AcarsDeco2 Development

[Keef]

Once again thanks for your contributions sergsero, you've produced and kept on improving some really useful applications.

I really appreciate your effort.

[Breitling]

Hi sergsero, really appreciate your work.

I've seen on a screenshot from you decoded and formatted departure and arrival airports. I can't manage to get them. Do I need any special switch on the command line?

[sergsero]

Hello,

I thank you for your kind words about the program.

The current version is designed to work with VRS (Virtual Radar Server). When you use the option --vrs-url <http://ip:port>, program asks the VRS additional data for specific aircraft, namely: picture, coordinates at the moment of receiving the ACARS message, heading (true track), speed, vertical speed, altitude and route of flight.
If all the data or part of them available in VRS, they will be obtained in response to a query and displayed in the WEB window of acarsdeco2. The VRS receives flight routes from his home server.

In the new version acarsdeco2 I plan to make the ability to add local file of routes, as is already done in modesdeco2/modesmixer2. In this case we will have opportunity to update the information of flight routes and/or add new ones.

[Breitling]

Thank you very much, I'll give it a try.

[Radio2.0]

cool!
Can you make a screenshot how it look like?
Maybe you can make some Virtual ACARS Server who allow everyone to share the Messages 1:1 to other People.

[Radio2.0]

here is the current Version: http://forum.planefinder.net/threads/acarsdeco2-up-to-3-channels-acars-sdr-receiver-for-rtl2832-dongle.157/

[sergsero]

Hello,

There is upgrade version 20150718 in msg. #6 this forum thread.  Mostly the changes have occurred in optimizing code for ARM CPU and fixed errors.

Regards,
sergsero

[Radio2.0]

no chance for win?
How about my ideas?!

[tonkepen]

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+ added option --pictures-url <arg> for the ability to take images of the aircrafts from site, which can issue their by http requests

Please anyone I could give an example, of how you have to put this function?

The truth is not like putting it.

Thank you

[sergsero]

Hi tonkepen,

There are three possible variants to add source of pictures.

1. Images can be placed on the same computer where the program runs. Just put their into existing subdirectory pictures which is inside the static folder:



No options are required:

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acarsdeco2 --gain 38.6 --freq-correction 64 --freq 131550000 --freq 131725000 --http-port 8880


2. If anywhere in network there is a HTTP server, then images can be placed on it. For example, put their in the web folder pictures. Check access to pictures via browser:



To use add the command line option: --pictures-url http://192.168.64.160/pictures/

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acarsdeco2 --gain 38.6 --freq-correction 64 --freq 131550000 --freq 131725000 --http-port 8880 --pictures-url http://192.168.64.160/pictures/


3. If simultaneously with "ACARS" you are receiving  "ADS-B" from the same aircrafts in VirtualRadarServer:



add the command line option: --vrs-url http://192.168.64.85:80

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acarsdeco2 --gain 38.6 --freq-correction 64 --freq 131550000 --freq 131725000 --http-port 8880 --vrs-url http://192.168.64.85:80

and you'll able to obtain pictures and other data from VRS in acarsdeco2's WEB:




Regards,
sergsero

http://xdeco.org/

[sonicgoose]

For some reason my acarsdeco2 web server has ceased to work this morning. It was running fine yesterday. The console app is running, the --http-port arg is specified in the batch file. I've rebooted both my router and the PC running acarsdeco2 but the web server simply won't come back up. IP address hasn't changed. I keep getting a 404 Not Found error in my browser. Any ideas?

[Anmer]

Have you tried deleting any old cookies?  Or is the browser url auto completing based on an old address?

[Keef]

If you have a firewall running on the PC it might be worth turning it off temporarily to see if the web page can then be displayed.
If so then you can turn it back on and let the port through the firewall, if it doesn't make any difference then it at least rules out a firewall as the issue.

I seem to recall having a similar problem some time ago and I'm not sure even if the problem was with acarsdeco2 or if it was something else generating a web page.
On that occasion I think the solution was to run the application with administrative privileges which sorted out the issue.
Whatever was going on the problem went away hence my vague recollection, but if the firewall thing doesn't help then it might be worth trying running acarsdeco2 with administrator privileges.

[sonicgoose]

Thanks for the replies. It isn't a browser cache issue as I'm having this problem on multiple computers. And on the machine running acarsdeco2, the firewall isn't even active. Between yesterday and today nothing has changed, yet yesterday it worked and today I get just 404 Not Found.

[sonicgoose]

Problem solved. I had scheduled acarsdeco2 to run via Task Scheduler but had forgotten to specify a Start In path (which is a ridiculous option because the path to the app is specified in the Start a Program action.). Once the path to the app was specified, the web page loaded again.