Testing AS with San Francisco AIS data

[tongmaster]

I am trying to test acquiring AIS data using the IP address in the OpenCPN help - 76.103.90.196:9009. I am not getting any data - can some one please confirm that it is working?

Many thanks,
Tongmaster.

[champ8242]

You can confirm it yourself.

ping 76.103.90.196

Pinging 76.103.90.196 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 76.103.90.196:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

[tongmaster]

Thanks, I did already try that but some servers are set to not respond to ping.

[transmitterdan]

If you are just interested in testing AIS data it can be done with the VDR plugin and a data file. If you are trying to test IP data input to O then I developed a simple Python tool that does that using VDR data files. You can find it on github under my CF moniker. It includes some test files and there are several other test files floating around the Internet.