Using rtl_fm with multimon_ng on Windows

[Gilligan]

I've successfully been able to use rtl_fm with multimon_ng on Mac/linux. I have both utilities on my Windows computer also. Unfortunately, doing a conventional DOS pipe doesn't seem to send the data properly to multimon. I can output rtl_fm to a file, then read that file in with multimon and it decodes just fine. But it cannot pipe data from rtl_fm to multimon as multimon complains that it doesn't have an input file. I've tried a variety of DOS pipe/redirect tricks trying to get it to accept the input but it just won't work. Has anyone had success with this? Thanks!

 

[deboe]

From what I remember Windows pipes '|' don't work all that well with binary data. I think they use a carot (^) as an escape code, so if any of your data has 0x5E it would be corrupted.