So there's this not so new tracking device that's nothing more than a GPS on the end of an RF serial link like this
http://www.eggtimerrocketry.com/page21.php or probably this https://www.missileworks.com/t3/ and definitely some stuff I've built. I've been using a perl script that reads this NMEA, prepends "MYCALL>GPSAO:" and feeds it to xastir's server port. In a fit of insanity I looked at the xastir code and it seems I can create a new interface type and modify interface.c/pop_incoming_data() to prepend the APRS prefix to the NMEA data. Of course there would also need to be a new interface GUI to configure the remote tracker's call, etc as well as the standard serial port stuff. questions: is modifying the incoming string in the interface code a reasonable way to do this? am I on the right track at looking at pop_incoming_data() as the correct place to modify the incoming string? can pop_incoming_data() return more than one APRS record at a time? is this a feature that would be potentially desirable? Is there anyone besides me and Kurt S that would use it? I won't ask if I'm insane, because I have a strict policy of not asking questions I don't want to know the answer to. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list Xastir-dev@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev