For the video capture I fully recommend looking at the GMN pi based solution as it is pretty well automated, maintained and feeds into the global network so very well worth considering.?
Kind Regards
Miss Tracey Snelus?
Thanks for the info Tracey, I'll investigate, it sounds promising:-) our visual meteor station is PC based and an old video camera, at some point we will rebuild this, but whilst it is working it is best left alone I think:-)
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On 15 May 2024, at 12:37, Tracey Snelus <
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I believe that people are already successfully detecting meteors via radio backscatter using raspberry pi. I¡¯ve attached some links to projects that I have followed.?
I¡¯ve not tried a pi based solution yet as my pc does the trick just fine but it certainly looks achievable.?
If you were also considering using pi for meteor. Video detection then UKMON and the global meteor network are already very successfully running a pi based solution.?
Kind Regards
Miss Tracey Snelus?
Hi All,
I had a brief conversation with John Cook at the BAA Winchester Weekend about the feasibility of using a Raspberry Pi, SDR dongle and appropriate software to detect meteors, he suggested I post here.
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The last time I did meteor detection I was using a custom script I¡¯d created in SpectrumLab (see here ) with an X86 laptop and handheld scanner. At the time, I had investigated using a Raspberry Pi but they were pretty new, x86 software wasn¡¯t compatible and the project didn¡¯t go anywhere.
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Since then, USB SDR Dongles have been invented, Raspberry Pis are now on version 5 and the Pi 5 is significantly more powerful than the Win 98 Laptop I was using, has more memory, faster disk and network access etc. Windows has also come to ARM, I believe there is a Just in Time (JIT) re-complier that recompiles x86 software on the fly (JIT compilers are very fast), but I have no experience of this, also Linux SW has developed a huge amount so there might even be a mature Linux software solution (my main Laptop is Linux).
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Anyway - I¡¯m now thinking of trying again, creating a meteor detector to compliment the visual meteor detector my Astro Society (Crayford) already runs. The concept is a Raspberry Pi, USB SDR, and appropriate software. I¡¯d save the files to a NAS with remote cloud access so members can share any post processing/collation for reporting purposes.
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Do you know if anyone is already doing radio meteor detection on a Raspberry Pi? If so can you point me to the details? I¡¯m also interested in compatible USB SDR¡¯s and Compatible Analysis Software (like Spectrum Lab) I¡¯d like to know this is possible because I don¡¯t want to reinvent the wheel and I don¡¯t want to spend my societies cash finding out it can¡¯t be done! :-)
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Thanks,
Simon.
