blah2

A real-time radar which can support various SDR platforms.

Features

• Currently only support for the SDRplay RSPDuo.
• 2 channel processing for a reference and surveillance signal.
• Designed as a passive radar, but can also work as an active radar.
• Outputs delay-Doppler maps to a web front-end.
• Record raw IQ data by pressing spacebar on the web front-end.
• Saves delay-Doppler maps in a json array.

Services

The build environment consists of a docker-compose.yml file running the following services;

• The radar processor responsible for IQ capture and processing.
• The API middleware responsible for reading TCP ports for delay-Doppler map data, and exposing this on a REST API.
• The web front-end displaying processed radar data.

Usage

• Install docker and docker-compose on the host machine.
• Clone this repository to some directory.
• Install dependencies from Dockerfile.
• Edit the config.yml for desired processing parameters.
• Run the docker-compose command.

git clone http://github.com/30hours/blah2
cd blah2
vim config/config.yml
sudo mkdir /opt/blah2
sudo chmod a+rw /opt/blah2

sudo docker-compose up -d blah2_frontend blah2_api
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. && make && cd ..
./bin/blah2 -c config/config.yml

The radar processing output is available on http://localhost:49152.

Future Work

• The blah2 service can be built in Docker, except for the SDRplay API due to its dependence on systemd. This service needs to be built manually with cmake at present.
• A CFAR detector has not yet been implemented.
• Support for the HackRF and RTL-SDR using front-end mixer to sample 2 RF channels in 1 stream.
• Occasional segmentation fault from a mutex issue.

FAQ

• If the SDRplay RSPduo does not capture data, restart the API service using sudo systemctl restart sdrplay.api.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome - especially for adding support for a new SDR.

License

MIT