[Xastir] bluetooth serial port issues

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Alex Carver <kf4lvz at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  You're not going to be able to MUX the devices easily if they speak only RS232.

It's doable if you throw around some $3.50 microcontrollers and don't
value your time. (:

The idea is to use a microcontroller to inteface to RS232 devices and
implement a multiplexing protocol on that end to shove all the data
over a single serial link (which could be wired or wireless).  On the
computer end, the mux/demux would be handled by a daemon that provided
ptys (or named pipes, etc) so that the host application (xastir) could
connect there.

It would be greatly simplified, since the data is from TNCs and GPS
units, if xastir (a) natively spoke MKISS, and (b) would accept NMEA
from an MKISS channel.  This would pretty much eliminate the host side
coding.

-Jason
kg4wsv