Quick Start

Local

The fastest way to get your caster up and running is to download the latest stable binary file for your operating system and make it executable.

wget https://yccaster.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/bin/0.0.20/linux-amd64/yccaster && chmod +x yccaster

Then you will need to generate a configuration file.

./yccaster init

Caster.yml will appear in the current folder. Now you are ready to launch the caster.

./yccaster

Caster will start on default NTRIP port 2101.

Linux service

It is not convenient to hold the caster process in foreground mode on a local machine. If you are going to have a permanent establishment, it makes sense to install caster on a remote virtual private server. We would recommend Digital ocean (opens new window) or Linode (opens new window). Both of them provide cheap VPS for $5 a month that perfectly fit for beginners.

Create new user

useradd caster

Create new folder and download caster

mkdir -p /var/caster && wget https://yccaster.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/bin/0.0.20/linux-amd64/yccaster -O /var/caster/yccaster && chmod +x /var/caster/yccaster

Go to caster folder

cd /var/caster

Generate caster config

./yccaster init

Set SystemD config

cat << EOF > /etc/systemd/system/caster.service
[Unit]
Description=YCCaster
Requires=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=caster
Group=caster
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
WorkingDirectory=/var/caster
ExecStart=/var/caster/yccaster
StandardOutput=append:/var/log/caster.log
StandardError=append:/var/log/caster.log

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Enable caster service

systemctl enable caster.service

Start caster service

systemctl start caster.service

Command-line options

Usage:

yccaster [command] [options]

YCCaster supports the following command-line parameters:

Command	Description
help, h	Shows a list of commands or help for one command
init	Generate default configuration file
version	Show version
update	Update caster to the latest version