Gnu automatic identification system receiver
gnuais [options]
This manual page documents briefly the gnuais command.
gnuais is a tool for demodulating and decoding AIS messages using the line/mic input of the sound card. Connect the discriminator output of a VHF receiver tuned to either 161.975 MHz or 162.075 MHz to the line/mic input. Then run gnuais with no options or with some of the options described below.
A summary of options is included below.
-c <filename>
Specify config file to use. If not specified, a gnuais.conf file in the current directory is searched for, if not found, ~/.config/gnuais/config is used.
-f
Runs gnuais in the background.
-h
Shows the short command use info.
-l <filename>
Runs with raw audio data from file
-s <filename>
Saves raw audio data to file
-e <level>
Log level: INFO, DEBUG, NOTICE, WARNING, ERR, CRIT, ALERT, EMERG
-o <dest>
Log destination: none, file, stderr, syslog.
-r <dir>
Log directory
-n <name>
Name of the log
This manual page was written by Ruben Undheim <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).