furuno FA-30 ais messages not being picked up by openCPN

[bobbylockes]

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup my openCPN version 4.4 to display ais targets received from my furuno FA-30 receiver connected to my windows laptop through direct ethernet cable connection (from FA-30 to ethernet adapter on laptop). I've set up wireshark on my laptop to confirm AIS messages are being received by my laptop . I've typed AIVDM messages into https://rl.se/aivdm and confirm some of them are clean messages that can be decoded eg !AIVDM,1,1,,B,13aL=:@P00PG4?BMqEl@0?vl26Ah,0*2E

wireshark shows that my furuno FA-30 is broadcasting aivdm messages

IPv4 source ip 172.31.24.2 destination ip 172.31.255.255
UDP source port 10033 destination port 10033

my computer ethernet adapter has been manually given an ip address on furunos broadcasting range
Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::992a:2e4d:880b:432a%12
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 172.31.24.4
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.31.24.1


(see attachment for full details)

So I thought I was all set. I started up openCPN went to options -> connections -> added connection -> network box ticked, UDP box ticked, ip address ( of the FA-30) 172.31.24.2 port 10033, I've ticket nmea logging debug and clicked apply.

The problem is that I'm receiving absolutely no ais data in openCPN not even in the nmea logging screen.

What have I done wrong?

many thanks!


My openCPN is not connected to a GPS.

[bobbylockes]

Cant see my screenshot attachments.. Will try to upload later.

[verkerkbr]

Did you use the correct cross over ethernet cable ?

And with a direct connection you dont' have a gateway.

I saw somewhere the settings for a FA-30. Probably the same as the FA-50:

172.031.024.002
subnet 255.255.000.000
gateway 000.000.000.000
navnet port 10000
hostname ais0
continues

There was also a recommendation to update the firmware and to leave the default IP unchanged.

Bram

[bobbylockes]

Hi bram,

thanks for the tips. Do you mean I should setup my laptop with a similar ip address and submark? I've descirbed in my initial post how the submask and coputer ip is configured on the ethernet network adapter. Wireshark screenshot can't be attached mmmfff, though it provided all the information and confirmation of the ais messages entering my laptops network card.
I've trawled through the opncpn docs but can't find anything to help solve this strange issue. wireshark sees UDP ais messages on a certain port 10021 or 10033 from a source ip address (accoridng to wireshark furuno fa-30 has a ip address 172.34.21.2) and a destination of 172.34.255.255. opencpn does not see these messages when windows is configured with 255.255.0.0 submask and a 172.34.21.4 ip address.... I think I'm going to have to download the opencpn source code!!! hahah

[verkerkbr]

Originally Posted by bobbylockes

Hi bram,

thanks for the tips. Do you mean I should setup my laptop with a similar ip address and submark? I've descirbed in my initial post how the submask and coputer ip is configured on the ethernet network adapter. Wireshark screenshot can't be attached mmmfff, though it provided all the information and confirmation of the ais messages entering my laptops network card.
I've trawled through the opncpn docs but can't find anything to help solve this strange issue. wireshark sees UDP ais messages on a certain port 10021 or 10033 from a source ip address (accoridng to wireshark furuno fa-30 has a ip address 172.34.21.2) and a destination of 172.34.255.255. opencpn does not see these messages when windows is configured with 255.255.0.0 submask and a 172.34.21.4 ip address.... I think I'm going to have to download the opencpn source code!!! hahah

I have no experience with FA-30. But I think you must use another IP on your computer. But leave the other settings the same.

You must have a fysical connection between your computer and the FA-30 first.

And then do the OpenCPN settings and use the port address.

Regards,


Bram

[bdbcat]

bobby...

Try setting your OpenCPN UDP input port address to "0.0.0.0". This should grab all UDP packets coming into your machine.

Also, you may want to look at your OCPN logfile to see that the ports are set as you expect.

Good Luck
Dave

[Panos]

Hi,
I m not familiar with FA 30 - I just read the manual and did some forums research. It seams that Furuno uses a proprietary protocol (Navnet) to exchange info between devices. This said you need a filter program between the laptops input port and openCPN witch extracts the NMEA 0183 AIS sentences. If you do a "NAVNET - openCPN compatible" google search you will find what is needed. Hopefully you know your way with computers - you will need it.

Panos
Cookelu meu -Tayana 37

[bdbcat]

bobby...

We sure would like to see a screenshot of the wireshark capture of an AIS packet....

