Feeding data from Piaware into Basestation

  1. Downloaded Basestation Installation file “Basestation_184 CD” from http://www.kinetic.co.uk/basestationdownloads1.php

  2. Installed Basestation on Windows 8.1. When run, gave error “Missing file ftd2xx.dll”.

  3. Googled and downloaded file ftd2xx from here http://www.mediafire.com/download/duupsqpsh6l94qd/FTD2XX.rar

  4. Unzipped and moved extracted file FTD2XX.dll to installation folder “C:\Program Files (x86)\Kinetic\BaseStation”.
    Started Basestation. Error message stopped and the program started normally.

  5. Configured Basestation “Settings → Hardware Settings → Network” to IP of RPi, port 10001

  6. Downloaded ModeSMixer2 tgz file on Windows Desktop from http://xdeco.org/?page_id=30

  7. In Pi, created a folder “modesmixer2” and copied the downloaded file modesmixer2_rpi2_20160119.tgz to it using SFTP/FileZilla

8 ) Extracted tgz file (sudo tar -xvf modesmixer2_rpi2_20160119.tgz)

  1. Made file executeable (sudo chmod 766 modesmixer2)

  2. Run the file modesmixer2 as shown below:

pi@raspberrypi:~/modesmixer2 $ sudo ./modesmixer2 --inConnect localhost:30005 --inConnect localhost:30105 --outServer sbs10001:10001 --location 43.5xxx:-79.6xxx --web 8765 &
[1] 8826
pi@raspberrypi:~/modesmixer2 $ 2016-10-07 03:44:01.396 INFO ModeSMixer2 v.20160119
2016-10-07 03:44:01.397 INFO Magnetic declination value was calculated
2016-10-07 03:44:01.400 INFO outServer(sbs10001:10001) started
2016-10-07 03:44:01.404 INFO inConnect(localhost:30005) connecting 127.0.0.1:30005
2016-10-07 03:44:01.405 INFO inConnect(localhost:30105) connecting 127.0.0.1:30105
2016-10-07 03:44:01.405 INFO inConnect(localhost:30005) connected
2016-10-07 03:44:01.406 INFO inConnect(localhost:30105) connected
2016-10-07 03:44:02.022 INFO inConnect(localhost:30005) BEAST data stream detected
2016-10-07 03:44:04.103 INFO outServer(sbs10001:10001) 192.168.0.10:61762 connected
2016-10-07 03:44:05.166 INFO inConnect(localhost:30105) BEAST data stream detected
2016-10-07 03:44:05.405 INFO Coverage area was determined.
2016-10-07 03:44:05.405 INFO Magnetic declination value was calculated
2016-10-07 03:44:09.038 INFO outServer(sbs10001:10001) 192.168.0.10:61762 SBS-3 LOGIN


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