Re: [Xastir] Light weight APRS client with smart beaconing support for Raspberry PIs

[David Ranch]

I don't know what you mean by this. It looks like it's all there to 
me: https://github.com/kk7ds/dantracker/blob/master/aprs.c#L1688 
course change (corner pegging) and speed based posits. What "true 
SmartBeacon" feature didn't you find? 


Directly from Dan's own post about it:

http://www.danplanet.com/blog/2011/03/20/a-custom-aprs-tracker-with-a-real-screen/
--
. .  I implemented intelligent (i.e. speed and turn-sensitive) beaconing 
logic, although I'm hesitant to call it SmartBeaconing 
 exactly.

--

Anyway.. I'll give Dan's tracker a shot and see how it goes.


--David
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Re: [Xastir] Light weight APRS client with smart beaconing support for Raspberry PIs

[Tom Hayward]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:15 AM, David Ranch  wrote:
>
>> Check out dantracker. It has a GUI, but sounds like it's pretty close to
>> what you're looking for. It does smartbeaconing.
>
>
> I found Dan's "Dan Tracker" software after sending that email last night and
> emailed him to get an update.  It seems it doesn't support the true
> SmartBeacon features but it's smarter than a simple time delayed beacon too.

I don't know what you mean by this. It looks like it's all there to me:
https://github.com/kk7ds/dantracker/blob/master/aprs.c#L1688

course change (corner pegging) and speed based posits. What "true
SmartBeacon" feature didn't you find?

Tom KD7LXL
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Re: [Xastir] Light weight APRS client with smart beaconing support for Raspberry PIs

[Tom Hayward]

On Sep 2, 2013 9:27 PM, "David Ranch"  wrote:
>
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Since the list has been pretty quiet, I thought I'd send this out tothe 
> group.  I have a Raspberry Pi and a TNC-Pi which it works pretty wellbut I'd 
> like to turn it into a an APRS tracker and digi. For the tracker side, I have 
> a working USB GPS unit that's spitting out the expected NEMA sentences but 
> I'd like something that supports SmartBeaconing and not just periodic beacons.

Check out dantracker. It has a GUI, but sounds like it's pretty close
to what you're looking for. It does smartbeaconing.

http://www.pa0esh.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89&Itemid=106
https://github.com/kk7ds/dantracker

Tom KD7LXL
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Re: [Xastir] Light weight APRS client with smart beaconing support for Raspberry PIs

[David Ranch]

Check out dantracker. It has a GUI, but sounds like it's pretty close 
to what you're looking for. It does smartbeaconing. 


I found Dan's "Dan Tracker" software after sending that email last night 
and emailed him to get an update.  It seems it doesn't support the true 
SmartBeacon features but it's smarter than a simple time delayed beacon 
too.  I emailed Dan to understand what the current state of affairs are 
on it as he has his fingers in so many projects: Chirp (multi radio / 
multi platform memory programmer), D-RATS (chat, file transfer program 
for slow speed Dstar), etc.


Dixprs looks nice and I like that it's written in Python but it looks to 
be a feature-packed APRS *server* and not really a client (no 
SmartBeaconing) just like Digi_ned and others.  I'm surprised there 
really aren't many light weight clients out there especially considering 
little boards like the Rpi, BeagleBone, etc.


--David
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Re: [Xastir] Light weight APRS client with smart beaconing support for Raspberry PIs

[Ray Wells]

I used dixprs on the Pi for some time and I'd recommend it as a non-gui 
aprs program. I still use it (on a 600MHz P3, to suit some old hardware 
- Baycom USCC>4 card) and I send beacons via the spool directory. It's 
actively supported by the author who welcomes suggestions for new features.


There is a Yahoo group.

Ray vk2tv


On 03/09/13 15:03, Andrew Errington wrote:

Have you looked at DIXPRS?

https://sites.google.com/site/dixprs/sending-packets-from-external-sources

People have it running on a Pi.

It doesn't do smart beaconing natively, but as you can see from the link
above it will send packets created externally to the application.

It's Open Source, so you could add some stuff into DIXPRS to listen to a
GPS and format some packets, but maybe you can write a standalone program
that does that.  It would incorporate the smart beaconing algorithm and
dump a packet into the spool directory when it decides one should be sent.

73,

Andrew
ZL3AME


On 3 September 2013 12:37, David Ranch  wrote:


Hello Everyone,

Since the list has been pretty quiet, I thought I'd send this out tothe
group.  I have a Raspberry Pi and a TNC-Pi which it works pretty wellbut
I'd like to turn it into a an APRS tracker and digi. For the tracker side,
I have a working USB GPS unit that's spitting out the expected NEMA
sentences but I'd like something that supports SmartBeaconing and not just
periodic beacons. Looking at the very comprehensive table at
http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_**capabilities.html(it's
 missing digi_ned though which is rather comprehensive otherwise),
only Xastir and YACC seemto have smart beaconing but both are GUI *only*
applications.  I'm really looking for something that doesn't require
Xwindowsand is lightweight(Java doesn't strike me as very light).

So.. does this exist?  Maybe there are tricks to make either of these
programs NOT require to run a GUI what so ever?  Other alternatives?

--David
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Re: [Xastir] Light weight APRS client with smart beaconing support for Raspberry PIs

[Liz]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:10:08 +0900
Andrew Errington  wrote:

> I expect it's 8.5W.

