feat(tci): receive audio over the TCI WebSocket (experimental)

A SunSDR already carries its receive audio on the same WebSocket as its
commands, so a virtual audio cable and a second sound card are two pieces
of plumbing an operator installs for no reason. This is the receive half:
what the QSO recorder and the CW decoder need.

The reader now looks at the frame type. It used to ignore it and split
every frame on ';' -- harmless only for as long as no stream was ever
opened, since audio bytes would otherwise have been handed to the command
parser a hundred times a second.

NOTHING HERE IS CONFIRMED ON A RADIO. The header layout comes from the
TCI documentation, and the stream-type numbers are exactly the sort of
detail a document gets right and a memory of it does not -- so the first
forty frames of a session are logged verbatim, and a test bench in
Preferences > Audio reports the sample rate the radio chose, the frames
arriving and the peak level of the last second. 'The stream is open' and
'audio is arriving' are different claims and only the second is worth
anything to whoever tries this first.

Transmit (the voice keyer) is the other half and is deliberately absent:
it has to answer the radio's chrono packets at the right pace, and that
is worth doing once the format is settled on real hardware.
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2026-08-24 20:34:06 +02:00
parent ea302966d5
commit efa711af78
10 changed files with 439 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ type TCI struct {
OnSpotClick func(callsign string, freqHz int64)
unhandledSeen map[string]bool // log each unknown TCI message type once
// audio holds the receive-audio stream — see tci_audio.go. TCI carries it
// on this same WebSocket, which is what lets a SunSDR record and decode
// without a virtual audio cable in the way.
audio tciAudio
mu sync.Mutex // guards conn + writes + state
conn *websocket.Conn
dialCancel context.CancelFunc // cancels an in-flight Connect dial (Interrupt/Stop)
@@ -354,10 +359,18 @@ func (t *TCI) send(cmd string) error {
// connection closes.
func (t *TCI) reader(conn *websocket.Conn) {
for {
_, data, err := conn.ReadMessage()
mt, data, err := conn.ReadMessage()
if err != nil {
break
}
// TEXT frames are commands, BINARY frames are streams. The type used to
// be ignored and every frame split on ';' — harmless only for as long as
// no stream was ever opened, since audio bytes would then have been fed
// to the command parser a hundred times a second.
if wsMessageIsBinary(mt) {
t.handleBinary(data)
continue
}
// A frame may carry several ";"-terminated commands.
for _, cmd := range strings.Split(string(data), ";") {
t.handle(strings.TrimSpace(cmd))
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@@ -0,0 +1,251 @@
//go:build windows
package cat
// TCI audio — receiving the radio's audio over the same WebSocket that carries
// the commands, so a SunSDR needs no virtual audio cable.
//
// TCI mixes two kinds of frame on one socket: TEXT frames are the commands
// ("trx:0,true;"), BINARY frames are streams. A binary frame is a fixed header
// followed by float32 samples:
//
// uint32 receiver which receiver the stream belongs to
// uint32 sampleRate Hz
// uint32 format 0 = float32
// uint32 codec 0 = uncompressed
// uint32 crc unused in practice
// uint32 length samples in the payload
// uint32 type which stream this is (see tciStream*)
// uint32 reserved[9]
// float32 payload[…] stereo, interleaved
//
// The stream is asked for with "audio_samplerate:" then "audio_start:<rx>;",
// and stopped with "audio_stop:<rx>;".
//
// NOTHING HERE IS CONFIRMED ON A RADIO YET. The layout above is read from the
// TCI documentation, and the stream-type numbers in particular are the sort of
// detail a document gets right and a memory of it does not — so every header is
// logged for the first few seconds of a session, and the numbers the radio
// actually sends will settle it. Same discipline as the Yaesu meters and the
// Flex spot feed: measure on the real thing, then write the constant down.
import (
"encoding/binary"
"fmt"
"math"
"sync"
"time"
"github.com/gorilla/websocket"
)
// TCI stream types. RX audio is the one this file consumes; the others are
// named so a log line says what arrived rather than "type 3".
