[Xastir] Config file for TM-D710A config script?

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 06:23:33PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jdeangelis at alumni.nd.edu> flavor, containing:
> Hi,
> 
> Okay, I must be really confused, then.  I have my TM-D710 connected via
> serial-USB cable to my computer.  This is "serial TNC," not KISS, isn't it?
> 
> With that in mind, what do I need to give Xastir to get it to start up and
> start reading data/submitting packets to the TNC?  There IS a necessary
> configuration file, or there isn't?

You will need a configuration file, but we don't have it in Xastir's
default set of ready-made configuration files, because nobody with commit
access has a device of that sort with which to test it, and nobody who's got
a D710 has submitted a tested, verified start-up file to us to add.

But if you look at the next note I posted, a fellow did post his D710 startup
file, and that might work (though I have no way to vouch for it).  Look at
that note, and copy the startup file he provides into a file called 
"tnc-startup.d710" in /usr/local/share/xastir/config (if that directory in 
fact is where your install of Xastir puts its config files).  In your
interface properties dialog of Xastir for your defined d710 interface,
put "tnc-startup.d710" in the box marked "TNC setup file name" and start
the interface.  The commands in the file should be sent off to the D710 to
take it out of APRS mode, put it into packet mode, and get it ready to talk
to Xastir.  Xastir should start displaying traffic in the "View->Incoming Data"
window.

The poster of that startup script did not post a stop script, but one could be
cobbled together from tnc-stop.d700 and a little knowledge of how the D710
commands differ from the D700's.

If the startup script in that post works for you, please let us know.  Now
that D710s are so common, it is high time we had a working D710 startup and
stop script in the repository.  If it works for you, we could add it to the 
repository.

> On Jul 1, 2011 6:10 PM, "Tom Russo" <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:51:54PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> >> On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Jarett DeAngelis wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi gang,
> >> >
> >> > I tried using this script to configure my TM-D710A for operation with
> XASTIR
> >> > through my USB serial adapter to Ubuntu Linux, as seen here:
> >> > http://lists.xastir.org/pipermail/xastir/2010-November/019368.html
> >> >
> >> > I run
> >> >
> >> > packetrig.sh vhf-d710-packet
> >> >
> >> > And it comes back telling me it's looking for a configuration file
> called
> >> > tmd710_tncsetup. Where does one get this?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks. It seems that the script is not all you need to get going.
> >>
> >> We have a tnc-startup.d700 file in xastir/config/ (Xastir sources) or
> /usr/local/share/xastir/config/ (installed location).
> >>
> >> We don't have any D710-specific files in Xastir sources.
> >>
> >> I don't have any Kenwood APRS radios so probably can't help you too much
> more directly.
> >>
> >> I looked up the original thread to see if a D710-specific script to the
> mailing list. Looks like there were several postings to that thread,
> 11/28/2010 and 11/29/2010, so you might want to read them all.
> >
> > I dug around a little on the web site mentioned in the original note.
> > "tmd710_setup" is a program that can be found with a little effort on that
> > site by drilling down through a raw directory he provides access to.
> >
> > But this script and its associated program are NOT part of xastir, and
> should
> > not be absolutely required to get Xastir running with the D710. In fact,
> > the script for CentOS that you reference is likely to be overkill.
> >
> > None of the developers that I'm aware of has a D710, so nobody's committed
> > tnc-startup.d710 for Xastir.
> >
> > As Curt mentions, though, a suggested start-up file for Xastir with the
> D710
> > appears later in the thread. You might have better luck starting there and
> > using it as a Serial TNC (not KISS). You should probably also work out
> > the right commands to put the D710 back into normal APRS mode when Xastir
> > shuts down the interface. You might be able to crib that off of the
> > tnc-stop.d700 file (it should be in /usr/local/share/xastir/config/).
> >
> > --
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 "One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide
 stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork." - Edward Abbey