Found an Linux Container (lxc) system with a working OpenBTS system in it - when ahead and transferred it over to a Docker image and uploaded to dockerhub. Just tested on a third notebook and it came up working; a BLU phone and a DZ09 watch camped on, dialed test tone (2602), send sms, etc. Mini not supported. About 420MB to pull the image.
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Looking forward to test this when I have good internet connection
I’m new to dockers, can I use this with a windows mahine ? or do I need a linux vm and add docker to it?
Ok, so I tried in on Ubuntu VM and had the docker installed on top of it,
I can get everything to work, I can see the network. but I can’t register the device, I tried to re-attach to the screen with trx but got this weird message
[INFO] [UHDSoapyDevice] L
ERR 139962247116544 08:24:22.5 UHDDevice.cpp:1382:write: Skipping buffer data: timestamp=389115720 time_end=389107560
ERR 139962247116544 08:24:22.5 UHDDevice.cpp:1382:write: Skipping buffer data: timestamp=389115720 time_end=389107560
[INFO] [UHDSoapyDevice] L
[INFO] [UHDSoapyDevice] L
[INFO] [UHDSoapyDevice] L
[INFO] [UHDSoapyDevice] L
[INFO] [UHDSoapyDevice] L
[INFO] [UHDSoapyDevice] L
[INFO] [UHDSoapyDevice] L
[INFO] [UHDSoapyDevice] L
whenever I try to register a device I get the above error about skipping something
but anyhow, I didn’t understand the last lines in this link Docker
do I need to register the phone manually ?
Register your phone sim with: # /OpenBTS/nmcli.py sipauthserve subscribers create "nameofthephone" IMSItheimsi where IMSItheimsi is the string 'IMSI' followed by the numbers, example: # /OpenBTS/nmcli.py sipauthserve subscribers create BLUPhone IMSI901700000005100
Great job with the docker, thanks very much for the effort, by the way, for the osmo, which docker should I start testing ? 3 ?
Thank you so much for docker image, I managed to use it and get the following output, however I can’t seem to authenticate even after adding my imsi using the /OpenBTS/nmcli.py command
ps: I think there is a typo it should be ( ./nmcli.py sipauthserve subscribers create name imsi msisdn) instead of ( ./nmcli.py sipauthserve subscribers create name msisdn) missing the keyword “imsi”
anyhow I get this output, meaning that everything is working great, but I want to check the logs to see what’s happening, but I didn’t find them in the usual place, /var/log/OpenBTS.log. are they being stored somewhere else ?
OpenBTS> tmsis
IMSI TMSI IMEI AUTH CREATED ACCESSED TMSI_ASSIGNED
60601011XXXXX - 86741XXXX280 0 29m 29m 0
6060010XXXX93 - 357201XXXX04190 0 33m 33m 0
60600400XXXX485 - 352901XXXX69780 0 34m 34m 0
6060040XXXX4 - 867418033XXXX0 0 54m 54m 0Um, page 30 of The Book { http://openbts.org/site/wp-content/uploads/ebook/Getting_Started_with_OpenBTS_Range_Networks.pdf } has the nmcli.py format with an example and a warning that they want the string of numbers preceeded with IMSI, like IMSI214057715229963 alltogether with no space. You can read the subscribers to verify they are created as expected with:
root@feb140e4e238:/OpenBTS# ./nmcli.py sipauthserve subscribers read
raw request: {"command":"subscribers","action":"read","key":"","value":""}
raw response: {
"code" : 200,
"data" : [
{
"imsi" : "IMSI310410721544479",
"msisdn" : "3045080",
"name" : "h2ocard"
},
{
"imsi" : "IMSI901700000022770",
"msisdn" : "3045120",
"name" : "sysmocard1"
},
{
"imsi" : "IMSI310260833855921",
"msisdn" : "3045080",
"name" : "tracSIM"
},
{
"imsi" : "IMSI901700000005100",
"msisdn" : "3045100",
"name" : "BLUPhone"
}
]
}