const (
tciStreamIQ = 0
tciStreamRXAudio = 1
tciStreamTXAudio = 2
tciStreamTXChrono = 3
)
// tciHeaderWords is the header length in uint32 words (7 named + 9 reserved).
const tciHeaderWords = 16
// tciHeaderBytes is the same in bytes.
const tciHeaderBytes = tciHeaderWords * 4
// tciAudioProbeMax bounds the header logging. Enough frames to see the shape
// and the rate; few enough that an evening of listening does not fill the log.
const tciAudioProbeMax = 40
// TCIAudioStatus is what the panel polls while testing the stream.
type TCIAudioStatus struct {
Running bool `json:"running"`
SampleRate int `json:"sample_rate"`
Frames int64 `json:"frames"` // binary frames accepted
Samples int64 `json:"samples"` // audio samples decoded
// PeakDB is the loudest sample of the last second, in dBFS: the one number
// that says "audio is really arriving" rather than "a socket is open".
PeakDB float64 `json:"peak_db"`
LastErr string `json:"last_err,omitempty"`
}
// tciAudio is the receive-side state, kept on the backend so it lives exactly
// as long as the connection does.
type tciAudio struct {
mu sync.Mutex
want bool // the host asked for audio
rx int // which receiver
rate int
frames int64
samples int64
peak float64
peakAt time.Time
probe int
lastErr string
// OnSamples receives decoded MONO samples (the two channels averaged) at
// the negotiated rate. Mono because everything downstream — the QSO
// recorder, the CW decoder — works on one channel, and a receiver's two
// channels carry the same audio.
OnSamples func(rate int, samples []float32)
}
// StartTCIAudio asks the radio to stream receiver rx's audio.
func (t *TCI) StartTCIAudio(rx, rate int) error {
if rate <= 0 {
rate = 48000
}
t.audio.mu.Lock()
t.audio.want = true
t.audio.rx = rx
t.audio.rate = rate
t.audio.frames, t.audio.samples, t.audio.peak = 0, 0, 0
t.audio.probe = 0
t.audio.lastErr = ""
t.audio.mu.Unlock()
// Sample rate first: the radio applies it to the stream it is about to
// open, and asking afterwards restarts the stream on some firmware.
if err := t.send(fmt.Sprintf("audio_samplerate:%d;", rate)); err != nil {
return err
}
return t.send(fmt.Sprintf("audio_start:%d;", rx))
}
// StopTCIAudio closes the stream.
func (t *TCI) StopTCIAudio() error {
t.audio.mu.Lock()
t.audio.want = false
rx := t.audio.rx
t.audio.mu.Unlock()
return t.send(fmt.Sprintf("audio_stop:%d;", rx))
}
// TCIAudioStatus reports what has arrived.
func (t *TCI) TCIAudioStatus() TCIAudioStatus {
t.audio.mu.Lock()
defer t.audio.mu.Unlock()
st := TCIAudioStatus{
Running: t.audio.want,
SampleRate: t.audio.rate,
Frames: t.audio.frames,
Samples: t.audio.samples,
LastErr: t.audio.lastErr,
}
// A peak older than a second is not a level, it is a memory. Reported as
// silence rather than left standing, so a stream that has stopped arriving
// looks stopped.
if time.Since(t.audio.peakAt) < time.Second && t.audio.peak > 0 {
st.PeakDB = 20 * math.Log10(t.audio.peak)
} else {
st.PeakDB = -99
}
return st
}
// handleBinary decodes one binary WebSocket frame.
//
// Called from the reader goroutine. Anything malformed is counted and dropped:
// a stream frame is not worth breaking the command connection over, and the
// command connection is what keeps the radio usable.
