[Dxspider-support] DXSpider V1.55 build 0.216

[Michael Walker]

Thanks Joe

I really don’t have a problem with performance, longevity or reliability using the SD card.  In fact, I also run a PiHole and SoftEther VPN on this same Pi without having to add the extra expense and time setting up an external SSD.  

I did try that on my Weather Station running WeeWx (PI3) with an external SSD and it lasted about 2 years before the file system got corrupted and required a total rebuild sadly.  

I have already done the git pull and it says it is up to date and that showed 1.56 being pulled.   Do I need to redo it all over starting with the git -reset?  That part wasn’t in the documentation.

73

Mike va3mw

> On Nov 29, 2021, at 8:47 PM, JOSEPH REED via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Did your friend execute git —reset hard before issuing a git pull?
> 
> I also have a headless rpi4 so I ssh in as “pi”, execute a sudo su - sysop to switch user context to the sysop user, cd /spider; git —reset hard; git pull followed by a sudo reboot.  Never have had a problem.
> 
> With the price of USB 3.1 SSD drives so cheap I’d ditch the SD10 card and go USB, much better I/O performance and increased reliability.  I have one I am testing with 64 bit Debian 10 on the Raspberry PI.  You create a UEFI partition and use Rufus to upload the installation image and the ethernet driver (not currently AFAIK supported). Since it started as  a beta Debian 10 release I am monitoring it for updates and nonsuch.  Would love to get off of the 32 bit rpi stuff and have access to the full repository.
> 
> YMMV,
> 
> 73,
> Joe N9JR
> 
> 
> 
>> On Nov 29, 2021, at 7:05 PM, Michael Walker via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All
>> 
>> I updated the PI via GIT PULL and that looks like it worked (I guess - my GIT experience is limited ).
>> 
>> Is it required that I reboot as I am sitting on this wonderful Uptime of 505 days.   
>> 
>> And, I am still at v1.55 build 0.216.  I had another friend of mine say he followed the same procedure and rebooted and is still at 1.55 216.  Guidance would be appreciated.
>> 
>> BTW, for those that asked, it is a RPI4 with a good quality SD Card.  I only have the Raspbian build with just a console interface and I do a few updates on it as suggested.  
>> 
>> To take the load of the SD Card/log files, I run log2ram https://github.com/azlux/log2ram and then I pretty much never touch it again.  
>> 
>> Many  73
>> 
>> Mike va3mw
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Dxspider-support mailing list
>> Dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk
>> https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Dxspider-support mailing list
> Dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk
> https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/pipermail/dxspider-support/attachments/20211129/98c247b6/attachment.htm>