Setting up SatNOGS under Raspbian Stretch

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UPGRADING RPI3 TO RASPBIAN STRETCH
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Follow guide to upgrade from Raspbian Jessie to stretch:
    https://linuxconfig.org/raspbian-gnu-linux-upgrade-from-jessie-to-raspbian-stretch-9

As of July 2017, Wifi will break when you upgrade.
Revert to an older wifi firmware using:
> wget http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-brcm80211_0.43+rpi4_all.deb
> dpkg -i firmware-brcm80211_0.43+rpi4_all.deb
 
SATNOGS INSTALL
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Install required packages:

>sudo apt-get install -y git cmake libboost-all-dev libcppunit-dev libvorbis-dev gnuradio-dev doxygen libnova-dev swig redis-server libhamlib2 gr-osmosdr gnuplot libpng-dev sudo python-pip libssl-dev libhamlib-utils vim screen

Fix RTL-SDR udev rules by adding the contents of https://github.com/osmocom/rtl-sdr/blob/master/rtl-sdr.rules into /etc/udev/rules.d/20-rtlsdr.rules

Grab SatNOGS Git Repos:
> git clone https://gitlab.com/librespacefoundation/satnogs/satnogs-client.git
> git clone https://github.com/satnogs/gr-satnogs.git
 
Build gr-satnogs:
> cd gr-satnogs
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake ..
> make -j4
> sudo make install
> sudo ldconfig -v
The gr-satnogs build script puts the waterfall processing script in the wrong place (well, satnogs-client *looks* in the wrong place anyway). Fix this with:
> sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/satnogs /usr/share/satnogs

Install satnogs-client:
> cd ~/satnogs-client
> pip install -e .

Follow other installation procedures from here:
https://docs.satnogs.org/en/stable/satnogs-client/doc/raspi-install.html#install-satnogs-client

You may need to fix the rtl-sdr udev rules at this point, else you will have permissions issues.

Test satnogs FM demod using:
$ source .env
$ nc -l 4532 & 
$ satnogs_fm_demod.py --rx-sdr-device=rtlsdr --rx-freq=444000000 --file-path=./audio-out.ogg --waterfall-file-path=./waterfall.dat

Thanks for your guide!
Additional (indirect?) dependency required by satnogs-client: libffi-dev or libffi6 (installed both to fix the problems).