Blockstream Satellite v2.4.6: Improvements and Bug Fixes

• "A new version of the Blockstream Satellite CLI is now available."
• "This version updates the Telstar 18V C-band signal frequency following the network update of July 12th, 2023. It also introduces other improvements and bug fixes."

What's new

Added

• Support for reporting to a custom Blockstream Monitoring server for testing.
• Environmental variable to disable the verification of TBS USB drivers.
• Generation of manpage and bash completion files via Makefile.
• Command blocksat-cli sat-ip ls to list the available Sat-IP receivers.
• Support for new Satellite API order queues on the api list command.
• Automatic patching and runtime verification of the channel configuration file used by USB receivers.
• Support for NetworkManager when configuring static IP addresses.

Changed

• T18V C-band downlink frequency following the update on July 12, 2023.
• SSE client to custom implementation on the API demo Rx command.
• Verification of already configured components before attempting to configure the firewall, RP filters, SDR, S400, and USB receivers.
• Dependency on zfec made optional.
• Generate Gqrx configuration directly with the blocksat-cli cfg command for SDR receivers.

Fixed

• Receiver reports not timing out when the connection hangs.
• GPG home directory not recursively created when setting up the directory.
• Dependency on GPG key importing order when setting up the GPG directory.
• GPG key creation not indicating an error for an empty passphrase.
• v4l LNB definition inferred for the C1-PLL LNB when using a USB receiver.
• TBS driver compilation with Linux kernel 6.0+ on Fedora 37 and 38.
• Fix Netplan configuration with NetworkManager renderer.
• Fix firewall-cmd output parsing when configuring the firewall.
• Fix parsing of TBS USB receiver logs breaking with unexpected metrics.

Removed

• Dependency on sseclient-py.

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