[GreenKeys] ITTY to real Teletype

John Spigel w1an.dxusa at gmail.com
Mon Nov 11 08:42:20 EST 2024


Hi Rob.
Are you attempting to decode to audio and saving with minimodem to a 
text file or just send the ITTY FSK audio to your TU for printing? My 
shells only result in audio FSK for inputting to a TU and just work. I 
have no experience with piping mpg to minimodem for saving although I 
will definitelly try when time permits. If saving to a file  you may 
need to provide a file type for saving? .txt? or remove the -f just to 
print to screen as first step. Also you might try without the "-i" as it 
may undo the -a auto mark/space detect. And try removing the -one, -R 
11025, etc., until you get the basics working. Using defaults should be 
the place to start and may be all you need. And I don't use curl at all.

73, John W1AN

On 11-Nov-24 03:03, Rob Jarratt wrote:
> Hello John,
> 
> I tried piping this into minimodem following the suggestions using curl that I received before, but it doesn't seem to work. This is what I tried
> 
> mpg123 http://internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY -q -s | minimodem rtty -i -a -q --rx-one -R 11025 -f -
> 
> There was no output from this command (other than some header information). Am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rob
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-
>> bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of John Spigel
>> Sent: 11 November 2024 03:10
>> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] ITTY to real Teletype
>>
>> Rob, I have several very simple shell scripts here for running the different ITTY
>> sources or printing files for RazPi.
>>
>> https://w1an.com/files/tty-shell-scripts
>>
>> The ITTY for US runs continuously.
>> Maybe see if they are of use to you.
>>
>> 73, John W1AN
>>
>> On 10-Nov-24 13:03, Rob Jarratt via GreenKeys wrote:
>>> Looks like curl -N should do the trick them without me having to write
>>> a special program to keep it running. I wish I had checked the other
>>> feeds before assuming curl just exits after every message!
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>> *From:*Paul Heller <paul0926 at comcast.net>
>>> *Sent:* 10 November 2024 14:40
>>> *To:* rob at jarratt.me.uk; Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
>>> *Cc:* Hugh Pyle <hughpyle at gmail.com>; Jeffrey Golas
>>> <jeffg at junknet.net>; Mailing List Green Keys
>>> <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [GreenKeys] ITTY to real Teletype
>>>
>>> That is strange that the Europe channel is ok and the ITTY channel is
>>> not. I’d like to resolve this.
>>>
>>> The ITTY channels each have a footer transmission after the main
>>> transmission. Maybe the footers are different. I will look into this
>>> later today.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>> W2TTY
>>>
>>>
>>>      On Nov 10, 2024, at 1:52 PM, Rob Jarratt via GreenKeys
>>>      <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net <mailto:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      I have been trying these suggestions using curl to receive ITTY and
>>>      pipe it through lame and minimodem. It works well.
>>>
>>>      However, I didn’t like that curl exits after every message. So, I
>>>      thought I would try to write my own code that keeps going, using
>>>      libcurl, which is what curl is built from.
>>>
>>>      I discovered though that the ITTY feed does something strange and it
>>>      causes curl (and libcurl) to just silently exit at the end of a
>>>      message. It never reaches my cleanup code, it just dies. I thought
>>>      it was a problem with my code, but I don’t think it is, there is
>>>      something specifically wrong with http://internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY
>>>      <http://internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY> that cause curl to die. I have
>>>      been trying to work it out but have not found the issue yet. Is
>>>      anyone aware of anything peculiar about the ITTY feed? It doesn’t
>>>      seem to happen for the EUROPE feed, I am not sure yet about
>>>      AUTOSTART and it is able to repeatedly download other URLs
>>>      (www.example.com <http://www.example.com> for example).
>>>
>>>      Thanks
>>>
>>>      Rob
>>>
>>>      *From:*greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mailto:greenkeys-
