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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon fort-nix

Integrate Blockstream Satellite

Open nixbitcoin opened this issue 5 years ago • 6 comments

Time Horizon: Medium Term

Description: Create a package containing all necessary software and drivers to connect to a Blockstream Satellite Hardware Kit. Create a module that allows for plug'n'play usage.

Motivation: Nix-bitcoin nodes should stay online when internet goes out

Implementation: NixOS module and package

nixbitcoin avatar May 18 '20 10:05 nixbitcoin

I was actually in the process of doing this for myself, since I have all the hardware but was just need to get the software up and running on my nixos machine. wifey permitting I'll try to get the dish installed this summer so I can start working on this again.

jb55 avatar May 18 '20 14:05 jb55

Can you continuously push your work to your fork? I'm going to try to set up my hardware in parallel.

We should include diesel generator recommendations and instructions in our usage documentation to insure our users can weather any storm :smile:

nixbitcoin avatar May 18 '20 15:05 nixbitcoin

I don't think I got very far. I remember getting stuck on something, but it looks like the codebase has changed a bunch since then so it might be easier now.

jb55 avatar May 18 '20 16:05 jb55

Was able to get a lock on Galaxy 18 this summer but realized I couldn't mount the sat due to where it was pointing. Might have to get one of those smaller phased array receivers before I can continue working on this :(

jb55 avatar Nov 24 '20 18:11 jb55

I packaged blocksat-cli in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/130454

Edit: the PR has been merged - blocksat-cli is now in nixpkgs master

prusnak avatar Jul 17 '21 12:07 prusnak

Do you know who I could contact for current hardware recommendations so we can get this merged? @grubles?

nixbitcoin avatar Jul 19 '21 09:07 nixbitcoin