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

[Ray Wells]

I used dixprs on the Pi for some time and I'd recommend it as a non-gui 
aprs program. I still use it (on a 600MHz P3, to suit some old hardware 
- Baycom USCC>4 card) and I send beacons via the spool directory. It's 
actively supported by the author who welcomes suggestions for new features.

There is a Yahoo group.

Ray vk2tv


On 03/09/13 15:03, Andrew Errington wrote:
> 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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