OP25 Boatbod Web UI Update

[n5pwp]

Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules here but I thought my question would be appropriate since this is talking about the new Web UI of Boatbod's fork. I've managed to get my install on a RPi 3b+ running Bookworm calmed down (Fixed the waitress threads issue, now I only have op25 locking up every few hours and channel timeouts left) and so I've started exploring and trying to tweak things. I noticed some of my TG's aren't showing in color in the Active Talkgroup window. I read in another thread that Smart Colors gets added in the Terminal section of the main json file. I added the stuff Boatbod offered to help another user. I noticed there are keywords in the Smart Color section. At first I thought I needed to add my keywords to it and although it didn't break anything it didn't colorize my added keywords. I then read this thread and it mentioned that it is setup in config.js in the WWW-Static folder. I went there and to my surprise it says it has been deprecated back in April of 2025. But there was no note where the functionality moved to. Is there an update to that?
Thanks
Mike

 

[boatbod]

Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules here but I thought my question would be appropriate since this is talking about the new Web UI of Boatbod's fork. I've managed to get my install on a RPi 3b+ running Bookworm calmed down (Fixed the waitress threads issue, now I only have op25 locking up every few hours and channel timeouts left) and so I've started exploring and trying to tweak things. I noticed some of my TG's aren't showing in color in the Active Talkgroup window. I read in another thread that Smart Colors gets added in the Terminal section of the main json file. I added the stuff Boatbod offered to help another user. I noticed there are keywords in the Smart Color section. At first I thought I needed to add my keywords to it and although it didn't break anything it didn't colorize my added keywords. I then read this thread and it mentioned that it is setup in config.js in the WWW-Static folder. I went there and to my surprise it says it has been deprecated back in April of 2025. But there was no note where the functionality moved to. Is there an update to that?
Thanks
Mike

Did you look in the default cfg.json file for suggestions?

 

[n5pwp]

No. I didn't know about cfg.json but I used the example you offered in an earlier thread:

"tuning_step_small": 100,
        "smart_colors": [
            {
                "keywords": [
                    "fire"
                ],
                "color": "#ff5c5c"
            },
            {
                "keywords": [
                    "pd",
                    "police",
                    "sheriff",
                    "so",
                    "co",                             <---------
                    "law",
                    "msp",
                    "gci"                              <-----------
                ],
                "color": "#66aaff"
            },
            {
                "keywords": [
                    "ems",
                    "med",
                    "ambulance",
                    "miemss"
                ],
                "color": "#ffb84d"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Yes, I did run the whole json file through a json validator online and fixed a couple of things.
The arrows above show what I added to the keywords. Currently I'm getting some color but not what I wanted to add.


I even asked Gemini about it and it said to use the talkgroup_id.tsv file. I checked the one I'm using and there are only two columns of data in the file. There is no color numbers column. According to the old rx.py method that's where the old docs say to define it. Is that where the new release looks for the color numbers? I remember setting color codes in Osmocom's Web UI but I don't remember what the color codes were and the Osmocom install is gone on my Pi. I have been over your github page looking for the color scheme or some direction about setting the colors and haven't found anything. From looking at the history grab above I see some of the colors are working. Which makes me think the the main json file under the Terminal section/Smartcolors IS the proper place to define it. If so I don't know why additions didn't work. I know you do this out of the goodness of your heart and I appreciate that. I'm willing to do some digging to try to find what I need but I'm guessing either no one uses the colorizing of the TGIDs or its only the folks that work on coding OP25 Web-UI. I haven't found anybody else discussing this. I guess the other possibility is, I'm just too thick.

Mike

 

[n5pwp]

[Edit:] OK, I figured it out. The reason my additions to the Smartcolor section were not taking affect was because you have to shutdown the Web-UI. Apparently the settings are saved in the Web-UI and if you stop the json and restart it is not enough to get the Web-UI to show the changes. I guess everybody in the world knew that but me.

Mike

 

[boatbod]

[Edit:] OK, I figured it out. The reason my additions to the Smartcolor section were not taking affect was because you have to shutdown the Web-UI. Apparently the settings are saved in the Web-UI and if you stop the json and restart it is not enough to get the Web-UI to show the changes. I guess everybody in the world knew that but me.

Mike

The Web UI only loads it's settings when *it* starts up, and similarly op25 only loads settings as it starts, so effectively you have to reload both, starting with op25.

 

[KF4HJW]

I finally got around to re-doing the web UI for OP25 Boatbod, and I'm interested in seeing if anyone would like to test and provide feedback, and @boatbod if you're interested in digesting it into your repo.