>>>      bounces at mailman.qth.net><greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>>>      <mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net>> *On Behalf Of *Hugh
>> Pyle
>>>      *Sent:* 07 October 2024 20:06
>>>      *To:* Jeffrey Golas <jeffg at junknet.net <mailto:jeffg at junknet.net>>
>>>      *Cc:* Mailing List Green Keys <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
>>>      <mailto:GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>>; rob at jarratt.me.uk
>>>      <mailto:rob at jarratt.me.uk>
>>>      *Subject:* Re: [GreenKeys] ITTY to real Teletype
>>>
>>>      Here are some aliases, which combine 'curl', 'lame' and
>>>      'minimodem'.   I haven't run these unattended for a while, and I
>>>      seem to remember there are dropout situations that will break them
>>>      easily - so you could then wrap everything in a loop if necessary.
>>>      But they might make a good starting point for you.
>>>
>>>
>>>      alias autostart='curl -N -s http://internet-tty.net:8030/AUTOSTART
>>>      <http://internet-tty.net:8030/AUTOSTART> | lame --decode --quiet --
>>>      mp3input - - | minimodem rtty -i -a -q -R 11025 -f -'
>>>      alias europe='curl -N -s internet-tty.net:8040/EUROPE <http://
>>>      internet-tty.net:8040/EUROPE> | lame --decode --quiet --mp3input - -
>>>      | minimodem 50 -M 1275 -S 1445 -5 -i -a -q -R 11025 -f -'
>>>      alias itty='curl -N -s http://internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY <http://
>>>      internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY> | lame --decode --quiet --mp3input - - |
>>>      minimodem rtty -i -a -q --rx-one -R 11025 -f -'
>>>
>>>      Hugh
>>>
>>>      On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 10:15 AM Jeffrey Golas <jeffg at junknet.net
>>>      <mailto:jeffg at junknet.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>          Vlc to get the stream, minimodem to decode.
>>>
>>>          Jeff
>>>
>>>           > On Oct 6, 2024, at 3:18 AM, Rob Jarratt
>>>          <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com
>>>          <mailto:robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>> wrote:
>>>           >
>>>           > Hello,
>>>           >
>>>           > Dave was asking this on my behalf, probably unaware that I am
>>>          on this list too.
>>>           >
>>>           > I have seen mention of ITTY Autostart etc and wondered about
>>>          receiving all this on my ASR 33.
>>>           >
>>>           > My thought was to see if I could set up a Raspberry Pi to
>>>          receive the audio signal over the internet, translate that to
>>>          ASCII and then send it to my ASR33. I already have the means to
>>>          connect my ASR33 from software running on a Raspberry PI or a PC
>>>          via reverse Telnet. The bit I am missing is what software (if
>>>          any) there might be that I could run on a Raspberry Pi, or
>>>          Windows that runs in the background (no GUI) to decode the ITTY
>>>          audio signal. I am a software developer though, so I guess if
>>>          such a thing doesn't exist then perhaps I can modify the MMTTY
>>>          code that is published on GitHub.
>>>           >
>>>           > Any pointers would be welcome.
>>>           >
>>>           > Thanks
>>>           >
>>>           > Rob
>>>           >
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>>>           >> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] ITTY to real Teletype
>>>           >>
>>>           >> Normally the ITTY service is fed to a piece of hardware
>>>          called a terminal unit
>>>           >> (think modem). The service is streaming as RTTY which is
>>>          normally sent over
>>>           >> amateur radio.
>>>           >>
>>>           >>
>>>           >> Jeff
>>>           >>
>>>           >>>> On Oct 5, 2024, at 5:34 PM, David Wade
>>>          <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com <mailto:dave.g4ugm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>           >>>
>>>           >>> I know there have been several USB to TTY boards produced,
>>>          but what
>>>           >> software would you use to drive one of these from itty?
>>>           >>>
>>>           >>> Dave
>>>           >>>
>>>           >>> G4UGM
>>>           >>>
>>>           >>>
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