Thank You! I feel a little embarrassed that this is on the Xastir FAQ... Sorry for the waist of bandwidth, but I thank Mike for pointing it out to me :)
-Joe KA3NAM http://www.damtravel.com On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Mike Fenske <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Here is a snippet from the Xastir FAQ on that subject: > >> 4.20 How to I redirect serial ports from one computer to another? >> >> For Linux, try a program called "remserial". It works as a >> client/server pair to do exactly what you want. Google should >> find it for you. One user was able to use a spare serial port >> on his windows box using "remserial" on the Linux computer and a >> program called "serproxy" on the windows machine. Another one I >> have to try for windows is comfoolery. See links below. >> >> Another option is to use a Perl script on each end to do the >> conversion. >> >> Yet another is to use "netcat". "man nc" or "man netcat" should >> tell you about it. It redirects tcpip data seamlessly under >> Linux. On SuSE the docs for it are in >> /usr/share/doc/packages/netcat. Try a command line like this: >> >> cat /dev/ttyS0 | nc -l -p 3000 >> or >> cat /dev/ttyS0 | netcat -l -p 3000 >> >> That should make a listening socket at port 3000 which listens >> to the /dev/ttyS0 serial port. "telnet localhost 3000" should >> show you any data coming in on that serial port. Connect Xastir >> across the network to that listening socket to get the data. >> >> If you want to put your GPS on a remote serial port, use the >> gpsd daemon to do it. >> >> if you wish to put your weather station on a remote serial port, >> investigate using OWW (for Dallas weather stations), wx200d >> daemon for some Radio Shack/Huger/Oregon Scientific weather >> stations, or Meteo daemon for Davis weather stations. >> >> You may also connect to a remote AGWPE instance for using remote >> TNC's/soundcards. Note that AGWPE runs only on Windows. >> >> Yet another which looks to be netcat recoded/extended: socat >> Comfoolery: http://www.brianpoe.com/comfoolery/ >> Serproxy: http://freshmeat.net/projects/serproxy/ >> Serproxy: http://www.lspace.nildram.co.uk/freeware.html >> Remserial: http://lpccomp.bc.ca/remserial/ >> Socat: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ >> > > Hope this helps. I have used a combination of Serproxy on a windows XP box > and remserial on a linux box to "add" mode serial ports to the linux > machine. > > 73, > > Mike Fenske > VE7MKF > > > Joe Bennett wrote: >> >> At one time I saw someone (on one of the many remailers I subscribe >> to) describe an application that allows you to create virtual ttySx on >> a Linux machine and tie it to another ttySx... I think it began with >> an "s" but I can't seem to find it in my mass of archives... Anyone >> have an idea on what I'm referring to? My target application would be >> to share serial GPS data and such from one (or many) of my Ubuntu >> boxes.... I'd like to figure out how to do this on M$ so I can write >> my app to create a "Franson" like virtual serial port, but Linux is >> the first step... >> >> Thanks! >> -Joe >> KA3NAM >> >> http://www.damtravel.com > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
