Dear Jonti
Thanks for your attempts for writing JAERO. I find it amazing tool. I have one question. As I found, in your program sound card decodes the signals received from audio output of receiver. If we have offline recorded AERO signal, how we can demodulate and decode them? I search for a way to give recorded AERO signal to program.
Sincerely yours

Hi,

I seem to have an odd one where by the plane log REG field isn't being populated when tuned to the satellite broadcast stream channel.. all others are fine and work as expected.

The broadcast stream is the one that lists the satellites positions and channel frequencies... could be a parsing bug?

Thx

Hello,

JAERO with libaeroambe is crushing as soon as it lock on the signal with error bellow:

./JAERO: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaeroambe.so: undefined symbol: mbe_processAmbe4800x3600Frame

OS is linux

Hello, I have some troubles, I need 100mb I/Q.waw from inmarsat-c aero, for trying your programm. Thanks.

Great project!

To make the README headers/titles show correctly, please add a space between last # (hash) and first letter.

Hi J,
Tried to follow your instructions
https://github.com/jontio/JAERO/wiki/c-band-on-pi

The version listed has been deleted and repalced with version 1.0.4.10

wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mnhauke:/sdr-devel/openSUSE_Leap_42.2_Ports/armv7hl/jaero-1.0.4.10-11.2.armv7hl.rpm

When downloaded the next step was

rpm2cpio jaero-1.0.4.10-11.2.armv7hl.rpm | cpio -idmv

I have a folder JAERO, inside this is bin and share.

The excecutable resides in bin (jaero)
`
But when I try to run the executable

jaero will not run.

Any help appreciated.

Github actions windeployqt.exe fails with QM-Format error when --no-translations is not enabled. It's a bug with windeployqt.exe and should be fixed with some future release.

I tried to build JAERO on my kubuntu 21.10 system.

First, in ci-linux-build.sh, there is a change in packages:
qt5-default is no more avaliable.

I found a way here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67373586/install-qt5-on-ubuntu-21-04

I modified the sh script to take this change in account.

Now I have a build issue while building JAERO.
Previous libs buit ok.

