MRFGS

FANET Groundstation

References

• FANET protocol specification https://github.com/3s1d/fanet-stm32/blob/master/Src/fanet/radio/protocol.txt
• Radio/Packet Code from https://github.com/Betschi/FANET_V2019_02_07

Features

Weather

• receive 'Internet Weather' - e.g Holfuy stations
• send weather data to FANET
• relay weather data messages e.g. from SkyTraxx Windstations to Internet / Windy

Live-Tracking

• forward received tracks to
  • glidernet.org APRS-IS servers
  • DB via PHP call on HTTP server

other

• send Names for devices not sending type 2 packates on their own (like AirWhere or SoftRF)
• send Landmarks e.g. for takeoff or landing sites

Upcoming

• Documentation (sic)
• Remote control - e.g. via Telegram
• Messages
  • relay FANET messages
  • send messages to FANET receivers e.g. from Telegram
• Accident handling
  • relay last know position of missed FANET device to an aletr channel
• forward other tracksource traffic to FANET
  • support vehicle position from GPS source
  • FLARM traffic - e.g. helicopters or gliders in local area

receive and process FANET packets

• Type 0 - ACK
• Type 1 - (Air)Tracking
• Type 2 - Name
• Type 3 - Message
• Type 4 - Service - Weather - relay Skytraxx Windstations
• Type 7 - Groundtracking
• Type 8 - Device Info - (old)
• Type 9 - Thermals
• Type A - Device Info - (new)

send FANET packets

• Type 0 - ACK
• Type 1 - (Air)Tracking
• Type 2 - Name
• Type 3 - Message
• Type 4 - Service (Weatherdata from local Weatherstations)
• Type 5 - Landmarks
• Type 7 - Groundtracking

Dependencies

• aprs-is - weather-submit
• rapidjson
• rapidcsv
• httplib.h - Yuji Hirose
• libcurl
• TDequeConcurrent christophe@xtof.info
• wiringPi

Hardware support

• Raspberry Pi Model 4 / 3 / 0
• Dragino Lora/GPS HAT
• Tindy SX1276/LORA HAT

Installation

Raspian

• sudo apt-get update
• activate SPI for SX1276 chip interface

Tools:

• sudo apt-get install git
• sudo apt-get install cmake

Libraries:

• sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

• sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

• http://wiringpi.com/wiringpi-updated-to-2-52-for-the-raspberry-pi-4b/

  • cd /tmp
  • wget https://project-downloads.drogon.net/wiringpi-latest.deb
  • sudo dpkg -i wiringpi-latest.deb

• https://raspberry-projects.com/pi/programming-in-c/boost-c-libraries/installing-and-using-boost

  • sudo apt-get install libboost1.67-all

build

• in user work directory
  • git clone https://github.com/mreinart/MRFGS.git
  • cd MRFGS
  • cmake CMakeLists.txt
  • make

configuration

• edit config/MRFGS.json - some working defaults
• see: configuration file format

execute

• create empty file ./MRFGS.lock in execution directory

start ./MRFGS 

• will use ./config/MRFGS.json as default configuration

commandline options:

-c,--config <path to configuration file> 

tracing

./log directory - everything.log
./fanet_packets.txt
./aprsLog.txt
./cwopLog.txt

configure automatic start

• on Linux level - e.g. in rc.local or rc.d