ModeSDeco2 and ModeSMixer2 - console programs for RTLSDR and transcoding

[maximus_mike]

Hi Sergsero,

Many thanks for the new AirSpy version of Modesdeco2 - Working very well here and I am now receiving aircraft at about 330km from here on a colinear antenna which has only 7 elements and only about 4m above ground in a valley.

Keep up the great work.

Mike

[sonicgoose]

How can I feed the data from a SBS1e, connected via USB, to ModeSMixer2? I'm assuming I need to use an --inSerial parameter, which requires knowing the port number for the USB device, but how do I find out the port number? Windows doesn't exactly give friendly names to USB ports. I've tried using USBView to get an address, but many addresses are returned and I have no idea which one to use.

[mlino]

Hi Marcio,

It's a good question.
True RAW apparently this is IQ magnitudes, that are already processed and identified as elements of the message. However, they are not a output format.
On their basis is formed the format of communication: ascii AVR and its binary equivalent - BEAST.

If we're talking about modesmixer2 there any input formats is converted to special internal format, that are processed in the core of program. And here the closest to it are formats AVR/BEAST too.

Best regards,
sergsero

Hi Sergsero,

I got it.  Do you know if there are some java decoding library to decode AVR/BEAST format? I have seen a java class to decode raw format but not for these "pre-decoded" format such as both above mentioned.

Cheers,

Marcio

Regards,

[Rockwell]

My thanks to Sergsero for developping this great tool.

I'm running ModeSdeco2 on my raspberry pi 2 without any problem, it runs for days and days and never stops working.

I would like to know if there are future plans for a 'metric' option.

Also I wouldlike to know if it is possible to use offline maps which I can upload to my pi, so I could use my Pi totally autarc, only pi + 7" display + sdr-rtl dongle, no wifi, no internet.

And at last; what are the logging options, what data can be written to sd card for later evaluation.

Looking forward to your reply !

[GregoryGHarding]

Sergsero,

just a suggestion for ModeSMixer2..

InConnect Labels:

Ex: --inConnect example.org:30054:NL-GAND

this would produce an output on the stats web page connecting traffic from example.org:30054 to a ground station labeled as NL-GAND. exabling a whole new section of ground station specific stats, as well as realtime diagnostic of which A/C are being picked up from which Ground Station.

[larsras]

Offset to use?

Is there any way of detecting (without measurement equipment) the offset to use for a particular dongle?
Current one is a Terratec Synergi TStick RC.

Great apps by the way :-)

br Lars

[dschaper]

Kalibrate. There is a guide to using it on RPi by Dave Taylor over at http://www.satsignal.eu/raspberry-pi/acars-decoder.html#kalibrate

[rtlsdr_SCN]

Hello everyone, first of all thank you guys for this amazing set of tools, you are doing an excelent job, CONGRATULATIONS..!

Now, I'm using "modesdeco_20141009-1_ar71xx.tar.gz" in my TP-LINK WR-3600 and ModeSMixer2, both work excellent (I mean low memory & cpu) and my question is: there is not 2015 ModeSDeco2 for ar71xx?, can someone with access to the source code build the app with the latest source?.

Thank you very much before hand.

Here I put my 3 days stats getting around 3GB of data.

[Radio2.0]

its important what kind of data we talk about.
Mode-S, ADSB?
Map Images?
Shares?

All together?

[G0HEU]

HI All

thanks for a cracking piece of software

2 small question I am running it on RPI2

is there a log file to which stores captured aircraft data for the last 24 hours ??

I am unable to get the silhouettes working, I have download and extracted the files I have tried ~/modesdeco2/sil and also /home/pi/modesdeco2/sil. I can conform the bmp files are in the sil folder

neither seem to work 

thanks

Paul

[spotter.ssol]

Kalibrate. There is a guide to using it on RPi by Dave Taylor over at http://www.satsignal.eu/raspberry-pi/acars-decoder.html#kalibrate

I've discovered that kalibrate is not very reliable. The method desbribed in this video is more accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFXMbr1dgng

[mlino]

Hello,

Does someone have used modesdeco --input-file <arg> option? I tried to decompile messages saved to a file without success.

