Thank-you Tom & Curt, I will give a try with Capital letters 😉
> Le 24 mai 2018 à 17:27, Curt, WE7U <curt.w...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> On Sat, 19 May 2018, MLHPUB wrote: >> >> May I suggest 3 ideas for Xastir after few years of use ? >> >> 1- Queries >> It should be great if Xastir could answer APRS queries (?aprsh or ?aprsd for >> instance, and others). These are really usefull to test stations >> capabilities especially on HF (or other bands of course) when propgation is >> good ! > > Some queries are implemented in src/db.c:process_directed_query() and > process_query(). Others could be implemented there fairly easily if someone > had the time/desire to do so. I don't have the time right now but perhaps > someone else will pick this up. > > >> 2- Message timer >> Other stations, digi or igate, are sometimes slow to react facing Xastir >> which retry a message quickly after the first sent. I noticed this >> "aggressive" behavior especially with slow links (300bds HF). >> Can we imagine an adjustable timer for this parameter ? >> Because it looks progressive when retries are growing (APRS specs ?), 3 >> steps could be possible : >> - quite >> - normal >> - aggressive > > As I recall Xastir does an exponential backoff on message ack's up to a max > delay. The initial delay is optimized for 1200-baud simplex links but it > quickly backs off: There shouldn't be many transmissions before it backs off > sufficiently for any link speed. > > I'm not sure another scheme is warranted here but that initial delay could > perhaps be made changeable. It would require several files to be changed > including the GUI. > > >> 3- Data and messages views >> Data view and messages view are really usefull to monitor trafic but I think >> date and time informations are missing. >> How about add this in a short field for each line on these monitor windows ? > > Seems reasonable as long as the windows don't get extended horizontally much. > Alternately could throw timestamps in on another line above them and not > extend the window. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. http://we7u.wetnet.net > APRS Wiki: http://info.aprs.net/ > Coordinate Converter (Android): http://www.sarguydigital.com > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@lists.xastir.org > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
