Sending RTL2832U data across TCPIP

[jonfear]

Hi

Has anyone thought of or tried this idea?

I have a remote machine running say Windows XP. I do not want the machine running ADSB#, RTL1090, BS or PP. I would like to to send the output from the device to the network where another more powerful machine can do the decoding, or as in my case, I can take down my SBS1e for maintenance and retain output from my primary system.

I have a situation where I do not want to have much downtime but need to do maintenance to the system which may take days to achieve. If I can put a dongle and temporary antenna in place, then the pressure is off me. The SBS1e is LAN connected to a remote VM elsewhere here. I need to direct the dongle to IP.

I have looked at com2com, hup2tcp and com2tcp, all of which will get serial to IP but getting usb to tcp or even rdp is more of a challange.

Can anyone offer some device?

Thanks

Jon

[Bethsalem]

Jon

Trying this tutorial from SonicGoose.

http://sonicgoose.com/using-2-rtlsdr-dongles-to-expand-coverage/

It might not answer all your questions, but it will set you off on the right path.

Stephen

[Radio2.0]

i have the same problem here.
When you want to decode the Mode S the RTL1090 Application work good.

[IanH]

You are going to have difficulty getting the dongle output to another PC via TCP/IP.

Some people on here reported that powered USB cables from the dongle to the decoding PC work.

Getting the data from the dongle via ethernet is more difficult. Both Anmer and I have tried connecting a dongle to a USB/ethernet converter but the dongle isn't visible to a receiving PC.

The only way I can get data from the dongle over ethernet is to have some form of PC connected directly to the dongle which decodes the signal and provides the output via ethernet to display on a more powerful PC.

I have tried both an Atom type computer (running RTL1090 on WinXP) and a Raspberry Pi (running a modified version of dump1090)- both were successful!

[grassbox]

You could use a Raspberry Pi+dongle and use dump1090 to demodulate the adsb and stream either beast or basestation data over ethernet.  Cost about £35-40.

[jonfear]

Many thanks to all that have replied.

@Bethsalem: Now that sounds interesting. I am using ADSB# on my secondary machine at present. Why? Well an arbitory decision, someone said ADSB# decoded more frames than RTL1090! I have used RTL1090 up the point of reading this and setting up my secondary server.

I am not sure ADSB# can do this so back to RTL1090 I go, I now have a reference point for ADSB# so I will be able to compare. If I can get things like PP and VRS to see the feed, I shall be happy, BS would the mutts...

To everyone else, thanks for the suggestions about RPi and the like. I have a Dell PE2900 server at the location running Centos. I also run Virtual machines there so setting up a temporary machine is simple. My SBS1e is co-located at my server so....

I do have a complex system here, total nerd overload! Judging from the performance of my secondary machine using the dongle, I wonder if I really need my SBS1e, I guess I will have to take the system down and try it.

Just for completeness, my system is:

SBS1e connected using ethernet + Moonraker RADAR100 Co-linear and Dell PE2900 on a remote site (still close by and connected by g/bit lan). This machine runs my web server amoungst other things.
RTL dongle + home brew co-linear connected to Dell Precision running W7 VM. This runs ADSB#, BS, PP & VRS for the dongle.
Second W7 VM running BS, PP, VRS and AD. This machine is for the SBS1e output.
Third W7 VM running Weather Display to decode and publish data on the web server from my Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station.
Forth W7 VM running Yawcam software to publish webcams to website.

Best wishes

Jon

[IanH]

Not so different to my setups  VMs, multiple PCs.

Suggest that the Dell could run the dongle using either RTL1090 or ADSB# in a VM and send the decoded data to your desktop where you can choose your display software - even BS if you want  .

Advantage of RTL1090 is that it can feed PlanePlotter and contribute to the MLAT data. I've tried both RTL1090 and ADSB# and my preference for RTL1090 is its connection to GlobeS display.

My SBS-1e sends data to BS and then PP in a VM. Dongles are for testing.