseppe
fixed crash while calculating SB for MI when coverage dates are narrower than the date intervals used to calculate SB
added s for daytime showers from https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2351Advance
fixed bug exporting multiple tables in png format
temporarily commented out extra translations
preparing for next 0.4 release
removed wrong ts files, made some changes to improve language files loading
added average row in mass indices final table
WIP: trying to build for debian based and Arch distros under OBS
added dependencies to be able to build rpm under OBS
removed deprecated suse macro
added 8 new language files
fixed filename capitalization
added russian translation
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.code.sf.net/p/echoes/git
qm files are object files so they will be removed from source tree
added new translations
the next release 0.62 will include many new translations
Hello, I just updated the Echoes project page on SourceForge by adding a new a new Echoes 0.61 + Ebrow 0.3 bundle. So, you no longer need to update Ebrow separately. Echoes has remained the same; only Ebrow has been updated from 0.2 to 0.3. This bundle will be downloaded by default on Windows platform. Giuseppe
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.code.sf.net/p/echoes/git
fixed Geminids period and peak dates and solar longitudes
Hello, This Ebrow release adds new features to the statistics section, primarily aimed at calculating and exporting mass distribution indices: 1- Added a FullDB button to extend time coverage to the entire database. 2- Added the r (IMO population indices) and s (mass distribution indices derived from r) columns to the meteor shower calendar. 3- Added a setting for the K normalization factor for mass indices calculation previously hardcoded to 1.0. 4- Added a Screen checkbox to export statistical...
Hello, This Ebrow release adds new features to the statistics section, primarily aimed at calculating and exporting mass distribution indices: 1- Added a FullDB button to extend time coverage to the entire database. 2- Added the r (IMO population indices) and s (mass distribution indices derived from r) columns to the meteor shower calendar. 3- Added a setting for the K normalization factor for mass indices calculation previously hardcoded to 1.0. 4- Added a Screen checkbox to export statistical...
Hello, This Ebrow release adds new features to the statistics section, primarily aimed at calculating and exporting mass distribution indices: 1- Added a FullDB button to extend time coverage to the entire database. 2- Added the r (IMO population indices) and s (mass distribution indices derived from r) columns to the meteor shower calendar. 3- Added a setting for the K normalization factor for mass indices calculation previously hardcoded to 1.0. 4- Added a Screen checkbox to export statistical...
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.code.sf.net/p/echoes/git
updated to release 0.3
replaced lasting with duration in strings
updated announce for Ebrow 0.3 release
the yScale for distribution graphs is now logarithmic
test release 99.3.7
catched typeerror exceptions to fix the autoexport crash bug
shortened graph title by removing mention to Savitsky-Golay filter parameters
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.code.sf.net/p/echoes/git
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.code.sf.net/p/echoes/git
test release 99.3.4
moved classification changes from datasource.py to inside the filters
readded
Implemented automatic peak time unit selection in mass indices tables
fixed crash when displaying mass indices and background subtraction or meteor shower are not specified
added exporting of table images besides csv
Improved statistic data export comments
added s and r columns to the integrated meteor showers calendar
added columns r (population index IMO) and s (mass index IMO)
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.code.sf.net/p/echoes/git
test release (0.3 candidate)
fixed bug in afFreezeDetect and forced attributes reset when changing manually the event's classification
fixed bug in ebrow.exe (crash configuring attribute filters)
first 0.62 demo station shm fix
improved shared memory releasing (demo station)
Hello, There is a bug in the Windows version of ebrow.exe, it crashes while pressing the "Configure" button for Atrribute Filters, in Prefs tab. I hadn't noticed it before, since my GABB.IT workstation runs on Linux and I didn't find such problems. The only solution, for now, is to install Python (some version between 3.10 and 3.13), then install the program with "pip3 install ebrow." I'll try to figure out how to fix the bug in the next days. Thanks to Roche Hervé for reporting it. Giuseppe
added mass index normalization constant setting
Hi Michal, this is a great new, since you can confirm that genuine RSP1A can work with Echoes. About your echo, I don't have it in my records, but this is not surprising, your distance from GRAVES transmitter - being you in Slovakia - is more than twice mine. This means that most of echoes you will receive will be generated by meteoroids flying above my head, while my echoes are mostly originated by meteoroids flying above the France/Italy boundary *(see Fresnel ellipsoid) * Giuseppe
Hi Michal: 1.sure you can. The echoes.pro file is the project file for QTcreator I use to build and debug the code. The make*.sh scripts are for release builds so you should ignore them. You can build and debug Echoes from within QtCreator. 2.you need to install QtCreator for Qt5 and its dependencies. 3.Get the latest Qt5 development libraries, The SoapySDR 0.8.3 library with debug symbols. Get also the libliquidsdr library with headers. Sincerely Giuseppe Il venerdì 1 agosto 2025 alle ore 15:44:27...
