APRS WebChat Start Failure.

[elliott paddock]

Hi, I’m new here and not skilled in raspberry pi’s. I’m trying to start the aprs webchat over hf aprs, but nothing happens when I beacon. no tax on my 7300. I looked at the sys log and see this error, but not sure how to fix it. Any help is appreciated.

May 17 16:34:31 digipi systemd[1]: Starting webchat.service - webchat...
May 17 16:34:32 digipi systemd[1]: Started webchat.service - webchat.
May 17 16:34:37 digipi webchat.sh[2839]: 2026-05-17 16:34:37.957 | MainThread         | ERROR    | Failed to connect to localhost:8001 - [Errno 111] Connection refused | aprsd.client.drivers.tcpkiss:connect:338
May 17 16:34:37 digipi webchat.sh[2839]: 2026-05-17 16:34:37.958 | MainThread         | ERROR    | Failed to connect to KISS interface | aprsd.client.drivers.tcpkiss:setup_connection:196
May 17 16:34:37 digipi webchat.sh[2839]: 2026-05-17 16:34:37.960 | MainThread         | ERROR    | Failed to connect to localhost:8001 - [Errno 111] Connection refused | aprsd.client.drivers.tcpkiss:connect:338

[Craig]

Hi Elliott,

This suggests the APRS TNC/Igate is not running (either didn't start or died).  You
can click PktLog to confirm this.  It can die when RF gets on the audio/usb cables.

In any event, direwolf isn't responding on port 8001 which aprsd/webchat needs
to send/receive packets.

cool,
-craig
KM6LYW

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