[drats_users] D-StarQuery D-RATS Plugin

[Woodrick, Ed]

Jonathan,

Where are getting your statistics from? From all of my sources, the numbers that you quote are very wrong.

>From the ircDDB site, the number of systems running ircDDB and G2 are similar, but this really isn't a fair comparison since many G2 systems also have ircDDB loaded.

Even the number of ircDDB only systems vs G2 only are very similar. But remember that MANY ircDDB systems are low coverage hot spots and are not real repeater located at repeater sites, whereas all of the G2 systems are repeaters and most are running at high sites.

So I safely say the G2 IS STILL THE PRIMARY REPEATER software! And only about half of the G2 repeaters run ircDDB.

Also, Icom repeaters outnumber non-Icom repeaters 2 to 1. And only about half the Icom systems run ircDDB.

Please keep your facts straight.

Ed WA4YIH

From: drats_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:drats_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Naylor
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:18 AM
To: Josh Housey; Discussion of D-RATS
Subject: Re: [drats_users] D-StarQuery D-RATS Plugin

That all supposes that you're using the legacy Icom G2 software and associated add-ons. The world has moved on and the newer ircDDB systems don't use DSM and have no need to. I think you'll find that the ircDDB systems outnumber the G2 systems and that the G2 system is now relegated to history.

Note that the newer ircDDB systems have built-in support for D-RATS and also include other clever bits to allow for status messages and such like.

Using the slow data area with any sort of FEC is asking for trouble.

Jonathan  G4KLX author of the ircDDB Gateway software.


From: Josh Housey <kg9bo at yahoo.com<mailto:kg9bo at yahoo.com>>
To: "drats_users at intrepid.danplanet.com<mailto:drats_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>" <drats_users at intrepid.danplanet.com<mailto:drats_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>>
Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 3:10
Subject: [drats_users] D-StarQuery D-RATS Plugin


All,

There is a function within all Icom D-STAR repeaters that utilizes low-speed data called "D-StarQuery". You can find it as a part of the "D-Star Monitor (DSM)" and its located on /opt/dstarmon directory. Essentially,  it is where you can send some commands (queries) using low speed data and access information from a repeater. I found the following website that describes it also briefly and shows how it operates. That website is the following: http://ladstar.org/ls.htm.

I ran across the following e-mail at http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/drats_users/2010-January/002775.html and decided to attempt adding this on to D-RATS.

<<

Hi OMs, Happy New Year to all.



I've written a little "contrib" for D-RATS, a plugin who allow you to

perform a DStarQuery server for D-RATS networks!!!



The small server listen on 9100 port and every prefixed by ?* chat

message is analized to match with commands in the .ini file. You can

define commands as you need. See the examples.



Python source code and infos are in

http://www.d-rats.com/download/contrib/d-rats_query.tar.gz.



I've tested it on a linux box only, windows users please report errors

or defects.



Comments, requests and suggests are welcome!



If you modify the source, please give a feedback to me.



73s de Leo, IZ5FSA

>>

I 've downloaded the software and it is now running right now on the KC9SJY D-RATS station.  It doesn't require a D-STAR repeater (ratflector) to run.

You simply run the command, as:

python d-rats_query 127.0.0.1 9100 <D-RATS port>  (Not sure what the use for 9100 is and whether multiple D-RATS ports can be used)



Use of D-RATS ratflector is not required but can be utilized with this.

Let

 me know by e-mail if you would like to try it on the system here, otherwise, bring up D-RATS and watch for the QST for the information.

I haven't had any time in setting anything up, so, if you access anything by using this, it will be Italian.



Any questions about this, please feel free to ask.



73

Josh, AB9FT



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