What's New?

Edge Version Features

Offline Maps

• Support for offline maps in mbtiles format in the Web Viewer

   # include an offline map in mbtiles format
  AIS-catcher -N 8100 MBTILES map.mbtiles
  # or as overlay
  AIS-catcher -N 8100 MBOVERLAY map.mbtiles
  

• Debian packages now support RTL SDR V4 (the RTL-SDR library is build from source and statically linked into the executable)

AIS-catcher for Android

• Option to auto start decoding when USB device is connected when starting the App
• Option to launch a webviewer available at a specified port

Version 0.61

MQTT Integration

• Publishing Messages

  # Basic MQTT connection
  AIS-catcher -Q mqtt://127.0.0.1:1883
  
  # WebSocket MQTT connection
  AIS-catcher -Q wsmqtt://127.0.0.1:1883
  
  # With message format and topic
  AIS-catcher -Q mqtt://127.0.0.1:1883 admin MSGFORMAT JSON_FULL TOPIC data/ais
  
  # With authentication and client ID
  AIS-catcher -Q mqtt://username:password@127.0.0.1:1883 admin CLIENT aiscatcher
  

• Reading Messages

  # Read from MQTT broker
  AIS-catcher -t mqtt://username:password@127.0.0.1:1883
  

WebSocket Support

• Text data transmission via WebSockets using ws:// protocol with -t and -Q options

Web Viewer Enhancements

• Default map view on startup
• Optimized color scheme
• Draggable shipcard functionality
• Smart shipcard positioning near vessels
• Automatic vessel track display options: On hover and On selection

Additional Updates

• Server protocol support:
• SDR data: sdr://127.0.0.1:5555
• Text over TCP: txt://127.0.0.1:4001
• GPSD: gpsd://127.0.0.1:4267
• RTL_TCP: rtltcp://127.0.0.1:4099
• Raw IQ data: tcp://127.0.0.1:1313
• NMEA2000 configuration added to JSON settings
• System daemon restart interval set to 10s