[Xastir] New script: ads-b.pl for snagging airplane positions

Curt Mills curt.we7u at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 14:25:15 EST 2016


On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I hadn't actually tried the script yet when I wrote that - had just looked
> at the code.  It worked if I entered my callsign and passcode at the
> command line, but it gave me errors about uninitialized ​variables if I
> didn't.  It was easy to fix that, and since I was playing with the code,
> anyway, I added the capability to grab the callsign from the xastir.cnf
> file and use callpass to generate the passcode.
>

I intentionally released the code w/o that capability due to the
possibility of injecting too many objects at once into either RF or the
INET feeds. I'd rather people think about/know what they're doing WRT the
callsign (manually).

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