On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:04:25AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > 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.
It was easy enough that Tom Hayward provided a patch to do just that. It is now committed in Xastir CVS, and you can get the updated code with a cvs update. Setting the Posit TX Interval to zero in the File->Configure->Timing dialog will stop Xastir from doing any timed beacons at all. Sending a USR2 signal to Xastir will cause it to beacon immediately (whether it's doing timed beacons or not). Thanks, Tom. -- 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