PACKAGE_NAME=jaero PACKAGE_VERSION=1.0.4.13-23-g3d92aea-dirty MAINTAINER=https://github.com/jontio PACKAGE_SOURCE=https://github.com/jontio/JAERO Info: creating stash file /home/nicolas/Applis/SDR/JAERO/JAERO/.qmake.stash /usr/lib/qt5/bin/uic mainwindow.ui -o ui_mainwindow.h /usr/lib/qt5/bin/uic gui_classes/settingsdialog.ui -o ui_settingsdialog.h /usr/lib/qt5/bin/uic gui_classes/planelog.ui -o ui_planelog.h g++ -c -pipe -std=c++11 -Wno-deprecated-copy -O3 -Wall -Wextra -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DJAERO_VERSION=\"v1.0.4.13\" -D_USE_MATH_DEFINES -DGENERATE_TEST_OUTPUT_FILES -DMATLAB_PATH=\"/home/nicolas/Applis/SDR/JAERO/JAERO/matlab/\" -DTEST_OUTPUT_PATH=\"/home/nicolas/Applis/SDR/JAERO/JAERO/test_output/\" -DQCUSTOMPLOT_USE_LIBRARY -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_MULTIMEDIA_LIB -DQT_SVG_LIB -DQT_PRINTSUPPORT_LIB -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_SQL_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -I../../JFFT -I/usr/local/include/libacars-2 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtMultimedia -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtSvg -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtPrintSupport -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtWidgets -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtGui -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtSql -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o testall.o tests/testall.cpp g++ -c -pipe -std=c++11 -Wno-deprecated-copy -O3 -Wall -Wextra -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DJAERO_VERSION=\"v1.0.4.13\" -D_USE_MATH_DEFINES -DGENERATE_TEST_OUTPUT_FILES -DMATLAB_PATH=\"/home/nicolas/Applis/SDR/JAERO/JAERO/matlab/\" -DTEST_OUTPUT_PATH=\"/home/nicolas/Applis/SDR/JAERO/JAERO/test_output/\" -DQCUSTOMPLOT_USE_LIBRARY -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_MULTIMEDIA_LIB -DQT_SVG_LIB -DQT_PRINTSUPPORT_LIB -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_SQL_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -I../../JFFT -I/usr/local/include/libacars-2 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtMultimedia -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtSvg -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtPrintSupport -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtWidgets -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtGui -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtSql -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o fftwrapper_tests.o tests/fftwrapper_tests.cpp g++ -c -pipe -std=c++11 -Wno-deprecated-copy -O3 -Wall -Wextra -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DJAERO_VERSION=\"v1.0.4.13\" -D_USE_MATH_DEFINES -DGENERATE_TEST_OUTPUT_FILES -DMATLAB_PATH=\"/home/nicolas/Applis/SDR/JAERO/JAERO/matlab/\" -DTEST_OUTPUT_PATH=\"/home/nicolas/Applis/SDR/JAERO/JAERO/test_output/\" -DQCUSTOMPLOT_USE_LIBRARY -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_MULTIMEDIA_LIB -DQT_SVG_LIB -DQT_PRINTSUPPORT_LIB -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_SQL_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -I../../JFFT -I/usr/local/include/libacars-2 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtMultimedia -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtSvg -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtPrintSupport -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtWidgets -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtGui -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtSql -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o fftrwrapper_tests.o tests/fftrwrapper_tests.cpp g++ -c -pipe -std=c++11 -Wno-deprecated-copy -O3 -Wall -Wextra -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DJAERO_VERSION=\"v1.0.4.13\" -D_USE_MATH_DEFINES -DGENERATE_TEST_OUTPUT_FILES -DMATLAB_PATH=\"/home/nicolas/Applis/SDR/JAERO/JAERO/matlab/\" -DTEST_OUTPUT_PATH=\"/home/nicolas/Applis/SDR/JAERO/JAERO/test_output/\" -DQCUSTOMPLOT_USE_LIBRARY -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_MULTIMEDIA_LIB -DQT_SVG_LIB -DQT_PRINTSUPPORT_LIB -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_SQL_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -I../../JFFT -I/usr/local/include/libacars-2 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtMultimedia -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtSvg -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtPrintSupport -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtWidgets -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtGui -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtSql -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o jfastfir_tests.o tests/jfastfir_tests.cpp tests/jfastfir_tests.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void TEST_GROUP_CppUTestGroupTest_JFastFir::teardown()’: tests/jfastfir_tests.cpp:26:34: error: ‘turnOnNewDeleteOverloads’ is not a member of ‘MemoryLeakWarningPlugin’ 26 | MemoryLeakWarningPlugin::turnOnNewDeleteOverloads(); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ make: *** [Makefile:980 : jfastfir_tests.o] Erreur 1

Get pi build ( https://github.com/jontio/JAERO/blob/mqtt_in_dev/pi-build.sh ) in mqtt_in_dev working with the added dependency of mqtt libs

FirstUDP related pushbutton (plug icon) works as expected pushing the decoded data out port 8765. The second pushbutton(1 and 0 icon) appears to do nothing with port 8765 whether set alone or with plug pushbutton. I have used wireshark to confirm.

Am I doing something wrong?

Support basestation.sqb databbase file to pull known aircraft type and registrations based solely on AES 24bit adress (e.g. to log logon/logoff events)

A few people have reported a strange bug where if using an audio input it looks like QAudioInput may occasionally hangs and JAERO gets no new audio buffers but rather just receives the same one over and over again...

I have been told...

the Windows power profile settings were a very large part of the problem. You must not let your computer even sleep the monitor or use the screen saver as one small example, there are also hard drive and CPU power settings that can mitigate this issue.

It happens on Windows but I don't know if it also happens on Linux or Mac.

Not sure if this issue is a problem with all programs using QAudioInput or just JAERO. If it's a systemic problem with QAudioInput then the issue should probably be logged with the Qt bugtracker. I look in https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-77449?jql=status%20in%20(Reported%2C%20%22Need%20More%20Info%22%2C%20Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%2C%20Resolved%2C%20Implemented%2C%20Withdrawn%2C%20Rejected%2C%20%22Waiting%203rd%20party%22%2C%20%22To%20Do%22%2C%20Blocked)%20AND%20text%20~%20%22QAudioInput%22 but could not see any mention of a bug like this that hasn't been resolved

workaround

Use the ZMQ input

possible solutions

Exchange QAudioInput for something like RTAudio

Currently the Local Time is used for the log entries and to decide when to start a new log during midnight.
To be able to use the data from JAERO to complement the data from other sources (Mode-S, Acars, VDL2 and HFDL) or shared with other users it is necessary to use UTC.