Thanks
Dave

[bobbylockes]

I've take wireshark screenshots here (3 images showing all detail wireshark can show!)

wireshark furuno - Album on Imgur

The ais AIVDM message picked up by wireshark on my laptop at one moment in time is:
!AIVDM,1,1,,B,13`e?5PP1:PFw5TMs?KW0gw2R6I8,0*39

BTW I made sure the windows firewall is open on ports 10021(used by AIVDO message and port 10033 used bu AIVDM messages) but it didn't improve things.

I even ran the code of a small java UDP client that I foudn on the internet but that doesn't pick up any messages either. when I say this doesn;t work I mean it doesn't receive any messages on either port 10021 or 10033.

java code of receiver is here..

package ais_furuno_fa30;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.*;

public class Receiver {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int port = args.length == 0 ? 10021 : Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
        new Receiver().run(port);
    }

    public void run(int port) {    
    	DatagramSocket serverSocket = null;
    	try {
         serverSocket = new DatagramSocket(port);
        byte[] receiveData = new byte[8];

        System.out.printf("Listening on udp: %s:%d%n", 
                InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress(), port);     
        DatagramPacket receivePacket = new DatagramPacket(receiveData,
                           receiveData.length);
        
        //
        while(true)
        {
        	  //System.out.println("raw address: " + IPAddress);
              serverSocket.receive(receivePacket);
              String sentence = new String( receivePacket.getData(), 0,
                                 receivePacket.getLength() );
              System.out.println("RECEIVED: " + sentence);
              // now send acknowledgement packet back to sender     
              InetAddress IPAddress = receivePacket.getAddress();
             /*
        	 
             InetAddress IPAddress = InetAddress.getByName("127.0.0.1");
              String sendString = "polo";
              byte[] sendData = sendString.getBytes("UTF-8");
             // DatagramPacket sendPacket = new DatagramPacket(sendData, sendData.length,
               //    IPAddress, receivePacket.getPort());
              DatagramPacket sendPacket = new DatagramPacket(sendData, sendData.length,
                      IPAddress, 10034);
              serverSocket.send(sendPacket);*/
        }
        
      } catch (IOException e) {
              System.out.println(e);
              
      }
      finally{
    	  serverSocket.close();// should close serverSocket in finally block
      }
    }
}

[bobbylockes]

@dave, I tried configuring opencpn to 0.0.0.0 on both 10021 and 10033 but it didn't work.

@panos I'm checking out your advice. FOund a 7 year old post that sounds that its impossible without knowledge of furuno's protocol.
Furuno AIS w. Ethernet - Panbo Forum

However wireshark is showing me valid ais messages coming from furunos device. So I'm convinced I'm doing something wrong in java and openCPN and that the messages do not use some special navnet protocol. I don't know UDP but its stateless and just broadcasts messages as such there is no communiction between the laptop and furuno. FA-30 is telling wireshark about the boats my antenna is receiving ais messages from, but the messages are not being picked up by openCPN (or my simple udp receiver in java). I'm obvioulsy missing something obvious. It's not the firewall (I opened it and wireshark is picking up messages). It's not 0.0.0.0 in openCPN as still received nothing. Yet my java recevier receives nothing too. I'm stuck for ideas again.

[bobbylockes]

HI panos,

"This said you need a filter program between the laptops input port and openCPN witch extracts the NMEA 0183 AIS sentences."

perhaps this is indeed the problem. Perhaps wireshark shows everything regardless and openCPN is expecting a certain format (but then the java receiver didn't contain a filter and didn't pick anything up so I'm now trying to work out what wireshark is doing that simple UDP receiver is not).

many thanks!

[bcn]

Bobby..

just publish the wireshark traces.

[verkerkbr]

Is this also the solution for OpenCPN ?

http://furuno.custhelp.com/ci/fattac...et_Navnet2.pdf

[muttnik]

Originally Posted by bcn

just publish the wireshark traces.

+1. Let's see what the navnet preamble looks like before checking whether NULL bytes might be an issue :-)

[barnakiel]

Originally Posted by bobbylockes

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(accoridng to wireshark furuno fa-30 has a ip address 172.34.21.2) and a destination of 172.34.255.255. opencpn does not see these messages when windows is configured with 255.255.0.0 submask and a 172.34.21.4 ip address.... I think I'm going to have to download the opencpn source code!!! hahah

Or rather 31.24 ? A typo there I guess.

How does your Windows get the IP? Does the Furuno assign the IP? Can you get Furuno to use TCP rather than UDP?

Have you tried IP from 172.31.24.2 and ...1? Notice the Shark shows talker at ... 2 while the data from your ethernet interface seems to show ... 1 (?)

Try NavMon - see there if you get anything.

Imho if Wireshark can see the sentence, it is coming.

I have had plenty of nonsense trying to use udp, never a glitch over tcp though.

b.