[Xastir] Display Questions

[Jason Godfrey]

Here is a check to make sure xastir is actually getting understandable data
from your TNC. Go to "View" and choose "Incoming Data". You should see a
bunch of lines with packets appearing. Mine shows (coming from an internet
connection):

 2:NET-> WA0FW-10>APU25N,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:=4500.33N/09330.64W-!SN!
WA0FW at Comcast.net {UIV32N}
 2:NET-> N0NAS-11>APN383,qAR,KC0TAF:!4556.65NS09424.00W#PHG6340 W3,MNn
147135p123LittleFalls www.14567.org
 2:NET->
N0BHC>APW280,RELAY2-2,qAR,KD0GQX-10:_10060256c130s000g000t062r000p000P000h39b10197wWXD
 2:NET-> AC0FO-10>T6TT1Y,PRKPNT*,WIDE2-1,qAS,K0DMF-10:'x&9l 
#/]
 2:NET-> W9NNS-8>APNU19,qAS,K0DMF-10:!4541.37NS09120.49W# /W9NNS-8 W3,WIn
METEOR HILL, WI UIDIGI 1.9B3


If you don't see anything or see complete garbage then something isn't right
between xastir and the TNC. (If you are seeing stations you should also see
announcements for new stations flash on the lower left of the screen.) If
you are seeing stations, then it is likely a display issue. Knowing which
will point us in the right direction.

Since you are on a Mac and I mentioned the "All Stations" menu item before-
depending on when the source code you grabbed is from xastir could crash
when you close the stations window on a Mac. If that happens you will have
to run "killall xastir" on the command line before you start up again or you
will see odd behavior. (The fix was checked in on 21st, and it looks like
the source package on sourceforge is from the 16th, so it is likely you
don't have the fix.)

- Jason, N0RPM

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Nikita Bogdanov
<nikita_bogdanov at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I am fairly sure that my TNC is working correctly (since on almost every rx
> I
> see a little red arrow flash on the bottom of the screen, far left of the
> information boxes) however I do can't seem to get any data up on the map. I
> have
> tried to change the bps to make sure that that was not the problem, but
> still no
> luck. I am using an OpenTracker+ with the KISS firmware, and the Serial
> KISS tnc
> interface.
>
> I have checked the Filter Data, and all seems fine as well. Any help would
> be
> appreciated.
>
> Nikita, KF5EFR
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jason Godfrey <godfreja at gmail.com>
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Sent: Tue, October 5, 2010 2:59:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Display Questions
>
> Another thing you could try is pulling up the station list and clicking (or
> may double clicking, I forget) on the icon next to a station. That should
> center the maps on that station so you can see if you were just in the
> wrong
> area.
>
> - Jason
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Tom wrote:
> >
> >  So now that I am receiving all sorts of traffic. How do I get it to show
> >> up on the map?
> >>
> >
> > Run through the options on
> >
> >    Station->Filter Data
> > and
> >    Station->Filter Display
> >
> > to make sure you didn't disable something important by mistake.
> > Some are enables, some are disables.
> >
> > Note that you can click on the dashed line on those dialogs to make
> > them stay around a while so you can enable/disable multiple items.
> >
> > --
> > Curt, WE7U.
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