Lilacsat-2 - how to decode telemetry (in Windows)?

I’ve received TM from Lilacsat-2, and used the sound modem to create the hex text - see image. I tried to read this data into the various Lilacsat-2 TM decoders for Windows, but all TM values are zero :frowning: The hex file is not being decoded into real TM data.

Can someone help me to understand how I can ‘convert’ this hex data into real TM? What software app works with the text file?

LILACSAT-A.txt (268 Bytes)

Save the received frames into a kiss file and open it with the Lilacsat Telemetry decoder by DK3WN. You can get it here:
Software - DK3WN SatBlog

^^^ Google tells me that the KSS format is a comma-separated ASCII file of extension .kss. But the hs_soundmodem format looks like this:

1: [LILACSAT2] [20:05:57R]
[RS_err:0 len:74]
A6 54 24 00 13 A1 3A 02 0A 1A E9 09 A2 19 ED 03 80 0A 06 00 01 00 01 03 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 E0 F2 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 12 C3 00 00 23 00 00 00 00 3F FC B3 E5

and there are definitely no commas in that file and no visible software option to save it as a kiss file. Do I simply save that text as a file ‘lilacsat.kss’ ?

Link your SoundModem with any of the DK3WN tools to create kiss files (like Getkissplus or AGW_online_kiss) via Kiss Server Port. So all the frames received by the HS-SoundModem will be stored as a kiss file. Once you have the kiss file, you can open it with the Lilacsat telemetry decoder and see, the telemetry data

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Thanks! I seem to have got it all working, with Lilacsat-2 TN parameters displayed in their decoder.

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