On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 08:47:16AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > Hello Xastir users, > > I normally leave my sole home radio running packet on 145.050 here in > Northern California but it would be nice to get back to APRS. Now that > Hamlib has Kenwood D710 support (minimal but it does work), I'm looking > to expand what I can do. What I'm thinking is setting up sort of time > sharing system where I can QSY the radio and then inform the various > software systems to go do their thing. > > Question: Is there a way to send a signal to Xastir from an external > shell script, whatever to tell it to send an APRS beacon?
There is no such interface to Xastir that would allow an external program to trigger a beacon. That's not to say one couldn't add such a feature, but it's not there now. It is probably pretty easy to add a signal handler to do this. There's some signal handling code that causes Xastir to generate a PNG snaphot if it receives a SIGUSR1. One could probably create a signal handler for SIGUSR2 that causes "beacon now." I haven't tried this, but if one were interested in adding such a feature, one could probably copy all the code for SIGUSR1, change USR1 to USR2, and in the signal handler simply set "posit_next_time" to zero. If you feel like experimenting with that and get it to work, send us a patch and we'll add it to the code. There's tons of cool things that *could* be added to Xastir if someone had the time and inclination to do so. Your mentioning hamlib reminds me that it would be pretty cool if Xastir could do rig control (e.g. QSY support for frequency-spec objects, among other possibilities). But that's certainly more work than getting a "beacon now" signal working. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
