castelao / iridiumsbd

Iridium Short Burst Data Python library

Archived : This is not active anymore for a long time. I'm keeping it since it might be a helpful reference, but there is no intention on maintaining it. This was a pilot project at IDG-SIO. Around 2017-2018, I developed another solution using Rust instead, so this Python package has not been used since that. This is a nice proof of concept but I found a latency up to O[100] miliseconds, which was occasionaly an issue. I don't recommend using this for production. You might be interested in checking out https://github.com/castelao/DirectIP.

Iridium SBD communication

Communication system for Iridium Short Burst Data Service.

A python package to handle direct IP communications with Iridium gateway.

The goal here is to organize it as a standalone Python package with the objective to communicate binary data with Iridium Gateway. It does not try to understand the data being transmitted/received, but that task should be done by another resource. As a python package it is easier to install and update on different machines. With a small and specific objective it is easier to write tests and maintain it.

This is part of a bigger project for IDG communication system with remote instruments as Spray and SOLO.

Alternatives

Other Python packages related to ISBD:

• http://xed.ch/project/isbd/ (Chris X Edwards)
• https://github.com/gadomski/sbd (Pete Gadomski)

iridiumsbd's Issues

Questions on Implementation - Initiating Mobile Terminated (MT) transmission

• Iridium Short Burst Data version:
• Python version: 3.8
• Operating System: Ubuntu

Description

• Is there a way to initiate a message being sent (MO or MT) without having received a message?
• Can you provide an example snippet of code or reference a place in your project for direction on the matter?

Questions on Implementation - Post Processing Script Example

• Iridium Short Burst Data version:
• Python version: 3.8
• Operating System: Ubuntu

Description

• Do you have additional resources you'd be willing to share, i.e. types of data files you send, or post processing scripts you use?