Is Anyone Running OP25 (New Version) in South Jersey?

[jcardani]

Hi All,

Is anyone running the new version of OP25 (Boatbod's fork) in the SJ area? I would like a favor. OP25 has a log function that writes to a file and would like to review those details.

thanks!

 

[bucket772]

Hi All,

Is anyone running the new version of OP25 (Boatbod's fork) in the SJ area? I would like a favor. OP25 has a log function that writes to a file and would like to review those details.

thanks!

I'm running op25 on RPi. One SDR for Gloucester County and a second one for Camden. What do you need?

 

[SquadCompanySGT]

I'm running op25 on RPi. One SDR for Gloucester County and a second one for Camden. What do you need?

Hey can you walk me though what I need and how to set up the SDR with Gloucester county and Camden I have and RTL SDR already just need help with everything else my email is markcjenkinsjr@gmail.com

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Hey can you walk me though what I need and how to set up the SDR with Gloucester county and Camden I have and RTL SDR already just need help with everything else my email is markcjenkinsjr@gmail.com

Hi & welcome to the RR forums. Have you reviewed the video tutorial on RTL-SDR.com?

 

[bucket772]

lets start with the gear you have first. I assume you will be using OP25? Do you want to monitor Camden and Gloucester at the same time? It can be done with you will miss a lot of traffic depending on how many talkgroups you want to monitor. I have 2 dongles and two instances of OP25 running. One for Gloucester and one for Camden. They both output to separate streams into icecast. It's fairly stable on a RPi 3b. Its setup to start automatically on reboot or power failure. Are you looking to monitor it remotely?

 

[SquadCompanySGT]

so I wanna do both but each on its own system. I wanna start with Gloucester county, I only have the RTL SDR right now, ivve see a bunch of was to do this but i really wanted someone to walk me though it

 

[SquadCompanySGT]

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[SquadCompanySGT]

lets start with the gear you have first. I assume you will be using OP25? Do you want to monitor Camden and Gloucester at the same time? It can be done with you will miss a lot of traffic depending on how many talkgroups you want to monitor. I have 2 dongles and two instances of OP25 running. One for Gloucester and one for Camden. They both output to separate streams into icecast. It's fairly stable on a RPi 3b. Its setup to start automatically on reboot or power failure. Are you looking to monitor it remotely?

so I wanna do both but each on its own system. I wanna start with Gloucester county, I only have the RTL SDR right now, ivve see a bunch of was to do this but i really wanted someone to walk me though it And Burlington County too now that there on a 700 P25 system

 

[bucket772]

Do you have op25 installed and working? What device will you be using? Three systems might be a stretch but others could answer that better then me. Also, without giving a specific address, where do you live? I'm less then 2 miles from a tower for Gloucester and just under 5 for a Camden tower. Range will play a role in reception.

 

[SquadCompanySGT]

Do you have op25 installed and working? What device will you be using? Three systems might be a stretch but others could answer that better then me. Also, without giving a specific address, where do you live? I'm less then 2 miles from a tower for Gloucester and just under 5 for a Camden tower. Range will play a role in reception.

where do I download it from? I have the RTL-SDR the sliver one and I'm only looking to do one system right now just gloucester and when I get another few SDR's I'm gonna make a few more systems and I'm in the Woodbury area so I'm close enough

 

[bucket772]

what type of computer are you using? What operating system?

 

[SquadCompanySGT]

what type of computer are you using? What operating system?

windows 10

 

[bucket772]

windows 10

You will need to find a windows version of software that will support TDMA Phase 2. The software I referenced is for Linux and is NOT available for Windows 10. But there are options.

 

[SquadCompanySGT]

You will need to find a windows version of software that will support TDMA Phase 2. The software I referenced is for Linux and is NOT available for Windows 10. But there are options.

I have an extra tough book I can toss linux on what version? and is there anyway we can message back and forth faster?

 

[bucket772]

I have an extra tough book I can toss linux on what version? and is there anyway we can message back and forth faster?

My knowledge of Linux is limited on what the best version is. There is a wealth of knowledge available here. A good place to start you be here:

Software Defined Radio

A forum for general discussion of software defined radio (SDR) receiver equipment.

forums.radioreference.com

There are also some good tutorials here

OP25

www.rtl-sdr.com

I began with this page when I first started this project:

OP25 For Dummies - Or how to build a police scanner for $30 (Part 1)

OP25 is a program that decodes P25 Phase 1 and Phase 2 digital radio. Some municipal areas are upgrading to P25 Phase 2 so almost gone are the days that you can track them with a police scanner since P25 is a Trunked Radio system and not just a lone frequency to monitor. The […]

www.hagensieker.com

Once you have OP25 up and running, I can for sure help out with the settings that I used depending on what you want to listen to and how you want to listen to it, meaning as a desktop scanner or if you want to stream it to listen remotely.

 

[SquadCompanySGT]

I was able to put a Ubuntu to on my Toughbook and went through the tutorial in The forum i’m having issues with two files that I have to alter that you probably already have done for Gloucester its trunk.tsv and ommrc_talkgroups.tsv both of them are in the folder 0P25/op25/gr-op25_repeater/apps If you could copy those two files and email them to me I can just replace them in my directory and I’ll be all set

 

[SquadCompanySGT]

My knowledge of Linux is limited on what the best version is. There is a wealth of knowledge available here. A good place to start you be here:

Software Defined Radio

A forum for general discussion of software defined radio (SDR) receiver equipment.

forums.radioreference.com

There are also some good tutorials here

OP25

www.rtl-sdr.com

I began with this page when I first started this project:

OP25 For Dummies - Or how to build a police scanner for $30 (Part 1)

OP25 is a program that decodes P25 Phase 1 and Phase 2 digital radio. Some municipal areas are upgrading to P25 Phase 2 so almost gone are the days that you can track them with a police scanner since P25 is a Trunked Radio system and not just a lone frequency to monitor. The […]

www.hagensieker.com

Once you have OP25 up and running, I can for sure help out with the settings that I used depending on what you want to listen to and how you want to listen to it, meaning as a desktop scanner or if you want to stream it to listen remotely.

I was able to put a Ubuntu to on my Toughbook and went through the tutorial in The forum i’m having issues with two files that I have to alter that you probably already have done for Gloucester its trunk.tsv and ommrc_talkgroups.tsv both of them are in the folder 0P25/op25/gr-op25_repeater/apps If you could copy those two files and email them to me I can just replace them in my directory and I’ll be all set

 

[bucket772]

I was able to put a Ubuntu to on my Toughbook and went through the tutorial in The forum i’m having issues with two files that I have to alter that you probably already have done for Gloucester its trunk.tsv and ommrc_talkgroups.tsv both of them are in the folder 0P25/op25/gr-op25_repeater/apps If you could copy those two files and email them to me I can just replace them in my directory and I’ll be all set

Roger that. When I get home from work later tonight I'll dig them up. You will probably have to rename them. Then we can get the command line settings straightened out

 

[bucket772]

Roger that. When I get home from work later tonight I'll dig them up. You will probably have to rename them. Then we can get the command line settings straightened out

I remoted in and believe that I got the right files. I'm also including the command line that I use. Obviously some of the settings like for your local network will have to be adjusted.

as for the trunk.tsv file, if you need to edit it and use something like libre office or something like that, remember to set the cell properties so its plain text. After I put in all the talkgroups that I wanted white and black listed, it changed the number to because it thought it was a math equation or something. There are other editors but I was familiar with that and was having enough issues getting it working the way I wanted it.

 

[SquadCompanySGT]

is there a way to alpha tag the radio ID's?