Does anyone here have been successful running this on a pi?
I sought help from another forum and after a couple of hours of help, I was not getting anywhere.
The person helping me (to whom I´m grateful for) was very patient but at the end suggested I go back and start all over but, I´m still hitting a wall.
Following the instructions very carefully, I´m still getting errors like ¨ No such file or directory¨.
I know the files are there, when I click on the file manager, I see them.
I start to run into problems when on the second step, Downloading and compiling the multi channel ACARS decoder, I attempt to use the mkdir acars command.
In return, I get an error saying that mkdir cannot be created acars file already exists.
Obviously, I don´t ¨speak Raspberry¨ but, it seems that the instructions online, don´t cover all the situations.
So, if you have been successful running this on a pi, I´d like to hear from you.
Hi
I have acarsdec running on a Raspberry Pi v3.
Open up a terminal / command line window and login with 'pi' and your password.
You should get a $ prompt.
Make sure the Pi is connected to the network.
To do a clean re-install I delete any existing acarsdec directory and all its sub-directories with
rm -rf acarsdec
Then install acarsdec with
git clone https://github.com/TLeconte/acarsdec.git
The acarsdec directory will be created.
cd acarsdec
Then compile the source code with either
make -f Makefile.air
or
make -f Makefile.rtl
depending on whether you are going to use an rtl_sdr or an Airspy.
List the acarsdec directory with
ls -l
There should now be an executable called acarsdec.
To check it works type
./acarsdec
It should display the help /options available.
That's what I do. Hope it works for you.
Stuart
I started writing a reply after successfuly getting it to compile on a Debian variat on a PC.
Meanwhile Stuart has beaten me to the response with exactly the same instructions. 8)
The key difference to the web instructions if you are using the RTL-SDR dongle is to use make -f Makefile.rtl and not just make in Part 2.
Also ignore the command "chmod +x run-acars" in the instructions - that seems to be left in from previous instructions.
Let us know how you get on and what still doesn't work.
acarslogger, thanks for your reply.
Followed those instructions, installed the Makefile for the RTL.
Used the list command, there´s an acarsdec directory.
Then I typed ./acarsdec and I get;
bash : ./acarsdec: Is a directory
Nothing else.
Heading out to work now, can´t reply but I´ll be watching the thread.
Many thanks!
If there you can see an acarsdec directory
cd acarsdec
./acarsdec
You need to be in the correct directory before you can run the command.
Or just try~/acars/acarsdec/acarsdec from anywhere.
To update the thread, one of the moderators on another forum, helped me with this. Did a team viewer session and now everything works. He advised that I could do some housekeeping and remove some unneeded files, but at the same time he also advised to leave it alone. I saw him go back and forth whenever he tried a command that wasn't working. Seems that those tutorials scattered around in the Internet are outdated?
Either way, I now have a dedicated pi with an Acars mission!
OK so it might have helped if you indicated what your source of instructions was when you asked for help.
The instructions I found after searching from your intial request were these:
http://www.satsignal.eu/raspberry-pi/acars-decoder.html
Apart from changing the "make" to "make -f Makefile.rtl " and ignnoring the "chmod +x run-acars" instruction, everything seemed to compile ok.
But it's working now so enjoy.
My apologies. Been posting about this in more than one place and sometimes, I overlook the detail. By posting the name of the software on the thread, I assumed everyone knew what was I talking about.