Cheers,
Dick

User_data_4_octet_LSDU_RLS_P_channel (0x76) is not implemented

Hi.
Can you add support for qcustomplot 2.0.1 so I can unbundle it and use system package?

Is it possible to send the audio stream into JAERO from a ZMQ pub sink in GNURadio? Or is there another way to send data from GNURadio into JAERO?

I am currently sending some data from a pub sink and JAERO's FFT isn't showing anything at all.

When new c-channels are activ, jaero often does not lock at them, i have to do it manually.
Once it locked at them, with manual help, it mostly does not loose the lock, even if a other channel overlaps it a bit. jeara shows EbNo of 12 db.

The default database url ( https://junzisun.com/adb/download ) has been moved and the redirection that is given is ignored by JAERO. Also no error message is given to the user to inform them that something has gone wrong.

Really JAERO should follow url redirections but it's probably easier just to change the default address to the new address of https://junzis.com/adb/download

The plane lookup address has also closed and there is no redirection so that's another problem. Currently the only working online lookup I know of is http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/{REG} and that uses REG not AES

Hey guys.

Im trying to compile JAERO, following the instructions on https://github.com/jontio/libaeroambe/wiki/Building_64-bit_binaries_for_Linux for Kubuntu 19.04 (i know - guide is for 18.04).

Im currently stuck on this error, when compiling libaerombe:

mbelib-master/test/test.cpp:1:10: fatal error: gtest/gtest.h: No such file or directory

Which I cannot find/resolve. I've also tried compiling Jaero with Qt Creator - this gets me stuck on "Unknown modules in QT: multimedia svg".

Not the easiest compile task I've seen ;) Any help/pointers..?

In Settings -> ACARS window I would like to be able to add a hostname and port for data to be sent to.
At the moment only lP:port function.
Many people are running Jaero and feeding ACARS data to a central website. If the IP address changes all Jaeros need to be updated. Enabling Jaero to resolve the hostname would solve this issue.

Thanks for your work.

Hi Jonti,
I am having some problems understanding the plane database philosophy. I know the downloaded db is not your remit so I would like to understand the required format and location for the db.

At the moment when I go to Settings in JAERO and click the download button JAERO reports 1 database successfully downloaded but in fact nothing arrives in either my download folder or the JAERO db location specified in the Settings. If I go directly to https://junzisun.com/adb/download I can get a zip file that contains aircrafts_db.csv but extracting that into the JAERO directory doesn't help as I get an error "Database file aircrafts_dump.db missing. Download first." So if I rename that file aircrafts_dump.db I get this error "Error: file is not a database Unable to execute statement". If I open that file in a text editor these are the first few lines:

icao,regid,mdl,type,operator
004003,z-wpb,b732,Boeing 737-2N0,Air Zimbabwe
00400c,z-faa,b735,Boeing 737-55S,FlyAfrica
00400e,z-fab,b735,Boeing 737-55S,FlyAfrica
00400f,z-fje,a319,Airbus A319-131,Fastjet Zimbabwe

Can you advise me what I need to have or do to get a working database?

Cheers,
Michael
Palmerston North

For continuous monitoring, the ability to automatically produce daily log files (one per day) would be good.

It would be nice to have a method whereby if the bitstream was inverted that it could be corrected automatically. This would prevent the user from having to determine whether or not to use USB or LSB.

Currently only one output is available for outputting ACARS data to UDP. If multiple programs are wanting the data there will be a problem if they aren't all using SO_REUSEADDR when binding to the UDP port. adding two ports containing the same data would allow two programs to receive the data.

I've compiled JAERO using msys2 (mingw-32) and QT Creator.

I manually compiled each dependency using mingw-32 including mbelib/aeroambe.
The software did compile and it locks signals just fine, it displays it has data and it logs to disk .ogg files but no audio is ever recovered.

I should also note that JAERO doesn't give an error when loading the aeroambe.dll

When I compile using QT Creator for JAERO I get the following

The compiling of each dependency seems to be fine and I'm not sure where I went wrong.

I'm planning to use the software on a dedicated pc which unfortunately is x86 only.

Thank you for all your time and support. I hope you have a moment to help me, I've spent two weeks trying to figure out how to compile this stuff on windows and it's been a heck of a learning experience.