Here what I did:

modesdeco2.exe --input-file messages.txt --web 8080

Here what I got:

INFO          ModesDeco2 v.20150321
INFO          Magnetic declination coefficiente file wmm.cof load successful

Here are small fragment of messages.txt's content:

8daca25158bf0422183e6b000000
8d48cb1560bf050cd1aa04000000
8d48cb1599117d19a00499000000
903c1ff810820820820820000000
8d3c542f90ab059065c5d7000000
8d3c542f9901e202e00400000000
8d3c542f200834f2c70da0000000
8d405f3358bb446c653c46000000
8d405f3399148d2b68908e000000
8d3c60d460b98110a1dc9c000000
903c1ff6105054d4c72cf4000000
903c1fb0c124ac08000100000000
8d3c54299901ca0b088000000000
8daca251e948be28413810000000
8d3c60d49940653268089c000000
8d3c542c99009633080400000000
8d405f33201082f7c70c60000000
903c1ff910820820820820000000
8d48cb1560bf019c4db59a000000
8daca25158bf00ad5c4dab000000
8d3c542c200834f9db0820000000
8d3c60d460b98110c1dca0000000
8d3c542f90ab05906dc5f2000000
8d3c542f9901e202c00400000000
8d405f3358bb30f93d44cb000000
903c1fb2c2140003bc27dd000000
8d405f3399148d2b68948e000000


Regards,

Marcio

[sergsero]

If you have time, I would appreciate for testing this new test version of modesdeco2 (v.20150525) and feedbacks.

Windows: modesdeco2_windows_20150525_test.zip https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79709204/MD2/20150525/modesdeco2_windows_20150525_test.zip

Raspberry Pi 2: modesdeco2_rpi2_20150525_test.tgz https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79709204/MD2/20150525/modesdeco2_rpi2_20150525_test.tgz

OS X: modesdeco2_osx_20150525_test.tgz https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79709204/MD2/20150525/modesdeco2_osx_20150525_test.tgz





+ improved support for AirSpy (10MSpS) and a new dongle AirSpy-mini (6MSpS)

+ improved handling multipath signals and signal overlapping

+ added option --metric - that switches distance measurements in metric

+ added option --web-auth <username:password> - authentication of access to the website

+ added option --disable-web-log - it disables console messages to the WEB Log page

+ some changes and additions in the WEB interface:
the mini table on page Map contains more data
added opportunity to choose the type of Google maps
added choice a number rows and its content for aircraft label (click the wrench button)
current coordinates of the cursor and its distance from the location of station
METAR for one airport (decode by click on the text)

+ the program size is reduced to ~2.5 times


The option --rbs and signal level will be finalized in next version.

When you launch this version of modesdeco2.exe you can get an error that msvcp120.dll and msvcr120.dll are missing in your OS.
Please, download the Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2013 from the Microsoft site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=40784.
You will need to install file of 32 bit version vcredist_x86.exe regardless of what bitness has your operating system!
The Visual C++ Redistributable Packages install run-time components that are required to run applications that are developed by using Visual Studio 2013, on computers that don't have Visual Studio 2013 installed. These packages install run-time components of libraries.

In the archive acarsdeco2_xp.exe is the same program, but was compiled with Platform Toolset property to Visual Studio 2013 – Windows XP (v110_xp) for compatibility with windows XP.


Best regards,
sergsero

[EDDG]

Hey sergsero,

is there a chance to get a testversion for a Raspverry Pi2 ?

Best regards,
Peter

[Radio2.0]

@sergsero
Maybe you can Build an Version who can send the data out directly to VRS?
My Problem is when i am Travelling i have no Public IP and i need to run an local VRS...