Hey David,This is Mickey, Flip's wife. the xastir site has "TBD" on the section for Igating. Other than how to turn on igating, there's no help. We've both looked to see how to do this, but no luck. I am sighted, he is not - but he has screen readers to read the stuff out to him. these are excerpts from the included readme files of xastir We are playing around with the idea of an IGate because there isn't one in our county.
From the readme.gettingstarted file: Enabling Street Address Lookup: ------------------------------- Download the USA.geocode file and install it into the /usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/ directory. This will enable the "Map->Find Address" menu option to work. Xastir will place a big "X" on the map at the street address it finds for you. This file is sometimes available at http://www.dementia.org/geocoder/tgr2003/ As an alternative you can download the individual state files that are located there. ========== From the readme file: (7) GATING WEATHER ALERTS, STATIONS, OBJECTS/ITEMS TO RF Gating NWS Weather Alerts to RF: -------------------------------- If you wish to gate NWS weather alerts from the Internet onto RF, you'll need to create a text file in the users directory as ~/.xastir/data/nws-stations.txt List each NWS station that you would like to transmit via RF. Wildcards are implied for lengths of 3 or greater. Here's what an example file looks like: ------------- Cut Here ------------- # # Seattle, WA SEANPW # # Portland, OR (any alert type) PDX # # Pendleton, OR PDTNPW # # Medford, OR MFRNPW # ------------- Cut Here ------------- All text should start at the beginning of the line. (Where can these - NWS abbreviations - be found????) Once that file is in place, you'll need to hook up to at least one Internet server that is feeding you the weather alerts. You'll also need to have at least one RF interface up and running with transmit enabled on that interface. Make sure that "Interfaces->Disable Transmit: All" is not selected. You should now be gating NWS weather messages to RF. Turn on igate logging and look at that log file to view what you're sending out via RF. Don't forget to turn off logging or set up auto-rollover of the log files, else your hard drive might fill up with logging info. Auto-rollover of log files is typically accomplished via CRON. (where do you find the servers to feed the weather alerts???) ========== Gating Stations, Objects/Items to RF: ------------------------------------- The latest code also allows gating packets from specific stations to RF using the above method (except object/item packets). You can also gate objects/items to RF by name. The same wildcarding rules apply as listed above. Callsigns or object/item names listed in this file are case-insensitive, so they'll match any case in received packets. Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, recommends gating these calls to RF: SCOUTS, SATERN, KIDS, REDCROSS, FOUR-H, YOUTH, GUARD, MARS, JOTA See his link: "Generic Callsigns for National Events" off this web page for his current list of recommended callsigns: http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/aprs.html _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
