[Xastir] KISS over TCP

[David Ranch]

Hello Magnus,

Do you have the Microsat WX3in1 unit, maybe the ULARI?  Per the WX3in1 
v1.09 manual, it's not a bi-directional communication:
--
At the time of writing of this manual revision (firmware v1.09) KISS via 
TCP/IP is only one
direction (RF → TCP/IP). KISS via TCP/IP was successfully tested with 
APRSDroid 1.3.0
--

Looking at the microsat.com.pl and it's matching Facebook pages, it 
doesn't look like there are any newer firmware than v1.09 so I don't 
know if you'd have a working solution.


If the ULARI, which TNC are you running on it?  If it's Direwolf, you 
can enable AGW TCP sockets which Xastir already supports. Beyond that, 
yes, it would be nice if we could get a TCP-KISS option added to Xastir 
but until then, there are some of these side projects that might work 
for you as a "translator":

    # Python solution
    https://pypi.org/project/kiss2/

    # SoCAT solution
    https://destevez.net/2016/06/kiss-hdlc-ax-25-and-friends/

    #Node.js based
    https://github.com/trasukg/share-tnc


--David
KI6ZHD



or WXeth devices or something different?  Neither manual makes any 
mention of TCP-KISS

On 07/04/2019 02:07 PM, Magnús Ragnarsson wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm new here on this mailing list. I have been testing xastir and I 
> like it, as it is real linux program for APRS that works. I have been 
> trying other software also.
>
> I have microsat networked tnc, and they support KISS over TCP that is 
> the KISS standard over network. It opens a new possibilities with new 
> devices, like the microsat devices, argent data Tracker 4 and direwolf 
> software tnc that all support KISS over TCP. You can then access the 
> tnc remotely with xastir, from your home computer, or with aprsdroid 
> that also supports KISS over TCP.
>
> Is this something that would be possible to get on todo list in 
> seeable feature as interface. I have some basic knowledge in 
> programming with C, but no real experience and think I would not be 
> able to do much though. I just took a quick look at the code in 
> interfaces.c and there would be some coding for it, but also it seems 
> to be some reusable code, as KISS parsing is the same, and the 
> networking part is also just opening socket on a port and ip address. 
> But maybe this is more complicated. Hopefully this is something that 
> would be possible in the future.
>
> Best Ragnards
> Magnus Ragnarsson
> 73 de TF1MT