Comments on: Raspberry Pi – Running Spy Server as a service

By: Mike Richards

Mike Richards — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 16:06:03 +0000

In reply to Eric.

Hi Eric,

I’ve not tried running two instances of the server. I’ll try it out next week when I get back in the shack. Here’s a couple of thoughts if you want to experiment.

1 – You will need to create two spyserver.service files and matching spyserver.config files.
2 – In the config files, you will need to specify a different port for each instance
3 – You may have the limit the bandwidths available from each instance. Even a Pi4 won’t be able to process two lots of 8MHz Airspy bandwidth!

Mike – G4WNC

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:36:20 +0000

Thanks for your help, it worked fine for me.
However, what should we put in the “sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/spyserver.service” file when we want to launch a second airspy or rtlsdr at startup ?

By: Mike Richards

Mike Richards — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:43:29 +0000

In reply to Graham.

Hi Graham,

Not encountered that before. There is a switch near the top of the spyserver.config file that controls directory listing. Are you using the same config file in both cases? You can force the use of a specific config file by specifying it after the run command like so:
./spyserver spyserver.config

It might also be worth checking the process user in each case. You can see the user by opening Task Manager from the Accessories menu. The process user is normally shown in the second column. If you don’t see it, click ‘more details’ at the bottom.

Let me know how you get on.

Mike – G4WNC

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 12:01:39 +0000

Hi, This works well and I can connect to my Spyserver but I have an issue where it does not get listed on the SpyServer Directory here: https://airspy.com/directory

When I manually start spyserver it shows on the directory.

Any ideas?

By: Mike Richards

Mike Richards — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 23:28:58 +0000

In reply to Ben.

Hi Ben,

Glad you found the post useful. Thanks for sharing your username solution.

Regards,

Mike – G4WNC

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:29:31 +0000

Thank you so much for this. I modified the config you provided to use my own username rather than the default ‘pi’ account (e.g. changing the paths to the executables, etc.). It would not work properly until I added my account to the plugdev group (‘sudo usermod -a -G plugdev [username]’). This may be of use to someone else trying to solve this issue.

By: Mike Richards

Mike Richards — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 22:43:47 +0000

In reply to Scott. Glad to hear it worked. Thanks for letting me know. Mike

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:29:58 +0000

Thanks for this!

I had to modify to provide the full path for my config file, but other than that this worked perfect!

By: Abdul khaliq

Abdul khaliq — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:53:04 +0000

Thank you.
I used this method for more than spy server .

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:12:27 +0000

In reply to Mike Richards.

Mike thanks info, sounds good for me if Spy Server updated with this task.

OS updated is not so important 🙂

73 Chris DL5NAM