[Xastir] Light weight APRS client with smart beaconing support for Raspberry PIs

[Andrew Errington]

Have you looked at DIXPRS?

https://sites.google.com/site/dixprs/sending-packets-from-external-sources

People have it running on a Pi.

It doesn't do smart beaconing natively, but as you can see from the link
above it will send packets created externally to the application.

It's Open Source, so you could add some stuff into DIXPRS to listen to a
GPS and format some packets, but maybe you can write a standalone program
that does that.  It would incorporate the smart beaconing algorithm and
dump a packet into the spool directory when it decides one should be sent.

73,

Andrew
ZL3AME


On 3 September 2013 12:37, David Ranch <xastir at trinnet.net> wrote:

>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Since the list has been pretty quiet, I thought I'd send this out tothe
> group.  I have a Raspberry Pi and a TNC-Pi which it works pretty wellbut
> I'd like to turn it into a an APRS tracker and digi. For the tracker side,
> I have a working USB GPS unit that's spitting out the expected NEMA
> sentences but I'd like something that supports SmartBeaconing and not just
> periodic beacons. Looking at the very comprehensive table at
> http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_**capabilities.html<http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html>(it's missing digi_ned though which is rather comprehensive otherwise),
> only Xastir and YACC seemto have smart beaconing but both are GUI *only*
> applications.  I'm really looking for something that doesn't require
> Xwindowsand is lightweight(Java doesn't strike me as very light).
>
> So.. does this exist?  Maybe there are tricks to make either of these
> programs NOT require to run a GUI what so ever?  Other alternatives?
>
> --David
> KI6ZHD
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