"Sysname" "Control Channel List" "Offset" "NAC" "Modulation" "TGID Tags File" "Whitelist" "Blacklist" "Center Frequency"
"IOWA" "774.30625" "0" "0" "" "" "" "0" ""
"Sysname" "Control Channel List" "Offset" "NAC" "Modulation" "TGID Tags File" "Whitelist" "Blacklist" "Center Frequency"
"IOWA" "774.30625" "0" "0"
Yes I see a very strong signal on 774.30625 and can see two other signals from the Lee Co. and Jefferson Co. sites. Also the strongest signal is on 774.34425 which isn't listed in the database but assume it is coming from the Des Moines Co site that is not very far from me.
I'm far from being real familiar with Linux but did not copy and paste the trunk.tsv example boatbod provided. Instead I opened that file in an editor and changed the data. I'm assuming saving after that edit maintained the correct file format?
Are you using Raspian or another flavor of Linux? What editor are you using? Libre Office that comes with several versions of Linux including Raspian has a spreadsheet program that will *try* to change the .tsv file to another format, so you have to be careful to save it as a CSV file while maintaining the .tsv extension. (I don't use a text editor to change a CSV file.)
Have you tried to run Unitrunker on any of those suspected control channels to verify that are actually carrying data?
Are you using Raspian or another flavor of Linux? What editor are you using? Libre Office that comes with several versions of Linux including Raspian has a spreadsheet program that will *try* to change the .tsv file to another format, so you have to be careful to save it as a CSV file while maintaining the .tsv extension. (I don't use a text editor to change a CSV file.)
Have you tried to run Unitrunker on any of those suspected control channels to verify that are actually carrying data?
Running Raspian and used nano for an editor.
These towers are fairly new and a local tech wondered if there was any valid being sent now? I don't have Unitrunker installed and attempted to start my P25 phase 2 exploration using op25.
The errors you were getting before indicated problems with your trunk.tsv file. I'm fairly sure that you'll at least see control traffic if you can get that sorted out....
It's not SYSID, it's the site NAC which is sent in every tsbk seen on the control channel.This is slightly OT, but in the NAC field of the trunk.tsv file, does NAC refer to the sysid or the site NAC? The site I'm monitoring coincidentally has the same site NAC as the radio system's SysID.
Mark - the main trick for better RPi3 audio is to reduce your sample rate to -S 57600 as that frees up cpu cycles that would otherwise be used for USB data transfer.
If you want to stream raw audio frames out of op25 to another client across the network you change the command line options:
Remove: -U
Add: -V -2 -w -W 192.168.100.100 -u 23456
(Note: you change the IP address to whatever destination host you are using)
If you're using a linux machine to play the audio, there is a utility that's part of the op25 distro to act as a stand-alone audio player.
Code:./audio.py Usage: audio.py [options] Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -O AUDIO_OUTPUT, --audio-output=AUDIO_OUTPUT audio output device name -u WIRESHARK_PORT, --wireshark-port=WIRESHARK_PORT Wireshark port -2, --two-channel single or two channel audio -x AUDIO_GAIN, --audio-gain=AUDIO_GAIN audio gain (default = 1.0)
By default you don't need any command line options unless you want to use a different port or audio device.
I am using R820T2 dongle (both original and V3 styles) and I cannot seem to get the sample rate to anything under 250000. It's not a real issue with my newer Pi3b, but my slower PI units seem to be impacted.
My OP25 screen comes back with supported sample rates 250000-2560000 step 24000
The log returns this:
Using device #0 Realtek RTL2838UHIDIR SN: 105
Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner
[R82XX] PLL not locked!
Invalid sample rate: 57600 Hz
Using two-stage decimator for speed=1024000, decim=16/2 if1=64000 if2=32000
Is there some other command line switch or setting to force these dongles to your recommended speed?
Gents,
What am I doing wrong with this command line?
./rx.py --args 'rtl' -N 'LNA:47' -S 2400000 -f 857.1625e6 -o 25000 -q -1 -V -2 -U 2> stderr.2
I have no audio from RPI3 1/8 earphone jack. Audio IS present when using browser on local news websites.
Setup is RPI3 with RTL-SDR V3 dongle.
