Hi, Curt..........
/Perhaps one of these things is occurring: *) The remote RINO doesn't
have a valid position to send (no GPS lock?)/
When I drove to work, I took the set up and ran it. Both Rinos (
one attached to the laptop and the remote Rino) had 3D GPS locks and
were transmitting their position between each other when I keyed the
mic.
/Are you getting a RINO.gpstrans file written, and is it in the above
format? Should be in ~/.xastir/gps/RINO.gpstrans./
W APRS 4 12/05/2007
10:08:23 46.01855 -91.4877
W APRS14 12/05/2007
10:08:23 45.8571 -92.3651
There were several entries, but all of them were date stamped at the
time that I opened GPSMan and GPS Receiver>Get>WP. Only two entries
were from when I have been using this pair of Rinos. Both were from
the testing we were doing in Hayward ( before you suggested the commands
to allow serial port communications.) So I guess that means that GPSMan
is not getting the info, even though GPSMan thinks it is talking to the
serial port. So I guess that points to either GPSMan is not
downloading what is stored in the Rino or the Rino is not storing the
data. I will work on that.
Many thanx............. jt
Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote:
I seem to be getting packets from GPSMan in Xastir, but they are not
plotting. If I look at the two tables in "View>All Stations" and
"View>Own Objects & Items", I see "14" with 860 in the #Pack column and
"APX192,TCPIP*" in the Path column. There is nothing in the Pos Time or
the PHG or Comments columns.
I'm not sure there should be anything in the PHG or Comments
columns. I don't have RINO's to test with but I expect there should
be a timestamp in the "Pos Time" column if you've been getting valid
positions for the remote unit.
PHG is Power/Height/Gain. Should be empty in this instance.
The "14" is a positive sign, as is the #Pack (number of packets)
column. This suggests that you are getting some packets from the
remote RINO.
If you look at the "View->Mobile Stations" column, does "14" show up
there with a position?
Perhaps one of these things is occurring:
*) The remote RINO doesn't have a valid position to send (no GPS
lock?).
*) Xastir isn't parsing the waypoints file properly that GPSMan is
creating from the data.
*) GPSMan isn't writing the data file in the same format as it used
to.
The INSTALL file talks about RINO's but it seems to indicate that
the RINO radio cannot poll the others without setting the POLL
function in the local RINO.
main.c:
-------
// Function to process the RINO.gpstrans file. We'll create APRS
// objects out of them as if our own callsign created them. Lines
// in the file look like this (spaces removed):
//
// W N3EG3 20-JUN-02 17:55 07/08/2004 13:03:29 46.1141682 -122.9384817
// W N3JGI 20-JUN-02 18:29 07/08/2004 13:03:29 48.0021644 -116.0118324
//
// Fields are:
// W name Comment Date/Time Latitude Longitude
//
void process_RINO_waypoints(void) {
...
// Process the file line-by-line here. The format for gpstrans
// files as written by GPSMan appears to be:
//
// "W"
// Waypoint name
// Comment field (Date/Time is default on Garmins)
// Date/Time
// Decimal latitude
// Decimal longitude
---------------------------
Are you getting a RINO.gpstrans file written, and is it in the above
format? Should be in ~/.xastir/gps/RINO.gpstrans.
It looks like the command Xastir invokes to download the waypoints
is something like this:
"gpsman.tcl -dev /dev/ttyS0 getwrite WP GPStrans ~/.xastir/gps/RINO.gpstrans"
You could try that by hand to see if a file gets written and check
it against the above format.
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