This implementation works on what python already sends over with just one small addition to tk_p25.py, which is to send over the talkgruop tags in the trunk_update payload. See line 1672 through 1685 below.

There is also an addition of config.js in the www-static folder which adds the variables for Smart Colors, Site Names, and Presets.

This is tested with P25 only. Honestly, I can't get Smartnet or DMR to run on OP25 at all, but I haven't tried very hard.

If there is interest, I will be happy to share the updates later today. There are still a couple of things to clean up. Thoughts?

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Like the screen in the update. I just need to get the lower data fill in. Shows the tg just no history I missed a keystroke somewere lol.. On a second topic any chance to add a soft restart once a day built in as option.. Thanks for all the effort in the package.

 

[boatbod]

Like the screen in the update. I just need to get the lower data fill in. Shows the tg just no history I missed a keystroke somewere lol.. On a second topic any chance to add a soft restart once a day built in as option.. Thanks for all the effort in the package.

You could achieve a periodic restart with some shell scripting and a cron job. I have something similar on my streaming system for recovery when a usb device "unplugged" (usually a transitory failure due to wobbly connector etc)

 

[Outerdog]

We've posted some updates to the UI today. Subscriber Registrations are now tracked, Call History gets a Seen Talkgroups function. Go grab a fresh copy and update this weekend when you're looking for something to do.

Subscribers are tracked sever-side and are not persistent between runs. Seen Talkgroups is client-side and does not survive a browser refresh (for now).

GitHub - boatbod/op25: Fork of osmocom OP25 by boatbod

Fork of osmocom OP25 by boatbod. Contribute to boatbod/op25 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

New UI elements & Subscriber Registration:


Seen Talkgroups

 

[KF4HJW]

First off thanks to all the experts on here. I updated tonight. I had the previous 2025 update. I have missed something in setup.

I can see the tg when it is received only at the top now is showing waiting on data and hear the audio from the device hardware jack. I can do goto and it show the tg O desire.

Call history,Plots and seen talkgroups are all blank.

If I go back to legacy it runs as normal.

Any Ideas on what I didn't set up correctly.

Thanks

 

[boatbod]

First off thanks to all the experts on here. I updated tonight. I had the previous 2025 update. I have missed something in setup.

I can see the tg when it is received only at the top now is showing waiting on data and hear the audio from the device hardware jack. I can do goto and it show the tg O desire.

Call history,Plots and seen talkgroups are all blank.

If I go back to legacy it runs as normal.

Any Ideas on what I didn't set up correctly.

Thanks

Did the "git pull" complete successfully?
Did you rebuild the server to incorporate (c++) library changes?
Did you restart both the server and the web client?

Assuming yes to all the above, take a look in the javascript debugging console (in the browser's developer tools menu) to see if there are any errors being produced.

 

[jets1961]

BB how do I "rebuild the server to incorporate (c++) library changes"? How is that done?

 

[MTL_Emergencies]

BB how do I "rebuild the server to incorporate (c++) library changes"? How is that done?

./rebuild.sh

 

[mikewazowski]

Does the new Web UI work on rx.py or do I need to use multi_rx.py?

 

[Outerdog]

Does the new Web UI work on rx.py or do I need to use multi_rx.py?

You need multi_rx.py - If you try to run the new web ui with rx.py, it'll re-direct you to the legacy ui.

ETA: rx.py doesn't send over all the data necessary for the new web ui to function.

 

[mikewazowski]

Does tk_p25.py still need to be copied from your distro over to the op25 apps directory? If I copy all the files over the UI is stuck waiting for data. Reverting this one file back to the original seems to be the fix.

 

[wgbecks]

Does tk_p25.py still need to be copied from your distro over to the op25 apps directory? If I copy all the files over the UI is stuck waiting for data. Reverting this one file back to the original seems to be the fix.

A git pull form the ~/op25 folder will sync your local copy with GitHub. I might suggest that you also run ~/op25/rebuild.sh to be sure all of
the pieces and parts on your local machine have been built and are up date with the current commit.

 

[mikewazowski]

I installed it yesterday so I would assume I've got the latest version of everything.

 

[Outerdog]

Does tk_p25.py still need to be copied from your distro over to the op25 apps directory?

If you're talking about the distro linked in post #8, that's dead and should not be used. You just need to pull the boatbod repo now.

In fact, can you delete post 8?

 

[mikewazowski]

Done.