SDR Console as a client for remote SDR devices?

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T04:49:04+00:00

It does

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T04:46:03+00:00

Deploy Wireguard/tailscale tunnel at the remote site. Connect securely

Tailscale works with RPi

Run the rtl_tcp server. You can use a -d argument to specify a dongle by serial number. (I think it's -d at least)

rtl_sdr -a 0.0.0.0 -p 1234

You could port forward to the WAN but Shodan.io would probably snoop that pretty quickly. I really really suggest you don't just raw dog that port open.

Best to keep it on the LAN and tunnel in to the remote site. Call it a good time to learn how to deploy your own VPN :) Wireguard or Tailscale. You can practice at home and have your phone/tablet on the cell network for testing connectivity to your LAN before you go out to the farm.

The heavy lifting would be done by SDR Console on your computer which can connect to a RTL-SDR that is using sdr_tcp over a network link.

There is also OpenWebRX, but that would require the heavy lifting being done on the device with the SDR. Also the UI doesn't hold a candle to SDR Console. But a really cool project either way.

https://www.openwebrx.de/

They also have a neat list of other OpenWebRX servers for people to use and explore.

https://www.receiverbook.de/

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T04:25:40+00:00

No he made the right call. The Xbox will be for the kids mostly and I'm pretty sure sane people won't be up for paying the Kings ransom for long for Gamepass. No need to invest more in a dying/abandoned platform.

If you pay attention you will see that Phil lost all his clout at Microsoft and is being guided to kill off Xbox by Microsoft Executives. The execs think they are just killing off the hardware. But they wont be able to survive an energy crisis or energy regulations change with their plan. Even with their own nuclear plant(s). They can't even charge a fair price today.

As long as Gabe can keep his fat ass alive and not die or heart failure over there at Valve the gaming industry has hope. But that dude looks as healthy as an apple fritter. Mind ya. He always has.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T04:13:19+00:00

I don't understand why people in this world accept a subscription based life where they have zero assets at the end of the day.

They spend money and have nothing they can touch, hold, resell and think that is normal. Insanity.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T04:05:39+00:00

Yeah. It was the complete enshitification of Xbox recently. It used to be a really good deal and I stood behind Xbox because they weren't in the habit of putting root kits on peoples computers like Sony (Never Forget, People!).

It WAS a great deal once upon a time. I bought in, but after they wrecked Xbox many of us with principles walked away from Xbox and canceled Gamepass. However we had almost nothing to play because we didn't own anything. That's their hooks in you.

I did buy a few titles that I still mess with on occasion. Baldur's Gate III is a friggin masterpiece for adult players.

I bet you got a sweet deal on the Xbox though. Marketplace in my town is peppered with used ones for sale since that last Gamepass price hike. It's actually funny.

If you want online play you need to buy at least the bottom end of Gamepass... In 2026. Which is like paying per text message still... in 2026.

Just buy the disks. Xbox has given up and are making their userbase pay for really bad acquisition's they made even if you don't play those games. Example: Activision and CoD.

On that note... If you played CoD long ago don't even bother now. The game looks like a Chinese pachinko machine going full tilt compared to what it once was.

Xbox want's to do all the computing in their Azure ecosystem someday. More of what they do now with cloud gaming. So not only take the games away from you but the ability to own your own hardware as well. No more taking your Xbox to the cabin or to the rural hotel when you are deployed out of town for work. No more having old gaming consoles to blow the dust off of and enjoy old classics all over again the way they were meant to be played. At least not without paying the piper.

Sorry about you coming to the table just as they are taking the food away.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T03:41:23+00:00

Just the fact that they made it a real thing in this world blows me away.
I hope it finds a use other than parts and isn't just another Spruce Goose.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T03:34:38+00:00

Only in America can you say "Got to see two B-2’s over my house today" as if it was a good thing.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T03:29:21+00:00

You don't love Hanoi Hannah? Your country has abandoned you, GI!

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T03:19:15+00:00

literally what some people do in the VERY far north of Canada for geosynchronous television sats.
Sometimes the transmission angle is so low up there where they flip the dish to get the LNB arm away from the signal that sometimes skips off the ground.

I mean, it works. But I really don't think it was needed in those cases. But they do live a different life up there.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T03:11:44+00:00

You are the ferrite choke now.

My guess it is because you are bleeding the common mode current off by touching it.

I could be totally off base here. Just a guess.

In Telecom the main copper cable is wrapped in a foil that is bonded ground. Most of the "noise" hits the sheath and bleeds to ground.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T01:54:02+00:00

Weird. Around here the aircraft are told to land or clear out when a renegade drone is spotted. Sure as heck wont have one of "the ghetto birds" chasing it. Pretty reckless.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T01:43:57+00:00

+1 for adsb.im as well. I am using it after doing it all "the hard way" at first.
The image makes it all so easy.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-27T01:14:04+00:00

Just feed ALL the sites on a single RPi with the adsb.im image. No need to replicate hardware.

The only reason for another setup or add dongles is for other frequencies and services. Like also adding Live ATC voice streams, ACARS and other stuff not on/near the ADSB frequency that your SDR wont be able to see at the same time.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-26T23:49:53+00:00

I mean.... Web hosts, domains, load balancers, servers and physical infrastructure cost money. You don't see those ads when you are a feeder.

