[Xastir] pipe as TNC device?

[Alex Carver]

How are you going to mux the streams in the first place?

The socat utility can create a device on the fly that behaves as a standard serial port.  I actually have this set up for Xastir because the TNC/radio is not located in the same place as the computer running Xastir.  So a tiny computer puts the TNC on the network and a TCP connection is established between it and the socat instance on the Xastir machine.

--- On Tue, 3/24/09, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Xastir] pipe as TNC device?
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 9:55 PM
> I'm trying to multiplex some serial streams across a
> single serial
> link to cut down on cabling between the rigs and the
> computer (or
> eliminate cables entirely with bluetooth).
> 
> One idea would be MKISS, but we don't have MKISS
> support in xastir yet.
> 
> Another idea is a deamon that demuxes the streams, then
> feads each
> stream to a named pipe.
> 
> My question is this:  if I use this named pipe as the
> device special
> file name in a TNC interface configuration, will xastir
> behave
> correctly?
> 
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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