Cool idea! This could be extended to include geo-fencing. A message gets sent to any station, or a specific station, that reports from within a specified area. You could define "warning areas" and "danger zones" for flooding or other hazards.
Or send a message to someone else if a specific call sign enters or leaves a defined area or crosses a boundary. If a rider has gone outside the race boundary for example. Or run a script on a call sign entering or leaving an area; e.g. a home-automation script that starts the coffee maker because you're almost home. Time schedules and limits could be defined for any of the above. Gee, we could go crazy with this! :-) Craig n6yxk On Dec 3, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Chip G. wrote: > I'm not up for attempting to code this right now, but just thought I'd > mention it in case any one was interested. One of the many functions/features > of Xastir and APRS is the ability to send messages to other APRS users. But > often the station you'd like to send a message to is not there at the time. > Xastir has a good decay routine for resends, but the delay between attempts > can get quite long. What if there was the ability to send a delayed message. > And because APRS has the ability to know when a station "checks-in," why not > link the message send to the receipt of a new position (or other) packed from > the desired station. > > So for example, if I want to send to my wife's car (N1MLG-4), but she hasn't > left work yet. I would bring up the delayed message window. I would enter in > her callsign & SSID and then the message and click send. Xastir would begin > to monitor and as soon as the next packet was received it would send the > message back by either the default path, by the return path, or by a path I > specify. A fancy variation would include an abort option (if not sent within > the specified time it aborts lets the user know). > > Thanks for considering the idea, > > > 73, > --de Chip (N1MIE) FN41bn > > _______________________________________________ > 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
