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

[Andrew Errington]

I expect it's 8.5W.


On 3 September 2013 13:56, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:37:28 -0700
> 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
> > (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
>
> I've got the Pi partly set up to be the car-Pi, and decided on a
> display from Lilliput which runs through the USB interface.
> I've got xastir installed but not set up, and need a beefy 12V > 5V
> converter to run the gear.
> My intention is to interface it into a HF set and have APRS on 40m
> The screen says its power consumption is 8.5V, which I presume is
> Chinese for 8.5A.
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