./rx.py does decode control channel with terminal window showing the following for Roanoke City/County P25 system in Virginia.
NAC 0x341 WACN 0xbee00 SYSID 0x349 857.162500/812.162500 tsbks 15480
voice frequency 854.412500 tgid(s) 221 None 241.7s ago count 65
voice frequency 854.962500 tgid(s) 321 None 270.7s ago count 51
voice frequency 856.062500 tgid(s) 21 None 119.4s ago count 51
voice frequency 856.437500 tgid(s) 221 None 226.1s ago count 24
voice frequency 856.462500 tgid(s) 223 None 64.2s ago count 52
voice frequency 856.662500 tgid(s) 221 None 123.3s ago count 51
voice frequency 856.962500 tgid(s) 202 None 258.1s ago count 17
voice frequency 857.262500 tgid(s) 223 None 42.3s ago count 130
voice frequency 857.437500 tgid(s) 221 None 161.0s ago count 99
voice frequency 857.462500 tgid(s) 221 None 208.9s ago count 24
voice frequency 857.737500 tgid(s) 21 None 154.7s ago count 29
voice frequency 857.762500 tgid(s) 201 None 152.9s ago count 178
voice frequency 858.262500 tgid(s) 202 None 220.3s ago count 70
voice frequency 858.462500 tgid(s) 41 None 15.9s ago count 17
Control Channel level is -40 db.
Constellation plot shows symbols in corners of quadrants.
Symbol and Data Scope appear to be acceptable.
Mixer balance levels fluctuate between 15 to 27. I have no idea how to reduce Mixer balance to lower levels
No *.tsv files have been created as this was typed.
Joe
WB4EOT
The area of code you are looking for is in trunking.py. Search for "json" (there are two methods - one calls the other).At this point, I am running my Pi3b headless with UDP audio to a Windows application which I developed to play, archive and catalog calls to mp3 file, and stream the audio out to Broadcastify. The sound quality is fantastic and I am very pleased with the results so far.
I get the Tagname, TGID, and System name from making http queries to OP25. When I make the query, I receive anywhere between 1600 and 4500 bytes depending on the size and channels of the listening site. I get around 220ms turnaround time for each query which isn't bad for what I am doing. I am repeatedly making this query so that I can determine when call start and end. Although I do not see the CPU even budge when I am making these queries, sometimes I get timeouts, which I would like to minimize. This method is the only reasonable way I know to extract this kind of information into my Windows application.
I would like to find a way to receive only the few bits of information ( Tagname, TGID, and System name)that I really need to determine which TGID is in use.
I have experimented with rx.py around line 705 ( def process_qmsg(self, msg) trying different modifications, posting different http JSON parameters ([{""command"":""update"",""data"":0}]), and the like but I cannot seem to retrieve anything less than a dump of all the values returned to the main screen.
If there is a location where I could comment out the code providing all the data I do not need from the query, that would be helpful too.
Ideally, I think the best solution would be to connect as a remote terminal from my WIndows application so that the screen information would be streamed to my application through a UDP connection. I've looked through terminal.py to get some ideas, but I am not too familiar with it to fully understand the mechanics.
I am a seasoned DotNet developer and systems engineer, but my weakness is
in Python, although I am working my way through it.
Any ideas on how to accomplish this without a huge amount of effort?
Thanks in advance.
The lack of "-T trunk.tsv" is what's preventing audio. If you have pulled updates that I posted last night, you should be able to hit "t" in the terminal to get it working at least temporarily until you make the required .tsv file.
Curious. 57600 works fine on all my 820T2 dongles. By the way the "supported sample rates" thing says that on mine system even though it works just fine. The "Invalid sample rate" is what's stopping you. Try working upwards (or downwards) in multiples of 9600 until you find the lowest it will accept.
Overall though, I would say anything slower than the RPi3 is probably not going to work very well. The Pi3 is on the edge of being acceptable with audio decode.
Boatbod, thanks for reply. How do I pull the updates? And will the updates have ./op25.sh in apps directory?
Boatbod,
I found my answer in one of your earlier posts.
cd ~/op25
git pull
./install.sh
Tonight I'll pull updates, build *.tsv files and try once again.