astir-1.9.4
./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/geotiff"
make
sudo make install
cd ..
That'll give you 1.9.4, the current stable release.
For the nitty-gritty details and explanation, and also if you wish to go
right to the bleeding edge with CVS, see:
http:/
nu open, and flipped to the Konsole window to continue
composing this message. To my surprise, the top-level 'map' menu seemed
to have the 'always-on-top' attribute, since it was now blocking my view
of my message text.
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Rick Green, N8BJX
&q
the files that were installed. Would it be
possible to add a target to the makefile like 'make debinstall' that would
invoke such a script and perform the install in a way that would minimize
potential future adverse interactions with distribution package installs
and upgrades.
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t on 8.10?
I've been thwarted in getting a working xastir on 8.10. I get a pageful
of 'undeclared variable' errors while compiling maps_tif.c using both the
1.9.2(ubuntu) sources as well as the 1.9.4 current stable tarball.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Rick Green wrote:
>
>> xastir 1.9.2 is available in the Ubuntu repository for (X|K|U)buntu 8.10
>>
>> However, an attempt to load online maps(tigermap.geo) in this version
>> fails with 'libcurl or
xastir 1.9.2 is available in the Ubuntu repository for (X|K|U)buntu 8.10
However, an attempt to load online maps(tigermap.geo) in this version
fails with 'libcurl or wget not present', even though they are indeed on
the system.
This has been documented in Launchpad as bug #293873.
ill support a 64-bit system.
'duo' refers to the number of cores on the die.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
__
ill set every xastir instance out there into PirateEnglish mode? Now
THAT would be funny!
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
ed for accuracy in lat/long, at the expense of
altitude, so I would never get even close to usable contour data.
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Gerry Creager wrote:
You're using Tier 2 servers, right?
No, at the moment, I'm using rotate.aprs.net, although at one point I
tried indiana.aprs2.net, and had the same problem there as well.
Rick Green wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
On
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Rick Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sometimes, I'd like to bring up xastir on my laptop and connect to an
internet server just to see what's going on in the neighborhood. I've
found, however, that
ode. I thought that was
only supposed to be necessary in order to inject data to the APRS-IS, but
I find that I get no stations at all displayed unless I authenticate.
This is both on port 23000 and 14580. Is this by design, or am I missong
some critical piece of information?
--
Rick Green, N
zypad can
communicate with the TNC/radio clipped to your bat-utility belt without
them.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Be
tered around
the more-active zones, which I don't remember seeing before.
I just looked at the WMSRadar.geo file distributed with 1.9.1, and it
looks incomplete. All it contains is a URL, REFRESH, and TRANSPARENT
values. How could it be working, mostly?
--
Rick Green
"Those wh
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Gerry Creager wrote:
Replace the URL line with
URL http://mesonet.tamu.edu/gemdata/images/01_USrad.gif
Yeah! that got me data. Just as the storms are clearing my county...
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temp
ARENT line, so I could overlay it on the tigermaps.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
___
Xasti
which is showing all clear.
I've got my internet map timeout set for 100 seconds, and I only see the
'fetching USRADAR.geo' message for about 5 seconds, so I don't think its a
connectivity problem, especially since I'm getting tigermap data just
fine.
Anybody else n
with more direct experience to guide you from here...
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
__
ually, and configure
xastir without any 'startup' file. Does the KAM+ support KISS mode?
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Fra
up minicom on the serial port where
your TNC is connected (using the -o flag, of course). Will your TNC &
radio transmit packets when directly commanded? Are they successfully
decoded by another station?
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Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase
e compiler and developer tools. Then you're ready
to lay down the latest tarball from sourceforge and compile your own.
Finally, if you find you need to be absolutely hanging on the edge,
install cvs and sync to the developers sources.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essen
with
xastir.
Has this been discussed before, and I'm just late to the party, or what?
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Rick Green wrote:
I don't remember this being a problem when I first set it up, but a week or
so ago, I noticed clearly bogus values (~40.06 inches hg!) showing up
regularly in the barometric pressure value on the 'own weather data' panel
and in the transmi
go, I noticed clearly bogus values (~40.06 inches hg!) showing up
regularly in the barometric pressure value on the 'own weather data' panel
and in the transmitted values. I have no idea where this is coming from!