Actually, an unregistered phone should get an sms text message “your handset is not provisioned for this network” - - that was my first happy breakthrough 
All that is per the Location Update configs:
OpenBTS> config Control.LUR
Control.LUR.404RejectCause 0x04 [default]
Control.LUR.AttachDetach 1 [default]
Control.LUR.FailMode ACCEPT [default]
Control.LUR.FailedRegistration.Message Your handset is not provisioned for this network. [default]
Control.LUR.FailedRegistration.ShortCode 1000 [default]
Control.LUR.NormalRegistration.Message (disabled) [default]
Control.LUR.NormalRegistration.ShortCode 0000 [default]
Control.LUR.OpenRegistration (disabled) [default]
Control.LUR.OpenRegistration.Message Welcome to the test network. Your IMSI is [default]
Control.LUR.OpenRegistration.Reject (disabled) [default]
Control.LUR.OpenRegistration.ShortCode 101 [default]
Control.LUR.QueryClassmark 0 [default]
Control.LUR.QueryIMEI 0 [default]
Control.LUR.RegistrationMessageFrequency FIRST [default]
Control.LUR.SendTMSIs 0 [default]
Control.LUR.UnprovisionedRejectCause 0x04 [default]
which are explained here: http://openbts.org/w/index.php?title=OpenBTSConfig
with more here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_procedures
and here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobility_management#Location_update_procedure
thanks for the reply
page 29 of the same book says that the comand is as follows
./nmcli.py sipauthserve subscribers create name imsi msisdn
anyhow, I tried to usse the same example that you did and got an error, when I did it the other way, I get status 200 or something and the word OK. I honestly didn’t check the subscriber list, but I will in future tests.
**Edit: **
turns out you are right, however it was mssing the (msisdn) which is from what I understood is the phone number assigned to the phone with openbts. so the command becomes (/OpenBTS/nmcli.py sipauthserve subscribers create “huaweiSim1” IMSI606010112570110 3045102)
{
"imsi" : "IMSI606004010962824",
"msisdn" : "3045100",
"name" : "huaweiSim2"
},
{
"imsi" : "IMSI606010112570110",
"msisdn" : "3045102",
"name" : "huaweiSim1"
}
I even allowed open registration as the book explains in chapter 6, (output of config Control.LUR is below) but that also didn’t work ! not sure how to troubleshoot this.
OpenBTS> config Control.LUR
Control.LUR.404RejectCause 0x04 [default]
Control.LUR.AttachDetach 1 [default]
Control.LUR.FailMode ACCEPT [default]
Control.LUR.FailedRegistration.Message Your handset is not provisioned for this network. [default]
Control.LUR.FailedRegistration.ShortCode 1000 [default]
Control.LUR.NormalRegistration.Message (disabled) [default]
Control.LUR.NormalRegistration.ShortCode 0000 [default]
Control.LUR.OpenRegistration .*
Control.LUR.OpenRegistration.Message Welcome to IslandNet! Call or text 101 for
Control.LUR.OpenRegistration.Reject (disabled) [default]
Control.LUR.OpenRegistration.ShortCode 101 [default]
Control.LUR.QueryClassmark 0 [default]
Control.LUR.QueryIMEI 0 [default]
Control.LUR.RegistrationMessageFrequency FIRST [default]
Control.LUR.SendTMSIs 0 [default]
Control.LUR.UnprovisionedRejectCause 0x04 [default]
anyhow, is the SMS sent by default or is there some config that I need to do, because all I got was error in registration.
also**, I need to know where the logs are stored in the docker that you made, as I said in the previous comment, they are not in their default place as per the book.**
Also, instead of using screens, I used this Stackoverflow post to get multiple terminals for the same docker.
thanks again @cswiger for the effort and your responses.let me know what you think
