#!/usr/bin/python3 import urllib.request import subprocess import math import socket import ephem import time import sys import ssl import os import signal import datetime LATITUDE = "52.219308" LONGITUDE = "4.419926" ALTITUDE = 20 MODE = "fm" FREQ = "145.8M" RATE = "48k" FILE_FMT = "%Y_%m_%d-%H-%M-%S.raw" rtl_cmd = ["rtl_fm", "-M", MODE, "-f", FREQ, "-s", RATE] class tle_reader(object): """ For keeping ephem two line element sets up to date """ def __init__(self, tle_name="ISS (ZARYA)", tle_file="https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/stations.txt", tle_max_age=3600): self._tle_name = tle_name self._tle_file = tle_file self._tle_max_age = tle_max_age self._tle = None self.reload() def build_index(self, tle_lines): index = {} for i in range(0, len(tle_lines), 3): index[tle_lines[i].strip()] = (tle_lines[i + 1], tle_lines[i + 2]) return index def reload(self): print("Loading: %s" % self._tle_file) try: ctx = ssl.create_default_context() ctx.check_hostname = False ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE with urllib.request.urlopen(self._tle_file, context=ctx) as response: tle_lines = response.read().decode("utf-8").splitlines() index = self.build_index(tle_lines) tle_data = index[self._tle_name] self._tle = ephem.readtle(self._tle_name, tle_data[0], tle_data[1]) except Exception as e: print(e) self._tle_age = time.time() @property def tle(self): return self._tle @property def tle_expired(self): return time.time() - self._tle_age > self._tle_max_age iss = tle_reader(tle_name="ISS (ZARYA)", tle_max_age=5520) # 92 minutes if iss.tle is None: sys.exit(0) myloc = ephem.Observer() myloc.lon = LONGITUDE myloc.lat = LATITUDE myloc.elevation = ALTITUDE running = True while running: myloc.date = time.strftime('%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S', time.gmtime()) iss.tle.compute(myloc) alt = math.degrees(iss.tle.alt) if alt > 0: # iss is flying over our location fn = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime(FILE_FMT) f = open(fn, "wb") proc = subprocess.Popen(rtl_cmd, stdout=f) while alt > 0: myloc.date = time.strftime('%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S', time.gmtime()) iss.tle.compute(myloc) alt = math.degrees(iss.tle.alt) time.sleep(10) f.flush() os.kill(proc.pid, signal.SIGTERM) proc.wait() f.close() elif iss.tle_expired: iss.reload() # we could be running for days / weeks else: time.sleep(10) # do nothing, wait for iss to arrive