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Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would gi
^
// 0 6 812 1624 40
/* wind speed */
if (data[0] != '-') { // '-' signifies invalid data
substr(temp_data1,(char *)data,4);
...but it doesn't seem to be uniformly implemented, and the ultimeter
outputs zeroe
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Rick Green wrote:
I'm running a Peet Ultimeter 500, which seems to output the same data
structures as the ultimeter 2000, but with all the 'missing' sensors
zeroed out. I wish there was a way I could configure xastir
o that 'server port', and capture a screenful of data.
2) Shut down Weather display, and use minicom(if Linux) or hyperterm (if
windows) to look at the datastream directly from the wx station. capture
a screenful of data.
3) If the datastreams look at all similar, try defining a
created a Motif API library for the Aqua environment?
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
___
sed minicom to open and initialize a
serial port, test the device on the other end, then after exiting without
reset ('Q'), sent bulk data to the device with `cat /dev/ttyS0`
Conversely, minicom has a command-line option '-o' which will bypass modem
initialization on startup, b
99.95 again for something you already have?
Seems like a better choice would have been to get the best bang for the
buck and order texas! (or Arizona, or Colorado, I don't know what corner
of NM you're in.)
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchas
You're talking about issues with the current version of openmotif, but the
Ubuntu distribution selects the lesstiff2 package by default. On my
system, the xpdf application also depends on lesstiff2, and does not
exhibit the 'missing labels' problem.
Rick Green, N8BJX
On M
same libraries, so there must be some component of coding
style involved as well...
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Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
7; on a specific interface.
In your interface definition, the appropriate passcode must be coded.
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Fra
ts usually have a name that is six characters long and begins
with your local NWS office abbreviation.
Thanks. On the north side of Detroit, there's an icon labelled DTX_OUTLK,
and I was able to fetch the current non-alert from them. Next time I see
one of those yellow polygons, I'
re information about
these polygons, or failing that, suppress their display altogether?
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
kely to happen this week...
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
___
Xastir m
read only), and wait for my station to appear. When I
right-click and 'show station info', I get no wx data. When I 'view/wx
stations' there's a line for my station but all the data fields are blank.
Where's the link I'm missing?
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Rick Green wrote:
xastir is reporting '360' for wind direction all the time. I'm running
xastir 1.8.2 on that machine, just in case a later release changed this
behavior.
I see a new development releasse has just been issued, so I thought I'd
s
imately, I would like to see the wx data not only on the
office machine, but I would like them gated to the aprs-is as well. Where
should I be looking to track this one down?
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to p
abled. I've got that enabled, and the machine
restarted. So now I'm searching for documentation on the pinout of that
header, so I can make up a proper cable. Anybody know what the Gigabyte
GA7-VKML standard is?
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, t
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Rick Green wrote:
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Rick Green wrote:
Last spring at Dayton, I splurged and bought myself a refurbished Peet
Bros. weather instrument, an 'Ultimeter 500'. It has a 6-pin rj-style
connector on the side of the display unit, which according to
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Rick Green wrote:
Last spring at Dayton, I splurged and bought myself a refurbished Peet Bros.
weather instrument, an 'Ultimeter 500'. It has a 6-pin rj-style connector on
the side of the display unit, which according to the manual can be used for
the option
data strings that the U2000 puts out. Now if someone could just clue
me in to a proper RJ- to DB-9 cable pinout, I could start the process of
learning the differences (if any) between the U500 and U2000 datastreams,
and hopefully get another WX station on the air.
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those
.
Please don't laugh too hard, I admit this is a ridiculous kludge:
Create another menu item which runs the alias: `killall `
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Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty
handshaking. Laptop serial ports are sometimes only
partially implemented, shall we say? Does it support the handshake? Does
your cable include the handshake lines?
The script may be fine. It may simply be waiting for permission to send
the first byte.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give
me to manually select my optimum native screen resolution,
and set up the touchpad correctly.
I've run both the old repository version of xastir, as well as compiled
from CVS, successfully on this machine.
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase
ppear that it stopped processing incominng packets, just that it
stopped sending its own position...
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
the config a bit today to beacon a
little less often...
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
___
current display window.
I've been using USRadar for a year or more. I think I'll switch to
WMSradar, and see if it reduces my frequency of fetch timeouts...
