PDL — Pager Data Linux

Native Linux pager decoder. POCSAG is the supported decoder; FLEX, ACARS, MOBITEX, and ERMES are present in the codebase but disabled until verified. GTK3 GUI (classic) or WebKit UI, ALSA/PulseAudio capture, optional PagerCast stream integration.

Version

PDL <major.minor.patch> — set in CMake (PDL_VERSION). See CHANGELOG.md.

Requirements

• CMake ≥ 3.10
• C++ compiler
• OpenSSL
• ALSA (libasound2-dev)
• PulseAudio (libpulse-dev)
• GTK3 (gtk+-3.0)
• WebKitGTK (webkit2gtk-4.1 or 4.0)
• libcurl

Install dependencies

Fedora / RHEL

sudo dnf install cmake gcc-c++ openssl-devel alsa-lib-devel libpulse-devel gtk3-devel webkit2gtk4.1-devel libcurl-devel

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt install cmake g++ libssl-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Arch

sudo pacman -S cmake gcc openssl alsa-lib libpulse gtk3 webkit2gtk-4.1 curl

Build

mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . -j$(nproc)

Binary: ./build/pdl

Settings

Settings are stored in pdl.ini.

export PDL_POCSAG_DECRYPT_KEY="your-secret-key"

Packages

See packaging/README.md.

License

Same as the upstream Discriminator project where applicable.