On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Alex Carver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're not going to be able to MUX the devices easily if they speak only > RS232. It's doable if you throw around some $3.50 microcontrollers and don't value your time. (: The idea is to use a microcontroller to inteface to RS232 devices and implement a multiplexing protocol on that end to shove all the data over a single serial link (which could be wired or wireless). On the computer end, the mux/demux would be handled by a daemon that provided ptys (or named pipes, etc) so that the host application (xastir) could connect there. It would be greatly simplified, since the data is from TNCs and GPS units, if xastir (a) natively spoke MKISS, and (b) would accept NMEA from an MKISS channel. This would pretty much eliminate the host side coding. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
