[Xastir] Serial port mirroring (a bit OT)

[Joe Bennett]

Thank You! I feel a little embarrassed that this is on the Xastir
FAQ... Sorry for the waist of bandwidth, but I thank Mike for pointing
it out to me :)


-Joe
KA3NAM

http://www.damtravel.com



On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Mike Fenske <mfenske at telus.net> wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> Here is a snippet from the Xastir FAQ on that subject:
>
>>  4.20 How to I redirect serial ports from one computer to another?
>>
>>    For Linux, try a program called "remserial". It works as a
>>    client/server pair to do exactly what you want.  Google should
>>    find it for you.  One user was able to use a spare serial port
>>    on his windows box using "remserial" on the Linux computer and a
>>    program called "serproxy" on the windows machine. Another one I
>>    have to try for windows is comfoolery.  See links below.
>>
>>    Another option is to use a Perl script on each end to do the
>>    conversion.
>>
>>    Yet another is to use "netcat".  "man nc" or "man netcat" should
>>    tell you about it.  It redirects tcpip data seamlessly under
>>    Linux.  On SuSE the docs for it are in
>>    /usr/share/doc/packages/netcat.  Try a command line like this:
>>
>>        cat /dev/ttyS0 | nc -l -p 3000
>>    or
>>        cat /dev/ttyS0 | netcat -l -p 3000
>>
>>    That should make a listening socket at port 3000 which listens
>>    to the /dev/ttyS0 serial port.  "telnet localhost 3000" should
>>    show you any data coming in on that serial port.  Connect Xastir
>>    across the network to that listening socket to get the data.
>>
>>    If you want to put your GPS on a remote serial port, use the
>>    gpsd daemon to do it.
>>
>>    if you wish to put your weather station on a remote serial port,
>>    investigate using OWW (for Dallas weather stations), wx200d
>>    daemon for some Radio Shack/Huger/Oregon Scientific weather
>>    stations, or Meteo daemon for Davis weather stations.
>>
>>    You may also connect to a remote AGWPE instance for using remote
>>    TNC's/soundcards.  Note that AGWPE runs only on Windows.
>>
>>    Yet another which looks to be netcat recoded/extended:  socat
>>        Comfoolery:     http://www.brianpoe.com/comfoolery/
>>    Serproxy:       http://freshmeat.net/projects/serproxy/
>>    Serproxy:       http://www.lspace.nildram.co.uk/freeware.html
>>    Remserial:      http://lpccomp.bc.ca/remserial/
>>    Socat:          http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
>>
>
> Hope this helps. I have used a combination of Serproxy on a windows XP box
> and remserial on a linux box to "add" mode serial ports to the linux
> machine.
>
> 73,
>
> Mike Fenske
> VE7MKF
>
>
> Joe Bennett wrote:
>>
>> At one time I saw someone (on one of the many remailers I subscribe
>> to) describe an application that allows you to create virtual ttySx on
>> a Linux machine and tie it to another ttySx... I think it began with
>> an "s" but I can't seem to find it in my mass of archives... Anyone
>> have an idea on what I'm referring to? My target application would be
>> to share serial GPS data and such from one (or many) of my Ubuntu
>> boxes.... I'd like to figure out how to do this on M$ so I can write
>> my app to create a "Franson" like virtual serial port, but Linux is
>> the first step...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Joe
>> KA3NAM
>>
>> http://www.damtravel.com
>
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