Create a User management account (via SSH):

• Open a terminal window on your windows machine connected to the same network

• type 'ssh pi@192.168.1.83' (use your assigned IP address here which may not be the same as mine)

• type yes to accept

• you should get the openwebrx prompt

• type 'sudo openwebrx admin adduser admin'

• then type a password at the prompt

• it should then have created your admin account

• go back to your openwebrx sdr webpage, click 'settings' in the top right corner. Use the login details you just created to login

• You can then setup your site information under 'General settings' etc

• List of SSH admin commands here: https://github.com/jketterl/openwebrx/wiki/User-Management

Port Forwarding:

You'll need to create a port forwarding rule on your home router in order to see the websdr outside of your network. The default port to use for this is 8073 along with your assigned IP address. Alternatively you can setup a DNS service (google!). If you use port forwarding you need to make sure you have a fixed home public IP address, otherwise if your IP changes, users will not be able to reach your websdr. A DNS service helps here too.

Adding OpenWebRX Plus to a Linux Machine

NOTE: The Machine needs to be on Ubuntu 22.04 OS (Jammy Jellyfish) for this to work

Info Here: https://luarvique.github.io/ppa/#if-you-are-an-ubuntu-user-

• open a terminal

• go to root by typing: 

sudo -i

• Add the openwebrx plus repository:

wget -O - https://luarvique.github.io/ppa/openwebrx-plus.gpg | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/openwebrx-plus.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/openwebrx-plus.gpg] https://luarvique.github.io/ppa/ubuntu ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openwebrx-plus.list

  Then:

  apt update

• You also need to add the original repository as it contains other required packages:

wget -O - https://repo.openwebrx.de/debian/key.gpg.txt | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/openwebrx.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/openwebrx.gpg] https://repo.openwebrx.de/ubuntu/ jammy main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openwebrx.list

Then:

apt update

• Finally, install by typing:

apt install openwebrx

• To check its now working, open a browser and go to: http://localhost:8073/

• Add port forward rules to your router then use your public IP address or use a DNS provider in order to make it available to the public

• Now all you need to do is configure the RTL (or other) devices and your frequency profiles

Adding an SSH server to Ubuntu (for remote access to the Machine)

• open a terminal and type:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install openssh-server

• It will start automatically. To verify its running type:

sudo systemctl status ssh

• access using a SSH software such as Putty on a local machine:

ssh username@ip_address

• You may need to enable SSH on your Linux firewall:

sudo ufw allow ssh