APRS Webchat not saving Beacon icon and Beaconing settings

[Sean AI7EQ]

Just updated to DigiPi 2.1-1. Really enjoying the APRS map feature and the Webchat. The only problem I'm having is in Webchat will not remember the beacon icon I set or the beaconing settings I save. Each time I open it, the settings are back to their defaults. Any help fixing this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

73, Sean, AI7EQ

[Craig]

Hi Sean,

Like everything on digipi, pressing [save configuration] on the DigiPi home page is required
to make any changes survive reboot.   I know it's annoying, but it's really the only way to
make sure you can't screw up your digipi, and that'll work on the mountain just like it did
at home :)

lemme know please,
-craig
KM6LYW

On 6/28/26 11:37, Sean AI7EQ wrote:

Just updated to DigiPi 2.1-1. Really enjoying the APRS map feature and the Webchat. The only problem I'm having is in Webchat will not remember the beacon icon I set or the beaconing settings I save. Each time I open it, the settings are back to their defaults. Any help fixing this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

73, Sean, AI7EQ

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[Sean AI7EQ]

Hi Craig,

I went back and changed all of the settings in WebChat to what I wanted them to be. Clicked 'Save settings' in GPS & Beaconing after setting beacon from manual to interval of 30 minutes, selected the APRS icon I want to use, set Dark Mode, and then went back to the DigiPi main page and clicked on Save Configuration. After reboot of the Pi, the APRS icon and Dark Mode were saved but not the setting for beacon interval. It had defaulted back to manual. Not sure if the beacon being set to interval from manual is something that will persist after a save configuration.

The only other thing I can't figure out is how to get both APRS Digipeater and APRS WebChat to automatically start when the pi starts up. APRS Digipeater will but not WebChat.

Thanks for all you do on this project! It really is amazing.

Sean, AI7EQ

[Craig]

ok, let me see if/how/when the beacon settings are committed to SD.

WebChat service starts APRS TNC/igate if nothing else is running, you can
change that by editing webchat.sh

change "start tnc" to "start digipeater"


# see if we have a TNC running. if not, start 1200b tnc
if ! ( systemctl is-active tnc300b --quiet || systemctl is-active tnc --quiet || systemctl is-active tracker --quiet || systemctl is-active digipeater --quiet ); then
   sudo systemctl start tnc
   sleep 2
fi


best,
-craig

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