That's a polite way of saying that I'm not doing any better than the
Chinese.
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Re: [Xastir] Light weight APRS client with smart beaconing support for Raspberry PIs

[Andrew Errington]

I expect it's 8.5W.


On 3 September 2013 13:56, Liz  wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:37:28 -0700
> David Ranch  wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Since the list has been pretty quiet, I thought I'd send this out
> > tothe group.  I have a Raspberry Pi and a TNC-Pi which it works
> > pretty wellbut I'd like to turn it into a an APRS tracker and digi.
> > For the tracker side, I have a working USB GPS unit that's spitting
> > out the expected NEMA sentences but I'd like something that supports
> > SmartBeaconing and not just periodic beacons. Looking at the very
> > comprehensive table at http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html
> > (it's missing digi_ned though which is rather comprehensive
> > otherwise), only Xastir and YACC seemto have smart beaconing but both
> > are GUI *only* applications.  I'm really looking for something that
> > doesn't require Xwindowsand is lightweight(Java doesn't strike me as
> > very light).
> >
> > So.. does this exist?  Maybe there are tricks to make either of these
> > programs NOT require to run a GUI what so ever?  Other alternatives?
> >
> > --David
> > KI6ZHD
>
> I've got the Pi partly set up to be the car-Pi, and decided on a
> display from Lilliput which runs through the USB interface.
> I've got xastir installed but not set up, and need a beefy 12V > 5V
> converter to run the gear.
> My intention is to interface it into a HF set and have APRS on 40m
> The screen says its power consumption is 8.5V, which I presume is
> Chinese for 8.5A.
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Re: [Xastir] Light weight APRS client with smart beaconing support for Raspberry PIs

[Andrew Errington]

Have you looked at DIXPRS?

https://sites.google.com/site/dixprs/sending-packets-from-external-sources

People have it running on a Pi.

It doesn't do smart beaconing natively, but as you can see from the link
above it will send packets created externally to the application.

It's Open Source, so you could add some stuff into DIXPRS to listen to a
GPS and format some packets, but maybe you can write a standalone program
that does that.  It would incorporate the smart beaconing algorithm and
dump a packet into the spool directory when it decides one should be sent.

73,

Andrew
ZL3AME


On 3 September 2013 12:37, David Ranch  wrote:

>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Since the list has been pretty quiet, I thought I'd send this out tothe
> group.  I have a Raspberry Pi and a TNC-Pi which it works pretty wellbut
> I'd like to turn it into a an APRS tracker and digi. For the tracker side,
> I have a working USB GPS unit that's spitting out the expected NEMA
> sentences but I'd like something that supports SmartBeaconing and not just
> periodic beacons. Looking at the very comprehensive table at
> http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_**capabilities.html(it's
>  missing digi_ned though which is rather comprehensive otherwise),
> only Xastir and YACC seemto have smart beaconing but both are GUI *only*
> applications.  I'm really looking for something that doesn't require
> Xwindowsand is lightweight(Java doesn't strike me as very light).
>
> So.. does this exist?  Maybe there are tricks to make either of these
> programs NOT require to run a GUI what so ever?  Other alternatives?
>
> --David
> KI6ZHD
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Re: [Xastir] Light weight APRS client with smart beaconing support for Raspberry PIs

[Liz]

On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:37:28 -0700
David Ranch  wrote:

> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Since the list has been pretty quiet, I thought I'd send this out
> tothe group.  I have a Raspberry Pi and a TNC-Pi which it works
> pretty wellbut I'd like to turn it into a an APRS tracker and digi.
> For the tracker side, I have a working USB GPS unit that's spitting
> out the expected NEMA sentences but I'd like something that supports
> SmartBeaconing and not just periodic beacons. Looking at the very
> comprehensive table at http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html
> (it's missing digi_ned though which is rather comprehensive
> otherwise), only Xastir and YACC seemto have smart beaconing but both
> are GUI *only* applications.  I'm really looking for something that
> doesn't require Xwindowsand is lightweight(Java doesn't strike me as
> very light).
> 
> So.. does this exist?  Maybe there are tricks to make either of these 
> programs NOT require to run a GUI what so ever?  Other alternatives?
> 
> --David
> KI6ZHD

I've got the Pi partly set up to be the car-Pi, and decided on a
display from Lilliput which runs through the USB interface.
I've got xastir installed but not set up, and need a beefy 12V > 5V
converter to run the gear.
My intention is to interface it into a HF set and have APRS on 40m
The screen says its power consumption is 8.5V, which I presume is
Chinese for 8.5A.
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[Xastir] Light weight APRS client with smart beaconing support for Raspberry PIs

[David Ranch]

Hello Everyone,

Since the list has been pretty quiet, I thought I'd send this out tothe 
group.  I have a Raspberry Pi and a TNC-Pi which it works pretty wellbut 
I'd like to turn it into a an APRS tracker and digi. For the tracker 
side, I have a working USB GPS unit that's spitting out the expected 
NEMA sentences but I'd like something that supports SmartBeaconing and 
not just periodic beacons. Looking at the very comprehensive table at 
http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html (it's missing digi_ned 
though which is rather comprehensive otherwise), only Xastir and YACC 
seemto have smart beaconing but both are GUI *only* applications.  I'm 
really looking for something that doesn't require Xwindowsand is 
lightweight(Java doesn't strike me as very light).


So.. does this exist?  Maybe there are tricks to make either of these 
programs NOT require to run a GUI what so ever?  Other alternatives?


--David
KI6ZHD
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