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bemasher / rtlamr

An rtl-sdr receiver for Itron ERT compatible smart meters operating in the 900MHz ISM band.
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No data packets being received (I think?) #147

Closed dreday99 closed 4 years ago

dreday99 commented 4 years ago

Hi, I am going to apologize beforehand, as I am pretty inexperienced with source coding and coding in general. I believe I am running all the steps correctly, however, I don't seem to be receiving any data on my RTLAMR terminal window. I am running OS X 10.13.6. My water meter is a SENSUS iPERL. Here are all the steps as well as the command results:

  1. First I run rtl_tcp in terminal window 1: image

  2. Next, I open a second terminal window and run rtlamr: image

  3. This is what the rtl_tcp window looks like once I run RTLAMR: image

I have had rtlamr run for about 24h and nothing ever popped up on my rtlamr terminal in terms of data packets. Is there anything I am doing noticeably wrong? Thank you

dreday99 commented 4 years ago

I want to point out that the blank spaces in the code above was just me removing my last name from the line. Thanks.

bemasher commented 4 years ago

Sensus meters are generally not supported. You're not seeing messages because your meter likely uses a protocol other than ERT.

dreday99 commented 4 years ago

Is there any way to support it or is this a complete dead end for me?

Thanks again.

bemasher commented 4 years ago

Sensus is quite tight-lipped about their protocol and documentation for it, without physical access to a provisioned meter, it would be more difficult to reverse-engineer than I have time or resources for. Sorry.