Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
AWS CloudWatch allows you to monitor events and logs from the services you are running. There are a set of default metrics provided, and you can also create you own custom metrics. From a running EC2 instance, let’s look at the metrics displayed beneath your selected instance, on the Monitoring tab: By default we get …
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If you startup Direwolf with a KISS pseudo terminal for connecting another KISS packet app through Direwolf, you probably also need to run kissattach and mkiss to attach to the pseudo terminal. You can do this manually, but after doing this a few times, I put together this script to grep for the returned /dev/pts/x …
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This is my second attempt to get a Winlink client (see here for a high level overview of Winlink) working on the Raspberry Pi. I first tried Pat /wl2k-go but it crashed (I created a ticket on github to followup), so for my second attempt I took a look at paclink-unix. This site has a very detailed step …
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Some rough notes on getting this combination working. This is my first attempt in getting the Pat / wlk2-go Winlink client working on a Raspberry Pi. I’m using: Direwolf as a packet soundcard modem ax25 as the connection between the Pat Winlink client and Direwolf a Rigblaster Advantage, as a USB soundcard interface between the …