Welcome to VDL2Display!

VDL2Display is a tool to locally display ACARS data from dumpvdl2 and JAERO on Windows. It uses an UDP connection to receive data from the ACARS feeders and then displays the messages from/to each aircraft indivdually. This makes it easy to monitor the back and forth of system- and textmessages between ground stations and aircraft.

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Usage:

dumpvdl2

1. Connect to your feeder using SSH
2. Open the configuration by running:
   sudo nano /etc/default/dumpvdl2
3. Change the line containing #OPTIONS0= to the following:
   #OPTIONS0= --output decoded:json:udp:address=10.0.0.130,port=5553
   (replace the IP address 10.0.0.130 with the IP address of the computer that you are running VDL2Display on)
4. Save the configuration change by hitting CTRL+X and then Y
5. Re-start your dumpvdl2 feed by using the following command:
   sudo systemctl restart dumpvdl2
6. Launch VDL2Display, make sure that the port matches the one you have set in the options (5553 in our example) and click “START”
7. Done! You should now see the list of aircraft slowly populating as the messages come in!

JAERO

1. Open JAERO -> Settings -> Feeder
2. Check “Enable output feeding using UDP” and “Set station ID”
3. Hit “New” at the bottom of the window
4. Choose Format “JSONdump”, set the Host IP address to the IP address of the computer you run VDL2Display on and set Port 5553.
   
   
5. Hit “Save” an “OK”.
6. Launch VDL2Display, make sure that the port matches the one you have set in the options (5553 in our example) and click “START”
7. Done! You should now see the list of aircraft slowly populating as the messages come in!