Upgrading OpenWebRX to a newer version

The instructions provided here to upgrade OpenWebRX and csdr will only work if the only file you modified in openwebrx and csdr directories is config_webrx.py.

When upgrading OpenWebRX, first upgrade csdr:

cd csdr
git pull 
make && sudo make install

Only the corresponding (latest) versions of OpenWebRX and csdr will work together.

The OpenWebRX git repository contains the default configuration file config_webrx.py along with the software. In newer versions of OpenWebRX, the configuration options might change, which makes the upgrade harder to do automatically.

The clean way to upgrade OpenWebRX is to clone the git repository again, and edit config_webrx.py manually:

git clone https://github.com/simonyiszk/openwebrx 
cd openwebrx
nano config_webrx.py
python2 ./openwebrx.py

The following sequence of commands might upgrade your current OpenWebRX instance very fast, but there is also a chance that it will screw up your config file, so you should start by making a backup.

cd openwebrx
git status #continue only if you did not modify anything else that config_webrx.py
cp config_webrx.py config_webrx.py.bak
git stash #this puts your changes to config_webrx.py on the "stack" of the git version control system
git pull
git stash pop #this applies your changes to the current config

After that, you should check your config file manually:

less config_webrx.py

If git failed to merge your changes to the config file, you should copy the correct settings from the old config file to the new. You can find the old config file at:

less config_webrx.py.bak