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master'
fixed bug in shrinking date coverage
Hi Michal, I was on vacation this week, so I couldn't run any further tests. So today I shut down the GABB.IT station for half an hour and connected the RSP1 clone to the computer that runs it. I had to re-arrange a few things because the system has been updated several times over the past two years, and support for SDRPlay had been dropped, as it wouldn't be used by GABB.IT. I first verified that the SDR was working using the play_sdr program provided with the API, and indeed I was seeing data coming...
Hi Michal, I did you clean the echoes/ working dir under your home before trying? Keep the rts file but the subdir containing the db is better if you delete it to force the program to rebuild it. I have seen an error regarding automatic_session table not existing and this should not happen. Besides this, the crashes are often related to the support library, try to reduce the sample rate, my clone had 4000000 and 8000000 and I remember it crashed with 8000000 Yahoo Mail: cerca, organizza, prendi il...
The release I tested 2 years ago was 0.8-2 and I had to blacklist the default drivers, but my station runs an Opensuse Tumbleweed. Yahoo Mail: cerca, organizza, prendi il controllo della tua casella di posta Il Ven, 11 Lug, 2025 alle 7:22, Michal Faltusmichal259@users.sourceforge.net ha scritto: Hi, Giuseppe. Thank you for your advice. Yes, I know about that. I've already checked. The "dmesg" command does not detect the presence of driver: msi2500, sdr_msi3101, msi001. My problem might be the location...
Hi Michal did you know about this? https://github.com/f4exb/sdrangel/wiki/Note-on-SDRPlay-RSP1-on-Linux
the pic shows Echoes running the RSP1A clone under windows. Later I'll check it under linux too. The double device does not appear under Windows Il 09/07/2025 15:28, Michal Faltus ha scritto: Hi, Thank you for your quick reply and your time. I have only one device in the Echoes selector: MIRI SDRplay RSP1A SN2 But that doesn't work. I installed CubicSDR version 0.2.7+dfsg-2build3 This program works with RTLSDR, but does not work with RSP1A. :( It looks like I probably have the wrong Soapy support...
Could you post the output of SoapySDRutil --info ? Il 09/07/2025 15:28, Michal Faltus ha scritto: Hi, Thank you for your quick reply and your time. I have only one device in the Echoes selector: MIRI SDRplay RSP1A SN2 But that doesn't work. I installed CubicSDR version 0.2.7+dfsg-2build3 This program works with RTLSDR, but does not work with RSP1A. :( It looks like I probably have the wrong Soapy support installed for RSP1A. I downloaded both SoapySDR and SopapySDRPlay3 modules from github.com/pothosware/Soapy......
Hi, I have not a genuine RSP1A, I simply bought a cheap chinese clone just to test the interfacing with Echoes, because I noticed it was quite noisy compared to RTLSDR. But I remember that when I tested it, on the device selector appeared TWO devices instead of one, and the second device didn't work. One device was named SDRplay3 and worked, the other was named MIRI and didn't work. I have no time now but I can later plug the device on my computer so I can show you how they look. Maybe you need to...
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.code.sf.net/p/echoes/git
rel. 0.2.0
stop allowed while exporting too
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master'
updated to release 0.61
added selection by attributes and blobs presence in chronological tables display.
fixed bug in enabling the Time unit size and Target shower controls
added "FullDB" button to select the DB's entire content
forgot to update the ANNOUNCE.txt file
Hello, this Echoes version is mostly a bugfix release, since it fixes the bug found in 0.60 (crash at midnight UTC when working with brand new databases) and the session table management (double session starts recorded). A small change has been made here to dBfs scale offset control: now it accepts floats values instead of integers only, this allows a finer calibration (matching dBfs to dBm). Still about calibration, a new page has been added to website, for those interested in obtaining power data...
Hello, this Echoes version is mostly a bugfix release, since it fixes the bug found in 0.60 (crash at midnight UTC when working with brand new databases) and the session table management (double session starts recorded). A small change has been made here to dBfs scale offset control: now it accepts floats values instead of integers only, this allows a finer calibration (matching dBfs to dBm). Still about calibration, a new page has been added to website, for those interested in obtaining power data...
fixed bug in power distribution table creation. The status to be considered for max power is Peak, while Fall must be used for durations
fixed bug in mask calculation for events without known attributes.
resetting classifications or attributes is based on selected coverage, while resetting both is global for the entire db since it deletes the json file
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master'
changed default missed scans for afFreezeDetect
prerelease 0.1.91
added [ebrow] macro replacement
forgot to add this module
restored some reporting code mistakenly lost from 0.1.83 to 0.1.84
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.code.sf.net/p/echoes/git
prerelease 0.1.89
fixing echoes_ver 0.60 becaming 0.6
cfg_prefs.echoes_ver becomes TEXT instead of STRING
restored functionality --report, accidentally removed
testing package version 0.61-1