Dear Jonti
Thanks for your attempts for writing JAERO. I find it amazing tool. I have one question. As I found, in your program sound card decodes the signals received from audio output of receiver. If we have offline recorded AERO signal, how we can demodulate and decode them? I search for a way to give recorded AERO signal to program.
Sincerely yours

Good evening, I have received a message frame but it cannot be decoded, there is nothing in the ACARS tab

Hi. I found jaero amazing! I've just tested jaero with these sample signals found at http://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Inmarsat_Aero . I would like to ask if jaero can also demodulate/decode other inmarsat signals like Inmarsat-B and C. Thanks!

Introducing a 10500 baud OQPSK demodulator for the high speed Aero channels would be a great enhancement

Add in DSP.h
#ifdef _MSC_VER

define M_E 2.7182818284590452354 /* e */

define M_LOG2E 1.4426950408889634074 /* log_2 e */

define M_LOG10E 0.43429448190325182765 /* log_10 e */

define M_LN2 0.69314718055994530942 /* log_e 2 */

define M_LN10 2.30258509299404568402 /* log_e 10 */

define M_PI 3.14159265358979323846 /* pi */

define M_PI_2 1.57079632679489661923 /* pi/2 */

define M_PI_4 0.78539816339744830962 /* pi/4 */

define M_1_PI 0.31830988618379067154 /* 1/pi */

define M_2_PI 0.63661977236758134308 /* 2/pi */

define M_2_SQRTPI 1.12837916709551257390 /* 2/sqrt(pi) */

define M_SQRT2 1.41421356237309504880 /* sqrt(2) */

define M_SQRT1_2 0.70710678118654752440 /* 1/sqrt(2) /*

#endif // _MSC_VER

In aerol.h modifi
typedef enum ReturnResult
{
OK_Packet= 0x01,// 0b00000001,
OK_R_Packet= 0x03,// 0b00000011,
OK_T_Packet= 0x05,// 0b00000101,
Bad_Packet= 0x00,// 0b00000000,
Test_Failed= 0x20,// 0b00100000,
Nothing= 0x08,// 0b00001000,
FULL= 0x10,// 0b00010000
} ReturnResult;

Libacars has undergone many improvements and updates.
The quality of the messages decoded by Jaero would be greatly increased by using the latest version.

Thanks for your consideration.

Hi
I have 3 major Problems. One is there I found now how to send the Messages to PP for further analyse.

The 2nd is the Bandwidth for the Audio cut of way before the SDR. Its 192khz or what ever the standard is.
With the full Bandwidth I can run Multiple Channels with one Audio Channel. Now even with the Audio extension I get 3 instead of 5.

The 3rd Problem is the Setting File is store not in the Folder who the Software Run. That mean I cant run the Software after an Reboot Automatic since the would select all the same channel.
Thanks

Hello,
I tried to have the planes image displayed in the log window but with no success. Tested with file in main Jaero folder and log files folder, but no image is shown.
Do we have to create a subfolder ?
Thanks.
Thibaut.

For some strange reason I can not run JAERO 1.4.0.7 under Linux

(gdb) r
Starting program: /opt/linux/JAERO/JAERO/JAERO
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffe9b65700 (LWP 3468)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe8f4f700 (LWP 3469)]
[New Thread 0x7fffcffff700 (LWP 3470)]
[New Thread 0x7fffcf7fe700 (LWP 3471)]
[New Thread 0x7fffceffd700 (LWP 3472)]
[New Thread 0x7fffce7fc700 (LWP 3473)]
[New Thread 0x7fffcdffb700 (LWP 3474)]
[New Thread 0x7fffcd7fa700 (LWP 3475)]

Thread 1 "JAERO" received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x00007ffff7bd421f in fill_table () from /usr/local/lib/libcorrect.so

Hello Jonathan,
nice that u added the window position save option.
But it does not working correctly when using more than one screen.
Can you please fix that? I use a PC with six screens.
Thank you for your great work.

For investigative purposes it would be very useful if it were possible to log all entries that appear in the top window.
Currently I copy&paste the content of the top window on a regular basis.

