Decoding DMR SMS messages.

[3jaz]

Hello Everyone
First of all thanks for this amazing site and DSDPlus software which has made my life alot easier. Now to the question. I have been using DSDPlus to decode voice calls but is there a possibility to decode the sms message. I have a DMR radio and when I send a sms message the DSDPlus status windows detects it and shows that it had received a data header. I know the voice calls are saved in .wav file but i don't know if it save that data packets some where.
Any help regarding this would be very much appreciated.
Once again thanks for every thing.

 

[racingfan360]

I think dmrdecode does some SMS decoding if I remember correctly.

 

[3jaz]

jhampton2000 Thanks man it worked. DMRDecode gives the binary bit stream of the message and when I convert it to ASCII I get the original message. Thanks Dude

 

[henrygb]

jhampton2000 Thanks man it worked. DMRDecode gives the binary bit stream of the message and when I convert it to ASCII I get the original message. Thanks Dude

Really it work? i tried it many times without luck. How did you convert it to ASCII?

 

[3jaz]

henrygb yep. When you send the message it shows the the binary bit stream as shown in pic below

http://s7.postimg.org/cl23yzw0b/Untitled.jpg . Just copy the whole thing to clip board and paste it in any of the online binary to ASCII converter like the one below.

Binary to Ascii Text Converter

You will have some padding bits and once you remove them you will get your actual message.

 

[SignalPatcher]

Only if I use the key, I get a result like this:

 

[Saint]

Converter

Only if I use the key, I get a result like this:

Yea, I get the same thing when I try to convert it also,
Steve

 

[henrygb]

And i have the same thing, only symbols without letters or words, this is with mototrbo no encrypted. Maybe it work with DMR

 

[mikewazowski]

Did you remove the padding bits?

 

[3jaz]

Guys i am using hytera and it works just fine as mototrbo is also a DMR so it should work with it. I have got hands on one of mototrbo dmr base some how and let me see it it decodes it.

 

[RonnieUSA]

Did you remove the padding bits?

How do You do that?
Thank You for any help on this.

 

[henrygb]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. this is a sample using dmrdecode

Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Data Header
Proprietary Data : MFID=16 (Motorola)
0001000101110011000000000000000011111001011111011000001110000110
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT Ch 2 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Rate ¾ Data Continuation
000000011010111000000110000010000111111101110001111100110111000010110100001010001110101110100110110110101011110010001000001011101011100001010001
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Last fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle
17:22:30 Short LC : Act_Updt - No activity on BS time slot 1 : Individual data activity on BS time slot 2 Hashed Addr 174
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT Ch 2 First fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Rate ¾ Data Continuation
000000100010100010100011001011010100001100010001101111000101011101000101100101001111010110000101011000100111000110001001001110001000011101001000
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle
17:22:31 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT Ch 2 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Rate ¾ Data Continuation
000001000101001100011100111111101011011000111011011111100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010111101110000010110110001001111
17:22:31 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Last fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle

first question, this is sms data?

if "yes", can somebody try to decode it to ASCII?

 

[Saint]

DECODE

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. this is a sample using dmrdecode

Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Data Header
Proprietary Data : MFID=16 (Motorola)
0001000101110011000000000000000011111001011111011000001110000110
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT Ch 2 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Rate ¾ Data Continuation
000000011010111000000110000010000111111101110001111100110111000010110100001010001110101110100110110110101011110010001000001011101011100001010001
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Last fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle
17:22:30 Short LC : Act_Updt - No activity on BS time slot 1 : Individual data activity on BS time slot 2 Hashed Addr 174
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT Ch 2 First fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Rate ¾ Data Continuation
000000100010100010100011001011010100001100010001101111000101011101000101100101001111010110000101011000100111000110001001001110001000011101001000
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle
17:22:31 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT Ch 2 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Rate ¾ Data Continuation
000001000101001100011100111111101011011000111011011111100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010111101110000010110110001001111
17:22:31 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Last fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle

first question, this is sms data?

if "yes", can somebody try to decode it to ASCII?

I tried to decode this and all I get is mumbo jumbo, it make no sence,
Steve

 

[RonnieUSA]

I tried to decode this and all I get is mumbo jumbo, it make no sense,
Steve

How, and what are You trying to decode with?
The reason I ask is the only DMR I receive is utilities, and it couldn't be much more than a job ticket, or directions to where they are going next.

 

[Saint]

decode

How, and what are You trying to decode with?
The reason I ask is the only DMR I receive is utilities, and it couldn't be much more than a job ticket, or directions to where they are going next.

Just wanted to see if messages could be decoded
Steve

 

[RonnieUSA]

Just wanted to see if messages could be decoded
Steve

How are they being decoded?

 

[3jaz]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. this is a sample using dmrdecode

Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Data Header
Proprietary Data : MFID=16 (Motorola)
0001000101110011000000000000000011111001011111011000001110000110
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT Ch 2 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Rate ¾ Data Continuation
000000011010111000000110000010000111111101110001111100110111000010110100001010001110101110100110110110101011110010001000001011101011100001010001
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Last fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle
17:22:30 Short LC : Act_Updt - No activity on BS time slot 1 : Individual data activity on BS time slot 2 Hashed Addr 174
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT Ch 2 First fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Rate ¾ Data Continuation
000000100010100010100011001011010100001100010001101111000101011101000101100101001111010110000101011000100111000110001001001110001000011101001000
17:22:30 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle
17:22:31 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT Ch 2 Continuation fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Rate ¾ Data Continuation
000001000101001100011100111111101011011000111011011111100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000010111101110000010110110001001111
17:22:31 DMR Data Frame (BS)
CACH : TACT AT=1 Ch 1 Last fragment of LC
Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Idle

first question, this is sms data?

if "yes", can somebody try to decode it to ASCII?

Are you sure that the communication is not encrypted because
The line "Proprietary Data : MFID=16 (Motorola)" can mean that they are using encryption.

 

[henrygb]

Always think, that line identify mototrbo wich is motorola protocol. Dmr is a protocol compatible with mototrbo without some functions. This reason I think decode sms only work with dmr

 

[3jaz]

Always think, that line identify mototrbo wich is motorola protocol. Dmr is a protocol compatible with mototrbo without some functions. This reason I think decode sms only work with dmr

It works just have a plain capture of dmr.