[Xastir] Possible Feature Suggestion

[Alex Carver]

Lots of useful ideas but a lot of this could probably be made as an external program which connects to Xastir's server ports instead.  That keeps the Xastir code unchanged and essentially keeps Xastir as a gateway rather than the functional application.  This also makes it easier to tweak and add functionality without having to rebuild all of Xastir.


I haven't played much with the server port much so a question to the group:

If a packet arrives at the server port, will it be transmitted to all interfaces that have transmit enabled (assuming global transmit is enabled) or will it only go out on specific interface types?

--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Craig Anderson <acraiga at pacbell.net> wrote:

> From: Craig Anderson <acraiga at pacbell.net>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Possible Feature Suggestion
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 11:40 PM
> Cool idea!  This could be
> extended to include geo-fencing.  A message gets sent
> to any station, or a specific station, that reports from
> within a specified area.  You could define "warning
> areas" and "danger zones" for flooding or other hazards.
> 
> Or send a message to someone else if a specific call sign
> enters or leaves a defined area or crosses a boundary. 
> If a rider has gone outside the race boundary for example.
> 
> Or run a script on a call sign entering or leaving an area;
> e.g. a home-automation script that starts the coffee maker
> because you're almost home.
> 
> Time schedules and limits could be defined for any of the
> above.
> 
> Gee, we could go crazy with this!  :-)
> 
> Craig
> n6yxk
> 
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Chip G. wrote:
> 
> > I'm not up for attempting to code this right now, but
> just thought I'd mention it in case any one was interested.
> One of the many functions/features of Xastir and APRS is the
> ability to send messages to other APRS users. But often the
> station you'd like to send a message to is not there at the
> time. Xastir has a good decay routine for resends, but the
> delay between attempts can get quite long. What if there was
> the ability to send a delayed message. And because APRS has
> the ability to know when a station "checks-in," why not link
> the message send to the receipt of a new position (or other)
> packed from the desired station.
> > 
> > So for example, if I want to send to my wife's car
> (N1MLG-4), but she hasn't left work yet. I would bring up
> the delayed message window. I would enter in her callsign
> & SSID and then the message and click send. Xastir would
> begin to monitor and as soon as the next packet was received
> it would send the message back by either the default path,
> by the return path, or by a path I specify. A fancy
> variation would include an abort option (if not sent within
> the specified time it aborts lets the user know).
> > 
> > Thanks for considering the idea,
> > 
> > 
> > 73,
> > --de Chip (N1MIE) FN41bn
> > 
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