Cheers,
Dick

I'm running windows v1.0.4.8. Although in the Settings I have unchecked the 'Beep on multi line text message', with this latest release I getting a beep every time a C-Channel assignment message is received.
e.g. 10:30:59 12-12-18 AES:4A81F8 GES:90 Receive Freq: 1546.19 Global Beam Transmit 1647.69

Could you provide an option to disable the beep.
Thanks
Stuart

It would be handy if there could be the option to select the soundcard in the settings dialog rather than just the default soundcard.

v1.0.4.5 When trying to download aircraft database from junzisun.com it's looking to download aircrafts_dump.csv from

(http://junzisun.com/adb/download) and should download and convert aircraft_db.csv from (https://junzisun.com/adb/download). I tried

to change to https: but get "error creating SSL context ()". Tried to merge .csv into database and got many errors.

Hi Jonti,
When using the latest Windows package 1.0.4.13-18 a 'Cant open SQL database' message is displayed when using the Plane log window.

This worked fine using the 1.0.4.13-alpha package.

Finally it proved that replacing the content of the sqldrivers directory fixed the problem.
Not sure which driver is causing it, but I noticed that at the size of qsqlite.dll, although showing the same version 5.15.2.0, is very different 1.31 MB vs 154 KB.

Cheers,
Dick

Do not only show data packets to aircraft, but also log on / log off of all AES on current channel.

hello,

your pages are hugely interesting, to the point you could consider including them as a documentation source for the program.

as example, I've forked and created a first page here: https://github.com/axd1967/JAERO/blob/contrib/doc/doc/README.md

an alternative could be the wiki, but the advantage of including the doc is that the doc can nicely evolve together with code evolutions, while the wiki - even if it is also a Git repository - is independent.

if you like the idea, I can add the other hda1/ pages and send you a pull request, or if you prefer, I will drop the fork.

maybe a few more suggestions? I guess you are aware of these, yet allow me to suggest them:

• consider using this repo as your main page (instead of http://jontio.zapto.org/hda1/jaero.html); Git gives you the advantage that you can very easily - almost trivially - keep your own copy and the GitHub copy in sync. inconvenience of Markdown is maybe less nice page layout options. (and there is also github.io if you want a more website-like look.)
• don't bother presenting download links (see bottom of your page) - just point visitors to https://github.com/jontio/JAERO/releases, where they can find release history, executables and source code (otherwise you also need to keep that download section on your page in sync too).

rgds

-alex-

(FYI, I use PyCharm as Markdown editor)

(and I wrote this before stumbling over your http://jontio.zapto.org/software-and-hardware/webpagesetup.html ;-) )

Hi everyone, I have some pictures of planes in "C" of my PC with the name of the recordings. I entered the path of the "Photos" folder with {REG} at the end but I don't see any photos in Jaero. Registering the aircraft is the same as registering the photo name. Advice? thank you

Hi,

i build a nodejs decoder for CPDLC/FANS messages. Is is possible to get some dumps for testing?

Is JAERO able to output the data via UDP/TCP?

Examples:

ADS

------- ACARS MESSAGE BLOCK ----------
{
    messages: {
        A: {
            mode: 'C',
            address: '9V-SKA',
            ack: '!',
            label: 'B6',
            block_identifier: '5',
            message: '/BNECAYA.ADS.9V-SKA13E7F45B52A1064CD6E41D9EA6',
            ts: Tue, 17 May 2016 19:24:31 GMT,
            message_sequence_number: 'J26A',
            flight_id: 'SQ0221'
        }
    },
    sequenceError: false,
    startError: false,
    end: true,
    blockId: 'J26',
    addr: '9V-SKA',
    label: 'B6',
    created: Tue, 17 May 2016 19:24:31 GMT,
    updated: Tue, 17 May 2016 19:24:31 GMT,
    flight_id: 'SQ0221'
}
>>>>>>> DECODED ADS MESSAGE >>>>>>>>
[
    {
        id: 19,
        description: 'Altitude Range Change Event',
        data: {
            ADS Contract Request Number: 231,
            lat: -33.81385803222656,
            lon: 149.5246124267578,
            alt: 25804,
            sec_since_hour: 1465,
            fom: {
                TCAS Health: 1,
                level: 6,
                nav_redundancy: '> 1 unit operating',
                accuracy: '< 0.25 nautical mile',
                reason: 'Consistent with RNAV with GPS'
            }
        }
    }
]
<<<<<<< ADS END <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

