[Xastir] on Android

[Kurt]

Ok,
  I can get the Android taskbar or whatever to come up by flicking my finger up on the lower border of the screen.  When I have the system running and I want to close the LXDE windows, exiting outdoes nothing.  The screen comes up I hit shut down and it doesn't close.  I pull up the "square" to minimize and kill it there.  I then go to the upper left Android pulldown and expose it and it showsXSDL running and I kill it there too.  GNU/Root I pull it up and hit return.  To get out of GNU/Root completely, one has to click on the X in the upper right of the GNU/Root upper taskboard to kill it.
What I've done is make sure my B/T mouse and keyboard are paired in Android, fire up GPS Share and minimize it.  I start XSDL and when you get the XSDL wallpaper screen, you can click on itand it will go into a setup mode for peripherals and such.  There is a pile of stuff that can be selected here.  I used what I thought would be good with a B/T mouse and keyboard.  You can play with it by trial and error and see if you can get the onscreen keyboard to come up and setup "mouse" control with screen touches.  I figured being a neophyte using the peripheral input devices would be the quickest for me to get working with it and experiment.
Once you save your selections it will go to the black text screen and start the 3... 2... 1... count to a boot state.  If you tap on the screen while the count is going on, it will default to a screen where you can select resolutions, type sizes (I use .7 for the font) and some other stuff.  Click out of there and minimize the screen with the "square" and "circle" buttons on the Android lower taskbar (try to get that triangle/circle/square bar to come up as I find it important).
Now click on GNU/Root icon to get it going.  Input the commands: export DISPLAY=:0 PULSE_SERVER=tcp:127.0.0.1:4712startlxde &and now I hit the square to get the minimized apps to be displayed in the small square "choice" screens and then I hit the XSDL "Blue", I call it the standby screen and then LXDE will come up.   Like I said I use just the LXDE-core as I found a lot of the apps didn't work on the "full install" so I want the bare minimum to get Xastir going.  I just apt-get installed Xastirwhich was the 2.04 version and I hit run from the xwindow menu and type xastir.  Maybe I'll figure out how to get it on the desktop as an icon.
I configured a network IS connection from the menu pulldown and as long as the device is connected to the internet it works right off.  If GPS Share is running on the Android side as a gpsd sourceone can setup a gpsd connection in Xastir and wowee, I got it going without knowing what I am doing.  
Dink with it.  Once you get the hang of it, it runs rock steady.  I'm still trying to shut off the screen saver.  I have it shut off in LXDE but it still comes up.
Next is loading my local maps and then see if I can get a Mobilnkd or my NMEA B/T devices visible.  If that can be done, Holee Cow!!  Kurt KC9LDH-3


      From: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
 To: Kurt <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> 
Cc: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>; Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
 Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 9:41 AM
 Subject: Re: [Xastir] on Android
   
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Kurt wrote:

> Ok,  I had loaded GPS Share on my Android device quite some time ago and this script kiddie took a few minutes to set it up and then configure Xastir-On-Android to use gpsd and by golly, using localhost and the stock2947 address, IT'S GOING!!  YEEEEE HAAAA. Feeding right off the internal GPS chipset of the Nexus 7 2013 LTE Done!!

Did you have to go to the ShareGPS settings and enable NMEA sentences to get the GPS to work for Xastir?


> If THAT works only thing left will be perhaps tweaking the icon and font sizes a bit.  I lowered the resolution in the XSDL serverin the setup screen and that helps a bit.

What resolution are you running now?


> Ok, I get the lat/long with gpsd and GPS share but I'm not seeing my msl altitude of my station going out.Gpsd limitation or did I not have a switch selected? I see altitudes of incoming stations that are sending themto the screen though.

I'm updating the Wiki page as things are discovered. Here's the GPSD protocol, which includes altitude:

    http://www.catb.org/gpsd/gpsd_json.html

I installed all three apps on the Nexus 7 and just installed on the Nexus 5x phone last night. Haven't tried bringing it up on the phone yet as it was still busy installing packages when I went to sleep.

Sometimes I'm having trouble killing GNUroot. Any pointers? Tried "exit" in the terminal window this morning and it didn't, so I rebooted the phone. That did it. Most of the time typing exit there works.

I was having trouble initially shrinking the XServer from full-screen as well, but sliding my finger from the edge of the device over the edge where the three Android icons should be makes them show up, then I can shrink it, get to the notification bar, and shut it down from there.

Had trouble once starting up Xastir: Couldn't get the Android keyboard to come up in the xterm. I tried starting Xastir from the GNUroot window but it couldn't find the display. Maybe I forgot to set the DISPLAY variable. I'll get the magic invocations down eventually.

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