[Xastir] My wish list

[Mike L]

Hi Curt,

Thanks for the reply and thanks for looking at the database/interface code
as well.

Mainly items 2&4 are in my mind for Disaster situations when you have an
APRS setup on location with a digipeater followed by an IGate station. In
past drills and once in a while when the real thing comes along you want to
know your digi is passing your traffic and the IGate is gating to the
internet. And yes, its the ISP that the gate is connected to not the aprs or
aprs2 servers that I worry about.

1&3 are more to my likes. I have a few pals in the area and my wife (also a
ham) who I would like to know status on. If there moving, their radio is on.


Mike, W2SWR


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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Mike L wrote:
>
>  1) In audio alarms, I would like to be able to setup a movement alarm for
>> at
>> least 5 callsign-ssid. This is a great option in UI-view to let you know
>> when a mobile station is back on the air.
>>
>> 2) digipeated audio alert to let you know when your station has been
>> digipeated.
>>
>> 3) The ability to track more than one station at a time.
>>
>> 4) Igate status message sent if the gate goes up or down.
>>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The standard place to add wish-list items is the
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xastir feature request tracker.
> There are a lot of items already listed there so make sure your
> items are not duplicated before adding new ones.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> That said, I don't know if anyone is looking at those items
> currently.  We've been fixing a few bugs over the last year and
> adding a few very minor features.  Mostly some of us have been
> looking ahead to a complete Xastir redesign.  Not that we're getting
> much done on that front yet, but the plan and the hope is still
> there that we will get the ball rolling soon.
>
> There's perhaps some interest at a college in taking on some of this
> task.  We're waiting to see right now.
>
> We probably have enough talent on this and the xastir-devel list to
> get something going, but I'm not sure whether the list of 15
> developers all have the needed skills...  I think some will have to
> come from the userbase so perhaps we'll pick up some more developers
> on the way.
>
> I personally started down the path of trying to segregate the
> database/interface code into a daemon twice now, and got busy doing
> other things each time so I didn't make much progress.
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>
> Next set of topics.
>
> 1) The movement alarms.  I don't know how to do that with the
> current code.  You can set up a radius and have it alarm you when
> something comes within, but you can't do it per callsign.a
>
> 2) Digipeated...  We have code now that does this on the status bar
> I think so it shouldn't be hard to tie that into the audio alerts.
> I guess it would be useful while driving but not a lot of people
> drive with an Xastir laptop.
>
> 3) Tracking more than one station:  You can set up one Xastir in the
> normal way, then turn on the server ports.  Start up additional
> Xastir's using the "-c path/file" command-line switch and attach
> them to "localhost:2023" which is the 1st Xastir's server port.
> Then you can track one station on each Xastir.  I know this is a
> pain, but it's one way to do it with the existing code.
>
> 4) Igate status message:  I haven't seen a need a for that, as I
> connect to a reliable server.  I assume you're talking about an
> internet server rather than an RF igate?  Xastir does have code to
> retry a downed server periodically and will recover, if you have
> that option set on the interface.  You can also connect to the DNS
> round-robin server, something like "rotate.aprs.net"???  I don't
> recall exactly, but when one goes down, Xastir will retry and get to
> usually a different one that works.
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U.                         <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer<http://www.eskimo.com/%7Earcher>
> >
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