[Xastir] Xastir not digipeating, can't figure out why.

[Tom Henderson]

My apologies Andrew. I had only folowed the link in your second email, 
and completely missed the first. Hopefully the info from Curt was on the 
nose and has you back on track.

I have a FT1XD I was able to use to test, so I was able to generate 
packets locally that Xaster was the first to "see."

Tom Henderson

On 01/18/2018 11:48 AM, Aaron Vogel wrote:
> Tom,
> If you take a look at the screen grab linked in my first email you'll see
> "Digipeat?" is in fact checked. The TNC doesn't really do any digipeating
> like others do, it's just a serial comm device.
>
> The 30-min-interval beacon does show up in my TNC log and in the activity
> view. The other thing I'm looking at is the radio itself shows a green led
> when receiving and red led when transmitting. I'll see data come in but
> nothing go back out.
>
> I guess I have another, perhaps more fundamental question: how do I control
> _what_ gets digipeated? For example, if I want it to act as a fill-in and
> only digipeat WIDE1-1... where would I tell it to do this? If I wanted it
> to digipeat everything... where would I tell it to do this?
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:55 AM, Tom Henderson <Tom at henderson4.us> wrote:
>
>> First thing is to check the obvious. Did you check the "Digipeat?" box on
>> the KISS TNC interface? Or is it a full TNC that does digipeating on its
>> own? If so, the digipeater may need to be configured.
>>
>> Also, my setup does digipeat, but the outbound digipeated transactions do
>> not show in the log. Are you sure you're not already digipeating, but just
>> don't think you are becuase you don't see it in the log?
>>
>> Tom Henderson
>>
>>
>> On 01/17/2018 07:24 PM, Aaron Vogel wrote:
>>
>>> Hey there, I've gotten really far and just have 1 hurdle left to my goal
>>> of
>>> creating a fill-in digipeater, but it's an important one: I can't get
>>> Xastir to digipeat. Hoping the list can help.
>>>
>>> Setup:
>>> RPi 3 B running Jessie
>>> TNC-Pi from TNC-X.com
>>> Baofeng UV-82
>>> DB-9 to Baofeng TNC cable
>>>
>>> Situation:
>>> Xastir is setup fine (other than not digipeating).
>>> I have configured the TNC-Pi and APRS.fi as interfaces.
>>> I can manually transmit and stations nearby hear me (verified on aprs.fi)
>>> Looking at the log files or packet data display I even see the
>>> automatically transmitted packets going out about once every 30 minutes at
>>> the moment from my station.
>>>
>>> What I don't see is any kind of digipeating going on.
>>>
>>> Here's a screen grab of my interface setup for the TNC-Pi:
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/x5m2sdq1fvxh3hc/Screenshot%202018-
>>> 01-17%2017.21.17.png?dl=0
>>> And here's my xastir.cnf file:
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/vyl88yyldog3prf/xastir.cnf?dl=0
>>>
>>> I don't think there's anything else I'd need to set but obviously I'm
>>> missing something.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Aaron
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