[drats_users] D-Rats / DPRS Interface

[eegah1]

Dan & Leo:
- Seeing Dan's note about revising some of the GPS features in the new
0.3.2b3...I installed it this morning and started the system up. This time
D-Rats and DPRS interfaced and now DPRS is gating to the internet the HT's
GPS-A data (through RF to the mobile radio that D-Rats is connected to).
- Don't know if the changes made in this new beta were coincidental or not,
but nothing changed in my setup from the last 4 days while I have been
working on this...other than installing the 0.3.2b3 beta today. The GPS
revisions in this beta have clearly resolved the interfacing problem that I
had before.
- I now have a "*Failed to connect (unable to open serial port)*" message in
the Event Log three times so far today, but have not been able to find what
the issue might be as everything else still seems to be OK so far.
- Finally, you might want to revise the DPRS instructions as unless I have
missed it somehow, there is no message after putting the "net" command in of
"*Time: Callsign>Online (D-RATS*)". Thanks.
Brent w9dbe


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:09 AM, IZ5FSA, Leo <iz5fsa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/11/4 Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>:
> > Hi Brent.
> >
> >> - Am not able to get the D-Rats & DPRS interface working "together".
> >
> > Well, as I said before, I don't really know much about how to do this
> > and I think you're going to need to hear from IZ5FSA about it.  Leo, can
> > you offer some words about how to do this with a recent D-RATS?
> >
>
> My experience on windows is so far and I cannot make a test, but I'm
> quite sure about this:
> 1) DPRSInterface use the COM port to connect to the radio and bridge
> all received data to a server APRS-IS
> 2) APRS client like UI-View connect to DPRSInterface on port 14551
> 3) D-RATS connect the radio via DPRSInterface on net:localhost:14550
>
> Remember you cannot use D-RATS maps to see APRS traffic from APRS-IS,
> but you can use UI-VIEW to see both APRS-IS traffic and local DPRS
> traffic. D-RATS remain connected to radio via DPRSInterface on
> net:localhost:14550 for all the other features (chat, messaging, file
> transferts).
>
> I hope it helps.
>
> Please, Dan, put it on DRATS Documentation pages. I'll update my
> documents for Italians.
>
> 73s de Leo, IZ5FSA
> MDXC #201
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