[Xastir] Raspberry Pi with Xastir

[Lee Bengston]

Hi Guy,

Glad to hear it's working for you and the club.  The binary of APRX I
downloaded is still posted and is dated January 24th.  I believe it was
built from sources not more than a week or so before that, so was a very up
to date build when I downloaded it in late January.

I'm using an FTDI based usb to serial adapter.  I've not tried either of my
Prolific adapters with the Pi, but they used to freeze after about 3 days
of 7x24 IGate operation on a computer running Linux.  I cured that problem
with the FTDI adapter.

Other than handliing tasks such as loading online OSM maps , Xastir runs
pretty fast on the Pi.  I found that to be impressive given the lack of
horsepower and the fact that Xastir is a GUI application.  Xastir isn't
really designed to be the best Igate - it's OK, but there are better
implementations.

APRX has improved.  When I tried it in (I think) 2012, it was erroneously
gating to RF the beacon packets sent by the IS server that are supposed to
notify the IGate that stations it gated from RF to IS are also on the
Internet (so the IGate doesn't try to gate messages to those stations from
IS to RF).  It is not doing that now.

Regards,
Lee - K5DAT


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Guy Story KC5GOI <kc5goi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lee,  I put a Pi with a TNC-X Pi using aprx on 144.34 and a KPC3 in
> KISS on a Prolific USB based adapter on 144.39 at the repeater site in
> Denton Tx with 21 days of service so far with out trouble.  This was a
> club funded project so I did not try Xastir on it but so far it has
> been a very stable and reliable igate/digi.  I compiled from source.
> It is on the release SVN as of February 6th.  W5NGU-3 is the call on
> 144.39.
>
> 73
>
> Guy
> KC5GOI
>
>