Radarspotting

I am looking to try and share my BS reception over my LAN, is there a way to do this? I recall that SBSnetPro could do it but have a feeling that became non-functional with the SBS1er. Does anyone know if it's possible please?

All I want is to be able to share my received aircraft across my LAN so I can avoid having to split the antenna feed into two.

Thanks,

Tim

What do you want to share with?

The SBS-1eR can be accessed via IP.

All I want to do is share my data across the LAN to two copies of BS, one downstairs one upstairs.

If it's as easy as hooking up two PC's to the same SBS IP address then that will do me.

Is it as simple as entering the IP address of the SBS in each copy of BS under Hardware Settings >> Address?

Thanks,

Tim

Unfortunately Kinetic "blocked" more than one BaseStation session per receiver.  MultiEM used to work.

Not tried sergsero's ModeSMixer which may work.

Thanks for that - I had a feeling that was gong to be the response.

I'll ask sergsero and see if it's possible with ModeSMixer.

Tim

Hi Tim,

This is not the problem for ModeSMixer2. The number of connections concurrent instances of Basestation.exe is only limited by the throughput ability of your network and computer performance.     
The program at the specified IP address and port are able to provide data for an unlimited number of network clients simultaneously.

As confirming example, look at the picture:

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79709204/Pictures/20140519/MM2_multiBS_10001.png)

Here there are:
- Command line to run the program: modesmixer2.exe --inConnect 192.168.64.172:10001 --outServer sbs10001:10001 --filter-nocountry
- SBS-3 receiver with address 192.168.64.172 and port 10001.
- First Basestation is running on computer with IP:192.168.64.16.
- Modesmixer2 and another (second) Basestation are running on other computer. So Basestation-2 is connected through a loopback address 127.0.0.1 (localhost).

On console the log connections is displayed all sequence of connections: modesmixer2 to receiver, next Basestation to modesmixer2 and finally Basestation-2. Similar connections of other Basestation can be many and they will also appear in the log.

Also note that if you need additional output to network messages in other formats, just add them options to the command line. Example for MSG 30003:
modesmixer2.exe --inConnect 192.168.64.172:10001 --outServer sbs10001:10001 --outServer msg:30003 --filter-nocountry

Thanks,
sergsero

Thanks Sergsero,

Just so I am clear, do I need to have the same command line options on both PC's that I want to use Basestation on - is that correct? Or is the main PC - 192.168.64.
16 in your example "serving" the data to 192.168.176?

Are there any specific network settings required in Basestation itself?

Tim

Hello Tim,

For the example I used network connection of computers and receiver using my specific IP address in order to demonstrate a working design. In your case IP address and port numbers will be others that are used in your local network.

Quote from: Triple7 on May 19, 2014, 04:10:42 PM
...do I need to have the same command line options on both PC's that I want to use Basestation on - is that correct?...
Are there any specific network settings required in Basestation itself?

No this is not required. In the settings for all instances of Basestation, wherever they were, specify the IP address of computer with running modesmixer2 and number of port through which it's making output data to the network.
They will always be the same for all instances of BS. In my example this is 192.168.64.176 (because this is IP of computer with modesmixer2) and 10001 (because this number of port, which that was set in the command line --outServer sbs10001:10001):
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79709204/Pictures/20140519/BS_setting.png)

Thanks,
sergsero

Sergsero

Good work on ModeSMixer. Finally got my SBS-3 to share.

Not new and it would not work at first. Eventually found that it was serving data on port 30006 as set up in Settings/Non Volatile Memory Settings/Ethernet Setup: SBS-3 as Server.

So needed command:  modesmixer2.exe --inConnect 192.168.0.171:30006 before it connected.

Thanks again.

Ian

Hello Ian,

Above we discussed a slightly different kind of solution that also works with the SBS-1er receiver (with encrypted output traffic on port 10001). As far as I was understand from private message, Tim solved the problem too.

A brief summary.
Originally you use one SBS receiver and one Basestation.exe which are directly connected through network between themselves. The default value output network settings in SBS receiver are IP:192.168.1.170 and Port:10001.
Of course, this values can be changed, if you use, for example, another IP network or number of Port.

When we need to distribute RAW data for multiple instances of Basestation.exe we are placing modesmixer2 before them, as splitter, with one input connector from receiver and many equivalent output feeds.

At the start command line, it will look like this: modesmixer2.exe --inConnect 192.168.1.170:10001 --outServer sbs10001:10001

In settings of all Basestations.exe you will only need to change the IP address from 192.168.1.170 to other - the one that have a computer where running modesmixer2. For the example in picture below the new IP address all Basestation should be 192.168.1.171 and Port the same - 10001:

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79709204/Pictures/20140522/mm2_sbs_bs.png)

Thanks,
sergsero

Thanks for posting that graphic sergsero, that makes it really clear how to setup your software.

My installation has now been running for a few days - no issues or problems whatsoever.

Tim