NAME¶
rtl_adsb - a simple ADS-B decoder
DESCRIPTION¶
Uses a re-purposed DVB-T receiver as a software defined radio to receive and
decode ADS-B data. Written by Kyle Keen and incorporated in the osmocom
rtl-sdr project.
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast, ADS-B, consists of position and
other status data transmitted by aircraft in support of air traffic control in
order to improve safety of flight.
Much software is available for the RTL2832. Most of the user-level packages rely
on the librtlsdr library which comes as part of the rtl-sdr codebase. This
codebase contains both the library itself and also a number of command line
tools such as rtl_test, rtl_sdr, rtl_tcp, and rtl_fm. These command line tools
use the library to test for the existence of RTL2832 devices and to perform
basic data transfer functions to and from the device.
Because most of the RTL2832 devices are connected using USB, the librtlsdr
library depends on the libusb library to communicate with the device.
USAGE¶
With a suitable antenna for receiving the 1090 MHz signal attached to the
rtl-sdr supported device, this program will output the data decoded from that
signal.
SYNOPSIS¶
rtl_adsb [-R] [-g gain] [-p ppm] [output file]
OPTIONS¶
- -d device_index (default: 0)
- -V verbove output (default: off)
- -S show short frames (default: off)
- -Q quality (0: no sanity checks, 0.5: half bit, 1: one bit (default), 2:
two bits)
- -e allowed_errors (default: 5)
- -g tuner_gain (default: automatic)
- -p ppm_error (default: 0)
- tfilename
-
(a '-' dumps samples to stdout)
(omitting the filename also uses stdout)
EXAMPLES¶
- Streaming with netcat:
-
rtl_adsb | netcat -lp 8080
while true; do rtl_adsb | nc -lp 8080; done
- Streaming with socat:
-
rtl_adsb | socat -u - TCP4:sdrsharp.com:47806
SEE ALSO¶
RTL-SDR wiki documentation:
http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr
Other rtl-sdr programs:
rtl_eeprom(1),
rtl_fm(1),
rtl_sdr(1),
rtl_tcp(1),
rtl_test(1)
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Maitland Bottoms for the Debian project (but may
be used by others).
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 2013 A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.