A frame was a card five lines tall — timestamp, a meta line, the information field as it arrived on the air, three buttons, and a Details panel repeating the four things already on the row — so five frames filled the panel and the payload was left to be decoded by eye. A frame is one line now: time, station, type, and what the frame says. It opens in place for the path, the CRC, the raw field, its bytes and the actions. Twenty-one frames fit where five did. And the information field is read rather than echoed. Weather reports give temperature, wind, humidity and pressure; telemetry gives its sequence and channels; a message gives its addressee and text; a position gives the fix, course and speed, and the comment the station wrote. Anything that cannot be summarised falls back to the raw field, which is in the expanded view either way. HF APRS had a copy of the same forty lines of markup, differing by one badge, so both now build their rows from one function in the shared module — the CSS is shared between them and this would have broken it otherwise. Both headers lose their three summary cards for a line of counts beside the filters, which frees another fifth of the panel. Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
trx-rs splits radio hardware access from user-facing interfaces so you can run
rig control, SDR DSP, decoding, audio streaming, and web access as separate,
composable pieces.
| Backends | Yaesu FT-817, Yaesu FT-450D, SoapySDR |
| Frontends | Web UI, rigctl-compatible TCP, JSON-over-TCP |
| Decoders | AIS, APRS, CW, FT8, RDS, VDES, WSPR |
| Audio | Opus streaming between server, client, and browser |
Quick Start
1. Install dependencies
Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config cmake libopus-dev libasound2-dev
# Optional — SDR support
sudo apt install libsoapysdr-dev
Fedora
sudo dnf install gcc pkg-config cmake opus-devel alsa-lib-devel
# Optional — SDR support
sudo dnf install SoapySDR-devel
Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S base-devel pkgconf cmake opus alsa-lib
# Optional — SDR support
sudo pacman -S soapysdr
macOS (Homebrew)
brew install cmake opus
# Optional — SDR support
brew install soapysdr
See Build Requirements in the wiki for details on each library.
Note:
cmakeis required even when a system Opus library is installed. Theaudiopus_syscrate probes for Opus viapkg-config; if it is not found (orpkg-configis unavailable), it falls back to compiling a vendored copy of Opus with CMake. A missingcmaketherefore fails the build withis cmake not installed?rather than a missing-Opus error.
2. Build
cargo build --release
Build without SDR support: cargo build --release --no-default-features
3. Configure
Run the interactive setup wizard to generate config files for your station:
./target/release/trx-configurator
The wizard walks you through rig selection, serial port detection, audio
settings, and frontend options, then writes trx-server.toml and
trx-client.toml.
Alternatively, generate example configs and edit them by hand:
./target/release/trx-server --print-config > trx-server.toml
./target/release/trx-client --print-config > trx-client.toml
4. Run
./target/release/trx-server --config trx-server.toml
./target/release/trx-client --config trx-client.toml
Open the configured HTTP frontend address in a browser (default http://localhost:8080).
How It Works
graph TD
SDR1["SDR #1"] & SDR2["SDR #2"] <-->|USB| S1["trx-server A"]
SDR3["SDR #3"] & FT817["FT-817"] <-->|USB / serial| S2["trx-server B"]
S1 <-->|"JSON-TCP :4530"| C1["trx-client"]
S1 -->|"Opus-TCP per rig"| C1
S2 <-->|"JSON-TCP :4530"| C1
S2 -->|"Opus-TCP per rig"| C1
C1 <-->|internal channels| F1["Web UI :8080"]
C1 <-->|internal channels| F2["rigctl :4532"]
Each trx-server owns one or more rigs and runs DSP, decoding, and audio capture locally.
A trx-client connects to any number of servers over TCP and exposes them through
a unified set of frontends.
Documentation
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| User Manual | Configuration, features, and usage |
| Architecture | System design, crate layout, data flow, and internals |
| Optimization Guidelines | Performance guidelines for the real-time DSP pipeline |
| Planned Features | Roadmap and design notes |
| Contributing | Commit conventions, workflow, and code style |
License
GPL-2.0-or-later. See LICENSES for the full license text and
bundled third-party license files. Bundled third-party components retain their
original licenses: Leaflet is BSD-2-Clause, DSEG is OFL-1.1, and opus-decoder
is MIT. The APRS symbol sprites come from
hessu/aprs-symbols; their per-symbol
copyright status is catalogued in
LICENSES/LicenseRef-APRS-Symbols.txt.
