Re: [Xastir] ADS-B (planes)

2016-03-11 Thread Bill
And it's fascinating to see all the traffic being picked up from a little three inch antenna on top of the salt shaker using a twenty dollar radio dongle and open source software. > On Mar 11, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Curt Mills wrote: > > 'cuz we have two helo's in our

Re: [Xastir] Query on symbol ghosting

2016-03-11 Thread Lee Bengston
To Xastir development team, Please use the program as much as possible for your own use so that bugs annoy you and get fixed. :-) Lee - K5DAT P. S. Thanks for the updates, Curt. My 8 year old daughter likes to watch the planes on screen and then runs to the door to look outside when she knows

Re: [Xastir] Query on symbol ghosting

2016-03-11 Thread Curt Mills
Changes checked in. Note the new instructions for dump1090 (which fork of it to use) as well as new command-line parameters for starting it up. Switch to that and you'll receive a lot more airplane packets on the RTL dongles. On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Curt Mills

Re: [Xastir] Query on symbol ghosting

2016-03-11 Thread David A Aitcheson
On 03/11/2016 12:49 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Curt Mills wrote: > >> Never mind. There's a menu option called: "Include Expired Data" which >> makes expired data pop up again if people want to see it, so I'll just make >> the callsigns and

Re: [Xastir] Query on symbol ghosting

2016-03-11 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Curt Mills wrote: > Never mind. There's a menu option called: "Include Expired Data" which > makes expired data pop up again if people want to see it, so I'll just make > the callsigns and other bits attached to symbols go away when the

Re: [Xastir] Query on symbol ghosting

2016-03-11 Thread Curt Mills
Never mind. There's a menu option called: "Include Expired Data" which makes expired data pop up again if people want to see it, so I'll just make the callsigns and other bits attached to symbols go away when the symbol ghosts if that option is not enabled. Keeps the screen uncluttered. On Fri,

[Xastir] Query on symbol ghosting

2016-03-11 Thread Curt Mills
This week I fixed a bug having to do with proximity circles/hurricane circles/tracked-station circles not ghosting when the symbol ghosts. I haven't checked in those changes yet but they are forthcoming. There are most likely additional "things" attached to symbols which do not ghost, so I'll be