aero-cli

Example

Running aero-cli is similar to running SDRReceiver and JAERO: aero-publish is interchangeable with SDRReceiver and aero-decode is interchangeable with JAERO.

To run aero-publish, make sure to at the minimum include the SoapySDR driver string driver=rtlsdr with an optional ,serial=NNNNNNNN appended for binding with specific SDR in the event of many. sdr_54W_all.ini can be found in samples_ini/ withint the SDRReceiver repository.

aero-publish -d driver=rtlsdr --enable-biast sdr_54W_all.ini

To run aero-decode:

aero-decode -v -p tcp://127.0.0.1:6004 -t VFO52 -b 10500 -f jsondump=tcp://127.0.0.1:4444

TODO

• Implement C-band support (1200/10500)
• Implement test harness that streams audio from audio-out into a ZeroMQ topic for samples testing (mostly for burst mode)
• Cut out plane registration database code from AeroL
• Implement ACARS frame forwarding functionality
• Implement translation of ACARSItem to JSON
• libacars integration
• SBS forwarding
• Voice demodulation and storage (?)
• Long term test to ensure processor and memory usage is within expectations

Requirements

Other configurations not mentioned may work but below is the configuration used for development and testing:

• SoapySDR 0.8.1
• ZeroMQ 4.3.5
• libcorrect (commit f5a28c74fba7a99736fe49d3a5243eca29517ae9)
• libacars 2.2.0
• QT 6.4+ (Core, Concurrent, Multimedia)

Unfortunately, the audio test harness requires Qt 5.15 in order to gain access to monitor audio inputs:

• Python 3.12 (earlier versions may work as well)
• PyQt5 5.15.10
• PyQt5 5.15.10 QtMultimedia
• PyZMQ 24.0.1 (earlier versions may work as well)

Compiling

git clone https://github.com/airframesio/aero-cli.git
cd aero-cli
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..

make && make install

Credits

• JAERO team
• SDRReceiver team