CPDLC

------- ACARS MESSAGE BLOCK ----------
{
    messages: {
        E: {
            mode: '2',
            address: '9M-MTD',
            ack: '!',
            label: 'AA',
            block_identifier: 'E',
            message: '/BNECAYA.AT1.9M-MTD220E9CA82CCD9B34F626\015\n',
            ts: Sun, 29 May 2016 03:41:51 GMT
        }
    },
    sequenceError: false,
    startError: true,
    end: true,
    blockId: 'AA',
    addr: '9M-MTD',
    label: 'AA',
    created: Sun, 29 May 2016 03:41:51 GMT,
    updated: Sun, 29 May 2016 03:41:51 GMT
}
>>>>>>> DECODED CPDLC MESSAGE >>>>>>>>
{
    _header: {
        _value: {
            Msgidentificationnumber: { _name: 'INTEGER', _value: 4 },
            Timestamp: {
                _value: {
                    Hour: { _name: 'INTEGER', _value: 3 },
                    Minutes: { _name: 'INTEGER', _value: 41 },
                    Seconds: { _name: 'INTEGER', _value: 50 }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    _message: {
        _id: 160,
        _descr: 'NEXT DATA AUTHORITY [icaofacilitydesignation]',
        _value: {
            icaofacilitydesignation: { _name: 'IA5String', _value: 'YMMM' }
        }
    },
    _messageseq: undefined
}
<<<<<<< CPDLC END <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

I managed to build JAERO on MacOS. There were a few problems in a process, that I would like do describe here.

Here is how I did it.

1. Download QT and QTCreator (open source versions): https://www.qt.io/download-qt-installer This will take a while.
2. Download the source code of latest JAERO release https://github.com/jontio/JAERO/releases Personally I used https://github.com/jontio/JAERO/archive/v1.0.4.11.zip
3. Extract the archive
4. Edit JAERO.pro file, around line 38 add:

INCLUDEPATH += ../libacars-1.1.0/src
LIBS += -L/usr/local/lib

Also remove the following files from SOURCES list to avoid "duplicate symbol" errors:

../libacars-1.1.0/src/examples/decode_arinc.c \
../libacars-1.1.0/src/examples/adsc_get_position.c \
../libacars-1.1.0/src/examples/cpdlc_get_position.c \
../libacars-1.1.0/src/examples/media_advisory.c \

Finally, comment this line because you don't have this directory (it's outside of the archive):

# LIBACARS_PATH =$$PWD/../../libacars

5. libcorrect should be installed, otherwise linker will not find it:

cd ../libcorrect
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -Wno-dev
make && make install
cd ../../JAERO

6. libvorbis can be installed using Homebrew:

brew install libvorbis

7. Run:

/Users/eax/Qt//5.12.6/clang_64/bin/qmake
make all

8. Move JAERO.app to Applications

The application starts and seems to work, although I don't have an antenna yet to properly test it. The most difficult and time consuming part was to download QTCreator. If anyone is looking for a MacOS build: https://afiskon.ru/s/JAERO-1.0.4.11-MacOS-x64-build-by-afiskon.zip

LIBS += -llibcorrect missing for all systems but windows.

We are using some JAERO feeds to send data to airframes.io (see https://app.airframes.io/about) which is working well. I'd like to thank you for making JAERO because it has made this possible.

I would like to request two features:

1. feed identification

As feeders to the site are user-centric, the only way we can currently identify a JAERO feed is by it's source IP address. This is problematic when the source feeder's internet provider changes their IP address. Other feeder software, such as acarsdec/vdlm2dec, will include a user-configurable field, such as ident so that they can pass us their "identification". This allows us to not really focus on the IP address as the source of identification.

2. ACARS format enhancements

Right now the format that is sent for the ACARS is not very parsable. It is very difficult to properly extract the data so that further processing can be done. Can we have either enhancements to this format sent (say, in JSON), or perhaps a whole new output type that can send the ACARS data as JSON?

Without a LICENSE file it's not clear under which license the source code is distributed. From what I know (I'm not a lawyer) in some countries you might be responsible for any harm that your software may do unless license says otherwise.

