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

Aaron Vogel aaron.vogel at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 11:00:01 PST 2018


No worries Tom. :)

Thanks again.

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Aaron Vogel

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On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Tom Henderson <Tom at henderson4.us> wrote:

> 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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