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Lib
could figure out how I could build a .deb, and who and when to
send it so that each new Ubuntu release has the latest and greatest stable
version.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty
shell console, and that i had found that tid bit of
info on a web page somewhere but have not duplicated the search..
help??
callpass
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Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S
rsion of xastir, you'll have to
edit the radar .geo file to set the transparent falue to black instead of
white, or you won't see the tiger map underneath it. That seems to be
fixed in the latest stable tarball.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purc
at path with some hand-holding,
or even learning how to build .deb packages myself. I'm not deprecating
the work of the developers, I'm just trying to get their best work into as
many appreciative hands as quickly as possible.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential L
bug
tracker. Can I get some help describing this bug, so I can effectively
push it upstream, and get it polished as well before the next release?
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
you'll only get packets originating within 100km of
your position.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
Online/tigermap.geo line, and similarily set the map
layer to 5 and the MAX zoom to 4000.
Finally, click 'close' on the properties dialog, and 'OK on the map
chooser. Wait for the maps to be fetched.
At the moment, we're experiencing some 'severe clear' locally,
have
to sudo for every command.
In Gnome (ubuntu) the new session menu is in the lower left corner, in KDE
(kubuntu), it's in the upper left corner.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Curt Mills wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Rick Green wrote:
Oops, I spoke too soon. 1.8.5 has the bug which causes the buttons on the
interfaces menu to disappear after adding an interface. Can you suggest a
more recent snapshot worthy of being widely published?
Try the
repositories!
Now to figure out how to package it, and convince the maintainer to upload
it...
Oops, I spoke too soon. 1.8.5 has the bug which causes the buttons on the
interfaces menu to disappear after adding an interface. Can you suggest a
more recent snapshot worthy of being widely publ
e.m4, I find an $Id: line that changed, with the ubuntu version
having a 2006/02/09 date and your id 'tvrusso'. The current -r STABLE
lists 2007/01/12 and we7u.
I guess I'll just compile and build that and see what I get...
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essent
get xastir up and running.
Whatever we can do to make that first impression a positive one will be
well worth it.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
with a more recent snapshot with these usability
improvements included?
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
want a new version.
I'm not a mepis user, but if it uses synaptic, it must be a debian
derivative. Run `apt-get build-dep xastir` then try your compile again.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty
rasil, slackware, RedHat, Caldera, Corel,
Debian, Freesco, SuSE from 5.0 thru 9.0
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Be
doing, -f is the file to act upon.) `man tar` will tell you
much more than you need to know...
If it's a .zip, use unzip. If it's just .gz, use gunzip. Otherwise, try
`file ` and it'll describe the internal format for you, giving
you a clue what program can read it.
-
ility used to play pre-recorded sound files. It's not
used for festival, which is a text-to-speech synthesizer. On my Kubuntu
system, it's part of the 'sox' package, so `sudo apt-get install sox` will
take care of that...
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give
JX-10, and when I closed
the configure window and looked on the map, my callsign displayed as '5'!
I tried displlaying station info, and it didn't show my callsign, but
listed '5' as a 'tactical call'. Go Figure! Needless to say, I changed
it back real quick...
kages.
Done. Works with either one and gives an reasonable suggestion if
it can't find either one.
Also sounds like the maintainer of the Ubuntu .deb package could add a
dependency that would force install of one of those packages when
installing xastir.
--
Rick Green
"Those wh
rrent with the defaults. This kind
of function would also serve as an 'incremental backup' of changes while
one is 'experimenting'.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety
>INET gating only.
If I do this, will xastir gate to the APRS-IS the telemetry packets that
Bob is requesting, or does xastir only gate position report packets?
Anything else I should configure to make my station useful to the
effort?
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essentia
over time' gust calculation, so
it shouldn't be necessary for xastir to do any further processing. Mebbe
the whole gust calculation stuff in xastir should be reserved for 'dumb'
weather instruments that present only instantaneous values. If the
weather station deli
27;t be necessary to install the source itself, since the CVS
checkout in step three would grab it.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
that you'll need for the
latest whiz-bang feature that you're itching to try...
--
Rick Green, N8BJX
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
ay. The first time you
run it, start it with the -s flag as root. That'll let you save the
config as the system default)
Once you've successfully seen the cmd: prompt from your TNC, and been
able to successfully connect to another station, then drop minicom, and
define a serial t
ckage manager, select 'Fetch
changes', then 'full upgrade' then 'apply changes', and you'll pick up the
latest and greatest version of all packages you already have installed.
This method gets you up and running with an older, known stable
version(1.7.1) of xastir.
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