[Vk5-wx-sonde] Fwd: radiosonde_auto_rx v1.5.1 release - New Web Interface

[Mark Jessop]

Reflash the sd card. Doing a dist upgrade is always risky, as I mentioned
in the update notes.

Sent by means most mobile.

On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, 11:10 Steve via Vk5-wx-sonde, <vk5-wx-sonde at vk5fo.com>
wrote:

> As usual my lack of luck held true
>
> complete failure when trying to update my raspi3 to buster
> all seemed to be going well untill reboot, then all hell breaks loose
> totally lost the desktop gui and vnc capability
> hdmi output also seems to have failed
> os still boots on different hardware, but only to command prompt.
> only way to connect now is via ssh which still works
>
> very unhappy  , I should have left it at 1.5
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 05 Apr 2021 21:31:42 +0930, Mark Jessop via Vk5-wx-sonde <
> vk5-wx-sonde at vk5fo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have just released v1.5.1 of auto_rx. Information is available on the
> release page:
> https://github.com/projecthorus/radiosonde_auto_rx/releases/tag/v1.5.1
>
> Information on configuration file changes is available here:
>
> https://github.com/projecthorus/radiosonde_auto_rx/wiki/Configuration-File-Changelog#version-151
>
> This release of auto_rx brings the following new features & changes:
> - *Support for Python versions older than 3.6 has been dropped
> completely.* Users running Python 2.7 or 3.5 will encounter an error on
> startup and auto_rx will exit. Time to upgrade to Python 3 -
> https://github.com/projecthorus/radiosonde_auto_rx/wiki/Performing-Updates#upgrading-a-station-from-python-2-to-python-3
> )
> - *In particular, Python >=3.6 is required.* This means that stations
> running Raspbian Stretch (which comes with Python 3.5) will need to update
> to the latest Raspbian distribution - Raspbian Buster. If you don't know
> what version of python 3 your system has, run 'python3' in a terminal, and
> the version number will be shown.
> - Thanks to the work of @LukePrior, a revamped web interface! This brings
> a much cleaner and customisable web interface, with better mobile support
> and a dark mode!
> - Updated the socket.io JS library, and removed the version pinning for
> flask-socketio. *You will need to update your flask-socketio version for
> the web interface to continue working.* Upgrading can be performed by
> running `sudo pip3 install -U flask-socketio` . You will also likely need
> to clear your browser cache to get the new socketio Javascript library
> (e.g. hold down Shift and click the page refresh button).
> - Additions to the SondeHub v2 uploader system, such that station
> locations appear on the v2 tracker map even if no telemetry has been
> uploaded recently.
> - Added an optional station contact e-mail field. This information is only
> made available to the SondeHub admins (myself and Michaela), and will only
> be used if an issue with your station is noticed (or if we need your help
> observing something interesting!).
> - Added some additional checks on the date/time reported in radiosonde
> telemetry.
> - Fixes to the Docker image generation for armv6/armv7 systems.
>
> The pre-built Docker Image (
> https://github.com/projecthorus/radiosonde_auto_rx/wiki/Docker ) is now
> the recommended way to setup radiosonde_auto_rx on a new station. Using
> Docker avoids issues with updates to dependencies, like is occurring in
> this release.
>
> *Again - Support for Python versions older than 3.6 has been dropped in
> this version of auto_rx. If you are on a system running Python 3.5 or
> older, you will need to update to a more recent distribution, or use the
> Docker Image.*
> Unfortunately it has become difficult to continue to support old versions
> of Python and Raspbian, while continuing to provide updates to auto_rx,
> hence now requiring Python 3.6 or newer.
>
> 73
> Mark VK5QI
>
>
>
>
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