[drats_users] D-Rats / DPRS Interface

[Dan Smith]

> - 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).

Well, that's excellent news.  The changes I made were related to the GPS
stuff, and probably made the difference.  I fixed a bug that was
corrupting GPS-A beacons.  This was reported by Pierre a while ago and I
just happened to fix it yesterday.  I think I was thrown off by your
"connection refused" message and didn't even think about it being the
GPS-A issue.

> - 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.

Is this perhaps because you still have D-RATS set to open the serial
port that is in use by the DPRS interface?  If so, just uncheck the
"enabled" box next to that serial port in the preferences dialog so
D-RATS doesn't try (and fail) to open it.

> - 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.

Yep, that would go along with a general freshening of that document for
0.3.x.  I'll try to remember to do that in the next couple of days.

Thanks!

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