Current status of Active Display

[Anmer]

Well done and Thanks to Ian for his help.

AD was developed before the emergence of these "middleware apps" that sit between the receiver and a user interface.  It was oh so easy before. 

[technodevotee]

I'm rather surprised that windows allowed two processes to write to port 30003 but it obviously did.

The baffling thing is that knowing that AD Lite needs BaseStation to be running, I installed BaseStation first and I remember that I had to reconfigure the BS output of MR-Dump1090 to port 10001, then accepted the BS defaults. Next I installed AD Lite, again accepting the defaults but even though BS obviously didn't like what it was getting, it must have been passing it through to AD on port 30003 and AD was happy with it for a while.

It wasn't until it went wrong that I read about and started playing with modeSDeco and modeSMixer in an attempt to fix it.

Computers eh?

[IanH]

The middleware apps have been around for a while. But Getting those to work was real magic    I see that I have com0com, com2tcp, combytcp in my ADSB folder. Might as well delete them now,

The picture below was downloaded some time ago from the SonicGoose.com site (so copyright to site owner Robert Jones).

That was the way to get everything working together before sergsero made it all easier with modesdeco and modesmixer.

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[Anmer]

The middleware apps have been around for a while.

How long?  Most are less than a couple of years.  AD has been around for much longer.

[Triple7]

Just had a root around on my HDD here's what I have:

AD - August 2008
AD Lite - June 2011
com0com - June 2011
com2tcp - Oct 2011
ModeSMixer2 - Dec 2013
ModeSDeco2 - April 2014 (I may not have the first version)

Dates are taken from readme files or dates of files within archives.

YMMV.

Time flies when you're having fun.

Tim

[Anmer]

Thanks Tim

I think AD's predecessor, SBS1 Populate, was even older.

[technodevotee]

I'm all up and running again on my server and now have:

RTL-SDR dongle with MR-DUMP1090 to FR24Feed
and
MR-DUMP1090 to modeSMixer2 to BaseStation to AD
and
MR-DUMP1090 to VRS (connecting to BS database in read only mode)

Thanks for some helpful pointers guys.

[IanH]

The old middleware has been around since 2005/2007: http://sourceforge.net/projects/com0com/files/

But no one was using it in the radar spotting field until F5ANN came up with a method: http://f5ann.pagesperso-orange.fr/Partagereseaulocal/index.html
That was probably about 3 years ago.

SBSPopulate has files dated 2006 in its setup folder so a long time ago. Few people involved with radar spotting then.

[Anmer]

SBSPopulate has files dated 2006 in its setup folder so a long time ago. Few people involved with radar spotting then.

I started in September 2005 and the Kinetic forum had nearly 2,000 members by 2006. 

[Roadrunner]

I have only just recently renewed my licence for AD Pro and do not regret it, in fact I will go as far as to say I will continue to use it until they decide they can no longer support it at all. I say that having had support recently but it is not as good as when I could speak to Gary.  I use AD as I have not found anything that supplies the data in the format I want like it does, or the splits by aircraft types and the my list for selected types. I do use PL3/PB3 to update any new aircraft missed by AD and that works well still.

Regards Mike

[Graham Bell]

I concur with that view Mike,I use AD Lite and find that it continues to perform admirably.
Regards-
G.B.

[technodevotee]

Thanks everyone.

I shall stick with it.