Radarcape:Acarsdec

acarsdec on the Radarcape

acarsdec is a software which uses a DVB-T stick in order to decode up to 4 channels ACARS signals within a 1MHz band segment.
The decoding process requires some mathematical functions and obtains plenty of processing resources. Due to that it is not guaranteed to run on a heavily loaded Radarcape and/or together with FR24 feeder. You may need to disable some features.

Installation requires some skills in handling a console but at the end is easy.

Prepare Installation

First, you need to install build tools on the Radarcape.

opkg update
opkg install packagegroup-core-buildessential
opkg install cmake
opkg install libusb-1.0-dev

This will take some time.

Install librtlsdr

Download one of the packaged releases: Cut & paste the link of the lastest release and fetch it with wget on your Radarcape (in this case it is version 0.5.3, which was current while writing this descrition):

wget https://github.com/steve-m/librtlsdr/releases/tag/v0.5.3

As described here, navigate to ' Building with cmake: ', install