Listen to your receiver live, tune it, and play back everything it recorded.
It's the code in the install command we sent you, like DT-AB12-CD34.
sudo docker restart docktalk-node, or unplug its power for 10 seconds and plug it back in.
It's back on the air within a couple of minutes, and this note goes away once it has your settings.Thanks for running a station. Your iPhone gets DockTalk Pro free, for life. Install DockTalk from the App Store first, then:
Your box's audio exactly as it sends it, before any DockTalk processing. A channel stays silent until someone transmits, so leave one playing.
Stories your box captured that made it into the app. Tap one to replay it the way the app does: the chart, who's talking, and the real audio.
Measured from what your box actually captured: openings over the last week (or since your box started on its current settings), clarity over the last week, noise over the last few hours. A suggestion appears only when these numbers show what it would do, and says what it's based on. After you change something, this page measures what the change did.
How much the radio amplifies the antenna. Lower it if loud boats sound harsh or distorted; raise it if calls arrive too quiet. Gain turns up the noise along with the boats, so more isn't better.
How strong a signal must be, in dB above the noise, before your box records it. Higher records less static but can cut faint calls; lower catches fainter boats but records more static. Leave a box empty to use DockTalk's setting. Allowed: dB.
| Channel | Openings | Clarity | Squelch | Suggestion |
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Your own receiver sets gain and squelch on this install; DockTalk relays what it publishes.
Every call your box captured, and its full round-the-clock recording, kept since your box went on watch. Times are harbor time ().
| Hour | Channel | Size |
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Your box can also play its channels straight to any phone or computer on the same network, with DockTalk out of the middle. It's off unless you turn it on, because it's the one thing on the box that accepts a connection (read-only, from your own network).
Turn it on: on your box, run your install command again with --listen at the end.
Nothing is lost; it takes a few minutes.
Then open on any device on that network.
To turn it off, run the same command with --no-listen instead.
Home-network listening runs on dedicated DockTalk boxes. On this install your own radio software already plays your receiver locally.
Your box tunes every channel on its list at once with one radio dongle. When a channel's signal rises above its squelch, the box streams that audio to DockTalk over an ordinary outbound internet connection. DockTalk cuts each transmission into a call, transcribes it, and builds the stories in the app. Your box accepts no connections from the internet, and it updates its own software daily.
Your box downloads its settings when it starts. On newer boxes, saving marks the box for a restart: within 5 to 7 minutes it restarts on its own and comes back on the air, and the banner at the top shows while that's happening. Older boxes can't restart themselves, so the banner asks you to restart yours. If the box is offline when you save, it picks up the settings the next time it starts. Your settings stay until you change them; software updates don't touch them.
The channel list comes from your harbor's plan, and all channels must fit in one 2.4 MHz slice of the band. To add or drop a channel, email hello@docktalk.app; it's a settings change on our side and a restart on yours.
Marine VHF is public airwaves. Your public station page never shows your name or address, only a call name and an area. This page is private to your claim code; keep that code to yourself.