func (t *TCI) handleBinary(data []byte) {
if len(data) < tciHeaderBytes {
t.audioErr(fmt.Sprintf("binary frame of %d bytes is shorter than a header", len(data)))
return
}
le := binary.LittleEndian
receiver := int(le.Uint32(data[0:]))
rate := int(le.Uint32(data[4:]))
format := le.Uint32(data[8:])
codec := le.Uint32(data[12:])
length := int(le.Uint32(data[20:]))
stype := int(le.Uint32(data[24:]))
t.audio.mu.Lock()
probe := t.audio.probe
if probe < tciAudioProbeMax {
t.audio.probe++
}
t.audio.mu.Unlock()
if probe < tciAudioProbeMax {
debugLog.Printf("TCI: binary frame — rx=%d rate=%d format=%d codec=%d length=%d type=%d payload=%d bytes",
receiver, rate, format, codec, length, stype, len(data)-tciHeaderBytes)
}
if stype != tciStreamRXAudio {
return // IQ, TX audio echo, chrono: not this file's business yet
}
if format != 0 || codec != 0 {
t.audioErr(fmt.Sprintf("stream is format=%d codec=%d, expected float32 uncompressed", format, codec))
return
}
payload := data[tciHeaderBytes:]
n := len(payload) / 4
if n == 0 {
return
}
// Stereo interleaved → mono. Both channels of a receiver carry the same
// audio, and everything downstream works on one.
mono := make([]float32, 0, n/2+1)
var peak float64
for i := 0; i+1 < n; i += 2 {
l := math.Float32frombits(le.Uint32(payload[i*4:]))
r := math.Float32frombits(le.Uint32(payload[(i+1)*4:]))
v := (l + r) / 2
if a := math.Abs(float64(v)); a > peak {
peak = a
}
mono = append(mono, v)
}
t.audio.mu.Lock()
t.audio.frames++
t.audio.samples += int64(len(mono))
if rate > 0 {
t.audio.rate = rate
}
if peak > t.audio.peak || time.Since(t.audio.peakAt) > time.Second {
t.audio.peak = peak
t.audio.peakAt = time.Now()
}
cb := t.audio.OnSamples
t.audio.mu.Unlock()
if cb != nil {
cb(rate, mono)
}
}
// audioErr records a decoding complaint, once, so the panel can show it without
// the log filling with the same line at fifty frames a second.
func (t *TCI) audioErr(msg string) {
t.audio.mu.Lock()
first := t.audio.lastErr != msg
t.audio.lastErr = msg
t.audio.mu.Unlock()
if first {
debugLog.Printf("TCI: audio: %s", msg)
}
}
// resumeAudio re-opens the stream after a reconnect, if the host had asked for
// it. A dropped WebSocket takes the audio with it, and an operator who switched
// recording on does not expect to switch it on again.
func (t *TCI) resumeAudio() {
t.audio.mu.Lock()
want, rx, rate := t.audio.want, t.audio.rx, t.audio.rate
t.audio.mu.Unlock()
if !want {
return
}
if err := t.StartTCIAudio(rx, rate); err != nil {
debugLog.Printf("TCI: re-opening the audio stream failed: %v", err)
}
}
// wsMessageIsBinary keeps the type test in one place — the reader used to
// ignore the message type entirely and split every frame on ';', which would
// have fed audio bytes to the command parser the moment a stream was opened.
func wsMessageIsBinary(mt int) bool { return mt == websocket.BinaryMessage }
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//go:build windows
package cat
import "fmt"
// TCIAudioController is the receive-audio capability of the TCI backend, kept
// as an interface for the same reason as the Flex and Yaesu ones: the host asks
// the manager, and a station running something else gets a clear "this backend
// does not do that" instead of a nil dereference.
type TCIAudioController interface {
StartTCIAudio(rx, rate int) error
StopTCIAudio() error
TCIAudioStatus() TCIAudioStatus
}
// TCIAudioState returns the stream's state, or (zero, false) when the active
// backend is not a TCI radio.
func (m *Manager) TCIAudioState() (TCIAudioStatus, bool) {
m.mu.RLock()
b := m.backend
m.mu.RUnlock()
if tc, ok := b.(TCIAudioController); ok {
return tc.TCIAudioStatus(), true
}
return TCIAudioStatus{}, false
}
// TCIAudioDo dispatches an audio command onto the CAT goroutine, like every
// other backend-specific control.
func (m *Manager) TCIAudioDo(fn func(TCIAudioController) error) error {
return m.exec(func(b Backend) error {
tc, ok := b.(TCIAudioController)
if !ok {
return fmt.Errorf("active CAT backend is not a TCI radio")
}
return fn(tc)
})
}