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[TVR]

I've just seen my first AIS-catcher target, a SAR aircraft flew overhead.

Everything shows up in SignalK, and the AIS-catcher web interface is amazing. It's such a big improvement to what we had before, many thanks to everyone who made it happen.

One small improvement suggestion, could we add an option to share data with the AIS-catcher community feed? https://aiscatcher.org/about#join

   

   

[Sailoog]

Updated openpotter-sdr-vhf v4 adding "Share with AIS-catcher" option.

Push to github done.

I am testing this now with an SDR device and I am impressed. AIS-catcher is a real game-changer.

Thank you all.

NOTE: If you are in the US, you are lucky because the AIS-catcher web viewer even has the NOAA charts overlayed.

[TVR]

Updated openpotter-sdr-vhf v4 adding "Share with AIS-catcher" option.

Looks like it's working, thanks for adding it so quickly.

   

[Techstyle]

is this something that works with Maiana as well as SDR?

[Sailoog]

I am afraid not:

"If you're interested in sharing but are not using AIS-catcher, please contact us at jvde-github at gmail.com for assistance in connecting through a dedicated UDP port."

If you are transmitting with Maiana, you will probably already appear in the marinetraffic web viewer.

[Adrian]

ais-catcher does support NMEA input over TCP or UDP:
https://github.com/jvde-github/AIS-catch...nmea-input

With that, you could feed ais-catcher AIS data from Signal-K via the ais-forwarder plugin:
https://github.com/hkapanen/ais-forwarder

The ais-catcher documentation also mentions the option to get NMEA data directly from the AIS receiver over serial via cat, but I'm not sure how reliable that is as a background service.

[partyvi]

Hey, not sure if this is an OpenPlotter 4 or Bookworm issue, but my mouse is extremely slow (laggy) when running the desktop.  Anyone have a fix?

I had the same problem, Linux just do not work properly with some mice. You need to change scanning time, i did it about 5 years ago to get my lovely mouse working, but do not remember details  Other way, just  try another mouse.

[Chookfoot]

Weird thing has happened..
I got the usual notification "updates are available" but when I attempt to install updates it asks for authentication.
I accept "pi" as identity and enter "raspberry" as the Password, click OK and it gives me an error "Authentication failed! Wrong password?"
I can't see how or why I could have possibly changed it from "raspberry".
Has anyone else come across this one ?
Thanks

edit:- reset it now and all is good but it must have been corrupted somehow??

[sdemore]

Quick question on the SDR changes. I'm using a Pi 5 with the starter load. My old SDR died, so I just bought a new RTL-SDR V4 device. If I run the calibration, I get a good -7 for initial PPM offset. When I try to run it on the GSM 850 band (I'm in Maryland), all I get are messages of:
[R82XX] PLL not locked!
[R82XX] PLL not locked!
[R82XX] PLL not locked!
[R82XX] PLL not locked!
[R82XX] PLL not locked!
for every channel.
The RTL-SDR website says that you need different drivers for the V4 model, but if you follow their Debian procedures, the SDR-VHF software in uninstalled. I've checked for the latest software, run apt, done the things I could think of. Is there something else that needs to be done, is this a bad SDR, any thoughts or suggestions?