Trying to install the newest version of FoxTelem in my K3RLD-RPi raspberry pi station, but it won't start because it keeps looking for a logfile from an old install (which I have deleted). How can I force an entirely new install? Or where are the "pointers" to this non-existant logfile located so that I can delete them? Any help is appreciated.
--Roy K3RLD
I think what may be going on here, Roy, is that the directory/folder needs to be there and FoxTelem will create the files it needs within it. To answer your question, the directory for the log files comes from two different places:
1) First if you start FoxTelem with no arguments, then the log file is in a default location. I don't recall what that location is--it differs depending on the OS. But it does create a hidden file or folder with properties including the location. This hidden folder is typically in your login directory. In Linux and Windows, I think that folder is called .FoxTelem (notice the dot, which by default makes it hidden in Linux).
2) Did you get the code for this initially from either my download on burnsfisher.com/AMSAT or from the AMSAT store? If so, then there is a script file called "StartFoxTelem.sh" on the desktop. That passed the log location as an argument, and that location should be Documents/FoxTelemetryData.
In any case, if the startup error tells you where the file is that is missing, creating the directory is probably the easiest fix.
If this does help, please contact me privately with a screen shot and more details.
Sorry for the trouble!
73, Burns WB1FJ
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 3:21 PM Roy Dean via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Trying to install the newest version of FoxTelem in my K3RLD-RPi raspberry pi station, but it won't start because it keeps looking for a logfile from an old install (which I have deleted). How can I force an entirely new install? Or where are the "pointers" to this non-existant logfile located so that I can delete them? Any help is appreciated.
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