I am try to build jaero for Fedora and it is failed with this errors:

../downloadmanager.cpp: In member function 'void DownloadManager::startNextDownload()':
../downloadmanager.cpp:96:119: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
   96 |         qDebug(qPrintable(((QString)"").sprintf("%d/%d files downloaded successfully\n", downloadedCount, totalCount)));
      |                                                                                                                       ^
../downloadmanager.cpp:137:36: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
  137 |                                  )));
      |                                    ^
../downloadmanager.cpp: In member function 'void DownloadManager::downloadFinished()':
../downloadmanager.cpp:191:36: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
  191 |                                  )));
      |                                    ^

How to solve it?

After setting up Spy Server, I realised that there was no network connection every 10 seconds.
Ping test showed that precisely every 10 seconds the network connection stops responding, this became very obvious when trying to stream of course.

I then captured about a minute of data in Wireshark and in Procmon and correlated the data to find the application makes some sort of network request every 10 seconds.
I isolated it via the time stamps to this specific operation:

QueryNameInformationFile C:\Windows\System32\rpcrt4.dll

0 FLTMGR.SYS FltDecodeParameters + 0x193c 0xfffff8056ead66fc C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\FLTMGR.SYS
1 FLTMGR.SYS FltDecodeParameters + 0x14dc 0xfffff8056ead629c C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\FLTMGR.SYS
2 FLTMGR.SYS FltDecodeParameters + 0x5f4 0xfffff8056ead53b4 C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\FLTMGR.SYS
3 FLTMGR.SYS FltDecodeParameters + 0x3ee 0xfffff8056ead51ae C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\FLTMGR.SYS
4 ntoskrnl.exe IofCallDriver + 0x59 0xfffff800bcd24e69 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
5 ntoskrnl.exe CmCallbackGetKeyObjectIDEx + 0x21d 0xfffff800bd1731fd C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
6 ntoskrnl.exe CmCallbackGetKeyObjectIDEx + 0x3f0 0xfffff800bd1733d0 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
7 ntoskrnl.exe CmCallbackGetKeyObjectIDEx + 0x786 0xfffff800bd173766 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
8 ntoskrnl.exe SeQuerySecurityDescriptorInfo + 0x1375 0xfffff800bd174db5 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
9 ntoskrnl.exe NtAllocateVirtualMemory + 0x1d51 0xfffff800bd18d2f1 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
10 ntoskrnl.exe NtAllocateVirtualMemory + 0x14b1 0xfffff800bd18ca51 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
11 ntoskrnl.exe setjmpex + 0x6f63 0xfffff800bce46743 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
12 ntoskrnl.exe KeSynchronizeExecution + 0x2940 0xfffff800bce39aa0 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
13 ntoskrnl.exe FsRtlKernelFsControlFile + 0x862 0xfffff800bd2276b2 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
14 ntoskrnl.exe NtSetInformationProcess + 0x5937 0xfffff800bd1d2a27 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
15 ntoskrnl.exe NtSetInformationProcess + 0x4df0 0xfffff800bd1d1ee0 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
16 ntoskrnl.exe setjmpex + 0x6f63 0xfffff800bce46743 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
17 ntdll.dll NtQueueApcThreadEx + 0x14 0x7ffe77a5d534 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
18 RPCRT4.dll NdrServerCallNdr64 + 0x1ae 0x7ffe75ac4d0e C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll
19 RPCRT4.dll RpcServerInqCallAttributesW + 0xaaad 0x7ffe75afc3fd C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll
20 RPCRT4.dll RpcServerInqCallAttributesW + 0x71b8 0x7ffe75af8b08 C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll
21 RPCRT4.dll NdrFixedArrayBufferSize + 0x215 0x7ffe75b24465 C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll
22 RPCRT4.dll RpcServerInqCallAttributesW + 0xabb5 0x7ffe75afc505 C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll
23 RPCRT4.dll RpcStringBindingComposeW + 0x532d 0x7ffe75ad818d C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll
24 RPCRT4.dll I_RpcSend + 0x248 0x7ffe75add158 C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll
25 ntdll.dll RtlReleaseSRWLockExclusive + 0x19ae 0x7ffe779e7c9e C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
26 ntdll.dll RtlReleaseSRWLockExclusive + 0x298 0x7ffe779e6588 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
27 KERNEL32.DLL BaseThreadInitThunk + 0x14 0x7ffe74e63034 C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNEL32.DLL
28 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart + 0x21 0x7ffe77a33691 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll

I wondered if you had any idea of what is causing this and the resolution please? I am still investigating myself so will update if I have further findings.

And of course, thanks for the amazing application :-)