{"id":288,"date":"2024-10-07T22:36:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T22:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/?p=288"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:41:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T22:41:37","slug":"setting-up-tinygs-on-heltech-wireless-tracker-v1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/setting-up-tinygs-on-heltech-wireless-tracker-v1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up TinyGS on Heltech Wireless Tracker V1.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TinyGS is a great project with a very simple installation.  The documentation however is several years out of date, so prepare the pull your hair out.  After installing it twice with a six month interlude, I forgot what I needed to do, so am documenting it here for future me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When freshly minted, it will present a WiFi network.  Connect to the network and browse to 192.168.4.1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to &#8220;Configure Parameters&#8221; and set the details.  \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GroundStation name can be anything.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The WiFi SSID and Password are for the local network you want it to connect to.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MQTT Username and Password can either be found in your password manager from last time, or via the Telegram messaging app Bot with the &#8220;\/mgtt&#8221; command.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Board type: 433MHz HELTECH LOTA32 V3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reboot the node, and because the display doesn&#8217;t work, you&#8217;ll need to look for a new DHCP lease on the network.  Open that IP in a browser.  \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If it can&#8217;t connect to your local WiFi network, it will again create it&#8217;s own WiFi network for you to connect to.  The password will be the Admin password set in the configuration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The final step is to login to the online portal and &#8220;Operate&#8221; the node.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From the Telegram messaging app Bot, issue the &#8220;\/weblogin&#8221; command.  This will provide a link which will log you into the station.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At the top of the window, click the &#8220;Operate&#8221; button.    In the Automatic Tuning dropdown: &#8220;Enable 433&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s it.  I hope the third time isn&#8217;t as frustrating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TinyGS is a great project with a very simple installation. The documentation however is several years out of date, so prepare the pull your hair out. After installing it twice with a six month interlude, I forgot what I needed to do, so am documenting it here for future me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-amateur_radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}