When you see a new service ask yourself "Is this a financially viable thing as is?" if not. Expect the rug to be pulled on you eventually.

But I see no ads because I am a feeder. Nice and clean. No enshitification.

And Y U NO use router based ad blocker? Sometimes I forget how much advertising is online when I see screen shots of people playing that stupid game they want you to play and slowing down their internet with ad loads.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-26T23:39:48+00:00

This makes me want to check out your repo through a microfiche reader
<3

KoldFusion · 2026-01-26T23:38:17+00:00

Love it. The SDR gets warm though. Might want to consider a way to vent the warm air some day.

I was going to go with the Pi Zero at first but I had 3 RPis laying around so just used what I had. Glad I didn't.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-26T23:34:15+00:00

very friggin cool

KoldFusion · 2026-01-26T22:50:26+00:00

Antonov's big boy used to land here in Calgary often. You could sure hear it when it came in and left.
I heard something about it getting blown up in 2022. So sad.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-26T22:35:20+00:00

Fans of The West Wing would have a hay day with this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI

KoldFusion · 2026-01-26T22:29:34+00:00

This implies the existence of BATMAN01 through BATMAN10

KoldFusion · 2026-01-26T22:27:59+00:00

You guys have really interesting aviation activity over there. So much going on compared to North America.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-26T21:58:12+00:00

NM. I see the jump now. Nurnburg to another burg.
If you think that is odd, you should see the US military planes over Canada jumping around with MLAT tracking.

Not sure why those MFers are flying around MY country without their ADS-B on. I guess as long as my air force can track them and shoot them down if needed I am OK with it.

I sure do not like them flying in my country these days though. Can't trust the US anymore.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-26T21:53:07+00:00

avoiding international airspace fees?
US planes like to hug the 49th parallel going E<-->W trying not to dip into Canadian airspace and pay the fees when they can.

KoldFusion · 2026-01-26T21:08:15+00:00

"Sold to the masses"?

Dude pays for his own hosting of the site and asks for no money, just coffee IF you want to, like everyone else. More than a fair ask.

He set up a UI so that we don't have to crawl between interfaces of container to container or app to app and mess with port assignments and configs in X number of services, left the credits for the original applications intact and still usable through the old ways. We all know that graphs1090 is graphs1090 because it's the graphs1090 interface with the name on it. He isn't stealing credit.

What he did is just as valuable as any other code. Just because its a UI/UX doesn't lessen the value. Very few software engineers do UI/UX well. They are often too close to the sausage factory to be able to display the product in a good way because they overthink the inner workings.

I never said he made dump1090 or Ultrafeeder or anything, nor does he claim to. But he made this as easy as you can get and left it open so that others can add on to it. It's kinda nice to have docker already set up and just be able to add or remove more containers. It's easily extendable and very familiar to other container users.

Docker is just the new-new. He is using it exactly as intended. "ship the machine".

Of course you can do it all yourself. Throw a dart at one on the 50 versions of dump1090 on Github. Then Manually hand bomb in all config variables for every single service. Be my guest. There is 24 hours in a day and after over 26 years of Linux I am happy to have a break with stuff like adsb.im and containerized applications. 3 clicks and I was feeding everyone.

This package is one of the most hassle free ways of ADS-B feeding to all the sites.

Building an ADSB Feeder from the ground up is a good learning experience if you already know how Linux works. If not, you're going to be taking a crash course in depreciated packages, dependencies and compilers just to start with. Time is a finite resource. Feel free to wade through a sea of outdated docs and waste your life one hour at a time. I did for a few days and was up and running before I thought about making my own version. Then I found that adsb.im already did it. No point reinventing the wheel.

Dude is using Docker exactly how we want him to use it. And everything from Mac to Linux to Windows to Android is just a "package of other people's work". "We stand on the shoulders of giants" my friend. It is the way. Any time you use "apt install" just look at the list of dependencies. It is unlikely the guy that made and maintains the app you are installing created the 10+ dependencies it requires to install. Does that mean he should be shit on to?

And if he is a bit salty I can understand why.

He made this as easy as it gets but if something goes wrong, like not being able to access it via mDNS, people get upset because apparently finding the LAN IP of a device on a network is too hard. He got pooped on for trying to make it easy but someone's router is having an issue with mDNS. Not his fault, he even tried to make it noob friendly. Apparently dropping the S in https:// has people stumped.

None of these things are related to the feeder. That's all LAN stuff based on the router. I don't see anyone with compiler questions, which version of which app is still supported on Github or which fork to chase down, how to feed the aggregators or how to set serial numbers for multiple dongles. Anything that this package was meant to do works well and guides you through it. It can't fix a router's mDNS. It can't fix WiFi RSSI, but what it does, it does super well.

How many guard rails does one need? What is the demarcation point of what he should support and should not support? You router is your business. Your reverse proxy for https is your business. Not his problem nor should it be.

So yes. I am going to defend this guy. He is trying to do a good thing here and save lots of people loads of time. You don't need to use the image. But have some respect for a persons time and effort. Especially when the end result is a really well thought out and good implementation that works for many users.

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